There You Go Again---> Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)

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‘We are at a very scary moment’: Hate groups on the rise​

Clare Kim
03/06/2013

The Southern Poverty Law Center is concerned about the growing threat of domestic terrorism. According to the Center’s new report, the number of conspiracy-minded, anti-government groups have been on the rise, amounting to all-time high of 1,360 “Patriot” groups in 2012.

Since President Obama won the 2008 election, only 149 such groups existed. While the number of hate groups actually slightly decreased from 1,018 in 2011 to 1,007 in 2012, the number of Patriot groups went up about 7% in the same time frame. These Patriot groups believe “that the federal government is conspiring to take Americans’ guns and destroy their liberties as it paves the way for a global ‘one-world government.’”
From 149 organizations in 2008, the number of anti-government groups skyrocketed to 512 in 2009, went up to 824 in 2010 and continued to increase to 1,274 in 2011.

The Patriot movement is likely to gain strength from the president’s post-Newtown aggressive gun-control efforts.

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?We are at a very scary moment?: Hate groups on the rise ? MSNBC

I remember when he said the tea party were terrorist...

Southern Poverty Law Center is one of many left-wing hate machines...

 

[Meathead]

The problem is there are people who consider SPLC a credible source.

 

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The Great Hijab Cover-Up
Has there been one documented hate crime since the election?
January 5, 2017
Ann Coulter

Forget fake news; the real issue is fake "hate.”

Has there been one (1) documented hate crime committed by white people against any hue in the Rainbow Coalition since Nov. 8? That's out of the 9,456,723 hate crimes alleged by America's leading hate group, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).

The SPLC is to "hate" what Rolling Stone is to rape. It is the biggest peddler of fantasies since Walt Disney.

I've read through dozens of SPLC "hate crimes" and they are all lies. The Muslim girls in particular seem to be very spirited liars.

Since the election, there have been vivid stories from across the nation of Trump supporters tearing off Muslim girls' hijabs -- at the University of Michigan (since retracted), Louisiana State University (also retracted), San Diego State University (that too was retracted), the New York City subway (again: retracted), and the University of New Mexico (no witnesses, won't reveal attacker's name or report the incident for investigation).

The main take-away from all these stories is: We sure have taken in a lot of Muslims! They seem to have trouble assimilating to American laws about not committing mass murder, but the good news is, when it comes to America's culture of victimhood

, they assimilate like fish to water!

This isn't mass psychogenic illness, like when cheerleaders at the same high school all develop tics. It's not even the Salem witch trials. At least the Salem witch-hunters believed in witches. The Muslim hoaxers are lying, and they know they're lying.

Otherwise, they'd leave the country.

If Muslims want to convince me that they're living in abject fear in Trump's America

, instead of rushing to the media, somebody's got to leave.

I've heard endless stories about the reign of terror against Muslims, but have yet to hear of one single Muslim -- much less a wave of Muslims -- moving out of the United States.

It's not as if they get depressed at the thought of abandoning the old ancestral home, where their great-grandparents are buried. They just got here!

If any Muslim were at risk of so much as a dyspeptic look from white Americans, there's emigration as well as immigration.

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The Trump Justice Department needs to create an office that will serve as a liaison with this new civil rights organization, the Northern Poverty Law Center. Because eradicating hate is Job No. 1!

The Great Hijab Cover-Up

 

[Silent Warrior]

Perhaps the increase in hate groups is because of all of the new ones formed by Democrats to riot against Trump.

 

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The Hate Group That Tracks Down 'Hate Groups'
The despicable Southern Poverty Law Center.
January 9, 2017
John Perazzo

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) was founded in 1971 by two Alabama attorneys, Morris Dees and Joseph Levin Jr. The latter served as the Center's legal director from 1971-76, but it was Dees, who views the U.S. as an irredeemably racist nation, who would emerge as the long-term “face” of the organization.

Identifying itself as a “nonprofit civil rights organization” committed to “fighting hate and bigotry” while “seeking justice for the most vulnerable members of society,” SPLC describes the United States as a country “seething with racial violence” and “intolerance against those who are different.” “Hate in America is a dreadful, daily constant,” says the Center, and violent crimes against members of minority groups like blacks, Latinos, homosexuals, and Arabs/Muslims “are not ‘isolated incidents,’” but rather, commonplace. To combat this ugly state of affairs, SPLC dedicates itself to “tracking and exposing the activities of “hate groups and other domestic extremists” throughout the United States. Specifically, the Center's “Hate & Extremism” initiative publishes its findings in SPLC’s Hatewatch Blog and in its quarterly journal, the Intelligence Report.

SPLC first gained widespread national recognition in 1987, when it won a $7 million verdict in a high-profile civil lawsuit against the United Klans of America (UKA). By the time that lawsuit was filed, UKA was already a destitute, impotent, disintegrating entity that virtually all white Americans emphatically rejected; the SPLC lawsuit merely drove the final nail into the UKA coffin. SPLC boasts that it has likewise won “crushing jury verdicts” that effectively shut down groups like the White Aryan Resistance, the White Patriot Party militia, and the Aryan Nations.

