So, let's take a closer look at KG's second quickly googled hit resulting in the openly and notoriously Leftist Southern Poverty Law Center's hate group assertion that hate groups and hate itself is increasing under President Trump's stewardship.
First, a Conservative take on the SPLC itself:
https://c-fam.org/home/the-truth-about-splc/The Truth About SPLC
The Southern Poverty Law Center has created a list of its adversaries which it calls “hate groups.” This list includes champions of marriage and the family, including our name and those of some of our UN pro-life and pro-family coalition members.
Unfortunately, this false moniker has been wielded by those who oppose the natural family and marriage to scare government officials away from working with us and deter those who would support our work from funding us and others.
The real purpose of this list is to silence opponents, to isolate them. It is a kind of weaponized political correctness. It is also about raising money for the Southern Poverty Law Center, which has more than $300 million dollars in the bank and rakes in more than $50 million every year.
The SPLC and its allies are getting away with this scare tactic in part because they hide behind the perception that they are a human rights organization that champions fairness and American values.
This is false.
C-Fam’s core mission is truth telling, and we believe that the truth about SPLC should be known so that people of good faith can make up their own mind about SPLC scare tactics and put an end to them.
The good news is that many are waking up to the Southern Poverty Law Center. The FBI used to partner with them in identifying hate groups. They no longer do. The Army used to have them lecture on domestic terrorism. The Army has ended that relationship.
Below you will find a powerful video exposing the Southern Poverty Law Center and their stated goal of destroying their political opponents. You will also find many essays and articles about this nefarious group, including articles from left-wing groups who are also concerned about the tactics of the Southern Poverty Law Center.
The video is worth a looksie. Additionally, the SPLC is rife with internalized misogyny as evidenced by:
https://nypost.com/2019/03/14/a-shockin ... aw-center/tl;dr - The SPLC is corrupt, and has went from an organization focused on calling White hate groups and focusing on voting rights to an org that labels anything Conservative as a hategroup.
Sure, they do a good job at tracking white supremacists and whatnot, but does their keen eye for finding hate and hateful rhetoric extend to academia? Why not list universities that encourage open misandry through their women's studies programs? Does the SPLC focus on the genesis of crimes committed against Whites by Hispanics, Blacks, and other ethnicities or is it always the fault of White people that White people are victims of crimes committed at higher rates by percentage toward them by ethnicities and non-European races than the other way around? What could possibly be their motivation to always present their findings that overreprsent small retarded White supremacist groups while consistently ignoring or minimizing various other groups?
The Family Research Council says this about the SPLC:
https://www.frc.org/issuebrief/the-sout ... ate-groupsWhat does the SPLC consider a "hate group?"
Logically, a "hate group" should be defined as one whose members 1) actually say that they hate a particular group of people; and/or 2) engage in or condone violence or other illegal activity toward such a group.
The SPLC, however, uses much broader criteria for defining "hate groups," and criteria which can vary depending on which of fourteen categories of "hate groups" you are looking at-ranging from "Neo-Nazi" to "Black Separatist" to "Radical Traditional Catholicism." These criteria are entirely subjective and largely ideological.[9]
While their rhetoric ties "hate groups" with actual "hate crimes,"[10] the SPLC acknowledges alleged "hate group" activities include constitutionally protected activities such as "marches, rallies, speeches, meetings, leafleting or publishing," and that the "hate group" designation "does not imply a group advocates or engages in violence or other criminal activity."[11] However, they do not distinguish between racist or violent groups and legitimate organizations that participate peacefully in the political process-tarring all with the same label.
As genuine "hate groups" such as the Ku Klux Klan have dwindled, the SPLC has broadened its target list in order to justify its continued existence. In recent years, whole categories and new groups have been added not because of actual "hate" activities, but because they hold conservative positions on controversial political issues such as immigration[12] and homosexuality.[13]
The SPLC claims that the number of "hate groups" in America increased by a staggering 66% from 2000 to 2010.[14] Yet this is only as a result of their own expanding definition of what constitutes a "hate group." Actual hate crimes, as measured by the FBI, fell nearly 25% between 1996[15] and 2009.[16]
The SPLC's Mark Potok has publicy confessed that there is "an element of hypocrisy" in the SPLC attacking conservative groups while remaining silent about liberal groups that use "exactly the same kind of tactics."[17]
A liberal writer in The Humanist said, "The SPLC campaigns for laws that will effectively deny free speech and freedom of association to certain groups of Americans on the basis of their beliefs. . . . [T]hen, with no discernible irony, it goes on to justify its Big Brother methods in the name of tolerance."[18]
Tbf, the most hate and consistently hatefulness I see on this board comes from Leftists. If their worldview, and resulting paranoia about Conservatives, is any indicator I would have to guess that their ideology breeds the most extremism and hate that's obvious to anyone who isn't a dullard (which is why they're probably blind to their own behavior).
- Doc
