Jack Kemp

After reading this short Powerline article, please note my own personal story below concerning the Southern Poverty Law Center..

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2017/08/apple-funds-left-wing-hate-group.php

Posted on August 17, 2017 by John Hinderaker in Leftism
Apple Funds Left-Wing Hate Group
I suppose this is a dog-bites-man story, given the crazy politics of Silicon Valley. But the Associated Press reports that Apple’s CEO Tim Cook, a politically ignorant lefty, has pledged $2 million "to help lead the fight against the hate that fueled the violence in Virginia during a white-nationalist rally last weekend.”
So is Apple coming out against antifa? Just kidding:

Cook also told Apple employees in the memo that he strongly disagrees with President Donald Trump’s attempts to draw comparisons between the actions of the white nationalists and protesters opposing them.

Like so many others, Cook misrepresents what President Trump has said. Maybe he did it intentionally, or maybe he was relying on pundits, including a number of conservatives, who have shamefully misrepresented Trump’s words. Trump said that white nationalists and violent antifa thugs–not "protesters,” who Trump said were "fine people”–both bore responsibility for violence in Charlottesville. I don’t know how anyone who has seen the videos of those events can dispute the truth of that assertion.

Apple is giving $1 million apiece to Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League. It will also match employee donations to those two groups and other human rights organizations on a two-for-one basis.

As has been documented many times, the Southern Poverty Law Center is a left-wing hate group that has blood on its hands. [Update: Much more here and here.] I don’t know whether Cook shares SPLC’s hateful agenda, or whether he is just a naive stooge. Either way, Apple has aligned itself with some very bad actors. And either way, it is time to sell my Apple stock.

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Jack's Story:

Over a decade ago, I used to read and write posts on a Las Vegas travel message board. I would, at that time, make a trip to Vegas every two years or so and it was fun to read the news on that Usenet message board. I am not a big gambler, having not gambled on one of those trips for even a thin dime. As a former computer programmer, I had attended the big industry trade show Comdex and also the Computer Electronics Show. I enjoyed the casino shows and also enjoyed seeing all the new theme casinos being put up.

One time, readers at the Usenet message board raised the topic of the owner of the Imperial Palace Hotel and Casino (now called The Linq). He was an early pro-fascist type named Ralph Engelstad, having in his car museum on site one of Hitler's automobiles and a car previously owned by Franklin Roosevelt that was shot through with bullet holes. I had previiously seen both those cars in the casino's auto museum myself. But the casino, even then in the 1990s, had won an award for hiring minority employees. After doing a quick search on the internet, I found that this racist owner had recently died. But a member of the Southern Poverty Law Center posting there insisted that people boycott the place even though no funds were going to this arguably avowed racist. Around this time, the Hitler and FDR cars were taken out of the auto museum. But this nut from the SPLC actually sent me a personal email saying I shouldn't go to the Imperial Palace (hey, it was good enough for James Bond in "Diamonds are Forever"). I wrote on the message board that the racist owner was dead and that there was no evidence that the current owners were anything like the previous owner of the casino. I forgot whether I directly emailed this message to the fanatic loon from the SPLC. I don't believe so, as I could easily see the type of person I was dealing with.

With the Southern Poverty Law Center, it is always 1959 and Sheriff Bull Connor is still turning fire hoses on blacks and letting loose vicious dogs to attack them. The SPLC people are sick and I'm sick of hearing about them. But their craziness must be stopped before it influences young people to believe that the attitudes of the SPLC are the "New Normal."

P.S. In response to someone justifiably complaining in an American Thinker comment about my original use of the term "alt-right" for the former owner of the Imperial Palace, Ralph Engelstad, I changed his description to "pro-fascist." And I added this info from Wikipedia:

 

From Wikipedia:

In 1988, several employees, angry about being placed on leave as punishment for talking to the plaintiff attorney, began speaking to the Gaming Control Board and local media about two Nazi-themed parties Engelstad had held at the Imperial Palace. The parties were held in Engelstad's so-called "war room", which featured a large collection of World War II Nazi memorabilia, including a portrait of Engelstad in the likeness of Hitler. A national controversy ensued. Engelstad claimed the collection was purely of historical interest, and not meant to glorify the Nazis. The Gaming Control Board recommended that Engelstad lose his gaming license and be fined $200,000 for reflecting poorly on the reputation of the Nevada gaming industry. An agreement was ultimately reached whereby Engelstad kept his license, but paid $1.5 million in penalties.[8]

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