Great link to Southern Poverty Law Center. I didn't know they had that map, very useful. Thanks.

Good lord, just a quick glance at their home page confirms a well-deserved hate group status.

Oh, I see they're one of those I hate everybody equally hate groups. And here I thought equal opportunity hate was all fine and dandy.

Just for fun you should monitor and post what they write about your story.

SPLC is a hate group.

The wish to restrict free speech at least as much as any NAZI as they push their poison agenda of cultural marxism.

Good call. I wouldn't talk to those semi-evolved simians either.

A good reporter investigates, whether or not they are perceived as adversaries.

SPLC a HATE GROUP? They say it "takes all kinds" ... but I must admit my proverbial village recognizes no need for any person dumb enough to make such a statement in earnest. But maybe you're really great at... I don't know... chewing or something?

@2, it also confirms that they're exercising their first-amendment right to post horrible, gaudy Photoshop work.

@8

He's really, really not. Ask him about his vagina flag. Or the time he was a gay guy who almost got gay bashed on Capitol Hill (saved by his gun!) except he's also a gender-normative straight married guy. Which is it? Neither? Both?

Well, it's all of the above, if you're not very bright, and he's not.

SPLC is about generating hysteria for cash. Nothing else. They're so bad you have to wonder if they were ever serious about anything. Some chick at Oberlin freaks out over someone walking around in a blanket and hallucinates a klansman, Morris Dees sends out an appeal letter. Protect the endangered Obies from hatecrime! But hey, it's not like you're a reporter or anything, like you should dig a little deeper. You don't have time for that. Just keep their hatelist handy, that'll do it.

@Cascadian Bacon - Calling SPLC a hate group and / or comparing them to NAZI's is offensively stupid on so many levels. Are you willingly ignorant or were you born that way?

I'd rather over-react on the liberal side than over-react on the side of Klansmen and Nazis. At least on the liberal side you're fighting for more civil liberties, even if you think it's silly or unnecessary. However, when you're standing on the side that can also house Nazis, Klansmen, and McCarthy, while bandying about the phrase "Just sayin'!" - the asshole phrase for dicks and political pontificators everywhere, you may at times be technically correct, but not often. Hitler had many moments of being "correct". A lot of his home policies helped out a lot of people... in Germany. Ask any surviving Jews how they fared though and start your same bullshit about how many people tried to stop the hate speech against the Jews before they were carted off and what your response would have been? "They were just trying to sucker gullible liberals...."

You may think I'm being extreme to go the Hitler route.. which is always the ultimate example... "Well HITLER WAS A VEGETARIAN... so there!" However, if you don't want to relieve the 40's, which were really, in the stream of history, not all that long ago, start paying attention to hate speech, and start speaking up against it. You want history to repeat itself, then go right on ahead and ignore it. You know the saying. I don't need to repeat it.

@5: You always came off as a douchebag but this is the first time you've come off as a white supremacist enabler. Grats on reaching a new low.

You're feeding the troll.

Hmmm... which way to go with this.

- I'll bet SPLC just compiles their hate group list by searching for words like "free" and "American".

or

- I bet they're registered as a non-profit.

@11: Floyd Lee Corkins II is a lunatic, not an ideologue. Moron.

@20: Most libertarians are looking for their freedom to oppress to be unimpeded by "oppressive" human rights legislation. What's so confusing about that?

They don't ever stress civil libertarian values.

Hey you know who else used the SPLC map?

Floyd Lee Corkins, the guy who tried to shoot up the Family Research Council. A known Lefty. You guys must be so proud. Thankfully he was about as competent as the usual Democrat and only succeeded in injuring the security guy who prevented the rampage.

@24: See @22.

@20 it's because if you rail against "the state" you can blame "the state" for enabling all of the groups you hate.