This has been SPLC's modus operandi since its inception: to initiate lawsuits against prominent hate groups for crimes that their individual members commit. In these suits, declares Morris Dees proudly: “We absolutely take no prisoners. When we get into a legal fight we go all the way.” The leftist writer Ken Silverstein, who in 2000 wrote a penetrating exposé of SPLC for Harper's magazine, has noted that the targets of these lawsuits tend to be “mediagenic villains” who are “eager to show off their swastikas for the news cameras.” As Dees and SPLC well understand, such figures stand the best chance of triggering an emotional public response that translates, in turn, into financial contributions from donors eager to combat the perceived threat.

SPLC claims that there are currently 892 active “hate groups” in the U.S. Asserting that the vast majority of such organizations are “right wing,” the Center says they include “the Ku Klux Klan,” “the neo-Nazi movement,” “neo-Confederates,” “racist skinheads,” “antigovernment militias,” “Christian Identity adherents,” and a variety of “anti-immigrant,” “anti-LGBT,” “anti-Muslim,” and “alternative Right” organizations. While also identifying a tiny smattering of black separatist entities as hate groups, SPLC takes pains to point out that black organizations must be judged by a different standard than their white counterparts, because “much black racism in America is, at least in part, a response to centuries of white racism.”

SPLC contends that from 2000 to 2012, the number of hate groups in the U.S. increased by 67%—a surge allegedly “fueled by anger and fear over the nation’s ailing economy, an influx of non-white immigrants, and the diminishing white majority, as symbolized by the election of the nation’s first African-American president” (Barack Obama). And America's racists, by SPLC's calculus, are almost all conservatives—as evidenced by the caption featured in the “Hatewatch” section of SPLC’s website: “Hatewatch monitors and exposes the activities of the American radical right.” The radical left gets no mention at all.

SPLC's “hate group” counts have been shown to be devoid of legitimacy a number of times. Laird Wilcox—a researcher specializing in the study of political fringe movements—reports that many SPLC-designated “hate groups” are untraceable, due either to their inactivity or nonexistence. After analyzing the SPLC Klanwatch Project's list of 346 “white supremacist groups” in 1992, for instance, Wilcox concluded that in fact there were only “about 50” such groups “that are objectively significant, are actually functioning and have more than a handful of real numbers—not post office box ‘groups’ or two-man local chapters.”[1] In 2005, Wilcox reported: “Several years ago with minimal effort I went through a list of 800-plus 'hate groups' published by the SPLC and determined that over half of them were either non-existent, existed in name only, or were inactive.”

JoAnn Wypijewski, who writes for the far-left Nation magazine, once said: “No one has been more assiduous in inflating the profile of [hate] groups than [SPLC's] millionaire huckster, Morris Dees, who in 1999 began a begging [i.e., fundraising] letter [by stating that] ‘the danger presented by the Klan is greater now than at any time in the past ten years.’” To put Dees's claim in perspective, the Ku Klux Klan at that time consisted of no more than 3,000 people nationwide—a far cry from the 4 million members it had boasted in the 1920s. Nonetheless, noted Wypijewski, “Dees would have his donors believe” that cadres of “militia nuts” are “lurking around every corner.”

In a similar vein, the late left-wing journalist Alexander Cockburn in 2009 called Dees the “arch-salesman of hate-mongering,” a man who profited by “selling the notion there’s a right resurgence out there in the hinterland with massed legions of haters, ready to march down Main Street draped in Klan robes, a copy of Mein Kampf tucked under one arm and a Bible under the other.” “Ever since 1971,” added Cockburn, “U.S. Postal Service mailbags have bulged with [Dees's] fundraising letters, scaring dollars out of the pockets of trembling liberals aghast at his lurid depictions of hate-sodden America.”

Regardless of how dramatically SPLC overstates their numbers, white racists like neo-Nazis, Klansmen, and skinheads indisputably deserve to be categorized as “hate groups.” But the Center irresponsibly extends that designation also to numerous conservative and libertarian organizations that harbor no ill will against any demographic group, but merely hold political positions contrary to those of SPLC. As syndicated columnist Don Feder writes: “What makes [SPLC] particularly odious is its habit of taking legitimate conservatives and jumbling them with genuine hate groups (the Klan, Aryan Nation, skinheads, etc.), to make it appear that there’s a logical relationship between, say, opposing affirmative action and lynching, or demands for an end to government services for illegal aliens and attacks on dark-skinned immigrants.”

For instance, one noteworthy organization that SPLC has placed in its cross hairs is the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), which the Center, in a 2003 report authored by researcher/writer Chip Berlet, identified as part of “an array of right-wing foundations and think tanks [that] support efforts to make bigoted and discredited ideas respectable.” Especially objectionable to SPLC was AEI fellow Dinesh D’Souza, an Indian-born scholar (and former Reagan Administration adviser) “whose views,” according to Berlet, “are seen by many as bigoted or even racist.” Specifically, D'Souza has written that affirmative action is an unjust, counterproductive policy; that “many liberals have been peculiarly blind about black racism”; that “virtually all contemporary liberal assumptions about the origin of racism ... and what to do about it are wrong”; and that “the civil-rights industry ... now has a vested interest in the persistence of the ghetto, because the miseries of poor blacks are the best advertisement for continuing programs of racial preference and set-asides.” “D'Souza has suggested,” wrote Berlet incredulously, “that civil rights activists actually help perpetuate racial tensions and division in the United States.” Such sentiments as D’Souza’s are—notwithstanding the repeatedly divisive rhetoric and actions of racial arsonists like Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Louis Farrakhan, and the late Julian Bond—anathema to an organization whose income stream is largely dependent upon an ability to perpetuate public angst over black suffering.

