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)

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