Posted on 06/10/2023 6:15:52 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has released its yearly report on the number of hate groups in the U.S.—a number that is always rising, thanks to the watchdog organization's characteristically clever counting. By adding Moms for Liberty, a conservative grassroots organization that bears little resemblance to the neo-Nazi groups the SPLC has historically tracked, the 2022 report manages to set a new record.
The SPLC has long drawn criticism—not just from the right, but from libertarians and the left as well—for maintaining that hate in America is always growing, whether or not the ranks of the purportedly hateful are actually increasing. Its infamous "hate map" is representative of this problem: No matter how small and insignificant a hate group may be, it still counts toward the total number—and if it breaks apart because of infighting, it might end up counting as two groups on the next year's list.
Even so, the SPLC hit a snag in 2020: The overall number of hate groups in the U.S. had appeared to decrease slightly since the previous year, from 940 to 838. The following year, 2021, produced just 733 hate groups.
These findings would strike most people as good news, but they cut against the SPLC's long-documented goal of raising money by inspiring concern about rising levels of hate. (The Montgomery Advertiser's investigative report on this subject earned a Pulitzer Prize nomination in 1995.) So the SPLC got creative: The 2021 map includes not just the 733 hate groups but also 488 "antigovernment groups."
Historically, the SPLC had tracked alleged antigovernment groups as a distinct category, but the 2021 report said that antigovernment groups and hate groups had "converged around a willingness to engage in political violence, either inflict or accept harm, and deny legally..."
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Anyone who stands against libtards is a hate group 🙄
Count me in
I look at the SPLC list to know whom to support.
I hate libtards
It should grab a mirror, it missed one.
Yup
So much for their self-touted “tolerance” of others.
Remember wuen they wanted all tye unvaxxed jailed? Or even hoped they would all die.
We even had Freepers here being libtard.
It’s influenced by CAIR Islamist fascist lobby. Any wonder they chastise Joseph Farrah (Christian Arab http://wnd.com ) for denouncing Jihadism?
I always thought it strange that the SPLC gets to decide for everyone who ‘hate groups’ are, when they are themselves one of the worst hate groups in the nation.
The Left has to define the terms of the debate. If they don’t they lose the argument.
laugh til you cry:
Youtube: 13m26s: 10 June: Jimmy Dore Show: NY Times’ Pathetic Whitewashing Of N@zis In Ukraine!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIBrR1agjrA
My former FIL, a retired university prof, is a closet communist and would regularly donate to the SPLC. I learned this from his daughter, whom he had encouraged to do likewise. I made other suggestions to my then-wife to whom she should consider donating.
POS POTUS has already called us conservative Christians domestic terrorists.
So count me in!
Hi.
“The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)” is a communist organization and should be brought up on treason and RICO charges.
IMHO.
5.56mm
The SPLC - the biggest hate group out there.
The Great Voluminous Vacuum of Paranoia Palace, a.k.a. The Southern Poverty Law Center, must be looking at their mystery-funding-spreadsheet, and running for a greater magnification pair of reading glasses.
The SPLC IS THE QUINTESSENTIAL HATE GROUP. They hate G-d and His Law. Their judgment with be severe when Moshiach comes. They will not escape his wrath. They need to repent, …Publicly, and soon.
Who runs this organization?
SPLC , grifting frauds.
The SPLC and ADL are just a bunch of natural-born liars out to con people out of as much money as they can greedily get their hands on.
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