Berlet's 2003 report likewise denounced another AEI-sponsored scholar, Charles Murray—a Bradley Foundation research fellow who in 1994 co-authored The Bell Curve, which SPLC described as “a book that argues that blacks and Latinos are genetically inferior to whites and that most social welfare and affirmative action programs are doomed to failure as a result.” Addressing unfounded critiques such as this, Hoover Institution scholar Thomas Sowell wrote that widespread “demonization” by “demagogues” who were interested only in hearing “what they want to hear,” had rendered The Bell Curve “one of the most misrepresented books of our time.”

In SPLC's 2003 report as well, Berlet charged that conservative author David Horowitz “has blamed slavery on 'black Africans ... abetted by dark-skinned Arabs'—a selective rewriting of history.” To this, Horowitz replied:

“I never in my life blamed slavery on black Africans … abetted by dark-skinned Arabs.' What idiot would not know that white Europeans conducted the Atlantic Slave Trade, which trafficked in 11 million black African chattel? The sentence Berlet mangles is not a historical statement about slavery but a polemical response to the proponents of reparations who are demanding that only whites pay blacks for an institution—slavery—that has been eradicated in the western world (but not Arab and black Africa) for more than 100 years. It is intended to remind people that the slaves transported to America were bought from African and Arab slavers—not to blame Africans and Arabs for sole responsibility for slavery.”

Berlet also took issue with what he called Horowitz's “false” claim that “there never was an anti-slavery movement until white Christians—Englishmen and Americans—created one.” “Critics note,” Berlet added, “that Horowitz is ignoring everything from the slave revolt led by Spartacus against the Romans and Moses' rebellion against the Pharaoh to the role of American blacks in the abolition movement.” And yet, Horowitz had already anticipated and discredited these very charges two years earlier, in his 2001 book Uncivil Wars: The Controversy About Slavery, wherein he wrote:

“For thousands of years, until the end of the Eighteenth Century, slavery had been considered a normal institution of human societies. In all that time, no group had arisen to challenge its legitimacy. Of course, there were many slave revolts from the times of Moses and Spartacus, in which those who had been enslaved sought to gain their freedom. But that was not the point. The freedom they had sought was their own. They did not revolt against the institution of slavery as such. What had happened in the English-speaking countries at the dawn of the American Republican was entirely unique. Before then, no one had thought to form a movement dedicated to the belief that the institution of slavery was itself immoral. What was important in this historical fact was that it showed that white Europeans who were the target of the reparations indictment had played a pivotal role in the emancipation from slavery.”

Berlet’s gross misrepresentations of Horowitz’s work can only be understood in the context of Berlet’s own political and ideological track record. For instance, in the mid-1970s he volunteered to work on Counterspy magazine, an anti-CIA periodical founded by Philip Agee, the onetime intelligence officer who subsequently turned against the agency and spent years exposing the identity of undercover American spies who were stationed overseas. During the Cold War, Berlet was a supporter of Communist police states—most notably Albania, one of the most backward and repressive. Indeed, in 1983 Berlet was a founding member of the Chicago Area Friends of Albania, a Communist front group that supported the People's Socialist Republic of Albania and the repressive political rule of the Marxist-Leninist dictator Enver Hoxha. And for the past 35 years Berlet has been a paralegal member of the National Lawyers Guild, which throughout the Cold War embraced pro-Soviet agendas while systematically opposing the foreign policies of the United States, and which continues to depict America as the principal wellspring of evil on earth.

In 2010 SPLC denounced the Tea Party, which advocated reductions in government spending and taxes, as a movement that was “shot through with rich veins of radical ideas, conspiracy theories, and racism.”

Another of SPLC's bedrock beliefs is its conviction that the U.S., in addition to being inherently racist, is also a homophobic nation that countenances all manner of injustice against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people—who, according to the Center, are “far more likely to be victims of a violent hate crime than any other minority group in the United States.” SPLC tars anyone objecting to transformative cultural changes involving homosexuals—such as gay marriage—as a “hate” monger whose opinions have no more legitimacy than those of an Aryan militia. Thus did the Center once list the conservative Family Research Council as a hate group, chiefly because of its opposition to same-sex marriage and its view that homosexuality is an “unnatural” condition “associated with negative physical and psychological health effects.” It should be noted that FRC expresses no malice at all toward homosexuals, as demonstrated not only by its professed “sympathy” for “those who struggle with unwanted same-sex attractions,” but also by its call for “every effort … to assist such persons to overcome those attractions.”

SPLC’s list of hate groups and extremist groups also includes the Traditional Values Coalition, a conservative organization that opposes homosexuality on religious grounds and rejects the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, a bill that would designate transgendered people (cross-dressers) as a “protected class” whom employers would not be free to eliminate from job-applicant pools on that basis.

