Use of SPLC considered harmful to balanced media

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5 points·RickJWag··3 comments

I'm no conservative, but I do think the SPLC is pretty much a joke. They were part of that whole "thing" of getting everybody all keyed up about sovereign individuals, "anti government extremists" and gun owners a while back. Yeah, because being a gun owner, anti-government, and an advocate of individual sovereignty obviously make you a bad person, and somebody who needs to be "observed" etc. What a freaking joke.

The SPLC lists several religious groups as hate groups.

Notable left-leaning organizations like Antifa and BLM are not listed.

Antifa is no more an "organization" than "the alt-right". It's more like a designation without any central authority or unifying views. It's also highly debatable whether "antifa" could be called "leftist", considering many of them are anti-government (and "left" in the US usually means "supportive of strong federal government").

BLM is often said to be similarly disorganized, but there actually is an organization now that claims to speak for the movement. Assuming you're referring to that organization, whom do you think they hate? Where can I read a member of their organization saying that they support violence and/or the hatred of a specific group?

Note that SPLC does include leftists among its hate groups, including the New Black Panther Party[1] (a group that rallies against police brutality, capitalism, and Zionism).

1. https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/grou...

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