Terror group Antifa isn’t a ‘hate group,’ notorious Southern Poverty Law Center claims

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The SPLC and Antifa are very much the same. Seditious, violent, antisemitic and traitorous, so it is hardly surprising that the monsters at SPLC would not recognize the savagery of Antifa.

Ben Carson was named a hate group. I am designated multiple hate groups. Family Research Council is designated a hate group. Patriots, veterans, tea partiers are all haters, in other words, refuseniks – those who oppose violence, Jew-hatred, creed apartheid, gender apartheid, etc. are smeared, defamed and libeled by the fascist org. The SPLC does not address jihad terrorism. On the contrary, jihad terror groups and hard-left terrorists are exalted, held up as examples for the totalitarian organization.

We have come to expect this from the hard left – but the idea that the SPLC is held up as some imprimatur on what’s hate and who/what isn’t speaks to how evil the media is. It was SPLC members who opened fire on a Republican baseball game for charity. It was an SPLC member who tried to assassinate Tony Perkins, President of the Family Research Council.

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The SPLC does not designate Antifa a hate group – despite the violence, sedition and Jew-hatred. Germany designated Antifa a terrorist group decades ago.

This is only further proof of the left/Islamic axis of evil.

The SPLC should be on watch lists and should be listed as a terror-tied hate organization. Their members kill people. Their leadership destroys people. Southern Poverty Law Center: ‘Our Aim in Life Is to Destroy These Groups, Completely’

47 leaders of conservative nonprofits sent an open letter to the media warning against using the notorious “hate map” put out by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). The leaders denounced any news organization that would cite the SPLC’s list of “extremists” and “hate groups” as if it carried moral authority. “The SPLC is an attack dog of the political left” and should be treated as such, the leaders wrote. I am proud to be a member of the coalition and a signator on this letter.

The SPLC’s Impoverished Mind

Antifa isn’t a ‘hate group,’ Southern Poverty Law Center claims

You can find conservative policy centers like the Family Research Council on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s “hate map,” but not the violent left-wing extremist group antifa.

Why not? Antifa’s radical activists are known for beating up those they view as “fascists,” but according to SPLC president Richard Cohen, antifa doesn’t actually espouse hate.

“If you are familiar with our work, we write about antifa often,” Mr. Cohen said in his Thursday testimony before the House Homeland Security Committee. “We condemn their tactics — I’ve said so publicly and we do so always — but antifa is not a group that vilifies people on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion and the like.”

Mr. Cohen came to testify on domestic terrorism but wound up tangling with House Republicans over the SLPC’s extensive offshore financial holdings, its relationship with Google in creating a “hate news index,” and the politics behind its “hate map.”

Rep. Scott Perry, Pennsylvania Republican, blasted the SPLC for failing to include antifa, saying it “reduces your credibility,” and accused the group of picking and choosing its targets based not on empirical data but “only your opinion.”

“So you’re okay with antifa as long as they don’t say things that you don’t agree with, but it’s okay if they hit people on the head with a bike lock or set things on fire or riot and flout the law by wearing face masks and incite riots—you’re okay with that?” asked Mr. Perry

Said Mr. Cohen: “We condemn groups like antifa, we write about them often. We don’t list them as hate groups.”

As for the FRC, which spars with its ideological foes verbally but not physically, Mr. Cohen said it was listed because it “relentlessly vilifies” the LGBT community.

“Our listing of hate groups doesn’t necessarily mean that they engage in violence, although we think that the anti-LGBT propaganda is one of the factors that makes the LGBT community in our country the most likely to be victimized by hate crimes,” he said.

The SPLC has been widely condemned on the right as a left-wing attack machine, but Mr. Cohen said that among the 917 groups on the “hate map” are leftist organizations like the New Black Panther Party and the Nation of Islam.

Mr. Perry asked him why the map doesn’t list Students for Justice in Palestine, saying it has advocated for violence against Jews.

“I don’t know about that particular group,” Mr. Cohen said, adding, “We try to call hate as we see it. We limit our list not by left versus right but by groups that vilify others for factors such as race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion or the like.”

