Is MoveOn.org a Hate Organization?

MoveOn.org argues that the vicious hate speech that were posted by its Action Forum members does not make MoveOn itself a hate group, because the hate speech does not represent official MoveOn.org policy toward Jews, Catholics, Evangelical Christians, or Black people. A strong argument can be made, however, that MoveOn.org’s welcoming such hate speech in a forum over which it exercised editorial control does in fact make it a hate organization. Wikipedia provides the following definition:

"A hate group is an organized group or movement that advocates hate, hostility, or violence towards members of a race, ethnicity, religion, gender or other designated sector of society, or that supports and publishes assertions and argumentation characteristic of hate groups without necessarily explicitly advocating such hate or violence that otherwise characterize hate groups."

How, one might ask, can we call MoveOn.org a hate organization when it itself published only one Official Bulletin item that could be construed as anti-Semitic (”Jews with divided loyalties”) and one piece of anti-Catholic hate (the following derogatory cartoon of Pope Benedict waving a gavel in front of the U.S. Supreme Court)?

Two officially-sanctioned pieces of hate speech do not necessarily make MoveOn.org a hate organization, even though individual gaffes by Trent Lott (praising former segregationist Strom Thurmond) have been enough to damage or destroy political careers. The problem is the widespread hate speech on MoveOn.org’s Action Forum. According to the second portion of the definition, MoveOn.org has proven itself a hate group beyond any reasonable doubt.

Examples include the use of “Jew” as an epithet, as in “Jew Lieberman,” “Why are the Jews so Jew-y?” and “whining, arrogant Jew” (Tom Lantos). This is but the tip of the iceberg, as shown by the following highlights of anti-Christian hate speech from the Action Forum that we have on file.

"Especially the modern day human educated since the early eighties when the Catholics were allowed to steal our education money for their pedophile creating private schools."

"But until the priests are hounded down and arrested like the baby rapers they are, the neverending cycle will continue. You want to throw a monkey wrench in both political parties? Call for the arrest and immediate incarceration of the Catholic Pedophiles of America."

"The vicitm class will expand until you too can be jailed for ridiculously minor offenses while the Catholics are raping your children."

"And the Supreme Court is packed with Opus Dei Catholics who support a monarchy…"

"If the Catholics and Southern Baptists can gang up on the rest of America to further their plans for world domination. Then a group of highly trained espionage experts shouldn’t have a problem organising the attacks of 9/11. [19 out of 21 Action Forum participants voted to AGREE with this]"

This is the face of MoveOn.org, it is not very pretty, and these are the people with whom Barack Obama is consorting. (John Edwards' bloggers posted equally vile anti-Christian slurs at Pandagon and Shakespeare's Sister.)

The very fact that MoveOn.org allows such vile hate to be openly spewed on its forums is implicit encouragement, endorsement, and approval. It is nothing more than liberalism at its filthy, rotten core. I grew up in an extremely liberal area surrounded by people who thought and said exactly the same things. Even when I was a kid, I knew these people were/are off-the-scale nuts. MoveOn.org seems to have much in common with Vanguard News Network, perhaps even its member roster.

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