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Southern Poverty Law Center condemns antifa, but won't call hate group
Washington Examiner ^ | September 3

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 ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antifa; domesticterrorism; hategroups; liberalfascism; splc
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1 posted on 09/03/2017 5:44:16 AM PDT by deplorableindc
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To: deplorableindc

Oh please...antifa is the last group even visiting the SPLC website nowadays.


2 posted on 09/03/2017 5:45:28 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: deplorableindc

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.


3 posted on 09/03/2017 5:49:03 AM PDT by xzins ( Support the Freepathon! Every donation is important.)
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To: deplorableindc
It is not Anti-Fascisim it its typical meme casting of projection.

It is in reality

Anti-First Amendment

4 posted on 09/03/2017 5:51:08 AM PDT by mazda77
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To: deplorableindc

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”?


5 posted on 09/03/2017 5:58:11 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: deplorableindc

My take is the SPLC is just distancing themselves for publicity purposes.


6 posted on 09/03/2017 6:02:38 AM PDT by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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To: deplorableindc

SPLC “condemning” antifa is the equivalent of Navin Johnson condemning defective oil cans... meaningless.


7 posted on 09/03/2017 6:24:34 AM PDT by Common Sense 101
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To: deplorableindc

I suspect SPLC is funding Antifa.


8 posted on 09/03/2017 6:28:48 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: deplorableindc

A survey of the SPLC finances showed it to be what it is; a corrupt money laundering scheme.


9 posted on 09/03/2017 6:29:28 AM PDT by Spok ("What're you going to believe-me or your own eyes?" -Marx (Groucho))
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To: deplorableindc

SPLC is a terror organization.


10 posted on 09/03/2017 6:43:45 AM PDT by blam
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To: deplorableindc

RAT NARRATIVE


11 posted on 09/03/2017 6:45:09 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (Trump plays chess the rest are still playing checkers)
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...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.


12 posted on 09/03/2017 6:53:34 AM PDT by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning.)
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To: deplorableindc

Well I’m glad they condemned Antifa—at least that shows a modicum of sanity—but what about Ayaan Hirsi Ali?


13 posted on 09/03/2017 8:09:12 AM PDT by Savage Beast (To the insane, the sane appear insane. MAGA = Renaissance!)
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To: deplorableindc

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.


14 posted on 09/03/2017 8:43:05 AM PDT by euram
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To: deplorableindc
Antifa is a terrorists bunch and equal to ISIS. They will not accept defeat unless they experience death.
15 posted on 09/03/2017 8:53:25 AM PDT by Logical me
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That’s very white of them.


16 posted on 09/03/2017 9:04:20 AM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: deplorableindc

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.


17 posted on 09/03/2017 9:36:34 AM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: Logical me
"They will not accept defeat unless they experience death. "

Then they will vote straight dimocrat for another 30 years.

18 posted on 09/03/2017 9:49:03 AM PDT by HangThemHigh (Entropy is not what it used to be.)
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To: deplorableindc

I am sure an IRS investigation of SPLC would yield fruit.


19 posted on 09/03/2017 10:19:58 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: xzins

The splc is a Sorros operation the same as snopes.


20 posted on 09/03/2017 10:33:32 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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