Despite the criticism, the SPLC has seen its stock rise in the aftermath of the August white-supremacist rally in Charlottesville Virginia, which resulted in three deaths, collecting millions from Hollywood and Silicon Valley donors and partnering with Google and ProPublica to create a database of “hate incidents.”

Mr. Cohen said he has urged Google to do more by modifying its search engine to downplay “hate groups.”

“What we try to get Google to do is not prioritize hate groups,” said Mr. Cohen.

He cited the example of mass murderer Dylann Roof, who found racist websites when he searched “black on white crime,” and later shot and killed nine black parishioners in the 2015 church massacre in Charleston, South Carolina.

“So we’re trying to say to Google, your algorithm is flawed or easily manipulated,” Mr. Cohen said.

While he cited the influence of racist websites in motivating Roof, Mr. Cohen denied any responsibility for the 2012 attack on the Family Research Council, in which Floyd Lee Corkins shot and wounded a security guard after being inspired by anti-FRC posts on the SPLC website.

“We’re no more responsible for what Mr. Corkins did based on reading our website than Martin Scorsese is for what John Hinckley did,” Mr. Cohen said, referring to the 1976 movie “Taxi Driver,” which inspired Hinckley to make an attempt on President Ronald Reagan’s life.

Mr. Perry asked how the SPLC could disavow blame for Corkins while holding others culpable for Roof, calling the discrepancy a “breathtaking double standard.”

Rep. Clay Higgins, Louisiana Republican, questioned Mr. Cohen over why the SPLC would need to deposit millions in offshore accounts, given its status as a non-profit, tax-exempt entity.

The SPLC has invested nearly 20 percent, or $69 million, of its $320 million endowment in offshore equity funds and other investments, according to its 2016 annual report.

“I think there’s been some confusion in the press about this,” Mr. Cohen said. “It’s common for nonprofit organizations including universities and big foundations to have money in offshore accounts. It avoids two things: certain kinds of filings and unrelated business income tax.”

He testified that President Trump’s campaign “energized the white supremacist movement,” and that the number of registered users on the white-supremacist website Stormfront more than doubled from 140,000 in 2008 to 330,000 in 2017.

Rep. Thomas Garrett, Virginia Republican, pointed out that most of the growth took place during the Obama administration, as did a sharp uptick in the number of black-separatist groups on the SPLC’s “hatewatch” list.

“Again, this isn’t President Obama’s fault. It’s not, is it? I mean, I don’t think it is,” Mr. Garrett said, adding, “If someone were to say that the prevalence of these groups is because of the rhetoric of one individual, that would be oversimplifying the problem, would it not?”

Replied Mr. Cohen: “Depending on the individual.”

Mr. Garrett noted that SPLC’s leaders donate almost exclusively to Democrats, and that the Alabama-based organization partners with liberal advocacy groups like Media Matters for America.

“I respect what you do. I’m concerned with how you’re doing it,” said Mr. Garrett.

He said it “troubles those to see an entity that has essentially been de facto made responsible for determining what is and isn’t hate that skews almost exclusively as do their collaborators in a particular direction.”

That the SPLC’s leadership tilts to the left should come as no surprise, said Mr. Cohen.

“The liberal tradition is an inclusive one,” said Mr. Cohen. “Hate is the opposite of that liberal tradition of inclusivity. So it’s not surprising to me that people at the SPLC, people at other inclusive organizations tend to give money to liberal organizations. It seems obvious to me.”

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Voytek Gagalka
Voytek Gagalka
6 years ago

Always defending their own: if the SPLC refuses to name Antifa as “hate group,” it is the proof that they have bias in that and that they share their common ideology (which is VIOLENT leftism).

john53
john53
6 years ago
Reply to  Voytek Gagalka

you got it right, SPLC always defends its own. The violence and hate coming from Antifa and SPLC are the same

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Clara
6 years ago
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ladywarrior
ladywarrior
6 years ago
Reply to  Voytek Gagalka

I guess the SPLC didn’t get the memo or hear Antifa’s statement a few weeks before the attack of Antifa Paddock on Vegas….”violence is justified against those who disagree with us.” And the “us” refers to radicalized Dimms…..

