More like boat shoe drooling !
If the SPLC has nothing to hide then why does the Tunnels Left fear an investigation?
Also - Why would the SPLC need an offshore account in the Cayman Islands to fight for social justice?
If the SPLC has nothing to hide then why does the Tunnels Left fear an investigation?
Also - Why would the SPLC need an offshore account in the Cayman Islands to fight for social justice?
If the SPLC has nothing to hide then why does the Tunnels Left fear an investigation?
Also - Why would the SPLC need an offshore account in the Cayman Islands to fight for social justice?
The SPLC has for decades identified "hate groups", and has backed up those claims with details and evidence. They have been sued on numerous occasions, and lost a few cases, but their overall record is excellent on identifying individuals, groups, and organizations that are racist and bigoted against other groups of people. By claiming that the SPLC itself is a hate group, the GOP is providing yet another example of how it projects its own problems onto its critics. Right-wingers aren't associated with hate groups, it's the SPLC that is a hate group - or so they'd like their base to believe.
The center also revved up its fervid and lucrative preoccupation with “hate.” A recent SPLC graph purports to depict a steady 30 percent increase in the number of American hate groups, from 784 in 2014 to a record 1,020 in 2018. This is because of what the SPLC claims is a “rising tide” of Trump-era white animosity. Its new interactive “hate map” allows users to track hate from Maine, which contains 5 hate groups, to California, which has 83 groups. For several months after Trump’s election, the New York Times ran a feature titled “This Week in Hate,” consisting of reports supplied by the SPLC and others of swastikas painted on walls and Muslims derided as terrorists. Many of the reports could not be corroborated or were proved to be false. The SPLC also entered into working partnerships with Amazon, Facebook, Google, PayPal, and Twitter to police their platforms for alleged hate and blacklist what it considered objectionable. Some of the organizations the SPLC defined as hate groups are simply Christian advocacy entities, such as Family Research Council and Alliance Defending Freedom, the latter of which represented Christian baker Jack Phillips in his successful Supreme Court battle against being forced to design a cake for a gay wedding. The SPLC has branded such figures as conservative political scientist Charles Murray, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, who is black, and Somali-born women’s-rights activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali as haters, alongside the Aryan Brotherhood. In June 2018, the SPLC settled for $3 million and an apology from Cohen in response to a defamation claim by Islamic reformer Maajid Nawaz for including him in the SPLC’s A Journalist’s Manual: Field Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists. Other individuals and groups that believe they have been maligned by the center are considering lawsuits.
If you had asked me 15 years ago if the GOP was aligned with the anti-hate group goals of the SPLC, I would have said yes. Now it’s pretty clear the GOP is aligned with hate groups and has no interest in rooting out white nationalists including domestic terrorists.
What a crock of shit... stop getting your talking points from the MSNBC primetime lineup.
See below for "claims with details and evidence":
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/wheels-come-off-the-southern-poverty-law-center
No issue with any of those cases above.
But as I am dense, please explain why the last noteworthy case was from 28 years ago in 1991?
Surely with the explosion in hate groups after Trump's election the SPLC would be knee deep in legal cases over the last few years.
Has the SPLC been on sabbatical for 30 years?
Lolz. I deliberately only listed a handful of cases, Angus. Would you like to do a Google Search and see what they've been up to recently?
That's too much effort for Angus
Then it's a good thing nobody asked you for your opinion 15 years ago.
I can't speak for the GOP but I have no issues rooting out white nationalists and domestic terrorists.
But when the SPLC lumps the Family Research Council into the "Hate Group" category with the KKK simply because of politics, it exposes itself as nothing more than a sham organization to raise money from idiot leftists.
The irony here is monsoon thick. Angus and other wacko RWers were totally outraged at Obama "using" the IRS to go after RW groups even AFTER it was proven that the ONLY group that got in trouble was a liberal organization and the person who came up with the plan testified, under oath that he was a registered Republican and voted against Obama. His boss was also a W appointee.
Angus and his brethren used this red herring for years. Now, because one person got in trouble he wants to crucify SPLC.
By the way, anyone who calls the SPLC "a political hate group" is an extremist moron.