The first was in the 1980s when the lawyers all quit because they said that Morris Dees took the organization in a direction of fighting the Klan instead of representing poor people in the South. And then the more recent time was really Starting in the late 1990s, but ramping up by 1,000% in 2010, [SPLC] had their hate map and they started going after conservative organizations. So let's talk about the hate map. So first of all, can you explain the hate map? Yes. This is a map. The SPLC is best known for suing Klan groups into bankruptcy. (01:10–01:22)
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