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In the Scooby-Doo episodes, there’s a classic moment when the gang uncovers the villain they’ve captured, only to discover that it’s not who they might be. Like, say, someone ripped open a Klan member’s white hat, and found the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) hiding underneath.
In this case, cartoon art imitates real life.
For almost a decade now, conservatives have been furious about the “Charlottesville hoax” of 2017, when the media took President Donald Trump’s statement that there are “good people on both sides” of the Confederate statue debate, and, falsely, made it support White supremacy.
Trump, it turns out, never praised racists after the confusing Unite the Right rally. However, the SPLC was allegedly paying the organization thousands to investigate.
SPLC Interim President and CEO Bryan Fair speaks during a wreath-laying ceremony at the Southern Poverty Law Center Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Ala., on March 5, 2026. (Jake Crandall/The Advertiser / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)
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Thus, an illusion was born.
The word “hoaxer,” which entered the English language in the late 18th century, is probably a contraction of the earlier word “hocus,” as in “hocus pocus,” which is a good way to think of the SPLC’s vicious deception.
It’s been quite a magic show over the last few decades, as every time it starts to feel like America has turned against racism, the “experts” at the SPLC shout “hocus pocus” and pull some neo-Nazis out of their hat.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche speaks during a press conference with FBI Director Kash Patel at the Department of Justice on April 21, 2026, in Washington, DC, following the indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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The problem, as we learn from Justice Department judges about the civil rights movement, is that SPLC leaders were paying these religious leaders to appear. Now that the gaffe has been exposed, you just can’t see it.
At best, the SPLC has been stacking the deck so that every time the American media pulls a card, it’s the “racist ace”. Worse, this apartheid funding could kill their own.
Heather Heyer, 32, was killed that day in Charlottesville when a thug drove her car into a protest. Today, we must ask whether he would still be alive if the SPLC had not funded his killer’s organization.
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The problem here isn’t just that money from the SPLC is promoting racist outfits, as bad as that is. The main problem is that financial incentives are created for their “informants”, not only to report criminal acts, but to strengthen them.
In the same way that foreign influence operations can secretly fund anti-American podcasters by populating their platforms with click bot farms, the SPLC is allegedly secretly raising funds for a dwindling number of racist groups in the US.
According to the indictment, one “promoter” who helped organize the Unite the Right rally, was paid a staggering $270,000 between 2015 and 2023, meaning the payments continued even after Heyer’s tragic death.
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) building seen in March 2020 in Montgomery, Alabama. (Barry Lewis/Photos via Getty Images)
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Consider the ulterior motives the SPLC may have created here: a quarter of a million dollars is a lot of money, and these whistleblowers knew the only way to keep the cash spigot open was to continue to find, or invent, more alleged racism.
Trump was right that there are “very good people” of good faith who disagree about Confederate statues. But in 2017 in Charlottesville, it turns out there were even worse people, namely the tiki-torch-wielding bullies and the SPLC. Only now do we know that they may have been together.
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Today would be a good day for the liberal media to admit once and for all, they lied about Trump’s “very nice people”. But that won’t happen. It is very central to the anti-Trump myth. That’s why Joe Biden said he ran for president.
Portrait of Confederate Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson is being removed from Charlottesville, Va., on July 10, 2021, after years of legal disputes over the monument. (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters)
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Sometimes, it takes a trickster to reveal a trick, some personal hocus pocus to combat the trickery of magic. With the revelations of the SPLC funding its prey, the whole show is falling apart before our eyes.
It wasn’t just the “nice people” that were fake, it was the worst thing.
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You have to hand it to the SPLC, the obvious scam has been running for years. In some places, it still works, but the mask is now well and truly gone, and the funding of racism must be stopped now.
The SPLC and its support for racism has had a good run. Its leaders would also have gotten away with it, had it not been for the meddling Justice Department.
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