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[digg-reddit-me]Mark Krikorian has a post over at National Review’s The Corner defending the leader of an anti-illegal-immigration group called D.A. King and attacking the Southern Poverty Law Center<\/a> in general, and specifically for labeling the Dustin Inman Society led by King a group that is spreading bigotry.<\/p>\n Now, King named the group after a clear victim of what he seems to call the “invasion” of “brown people” — a boy named Dustin Inman who was killed in a car crashed by an illegal immigrant. (Because legal residents don’t accidentally kill people in car accidents approximately 100 times a day.) A quick Google search reveals that King uses racialized language and seems uncomfortable with Hispanics — he said he said a pro-immigrant march seemed like some Mexican village — which is why his “first act on a safe return home was to take a shower<\/a>;” and warned darkly of the “invasion” of the “brown people” and of “parasitic ethnic hustlers” who favored amnesty; and\u00a0he did at least once apply the “illegal aliens<\/a>” simply to all the Hispanics in various photos. I mean — that’s just what 5 minutes on Google and a few clicks around his own website show — maybe it represents his body of thought and maybe not.<\/p>\n But what I wanted to comment on was this Mark Krikorian post. But instead, let me just re-post a few portions of it, with all bolding done by me…<\/p>\n Just typing “Southern Poverty Law Center” makes me want to scrape off my shoes…<\/p>\n [T]he SPLC includes such targets (including, I’m proud to say, the Center for\u00a0Immigration\u00a0Studies) in\u00a0lists of those “spreading bigotry,” or whatever,…<\/p>\n This happens all the time, but one example that came to my attention was the\u00a0Dustin Inman Society, a mainstream (and quite effective) anti-illegal-immigration group in Georgia headed by D.A. King… The point is not whether D.A. is a hater (he’s not \u2014 I’m not even sure he’s a restrictionist, since he limits himself to illegal immigration, and I’ve never heard so much as an epithet from him<\/strong>,\u00a0even in private<\/span><\/strong>, let alone any Zionist conspiracies or Trilateral Commissions or even longing for the Lost Cause<\/strong>)…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I’ve rarely heard a better defense of someone than Krikorian’s of King: “I haven’t heard the guy slur blacks or Hispanics as most people I know do! Even<\/em> in private! Isn’t that incredible! And he doesn’t even long for the good old days when Mexicans were in Mexico and blacks were slaves! Or rail against Jews! The guy’s a saint practically!”<\/p>\n But it all makes you wonder a bit about the crowd that Krikorian hangs out with that these things are exceptional — and proof that someone isn’t a racist. And it certainly goes a long way to demonstrate why the Republican Party won’t be winning the Hispanic vote any time soon.<\/p>\n