No Haters at the Podium is a broad coalition of activists who believe that speakers calling for or cheering on the demise of any racial, ethnic, or religious group must be excluded from the public sphere. Despite the many strides made in the field of civil rights and mutual respect, there are still speakers and professors who regularly express hatred toward numerous groups for their immutable characteristics and/or their faith. Our first campaign is to Stop the prominent Hater Tim Wise. Below are a small sample of the highlights from his hate screeds as well as a plan of action to Stop Tim Wise.
Earning a 6-figure Salary from National Hate Speech Tours
One of the most flagrant Haters at the Podium is Tim Wise. He typically earns $7,500 per speaking engagement plus transport and lodging. He has spoken to hundreds of university audiences around the United States.
Enemies All Around
Tim Wise has attacked Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who broke the NSA Mass Surveillance story, and Cornel West, America's leading African-American public intellectual, for "empowering the reactionary, white supremacist, Social Darwinists of this culture."
Not limiting his hatred to Progressives, he has called for the shooting of Tea Partiers on election day.
Tim Wise and his Racist Friends
Tim Wise has used his public position to defend Ward Churchill. Ward Churchill wrote that the people who died in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center were "Little Eichmann's" who deserved to be murdered. Churchill was trying to draw a moral equivalency between trading bonds at Cantor Fitzgerald and organizing the train schedules delivering Jews to Nazi concentration camps. Tim Wise was one of the few "progressives" to see the connection.
Tim Wise, defended Churchill's lunatic claims in the only way he knew how. Wise claimed that “White America, in the main, has no moral center to which one can appeal any longer, if it ever did.” The only explanation for the reaction against Churchill's excuse for the mass murder of nearly 3,000 noncombatants, which included victims from 90 countries, was not the content of Churchill's article but "the notion that a person of color and an Indian no less, should dare to condemn the American empire."
It should be noted, Ward Churchill, a European-American, fabricated his American Indian heritage when applying for his former post as Professor of Ethnic and Indian Studies at UC Boulder. Churchill has been denounced by the American Indian Movement, the leading activist organization uniting American Indians from across the US, for his false (and inconsistent) claims of tribal affiliation and heritage as well as for damaging the good will that the public feels toward American Indians while pursuing his bloodthirsty agenda.
Tim Wise's Solution for Social Justice
While Tim Wise chases imaginary Klansmen into the Princeton faculty lounge and shills for advocates of terrorism, the most important issues facing the US and the world go ignored during his very expensive speeches. Rather, students are told that "White People have always been the bad guys." And this simplistic view of historical injustice will be resolved by the dying off of White Americans..."you're on the endangered list. And unlike, say the bald eagle or some exotic species of muskrat, you are not worth saving." Realizing he went too far for his own good in this article, he has since re-edited and removed this article from his own site.
The SPLC draws a bright line regarding hate groups, "all hate groups have beliefs or practices that attack or malign an entire class of people, typically for their immutable characteristics." Tim Wise has become that which he always professed to have worked against...he attacks and maligns an entire class of people, claims they are incapable of moral judgement, and cheers on their extinction because of their immutable characteristics.
Stop Tim Wise
It is up to us to Stop Tim Wise. We encourage people of good conscience, whatever their political stripe, to join this nonviolent movement to encourage Universities, Places of Worship, NGOs, and Corporations to have this simple policy in place: No Haters at the Podium:
1) Stop paying Tim Wise
2) Stop giving Tim Wise a public podium to address the public
3) Stop legitimizing Hate by promoting Tim Wise's screeds in the classroom
4) Make the SPLC add Tim Wise to their list of Haters
No Haters at the Podium at the Center of a National Campaign
This blog will be a rallying point for activists across the country looking to stop Tim Wise. Local activists are needed in each area where Tim Wise will speak, and experienced activists can advise on strategies for shaming the decision makers capable of cancelling his visits. We will provide customized materials to educate the public on Tim Wise's serial history of pathological Hate at the request of local activists. Please feel free to reach out. We need your help to win.