Posted on 09/03/2017 5:44:16 AM PDT by deplorableindc
The leader of the Southern Poverty Law Center said the organization condemns the antifa movement but won't brand it with the center's often-cited "hate group" designation.
Richard Cohen, the president of the SPLC, told the Washington Examiner the loosely organized antifa movement, short for anti-fascism, is "wrongheaded" in opposing free speech and using violence.
"We oppose these groups and what they're trying to do. We just don't think anyone should be able to censor someone else's speech," Cohen said, echoing and endorsing recent statements from progressive scholar Noam Chomsky.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Oh please...antifa is the last group even visiting the SPLC website nowadays.
The splc is a political operation the same as snopes.
They have enough accurate kkk groups identified that they get to hide behind that accuracy and take political potshots at legitimate conservative and Christian groups.
It is in reality
Anti-First Amendment
The SPLC is what gave Antifa and other SJW groups, its talking points and “moral justification” for their terrorism.
How many times have we heard person or group demonized because the SPLC “labeled them a hate group”?
My take is the SPLC is just distancing themselves for publicity purposes.
SPLC “condemning” antifa is the equivalent of Navin Johnson condemning defective oil cans... meaningless.
I suspect SPLC is funding Antifa.
A survey of the SPLC finances showed it to be what it is; a corrupt money laundering scheme.
SPLC is a terror organization.
RAT NARRATIVE
...Southern Poverty Law Center condemns antifa, but won’t call hate group...
Of course it. They are leftist/communist/anarchist fellow travelers.
Even the Mayor of Berserkeley, CA, in a rare lucid moment wanted them to be labeled a street gang although be wouldn’t take the step of calling them terrorists.
SPLC has gone from an organization that took cases to Court to win landmark civil rights issues to an Orwellian monolith that rakes in over $340 million dollars annually.
It’s a money making machine that calls anyone or any group that isn’t liberal a hate group. Sharpton and Jackson drool over this kind of success.
Well I’m glad they condemned Antifa—at least that shows a modicum of sanity—but what about Ayaan Hirsi Ali?
How dare antifa try to censor people. After all, censoring what people have to say is the SPLC/ADL’s job. Antifa does it with threats and baseball bats, SPLC/ADL does it with threats and smears in print and on the air.
That’s very white of them.
I’ve always held SPLC in the lowest possible regard, a hate group presuming to label others as such. I’d be smiling for a month if a meteor struck their building during a mandatory, all-hands meeting.
Then they will vote straight dimocrat for another 30 years.
I am sure an IRS investigation of SPLC would yield fruit.
The splc is a Sorros operation the same as snopes.
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