SPLC sees “Islamophobia”—hatred and fear based on religious faith—as yet another major defect in the American character. The June 2012 edition of Intelligence Report, for instance, featured a hit-piece titled “30 New Activists Heading Up the Radical Right,” which claimed that “an anti-Muslim movement, almost entirely ginned up by political opportunists and hard-line Islamophobes, has grown enormously since taking off in 2010, when reported anti-Muslim hate crimes went up by 50%.”

That seemingly ominous statistic seems less foreboding, however, when one considers that according to FBI data, the number of “reported anti-Muslim hate crimes” nationwide increased from 107 in 2009 to 160 in 2010—technically a 50% increase, but hardly what could be characterized as an epidemic in a nation of more than 300 million people. Further, SPLC's report gives no indication that the anti-Muslim hate-crime count of 2010 was in fact consistent with the normal, slightly fluctuating incidence of such events in other years—e.g., 155 in 2002, 149 in 2003, and 156 in 2004. Equally noteworthy is the fact that when the number of anti-Muslim hate crimes had dropped from 156 in 2006 to 115 in 2007—and from 481 in 2001 (the year of the 9/11 attacks) to 155 in 2002—the Center never thought to suggest that bigotry against Muslims was steeply declining.

SPLC's “30 New Activists” report dismisses, as purveyors of hate, a number of scholars, researchers, and journalists who have examined and discussed, in a thoughtful and responsible manner, the teachings, values, history, and objectives of militant Islamists. Among those smeared in the report are World Net Daily publisher Joseph Farah, American Center for Security Policy founder Frank Gaffney, blogger/activist Pamela Geller, and Accuracy in Media director Cliff Kincaid. In an effort to marginalize these individuals, SPLC lumps them together with Klansmen and neo-Nazis.

In October 2016, SPLC published a report titled Field Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists, a blacklist profiling 15 “Islam-bashing activists” whose “propaganda” was allegedly responsible for “fueling” acts of public “hatred” against “American Muslims,” who purportedly “have been under attack” in the U.S. “ever since the Al Qaeda massacre of Sept. 11, 2001.” The subjects of these profiles included:

• Ann Corcoran, founder of the blog Refugee Resettlement Watch
• Steven Emerson, director of the Investigative Project on Terrorism
• Brigitte Gabriel, founder of ACT for America
• Frank Gaffney, founder of the Center for Security Policy
• Pamela Geller, co-founder of the American Freedom Defense Initiative (and Stop Islamization of America)
• John Guandolo, founder of the consultation and training group, Understanding the Threat
• Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali-born activist and author
• David Horowitz, founder of the David Horowitz Freedom Center
• Ryan Mauro, a national security analyst with the Clarion Project
• Robert Muise, co-founder of the American Freedom Law Center
• Maajid Nawaz, a self-identified “proud Muslim” who opposes the radicalization of his faith
• Daniel Pipes, founder of the Middle East Forum
• Walid Shoebat, a Palestinian American activist who converted from Islam to Christianity
• Robert Spencer, founder of Jihad Watch
• David Yerushalmi, co-founder of the American Freedom Law Center

Each of these individuals seeks, in writings and speeches that are firmly rooted in factual information, to inform the American public about the beliefs, values, agendas, and activities of Islamic jihadists, and about the potential consequences of widespread Muslim immigration to the United States. But SPLC—rather than simply asserting that it views the arguments or conclusions of these authors as flawed—instead smears them as wild-eyed Islamophobes who, as in the case of Gaffney, are “gripped by paranoid fantasies about Muslims destroying the West from within.” Consider, for instance, some of the easily verifiable—or at least arguable—statements that SPLC has cited as evidence of unhinged bigotry:

• Corcoran's assertion that “we have made a grievous error in taking the Muslim refugees, Somalis in particular, who have no intention of becoming Americans”;
• Emerson's assertion that the Obama administration “extensively collaborates” with the Muslim Brotherhood, and that Europe has numerous “no-go zones” which non-Muslims cannot enter without great peril to their own safety;
• Gabriel's assertion that any “practicing Muslim who believes the word of the Koran to be the word of Allah” and embraces Sharia Law “cannot be a loyal citizen of the United States,” and that Islamists' “ideology … forbids them to assimilate” to Western culture;
• Gaffney's assertion that “we’re witnessing not just the violent kind of jihad that these Islamists believe God compels them to engage in, but also, where they must for tactical reasons, a more stealthy kind, or civilizational jihad as the Muslim Brotherhood calls it”;
• Geller's assertion that Islam is “the most radical and extreme ideology on the face of the earth”;
• Hirsi Ali's assertion that Islamic schools in the West should be shut down, and that “violence is inherent in Islam”;
• Horowitz's 2008 ad campaign stating that the Muslim Students Association was “founded by members of the Muslim Brotherhood, the godfather of Al Qaeda and Hamas, to bring jihad into the heart of American higher education” (SPLC had once dubbed Horowitz himself as “the godfather of the anti-Muslim movement”);
• Muise's assertion that “stealth jihadists … covertly seek to perpetuate sharia into American society,” and that “80% of the mosques in the United States distribute literature that promotes violence against nonbelievers”;
• Pipes's assertion that the infamous terrorist organization ISIS is “100 percent Islamic” and “profoundly Islamic”;
• Spencer's assertion that “traditional Islam itself is not moderate or peaceful,” and “is the only major world religion with a developed doctrine and tradition of warfare against unbelievers”; and
• Yerushalmi's assertion that “our greatest enemy today is Islam,” and that “the only Islam appearing in any formal way around the world is one that seeks a world Caliphate through murder, terror and fear.”