I’m waiting for President Trump to declare them domestic terrorists… Antifa, BLM, SPLC…..Then tell Homeland Security it’s “open season” on Antifa, BLM, and SPLC….

But more than BLM, Antifa, and SPLC….you have to go to the funding sources and wack off their support…..that would be George Soros and the Clintons……you can’t kill a snake by chopping off it’s tail…..you have to go for the head.

livingengine
livingengine
6 years ago

“Casa D’Ice Signs, the sign outside a bar in K-Mart Plaza in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, is no longer listed as a hate group. The sign outside the bar had been listed as a hate group by the SPLC for years. The owner of Casa D’Ice had been known for putting politically incorrect signs outside his bar. So the SPLC listed the “signs” as a hate group. (Even though there was only one sign.) Not the bar. That would have made too much sense.

Since then Casa D’Ice was sold and the SPLC has celebrated the defeat of another hate group. Even if the hate group was just a plastic sign outside a bar.” http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/265859/how-southern-poverty-law-center-faked-islamophobia-daniel-greenfield

Craig
Craig
6 years ago
Reply to  livingengine

That is how tough these communist democrats are. I wear a T-shirt that says “communist democrats are the enemy”. Not ONE democrat POS has had the guts to say a word. Something about ‘within arms length’ and bleeding I think.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

Both antifa and splc are criminally stupid.

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

Let’s not forget BLM….

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago
Reply to  ladywarrior

Thanks for mentioning them, definitely with remember as well.

CHARLES S
CHARLES S
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

More like Criminally insane.

Midnattsol
Midnattsol
6 years ago

the SLPC is a hate group.

0349 JAT
0349 JAT
6 years ago

Off topic..
Was there any problems at the showing of Killing Europe in Toronto over the weekend?
I can’t find anything anywhere about it

tn_tea _ partyer_420
tn_tea _ partyer_420
6 years ago

Wouldn’t that be a hoot if Trump designates the Southern Poverty Law Center a terrorist group?

neil barron
neil barron
6 years ago

No it would becoming of them to admit to it.

NonIslmophobicAthiestPedoHater
NonIslmophobicAthiestPedoHater
6 years ago
Reply to  neil barron

I can almost Picture the ad in all major leftist media. Front Page of course

HI Folks we are a Hate Group that wants to destry you . Would you send a donation tofund us please. Every cent helps destoy your stupid decent values. Give now.

Some how that actually sounds honest and would most likely flood their accounts just with Soros or the Cliton Foundation alone, if the two are not already major contributors already.

DavidMacko
DavidMacko
6 years ago

If President Trump designated the Southern Poverty Law Center a terrorist group, that would be a recognition of reality, i.e. truth.

Dennis
Dennis
6 years ago

The fact that the SPLC associates with everything liberal speaks volumes. Though I consider myself a centrist, simply because I seem to be somewhere in the middle whenever I analyze something and reach a conclusion, and that involves considering all the ends of the so-called poles of opinion, I tend to adopt what I consider a centrist view of all things to the best of my ability, whenever a dispute exists between the two poles of opinion. On the other hand the admission that SPLC associates its thinking with only the liberal view of things, from my perspective, is mortifying. Liberalism, from my view means often being politically correct to a fault and often times avoiding reality. That is an unmeritorious way of thinking from my perspective. SPLC is therefore in no position to ever determine who is a hater or not. They have absolutely no merit in my conclusions.

Bradley Lexvold
Bradley Lexvold
6 years ago

Had a guy and his group get listed as a hate group by SPLC and he was explaining, through a vid and posting it, how he wasn’t and it was clear it was an affront to him. I commented back, ” What, you’re just getting on their list now! ” He got it. Their irrelevant.

Craig
Craig
6 years ago

The SPLC was so insane, even Bill Clinton kicked them out of D.C.
But, the inbred, uneducated rat obama loves anyone that hates the United States, so he accepted the SPLC lies.
The communist democrats love anyone that hates the United States, so they accept the SPLC lies.
The SPLC is incompatible with humanity, just as the muslims are.

