The Justice Department Indicts the Ministry of Love
George Orwell
05/02/2026
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Mises Wire
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Wanjiru Njoya
One of the problems with trying to police “hate” is that it gives the Thought Police an incentive to persecute their fellow citizens, and if they do not find a sufficient number of haters lurking in their midst, they invent them. There is now an entire sector of “experts” dedicated to eradicating hate, and it seems they are now concerned that there may not be enough hate to sustain their hate-finding activities.
Leading the Thought Police in the fight against hate is the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a multimillion-dollar Orwellian Ministry of Love. In Orwell’s 1984, he writes that, “The Ministry of Love was the really frightening one.” It is the arm of the party machine charged with designating who is guilty of Hate and forcing them to confess their thoughtcrimes.
Although many were highly amused by the fact that SPLC has been indicted for paying people millions of dollars to organize hate activities, and many hilarious memes were doing the rounds making fun of them, it is no joke to end up on the SPLC Hate List. The Hate List is widely disseminated in the public sector as well as the corporate and non-profit world, and anyone who ends up on the Hate List is likely to suffer real world consequences. That, after all, is the whole point of identifying those guilty of hate—to punish them and ultimately to eradicate them from society.
SPLC recently came to public attention when they put Charlie Kirk on their Hate List just before he was assassinated. They are now back in the limelight after the Justice Department charged them with eleven counts of wire fraud, bank fraud, and money laundering. As explained by NYT,
https://mises.org/mises-wire/justice-department-indicts-ministry-love
