WeCanStopTheHate.org brings its fight against hate speech to online media with a post (12/10/08) about reports that Facebook board of directors member Peter Thiel “recently donated $1 million to the anti-immigrant group NumbersUSA,” which the Southern Poverty Law Center “identified… as one of six core organizations in the anti-immigration movement.”
Founded by John Tanton and directed by Roy Beck, who has written extensively on environmental and financial issues, NumbersUSA is the most calculating of the anti-immigration groups, offering information on the relationship between immigration and the environment. Regardless of apparent environmental sympathies, NumbersUSA supported Federation for American Immigration Reform and the American Immigration Control Foundation–SPLC-designated hate groups–in their immigrant-bashing billboard campaign. Beck has also been the Washington, D.C., editor of the Social Contract, a quarterly journal that has published articles by “white nationalists” such as Samuel Francis, who was fired from the conservative Washington Times after writing a racially inflammatory column, and James Lubinskas, a contributing editor to the racist American Renaissance magazine.
No. 1 on WeCanStopTheHate’s list of how to “hold Thiel and Facebook accountable”: Use Thiel’s own medium to force his hand–“Invite friends to the grassroots page on Facebook that was launched in response to these reports.” Over 2,000 members already have joined!
See the FAIR Press Release: “Questions About Source in Immigration Debate: Group Has Links to Racist Fund” (1/1/93)
