SVR advisory board member defends League of the South ties

What is it with these people? Pride can be dangerous, bro. Kirkpatrick Sale, an advisory board member and director of the Middlebury Institute released a statement defending the ties to the Neo-Confederate group – the League of the South, and gets in a jab at the Southern Poverty Law Center, as well:

We accept the fact that there may be people in the LOS who have expressed intemperate and intolerant opinions—but of what group, we ask, could that not be said? (And the scare-mongering charges along these lines by the Southern Poverty Law Center have much more to do with its desire to squeeze money out of people made to be afraid of hobgoblins than by any genuine exposure of misbehavior.] Moreover, even if there are, as individuals, LOS people we could from our point of view deem racist, that would matter not one whit as to whether they were legitimate colleagues in the secessionist movement. It is irrelevant.

You may also find that that SPLC bash he uses is one that is quite similar to the one Neo-Nazis and other people who reeeeally don’t like the SPLC use all of the time. Coincidence? So I guess this is more of the same. Racist? We don’t care. You may remember VT Commons editor Rob Williams last week, talking about SVR advisory board Don Livingston (another with strong Neo-Confederate ties):

Is he a racist? I don’t know. And frankly, it is none of my damn business, at a personal level.”

Heck of a way to win friends and influence people in a state that prides itself on tolerance and diversity, eh? Great tactic. Do these people sound like anybody you’d like to lead our new independent republic?

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