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The Hate Group That Tracks Down 'Hate Groups'

 

[blastoff]

And these Patriot Groups are responsible for killing how many people in, say, the last year? Was it more than the 762 mostly blacks killed by other blacks in Chicago in 2016? Less than that?

Maybe the idiots at the Southern Poverty Law Center should find real problems to worry about.

 

[American_Jihad]

And these Patriot Groups are responsible for killing how many people in, say, the last year? Was it more than the 762 mostly blacks killed by other blacks in Chicago in 2016? Less than that?

Maybe the idiots at the Southern Poverty Law Center should find real problems to worry about.

They should put themselves on the list...

 

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How the Southern Poverty Law Center Faked an Islamophobia Crisis
The Fake News media repeats a fake group’s lies.
February 20, 2017
Daniel Greenfield

(looks like a tombstone, needs a finish date)

But there’s actually another phenomenon responsible for this startling rise reported by the SPLC.

The SPLC decided to count 45 chapters of Act for America as separate groups.

How do you get a sudden rise from 34 to 101 hate groups? It helps to suddenly add 45 chapters of one group. Act for America isn’t a hate group. It’s also just as obviously not 45 groups.

And it didn’t come into existence last year.

Act for America was only listed as one group in the 2015 list. It shot up to 45 now.

The SPLC this year listed the Los Angeles chapter of Act for America as a separate group. But the chapter has been around for quite a few years.

Furthermore Act for America boasts not 45, but 1,000 chapters across the country. Why list just 45 of them? Look at it from the SPLC’s perspective. Next year, it can add 200 chapters and claim that anti-Muslim hate groups once again tripled. And then it can do the same thing again the year after that.

That way the Southern Poverty Law Center can keep manufacturing an imaginary Islamophobia crisis.

Also added to the list is Altra Firearms: a gun store that ran an ad declaring that it wouldn’t sell firearms to Clinton supporters or Muslims. Like Casa D’Ice, this is another case of the SPLC demonstrating that it has no idea what distinguishes a store whose owner says politically incorrect things from a “group”.

The list has added Bosch Fawstin: an artist who was the target of the first ISIS terror attack in America during the assault on the Draw Mohammed cartoon contest. The SPLC announced that it was adding the Eisner nominated artist to its list of hate groups after he survived the attack.

The SPLC’s actions were obscene.

After the attack, Heidi Beirich, in charge of adding targets to the SPLC’s hate map, announced that she would be adding Bosch to the list because the Center now knows his location.

Indeed the SPLC makes a point of highlighting the locations of likely terrorist targets. And the Southern Poverty Law Center’s map of hate has been used by terrorists before.

Floyd Lee Corkins opened fire at the headquarters of the Family Research Council. The conservative Christian organization had been targeted by Corkins because of its appearance on the SPLC’s list.

"Southern Poverty Law lists anti-gay groups. I found them online,” Corkins later confessed to the FBI.

When Leo Johnson, the building’s African-American manager, attempted to stop Corkins, the SPLC shooter told Johnson that he didn’t like his politics and opened fire. The SPLC gunman had planned to kill everyone in the office, but Johnson’s heroic actions saved their lives. The African-American building manager was forced to undergo painful surgeries because of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s hate list.

Despite its role in the terror attack, the SPLC continues to target the Family Research Council.

None of the so-called “Anti-Muslim hate groups” listed by the SPLC have shot anyone. The SPLC has.

Bosch Fawstin is a courageous activist. He’s also an individual. As am I. And the SPLC also has me up as a hate group. Other individual bloggers on the list include Atlas Shrugs, Refugee Resettlement Watch, Bare Naked Islam and Citizen Warrior.

6 of the SPLC’s “hate groups” are actually individuals. It’s understandable that the Southern Poverty Law Center is vague on the definition of hate. But you would think that it could figure out the definition of “group.”

No such luck.

The SPLC lists the David Horowitz Freedom Center as a hate group. But then again it also lists the American College of Pediatricians and the Jewish Political Action Committee as hate groups.

It doesn’t take much to be listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

You don’t need to be a group to be listed by the SPLC as a hate group. You don’t even need to have a pulse. Inanimate plastic signs can be listed too.

The rest of the SPLC’s “increase” is padded out with assorted community groups opposed to refugee resettlement, such as Treasure Valley Refugee Watch, and any Christian ministry it doesn’t like.

But there is one barrier to being listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

No amount of overt anti-Semitism from CAIR’s Nihad Awad would ever get the Islamist hate group listed as a hate group. Even CAIR’s flirtation with Neo-Nazis and Holocaust deniers can’t get it on the hate map. The SPLC collaborated with the Muslim Public Affairs Council despite its anti-Semitism.

Instead the SPLC lists counterterrorism organizations such as the Investigative Project on Terrorism, the Clarion Project and the David Horowitz Freedom Center which point out their terror ties as hate groups.

