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Is corporate America finally seeing the light on the Southern Poverty Law Center? Salesforce, a software company with more than 75,000 employees, became the latest firm to announce it will no longer use the Southern Poverty Law Center’s “hate map” to determine eligibility for its employee giving program. In a 2022 blog post, Salesforce had stated that it uses the SPLC list “to identify hate groups and keep hateful material off our platform.” That same year, Salesforce’s productivity app Slack banned the Federation on American Immigration Reform, which the SPLC condemns as an “anti-immigrant hate group.” While Salesforce says it doesn’t rely solely on the SPLC for such decisions, it had directed Benevity—a corporate giving and employee engagement platform—to exclude recipients on the SPLC “hate map.” After facing pressure from The Heritage Foundation, which owns stock in the company, Salesforce announced that it has directed Benevity to stop using SPLC to screen nonprofit recipients of employee contributions. Benevity, which connects “nearly 1,000 enterprise companies” to a network of 513,000 nonprofits, has managed $16 billion in grants. 1792 Exchange, a nonprofit that exposes bias in corporate businesses, has counted 224 of the Fortune 1,000 companies that use Benevity, and the list includes Alphabet (Google’s parent company), Amazon, Apple, Best Buy, Cigna, Coca Cola, Costco, John Deere, Lowe’s, Macy’s, McDonald’s, Netflix, Paramount, Spotify, UPS, and many more. In 2021, then-Benevity CEO Kelly Schmitt delivered a PowerPoint presentation explicitly stating that the company had used the “Southern Poverty Law Center Hate List” to vet 2 million nonprofits. Benevity, however, said it doesn’t use the SPLC “hate map,” but that some clients chose to exclude SPLC-accused “hate groups.” The Heritage Foundation filed a shareholder proposal with Salesforce last month, urging the company to investigate whether its use of third parties like the SPLC will harm its bottom line. Salesforce told Heritage that it had directed Benevity to stop using the SPLC, and Heritage dropped the proposal Monday. SPLC’s Influence After the white nationalist march on Charlottesville in 2017, Big Tech and big business fell over themselves to promote the SPLC. Apple pledged $1 million and JP Morgan pledged $500,000. Platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube reportedly worked with the SPLC to screen for “hate.” After all, why not? The SPLC sued Ku Klux Klan groups into bankruptcy in the 1980s, and presents itself as a watchdog, exposing hate via a map that identifies groups supposedly dedicated to vilifying their fellow Americans. The SPLC publishes reports warning companies about the dangers of giving “hate” a platform. Yet this “hate map” is far from neutral. Alongside the Klan and the Aryan Brotherhood appears Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative Christian law firm that has won multiple cases at the Supreme Court. Groups of doctors opposing experimental transgender “treatments” for minors appear alongside white nationalists, as if disagreement with the SPLC’s agenda—not genuine hate—is the key criteria for inclusion. In recent years, the SPLC has included ever more mainstream organizations. In 2023, it added the parental rights group Moms for Liberty to the “hate map.” Last year, it added a group of gays and lesbians as an “anti-LGBTQ+ hate group”—all because they oppose “drag queen story hour” and chemical castration for kids. This year, the SPLC put Turning Point USA—the largest conservative grassroots youth organization—on the “hate map.” The SPLC’s “Year in Hate and Extremism” dedicated a large report to attacking Turning Point USA and its founder, Charlie Kirk. Four months later, a young man shot and killed him. In text messages to his transgender love interest, the suspect wrote, “I had enough of his hatred. Some hate can’t be negotiated out.” That’s the same mentality that drove Floyd Lee Corkins II to target the Family Research Council, a conservative nonprofit in Washington, D.C. Corkins told the FBI he used the SPLC “hate map” to target FRC, and that he planned to shoot everyone in the building. The SPLC condemned both the FRC shooting, which occurred in 2012, and the Kirk assassination, but it has yet to remove either group from the “hate map.” The SPLC has experienced a multitude of scandals since 2017—from a racial discrimination and sexual harassment scandal that led it to fire its co-founder in 2019 to accusations of union-busting last year that may have contributed to the ouster of its recent president, Margaret Huang. Yet the assassination of Kirk may be the straw that breaks the camel’s back. Shareholder Pushback In the wake of this assassination, many of the conservative groups on the SPLC “hate map” teamed together with The Heritage Foundation and 1972 Exchange, asking companies to stop relying on the SPLC. After two initial outreaches last month, six major companies distanced themselves from the SPLC. A recent YouGov poll found the SPLC is 19 points underwater with Republicans. Companies like Salesforce can’t