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SPLC President Resigns Amid Racism, Sexism Scandal At Organization

Ashe Schow

The Southern Poverty Law Center — an organization that labels anyone who disagrees with their radical leftist ideology as a “hate group” — is facing a reckoning.

Amid accusations of racism and sexism at the “anti-hate” organization, President Richard Cohen has now resigned, a little more than a week after the group fired co-founder and chief litigator Morris Dees. Cohen wrote the statement announcing Dees’ firing, making his resignation especially surprising.

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