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Southern Poverty Hypocrisy Cecity


Quick post today.  A friend with good intentions posted a list of 10 things we can do to combat hate published by the Southern Poverty Law Center, or SPLC here.  It's got some good suggestions for empowering people when something truly racist or bigoted happens in their communities.  However, while failing miserably to maintain a veneer of objective neutrality, it let slip the following belly-laugh-inspiring list of criteria exposing its massive leftist leaning, apparently with complete blindness to its own hypocrisy:
Though their views may be couched in code words, members of hate groups typically share these extremist views:
• They want to limit the rights of certain groups.
• They want to divide society along racial, ethnic or religious lines.
• They believe in conspiracies.
• They try to silence any opposition.
• They are antigovernment and fundamentalist.
By their own definition, even with the most charitable reading of the criteria, the SPLC hits on 4/5 of its own criteria for classification as a hate group.

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