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
6 years ago

I do not know much of Antifa, but I think the SPLC does qualify as a hate group. All it does is these days is attack and demonize conservative figures for voicing different or non-mainstream views. They even have a section for Pamela Geller on their website, apparently for speaking out against militant jihad.

How is that not in itself fomenting and spreading hatred?

Michelle
Michelle
6 years ago

This fascination with telling people how to feel and whom to like or dislike is so very 1984. Hatred is an emotion but actively demonstrating it is not. I hate certain groups (for very good personal reasons) but I have never picked upon, nor discriminated against an individual of such for simply belonging to that group. Certainly I am circumspect and polite but it only becomes active if I am threatened. I am having real problems here as IMHO their aim is to force you to think their way and only their way. this is primary indoctrination and nothing less.
I had to laugh at the Hollywood trash that was Lethal Weapon II as one of the richest countries in the world is now bankrupt after ~25 years of African rule and has joined the basket cases that are the states of Africa. Is calling Africans corrupt, economically and politically moronic, racist or factual?

SNOWDIN
SNOWDIN
6 years ago

SPLC = Slimy Pathtyic Losers and Commies.

Alleged-Comment
Alleged-Comment
6 years ago

Of course they aren’t. ANYBODY that hates America, white males, Christians are not hate groups. Only America, white males and Christians cannot hate. We are forbidden hate.

One rule for me, one rule for thee…. The general operating principles of Lieberals, the left and losers. Why do they all begin with “L”???

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
6 years ago

SPLC wouldn’t know a hate group if it saw one in the mirror.

Craig
Craig
6 years ago

Sure they do, like all anti-American democrats, hate groups are those they disagree with or support the Constitution.

Achmed
Achmed
6 years ago

Hi, Drew the Infidel. If they looked in the mirror, you are most assuredly right .. they would see a hate group.

VoiceInDesert
VoiceInDesert
6 years ago

Beware of deceptive titles such as the Southern Poverty Law Center and Planned Parenthood. One attempts to murder those who disagree with them, and the other murders unborn or partially born babies.

Robert
Robert
6 years ago

The next time that Pamela Geller is interviewed by the mainstream media they should ask her about
this article but they probably won’t. The next time Pamela Geller is interviewed by Fox New Channel
they should ask her about this. Somewhere someone from the mainstream media should cross examine
the SPLC about this. Have they cross examined them once? Tucker Carlson once complained he
couldn’t get them on.

James Stamulis
James Stamulis
6 years ago

SPLC= Southern Progressive Lying Communists

Joel Bama Teague
Joel Bama Teague
6 years ago

It is a fact that ANTIFA hates christianity they threatened to cut off the heads of Christians on November 4th. ANTIFA are Nazi fascist This is facts!! They are a terrorist hate group!!

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6 years ago


The Southern Poverty Law Center is nothing more, and nothing less, just another attack dog of the DNC !!!
The ACLU doesn’t have the same sting it once had.

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NonIslmophobicAthiestPedoHater
NonIslmophobicAthiestPedoHater
6 years ago

OK proof positive that there is absolutely no “common Sense” left in the libtard universe?

Allowing a known hate group to be in charge of naming hate groups just does not make any kind of rational sense.

We ( people) need some one to follow the money for their funding and make an open list making that info public.
Placed on wiki.

Robert KahlckeD
Robert Kahlcke
6 years ago

They are all operatives of the Democrat-Communist-Islamic Terrorist Organization. PERIOD.
(end of conversation)

Sunshine Kid
Sunshine Kid
6 years ago

Social-Political Lawless Causes is what the SPLC should actually mean.

CHARLES S
CHARLES S
6 years ago

The the degenerate SPLC is a Hate group in itself! They should consider themselves also ‘Mentally Retarded” –they can’t distinguish between normal people and those with violent tendencies (like Antifa)….
Members in the SPLC are a deranged group of psychos who are a danger to society since most of the members harbor violent thoughts against those that don’t agree with their ‘mentally impaired’ views.

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