Tolerance Ads To Infiltrate Web Sites Of Hate Groups. You may recall my coverage of the exploits of Morris Dees and the Southern Poverty Law Center, on my most-worthy-charities list for many years for their effective work in breaking the back of rightwing hate groups. The SPLC has gotten Yahoo to provide $3 million woth of ad space over the next three years for “in-your-face ads urging tolerance and racial harmony”. While they’re going to be broadly disseminated, the organizers will be positioning them to come up especially for Yahoo users searching for hate sites and extremist chat rooms. Reportedly, Yahoo has allowed more than 100 “white pride and racialism” clubs among the thousands of community clubs it hosts.

The SPLC is also launching a new site, tolerance.org, with content like:

Click-on maps to locate hate groups and human rights organizations in your
city.

A hands-on primer on four hate groups on the Web and ”how they disguise
their message under a veneer of respectability.”

Tips such as ”101 Tools for Tolerance”; online forums for parents, teachers
and caregivers; and ”Planet Tolerance” for youth.

Six do-it-yourself, five-minute ”image association” tests for unconscious
biases: black and white race bias, age bias, gender bias, skin-color bias,
Asian-American bias and body-image bias. Results remain anonymous.