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How the Southern Poverty Law Center Faked an Islamophobia Crisis

 

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DID THE SPLC VIOLATE IRS REGS BY ATTACKING TRUMP?
April 6, 2017

Daniel Greenfield

The Federation for American Immigration Reform, a pro-enforcement group, has an interesting and heavily documented case to make about the Southern Poverty Law Center.

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Beyond the IRS complaint, these examples show the continuing drift of the SPLC from its supposed original mission to its transformation into a generic left-wing organization.

Did the SPLC Violate IRS Regs by Attacking Trump?

 

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SPLC: THE SMEAR SITE THAT VIOLATES AMERICAN TAX LAW
… while raking in millions upon millions of dollars.
April 12, 2017

John Perazzo

Breitbart News recently published an important piece asserting that the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) ought to be stripped of the 501(c)(3) nonprofit status that permits it to legally accept tax-deductible donations from the public. That assertion is based on the fact that during last year's presidential election campaign, SPLC was in gross violation of the law which states that 501(c)(3) groups must not “participate in, or intervene in (including the publishing or distributing of statements), any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for public office.” Dale Wilcox, general counsel to the Immigration Law Reform Institute, told Breitbart that the IRS should “strip the SPLC of its privileged tax-exempt status” because the organization's “attacks on [Donald Trump] during his campaign were some of the most egregious I’ve ever seen.” One SPLC headline, for instance, referenced “Trump’s Continuing White Nationalist Problem.” In a similar vein, SPLC’s “Teaching Tolerance” project issued a 13-page report alleging that Trump had ties to “hate groups.”

But of course, conflating conservative organizations and individuals with “hate groups” is SPLC's stock in trade, as it describes the United States as a country “seething with racial violence” and “intolerance against those who are different.” The Center claims that there are currently 917 active “hate groups” in the U.S., and that the vast majority are composed of “right wing” whites. While also identifying a tiny smattering of black separatist entities as hate groups, SPLC takes pains to point out that black organizations must be judged by a different standard than their white counterparts, because “much black racism in America is … a response to centuries of white racism.”

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Yet another major component of that lifeblood is money. Although SPLC possesses reserve assets valued at more than a quarter of a billion dollars, it spends, in comparison to other nonprofit organizations, an unusually small percentage of its revenues on actual program services—and a great deal on salaries, overhead, and fundraising. As The Weekly Standard reports: “CharityWatch, an independent organization that monitors and rates leading nonprofits for their fundraising efficiency, has consistently given the SPLC its lowest grade of 'F' (i.e., 'poor') for its stockpiling of assets far beyond what CharityWatch deems a reasonable reserve … to tide it over during donation-lean years.”

Perhaps more than any other organization in America, the Southern Poverty Law Center has turned hate-based identity politics and grievance mongering into a highly profitable scam.


SPLC: The Smear Site That Violates American Tax Law

 

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THE FREEDOM CENTER BEATS THE SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER
How the Guidestar battle was won.
June 30, 2017

Daniel Greenfield

The left has a problem.

Americans are doing all the wrong things. They’re voting for Republicans, reading conservative sites and donating to conservative organizations. Something needs to be done about it. Something is being done.

Post a conservative story on Facebook or search for it on Google and out pops Snopes, a partisan site, to warn you of wrongthinking. And, until recently, when you searched for a conservative organization on Guidestar, out popped the Southern Poverty Law Center to accuse you and it of being deplorable bigots.

The Southern Poverty Law Center and Snopes are left-wing partisan groups with no qualifications to do anything except hate conservatives. The SPLC’s list of hate groups includes numerous individuals, including me, also listed until recently as a hate group was a sign outside a Pennsylvania bar.

Morris Dees, a mail order guru and cut rate lawyer for a KKK thug, built the Southern Poverty Law Center into one of the greatest mail order scams on earth. Harper’s Magazine dubbed the SPLC a “fraud” that casually throws around the “hate group” label, “shuts down debate” and “stifles free speech”.

The FBI dumped SPLC’s scam artists, but Guidestar decided to help the left-wing group stifle speech.

Guidestar’s mission is providing information about non-profits. Instead its boss, leftist activist Jacob Harold, pursued a partisan agenda. 46 organizations were accused on Guidestar’s listings of being hate groups. According to Harold, the SPLC "has the most comprehensive information on hate groups".

There’s no question that the SPLC’s listings are comprehensive.

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The Freedom Center Beats the Southern Poverty Law Center

 

[American_Jihad]

The splc is to the dumbocratic/party as Joseph Goebbels was to hitler...

Southern Poverty Law Center Wants to Censor Google Search Results on Muslims
July 2, 2017
Daniel Greenfield

I wrote a piece recently about how the SPLC crawled into Guidestar. While that effort was ultimately rebuffed, the Southern Poverty Law Center is after bigger game.

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What the SPLC would like is to censor Google search results and Autofill that are critical of Islam. And the left-wing group claims that this will be done to stop bigotry. But where exactly will that line be drawn?

That's a good question considering that the SPLC has targeted Muslim and ex-Muslim critics of Islamist groups.

