Right-Wingers Rejoice Over Layoffs At Southern Poverty Law Center

Conservative media figures celebrated the loss of income and employment for over 60 workers at the Southern Poverty Law Center, the civil rights organization perhaps best known for monitoring and helping dismantle right-wing extremist groups.

“Your entire organization is trash, and America will be better off when it’s forced to lay off every single employee,” Sean Davis, founder and CEO of The Federalist, wrote on X, formerly called Twitter.

“Far-left propaganda group SPLC is tanking,” tweeted former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee. “About time! They lost their way years ago. Sat on a big bank account of millions & pretended to be fighting for ‘little guys.’ They are a hate group that labels others ‘hate group.’”

Jack Posobiec, the major right-wing influencer with over 2.5 million followers on X who the SPLC has described as having an extensive history of bigotry and collaborating with white supremacists, responded to news of the layoffs by tweeting a gif of former President Donald Trump wearing sunglasses and smiling.

SPLC workers were informed of the layoffs on Thursday. Margaret Huang, the organization’s president and CEO, informed staff that she and the executive board had decided to “restructure” the organization, and had made “difficult decisions to end some longstanding programmatic work,” according to a company-wide email reviewed by HuffPost.

A handful of major SPLC projects appear to be essentially shuttering, including Learning for Justice, which provides classroom resources for students to learn about racial justice and tolerance; the Southeast Immigrant Freedom Initiative, which provides “pro bono legal representation to detained immigrants at immigrant detention centers in the Deep South”; and the Economic