Folks slamming SPLC here better not check Wikipedia (another commie, liberal foil) who quotes frequent American Free Press writer Michael Collins Piper as follows:

"Any one of them [members of Congress] is liable to rise up on the floor at anytime and deliver a speech praising Jews and Zionists and Blacks and Indians and heaven only knows, but can you imagine any one of them standing up and praising White Christians?"

Clearly, Conservapedia is the only source we can trust.

"How Child ‘Protective’ Services Can Get You Shot & Take Your Kid"

"The Truth About Benghazi"

"Hungary Sheds Bankers’ Shackles"

"AFP PODCAST & ARTICLE: Criminals Beware! We’re Armed and Trained!"

"Holder Says You Have ‘Duty to Retreat’; Bloomberg Battered"

"Were U.S. and Israel Behind Egyptian Military Coup d’Etat?"

I started cherry picking at the end there but these "headlines" are pretty damn funny.

The title of this article is "Blackness Settles over Detroit"; if you're expecting a hackish piece on failed liberal policies cleverly laced with GOPish race batting...you're going to be disappointed...

http://americanfreepress.net/?p=12107

The phrase "culture of black ignorance" is used!

Stormfags gonna storm.

@25 prove he's not a Democrat, I'll concede the lunatic part.

@33: Sorry dipshit, covering hotspots of hate so people can be aware is not covering abortion providers so other insane persons can "finish the job" for your Republican brethren. It's not at all comparable.

@33: Uh, "the lunatic part" trumps any political affiliation. Shooting people en masse is, as far as I know, not a part of the stated agenda of any party, whether you voted for Obama twice or follow Allen White on Twitter. Nice try, though.

@35: It's a pathetic false equivalency. The reason why liberals are more likely to blame conservative nutjobs is because their idols cultivate hatred and encourage direct revolution, say so and so "must be stopped for the good of the nation" and incite violence directly.

He's not interested in logic, he's just trying to excuse his party's rhetoric.

@29 You're mean.

The Allied did invade Nazi Germany, sure, but remember it was done as a favor, to protect it from the Red Army.

Although Stalin had helped as much as he could, by killing his own generals early on, Nazi Germany didn't succed in wiping USSR and Communism from the face of the Earth. And Nazi armies had been stopped then forced to retreat across Eastern Europe, pressed by the Red Army, for the best part of 2 years when D-day finally happened ! In all fairness, the Allied couldn't put back the invasion any more.

Sure, the Allied did bomb flat most German cities in the process, but it was only so as to make room to rebuild them of more aesthetic concrete. And anyway, they were not going to go though the spendings of a war, to have no jobs later on, to give to their own firms.

http://rkeefe57.wordpress.com/
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Most recently, as of this writing, Mr. Potok made an astounding admission to CNN that nearly mirrors what Watching the Watchdogs has been telling readers for years about the SPLC’s lucrative “hate group” marketing tool:

“Mark Potok, a center spokesman, says there’s no shared definition of what constitutes hate speech.

“There is no legal meaning. It’s just a phrase,” Potok says. “Hate speech is in the ear of the beholder.”
(May 5, 2013, CNN.com, “When Christians become a ‘hated minority‘”)

Mr. Potok, there’s no shared definition of a “hate group” either. No legal meaning. It’s just a phrase. A “hate group” is entirely in the eye of the beholder (or marketer).

And because the SPLC is the sole arbiter of the “hate group” label, a “hate group” is whatever they say it is and they can designate as many as they want for fundraising purposes. The SPLC receives no external review or oversight and the Media makes no attempt whatsoever to vet Mr. Potok’s claims.

And what exactly are Mr. Potok’s exacting standards when it comes to applying the lucrative “hate group” stamp of disapproval? According to Mark Potok:

“…a “hate group” has nothing to do with criminality… [or] potential for violence…” Rather, as Potok put it, “It’s all about ideology.”

Futhermore:

“Listing here does not imply a group advocates or engages in violence or other criminal activity.” (SPLC “Hate Map” legend, http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/ha…)