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The Islamophobia push comes from Islamists. That's why their categorizations inevitably include other Muslims. Like ISIS, Islamists want to purge the ranks. And left-wing groups like the SPLC that join their crusade end up doing their dirty work for them.

Censorship won't end where the left thinks it should. It won't end with Robert Spencer or Geert Wilders. It'll end when anyone who dissents is silenced. The SPLC is on board. Will Google be?

Southern Poverty Law Center Wants to Censor Google Search Results on Muslims

 

[IsaacNewton]

‘We are at a very scary moment’: Hate groups on the rise​

Clare Kim
03/06/2013

The Southern Poverty Law Center is concerned about the growing threat of domestic terrorism. According to the Center’s new report, the number of conspiracy-minded, anti-government groups have been on the rise, amounting to all-time high of 1,360 “Patriot” groups in 2012.

Since President Obama won the 2008 election, only 149 such groups existed. While the number of hate groups actually slightly decreased from 1,018 in 2011 to 1,007 in 2012, the number of Patriot groups went up about 7% in the same time frame. These Patriot groups believe “that the federal government is conspiring to take Americans’ guns and destroy their liberties as it paves the way for a global ‘one-world government.’”
From 149 organizations in 2008, the number of anti-government groups skyrocketed to 512 in 2009, went up to 824 in 2010 and continued to increase to 1,274 in 2011.

The Patriot movement is likely to gain strength from the president’s post-Newtown aggressive gun-control efforts.

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?We are at a very scary moment?: Hate groups on the rise ? MSNBC

I remember when he said the tea party were terrorist...

Southern Poverty Law Center is one of many left-wing hate machines...

Oh so sad, another conservative triggered.

 

[Snouter]

Clearly the SPLC was setup as one of the many "zionist" organizations to keep on eye on Whitey. If Whitey points out that Muslims are incompatible with the White Western world, which their other organizations are helping destroy by importing middle east and african savages into Europe, then what is next, a racist group that considers themselves chose by the mythical Yahweh to rule over the Goyem is also incompatible with the West...or what once was the West?

 

[American_Jihad]

‘We are at a very scary moment’: Hate groups on the rise​

Clare Kim
03/06/2013

The Southern Poverty Law Center is concerned about the growing threat of domestic terrorism. According to the Center’s new report, the number of conspiracy-minded, anti-government groups have been on the rise, amounting to all-time high of 1,360 “Patriot” groups in 2012.

Since President Obama won the 2008 election, only 149 such groups existed. While the number of hate groups actually slightly decreased from 1,018 in 2011 to 1,007 in 2012, the number of Patriot groups went up about 7% in the same time frame. These Patriot groups believe “that the federal government is conspiring to take Americans’ guns and destroy their liberties as it paves the way for a global ‘one-world government.’”
From 149 organizations in 2008, the number of anti-government groups skyrocketed to 512 in 2009, went up to 824 in 2010 and continued to increase to 1,274 in 2011.

The Patriot movement is likely to gain strength from the president’s post-Newtown aggressive gun-control efforts.

...

?We are at a very scary moment?: Hate groups on the rise ? MSNBC

I remember when he said the tea party were terrorist...

Southern Poverty Law Center is one of many left-wing hate machines...

Oh so sad, another conservative triggered.

That's all yeah got, are you trying to be #1 on the leaderboard...

 

[IsaacNewton]

‘We are at a very scary moment’: Hate groups on the rise​

Clare Kim
03/06/2013

The Southern Poverty Law Center is concerned about the growing threat of domestic terrorism. According to the Center’s new report, the number of conspiracy-minded, anti-government groups have been on the rise, amounting to all-time high of 1,360 “Patriot” groups in 2012.

Since President Obama won the 2008 election, only 149 such groups existed. While the number of hate groups actually slightly decreased from 1,018 in 2011 to 1,007 in 2012, the number of Patriot groups went up about 7% in the same time frame. These Patriot groups believe “that the federal government is conspiring to take Americans’ guns and destroy their liberties as it paves the way for a global ‘one-world government.’”
From 149 organizations in 2008, the number of anti-government groups skyrocketed to 512 in 2009, went up to 824 in 2010 and continued to increase to 1,274 in 2011.

The Patriot movement is likely to gain strength from the president’s post-Newtown aggressive gun-control efforts.

...

?We are at a very scary moment?: Hate groups on the rise ? MSNBC

I remember when he said the tea party were terrorist...

Southern Poverty Law Center is one of many left-wing hate machines...

Oh so sad, another conservative triggered.

That's all yeah got, are you trying to be #1 on the leaderboard...

It's ok snowflake, go to your safe spot with your tin-foil hat and copy of prepper magazine.

 

[American_Jihad]

‘We are at a very scary moment’: Hate groups on the rise​

Clare Kim
03/06/2013

The Southern Poverty Law Center is concerned about the growing threat of domestic terrorism. According to the Center’s new report, the number of conspiracy-minded, anti-government groups have been on the rise, amounting to all-time high of 1,360 “Patriot” groups in 2012.

Since President Obama won the 2008 election, only 149 such groups existed. While the number of hate groups actually slightly decreased from 1,018 in 2011 to 1,007 in 2012, the number of Patriot groups went up about 7% in the same time frame. These Patriot groups believe “that the federal government is conspiring to take Americans’ guns and destroy their liberties as it paves the way for a global ‘one-world government.’”
From 149 organizations in 2008, the number of anti-government groups skyrocketed to 512 in 2009, went up to 824 in 2010 and continued to increase to 1,274 in 2011.

