Posted on 08/13/2023 7:04:27 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Article Dig In The Southern Poverty Law Center is reporting a record low number of hate groups this year but is inflating the dots on its infamous "Hate Map" by redefining political policy and parents groups an anti-government organizations worthy of scrutiny.
The SPLC recorded 523 hate groups in its 2022 annual report. That is the fewest number of hate groups recorded since the SPLC started publishing its annual Hate Map in 2000. The organization doesn't mention this accomplishment in its annual report and instead focuses on hate they it alleges is being pushed by right-wing figures.
Rather than reflecting what most would find a cause for celebration, the latest Hate Map's headline states: "In 2022, we tracked 1,225 hate and antigovernment groups across the U.S."
All previous years' Hate Maps listed only hate groups, and 2022 had the highest number of groups tracked by the controversial "civil rights" organization. On the surface, it would appear as if hate exploded in the United States last year, by including 702 groups deemed "anti-government" into the data pool. The addition of policy groups inflated the totals on the map by 57%.
The SPLC acknowledged a difference between "hate groups" and "anti-government" groups: "Hate groups hold beliefs or practices that attack or malign an entire class of people, typically for their immutable characteristics, while antigovernment groups see the federal government as an enemy of the people and promote baseless conspiracy theories." The organization justified the commingling of the two because it claimed "far-right activists have embraced ever more violent rhetoric" and "their words are contributing to an atmosphere that breeds political violence."
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The SPLC is the mother of all hate groups.
Gotta see if I made the list...... š³
I hate the communist racism at the SPLC - reckon they’ll put me on their map ?
The Left admonishes all forms of hatred. But hatred is not always bad.
Hatred of evil is good.
Conservatives need to start embracing and celebrating the hatred of evil.
Did they take an hour or so off from molesting little kids to create this new map?
Anyone who opposes the Deep State narrative is a “hater” and an “extremist”.
It is also your responsibility to change your views every day even every hour or even minute the Deep State does.
Obey citizens!
S.P.L.C. and C.A.I.R.: hugely rich and 100 percent E V I L.
Shouldnt the democratic national party be white hot?
” Nobody pays any attention to the SPLC racketeers but other commies.”
I wish that were true, but the FBI and other government agencies have huge contracts with the SPLC and ADL to provide “information” and “training”.
I thought it was considered a bad thing to have an āenemies listā.
The SPLC has been touting the ārising tide of hate groupsā for more than half a century. By now everyone should be a neo-Nazi or Klansman in their book.
They must have the easiest job in the worldā¦ spout some nonsense, print it up and go home.
Only if youāre a red-blooded true America-loving American.
You know, since these jackasses can with full impunity make lists accusing people of āhatredā, why can we not do the same?
Why not come out with a group making lists and maps of communists? Or just about America-hatred?
Yes, the hate group founded by former KKK lawyer Morris Dees, who after the collapse of the Klan; discovered the financial joys of attacking center-right groups for claimed civil rights violations. One of the left’s main attack dogs.
Ooh ooh, I live in north Idaho. Does that mean I’m in?
Timber Unity made Oregonās anti-government cut. Didnāt see any anarchist groups named.
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