afford to alienate conservative clients, conservative employees, and conservative shareholders. It is long past time more companies understand just how toxic the SPLC brand is—and follow suit. The post EXCLUSIVE: Is Corporate America Finally Seeing the Light on the Southern Poverty Law Center? appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Gratitude is an essential attribute of people who are happy and living purpose-filled lives. Sometimes success leads to gratitude, but it’s more accurate to say that gratitude breeds success. And ingratitude breeds failure. This is a common biblical theme, best epitomized in the Book of Exodus. Shortly after God (through Moses) freed the people of Israel from slavery and brought them out of Egypt by parting the Red Sea, the people began to grumble at Moses: “Would that we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots and ate bread to the full, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.” Ultimately, it took a generation of wandering in the wilderness for the people’s grumbling to stop. Only then, in a spirit of gratitude, were the people’s hearts prepared to enter the Promised Land and to live in freedom. The act of thanksgiving is the antidote to bitterness and envy, and so—without diminishing the greater religious significance of holidays such as Easter for Christians and Yom Kippur for Jews—I contend that Thanksgiving is the most important quintessentially American holiday. When Americans pause and humbly reflect on the innumerable blessings that God has granted them, it bodes well for our nation’s future. As George Washington stated when he recommended designating Thursday, Nov. 26, 1789, as a national day of thanks, it’s a day that “we may then all unite in rendering unto [God] our sincere and humble thanks for his kind care and protection of the People of this Country … ” Over the course of human history, few people have had as much to be grateful for as the typical American does today. Our blessings aren’t just material, but Americans do enjoy a level of wealth and prosperity that is matched by few around the world—riches that would have been unimaginable to most people of the past. With modern medicine, the typical American lives more than twice as long as Americans of Washington’s period. America’s Constitution protects us from many kinds of tyranny. While opponents of liberty have gradually chipped away at our constitutional system, the Constitution continues to act as a bulwark against federal encroachment. We have a rich national story that our Founding Fathers recognized was blessed by Divine Providence or a “finger of the Almighty hand.” Americans enjoy the freedom to worship God as we see fit. We take it for granted, but in many parts of the world, even owning a Bible is illegal or severely persecuted. While attendance at worship services has been trending down for decades, U.S. church attendance remains high by international standards. We live in relative security under the protection of the greatest military on Earth. And while the world remains a dangerous place, only a small (by historical standards) percentage of U.S. troops are currently serving in active combat zones. The list could go on of things for which we should be thankful—both as individuals and collectively as Americans. We must all choose whether to live in gratitude or whether to live in resentment over what others have and we lack. And politicians and public figures must decide whether they will appeal to people’s better angels or to the bitter root of envy. Some engage in class warfare and feed into resentment and ingratitude—mindsets that can only drag down our nation. They liken the wealthy to heroin addicts because of their “uncontrollable greed,” they claim that most successful CEOs are psychopaths, and even admit that their end goal is to seize the means of production, in clear reference to Karl Marx’s “Communist Manifesto.” Instead of following politicians down paths of resentment and strife, let’s instead follow the tradition of thanksgiving that Washington began. In the words of our fourth president, James Madison, in his 1815 Thanksgiving Proclamation: “No people ought to feel greater obligations to celebrate the goodness of the Great Disposer of Events of the Destiny of Nations than the people of the United States.” The post Thanksgiving: The Quintessential American Holiday appeared first on The Daily Signal.

For those of you upset that Florida Democratic Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick allegedly used your taxpayer money to win herself an election, please note that she didn't just use it for that. Instead, of the $5 million overpayment of COVID-era disaster relief to a healthcare company controlled by her family didn't merely...

The Mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson, believes that imprisoning violent criminals is ‘racist, immoral and unholy’ Johnson said that society needs to find other ways of dealing with the issue of violent criminals while speaking [...] The post Imprisoning Violent Criminals is ‘Racist, Immoral & Unholy’ Says Chicago Mayor appeared first on The People's Voice.