The Patriot movement is likely to gain strength from the president’s post-Newtown aggressive gun-control efforts.

...

?We are at a very scary moment?: Hate groups on the rise ? MSNBC

I remember when he said the tea party were terrorist...

Southern Poverty Law Center is one of many left-wing hate machines...

Oh so sad, another conservative triggered.

That's all yeah got, are you trying to be #1 on the leaderboard...

It's ok snowflake, go to your safe spot with your tin-foil hat and copy of prepper magazine.

You libtarts always calling people names that are your own trade mark...

 

[IsaacNewton]

‘We are at a very scary moment’: Hate groups on the rise​

Clare Kim
03/06/2013

The Southern Poverty Law Center is concerned about the growing threat of domestic terrorism. According to the Center’s new report, the number of conspiracy-minded, anti-government groups have been on the rise, amounting to all-time high of 1,360 “Patriot” groups in 2012.

Since President Obama won the 2008 election, only 149 such groups existed. While the number of hate groups actually slightly decreased from 1,018 in 2011 to 1,007 in 2012, the number of Patriot groups went up about 7% in the same time frame. These Patriot groups believe “that the federal government is conspiring to take Americans’ guns and destroy their liberties as it paves the way for a global ‘one-world government.’”
From 149 organizations in 2008, the number of anti-government groups skyrocketed to 512 in 2009, went up to 824 in 2010 and continued to increase to 1,274 in 2011.

The Patriot movement is likely to gain strength from the president’s post-Newtown aggressive gun-control efforts.

...

?We are at a very scary moment?: Hate groups on the rise ? MSNBC

I remember when he said the tea party were terrorist...

Southern Poverty Law Center is one of many left-wing hate machines...

Oh so sad, another conservative triggered.

That's all yeah got, are you trying to be #1 on the leaderboard...

It's ok snowflake, go to your safe spot with your tin-foil hat and copy of prepper magazine.

You libtarts always calling people names that are your own trade mark...

I'm sorry, triggered again? Tin-foil on too tight for you?

 

[American_Jihad]

BLACKLIST AMERICA AND THE WHITE SUPREMACIST BLACK CHURCH
The Southern Poverty Law Center’s blacklists must be stopped.
August 30, 2017

Daniel Greenfield

The ATLAH World Missionary Church is located in the heart of Harlem right off Malcolm X Boulevard. Pastor David Manning grew up picking cotton in the segregated South. The African-American church and its pastor have had plenty of critics over the years, but none have accused them of white supremacy.

Until now.

Color of Change has rolled out its version of the Southern Poverty Law Center blacklist. The race-baiting group, co-founded by CNN’s Van Jones, put up a petition demanding that credit card companies stop taking “blood money” by “processing funds for over 100 white supremacist hate groups.”

The Color of Change list of “white supremacist hate groups” includes Pastor Manning’s black church. It also features the David Horowitz Freedom Center, Faith Freedom International, the Center for Security Policy, Jihad Watch, Act for America, the Shoebat Foundation, Stop the Islamization of the World, the American College of Pediatricians and, incidentally, Sultan Knish, my own personal blog.

If you believe Color of Change, Ibn Warraq of Pakistan, Brigitte Gabriel of Lebanon and Walid Shoebat of the West Bank, are running “white supremacist” groups. As are David Horowitz, Pamela Geller and me.

Not to mention a Harlem pastor who preaches a block away from Marcus Garvey Park.

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http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/267...and-white-supremacist-black-daniel-greenfield

 

[American_Jihad]

‘We are at a very scary moment’: Hate groups on the rise​

Clare Kim
03/06/2013

The Southern Poverty Law Center is concerned about the growing threat of domestic terrorism. According to the Center’s new report, the number of conspiracy-minded, anti-government groups have been on the rise, amounting to all-time high of 1,360 “Patriot” groups in 2012.

Since President Obama won the 2008 election, only 149 such groups existed. While the number of hate groups actually slightly decreased from 1,018 in 2011 to 1,007 in 2012, the number of Patriot groups went up about 7% in the same time frame. These Patriot groups believe “that the federal government is conspiring to take Americans’ guns and destroy their liberties as it paves the way for a global ‘one-world government.’”
From 149 organizations in 2008, the number of anti-government groups skyrocketed to 512 in 2009, went up to 824 in 2010 and continued to increase to 1,274 in 2011.

The Patriot movement is likely to gain strength from the president’s post-Newtown aggressive gun-control efforts.

...

?We are at a very scary moment?: Hate groups on the rise ? MSNBC

I remember when he said the tea party were terrorist...

Southern Poverty Law Center is one of many left-wing hate machines...

Oh so sad, another conservative triggered.

That's all yeah got, are you trying to be #1 on the leaderboard...

It's ok snowflake, go to your safe spot with your tin-foil hat and copy of prepper magazine.

You libtarts always calling people names that are your own trade mark...

I'm sorry, triggered again? Tin-foil on too tight for you?

Wake Up snowflake...


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