Re: In defence of Krugman and against Alexander Cockburn: choice of targets

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

I invite pen-l'ers to look at the IRS forms for SPLC that are online at:

http://www.splcenter.org/pdf/static/SPLC_IRS_990_2001.pdf

It has total assets of $134 million! Dees makes $258,000 per year. The 3
people in charge of fundraising make a total of $300,000 per year. This
is a big-time operation. Meanwhile, the main expense item is
publications, which amounted to $5,246,665. It is likely that the brunt
of this went to tolerance.org that disseminated questionnaires on campus
that measured intolerance with an eye to making people more tolerant.
(Arrggghh!) Here is a snippet:

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Who do you prefer? (Please note: Black refers to a persons primarily of
African descent and White refers to persons primarily of European descent.)

/_/ I prefer Black people over White people
/_/ I have no preference
/_/ I prefer White people over Black people

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Somebody is obviously getting ripped off.


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