I don’t know about “Indisputable, unimpeachable and irreproachable”. This is from a representative of “The Southern Poverty Law Center”.
I would have a great many questions about how these people do business, what they stand for and so on. I would not accept in advance any definition they put forth. In particular, “what defines a hate group?”
These people are part of the “Race Industry”. They earn their daily bread by making race an issue whether race is an issue or not. They go to schools, colleges and workplaces to give “Tolerance courses”.
I would say they are in bed with extortionists like the Rainbow Coalition, but I wouldn’t make that blanket statement. They are more likely business competitors, but they aren’t trying to sell customers cars.
It's pessimists like you who pull the rain clouds over the rainbows and hobble the legs of the prancing unicorns in the new, hopey changey world.