The “Anti-Hate” Group That Is a Hate Group | 5 Minute Video
The Southern Poverty Law Center bills itself as a watchdog of hate groups. But is this just a cover for its true aims? Journalist and author Karl Zinsmeister explains.
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Script:
Shutting down people you don’t agree with is about as un-American as you can get.
Rigorous debate, honest discussion, open exchange of ideas—that’s the American way.
But free thinking and speech are threatened today by a group with a sweet-sounding name that conceals a nefarious purpose. This group is called the Southern Poverty Law Center, or SPLC.
Originally founded as a civil-rights law firm in 1971, the SPLC reinvented itself in the mid-‘80s as a political attack group. Every year now it produces a new list of people and charities it claims are “extremists” and “haters.”
Aided by glowing coverage from the establishment media, the SPLC’s hate list has become a weapon for taking individuals and groups they disagree with and tarring them with ugly associations.
The SPLC employs a two-pronged strategy:
First, find a handful of crazies with barely any followers, no address, and no staff, and blow them up into a dangerous movement— proof that there are neo-Nazis lurking everywhere. On their notorious “Hate Map,” the SPLC lists 917 separate hate groups in the U.S.! No one has even heard of more than a handful of them.
The second strategy of the SPLC is to undermine legitimate political voices that they oppose by associating them with extremists like the KKK.
Take the charity known as the Alliance Defending Freedom. The SPLC lists them as a “hate group.” Is that fair? Well, the ADF has a network of 3,000 attorneys from all across the U.S. who’ve donated more than a million volunteer hours in defense of religious liberty. They’ve had a role in 49 victories at the U.S. Supreme Court. Putting the Alliance Defending Freedom on a list with 130 Ku Klux Klan chapters is not only wrong, it’s malicious.
According to the SPLC, one of the most influential social scientists in the U.S.— Charles Murray—is a, quote, “white nationalist.” Ayaan Hirsi Ali, perhaps the most eloquent spokesperson for the rights of Muslim women, is, to the SPLC, a “toxic… anti-Muslim extremist.”
Scores of other individuals and charities active in mainstream conservative or religious causes have likewise been branded by the Southern Poverty Law Center as threats to society.
Mind you, it is entirely fair to disagree with any of those folks. But it is utterly unfair to call them haters or extremists. The largest category listed by the SPLC as extremists—with 623 entries—covers groups like the Tea Party organizations that are wary of centralized government. Last time we checked, favoring smaller government was a mainstream and perfectly honorable American tradition.
What is not honorable is the course prescribed by a leader of the SPLC, Mark Potok, who was caught on video proclaiming the organization’s true intentions. He told a group of supporters, quote, “the press will describe us as ‘monitoring hate groups’…. I want to say plainly that our aim in life is to destroy these groups, to completely destroy them.”
Portraying someone with political views different from your own as a public menace is bullying.
And it’s a dangerous game. Instead of reducing hate and violence, the SPLC’s name-calling directly incites it.
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What do you consider a hate group:
The right: Anyone who shuts down a group of people who they disagree with or a group of people who outright attack a group of people for something as insignificant as the color of your skin or your religion.
The left: Anyone who I disagree with.
PragerU and their target audience are pedophiles and rapists
The SPLC is a radical Marxist, actual hate group. A couple of their lawyers were arrested for the attack on the police training center in North Georgia.
SPLC = BLM = scam to make money
Fact: Southern Poverty Law Center was founded by the same Bankster families that put Adolf Hitler in office. It's a small and crazy world we live in.
Actually, SPLC guards against hateful rhetoric. This includes groups who encourage violent acts. Prageru is funded by maga donors. Be wary and find both sides of the arguement.
The SPLC has lost credibility!
When was the last time you saw the SPLC or the ACLU defended the rights of someone on the second amendment of the constitution? Just something to think about.
The ADL
The SPLC is like Anakin Skywalker in his duel against Obi-Wan on Mustafar:
[The SPLC] has become the very thing they sworn to destroy.
Congrats to Prageru on an excellent video! The SPLC is now prodding the FBI to go after Catholics as a hate group. In reality, it's the sleazy SPLC that distorts and foments hate under the guise of a beautiful name! Thanks to Prageru for exposing the SPLC!
The nazi called Jews the "haters".
I really hope antifa are on that list of 917 hate groups. If not then they absolutely should be. By their own admission they hate America.
This group should be sued for slandering.
I hate the SPLC but let's be honest, PragerU is just the SPLC for a different audience.
Kinda like how BLM labels non-extremists as racists.
The message given by the name? Yes.
The organisation itself? Hell no.
imagine if martin luther king was alive today and he voted conservative than he gets labeled as a white superracist on the hate map
But what do we do to get rid of them?
I've known them as a radical racist hate group for some years now.
SPLC: Soviet Party of Liberal Communists
SPLC is a JOKE. I cant believe that anyone takes them seriously. We have are own version of them here in Sweden, called EXPO. They are exactly the same, finding "racism" everywhere. They make money out of it.
When this group condemned the wonderful Ayaan Hirsi Aly I knew they were not worth supporting
I used to support the SPLC but after research, I totally oppose the group.
The SPLC needs to be eliminated. Thanks for the knowledge.
Amen! SPLC are hypocritical leftist bullies!
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