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Southern Poverty Law Center Getting Raked Over The Coals For 'Hate Group' Label

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It’s not a good time to be employed by the Southern Poverty Law Center, a truth that is slowly being learned by those behind the organization as numerous lawsuits are being filed for defamation after they have wrongfully slapped the “hate group” label on anyone who seems to disagree with the progressive agenda.

The SPLC recently settled a defamation lawsuit, forking out $3.4 million for recklessly using terms like “hate group” and “extremist,” which makes you wonder if they have finally learned their lesson. Probably not, given they are liberal to the core.

According to PJ Media’s Tyler O’Neil, at least 60 organizations that the self-styled “hate group watchdog” has branded as “extremist” are now considering taking legal action.

“No fewer than 60 organizations branded ‘hate groups’ or otherwise attacked by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) are considering legal action against the left-wing smear factory, a Christian legal nonprofit leader confirmed to PJ Media on Tuesday,” O’Neil reported.

The confirmation comes a day after SPLC issued an apology and wrote a $3.375 million check to Maajid Nawaz and his Quilliam Foundation for including them on its incendiary 2016 “Field Guild to Anti-Muslim Extremists.”

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“We haven’t filed anything against the SPLC, but I think a number of organizations have been considering filing lawsuits against the SPLC, because they have been doing to a lot of organizations exactly what they did to Maajid Nawaz that’s part of the settlement,” founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel, Mat Staver, told PJ Media Tuesday.

Journalist Ben Schreckinger published a piece recently that contained a list of folks the SPLC believes are neo-Nazis, racists, bigots, ect. You have to see this to believe it, it’s that ridiculous:

Former Islamist and self described “counter-extremist” Maajid Nawaz appeared in the SPLC’s 2016 “Field Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists” for using his platform “to savage Islam.”

The Family Research Council — a conservative Christian nonprofit led by Tony Perkins—has been classified by the SPLC as a hate group since 2010 for spreading “false and denigrating propaganda about LGBT people.” In 2012, a gunman who read on the SPLC’s website that the FRC was anti-gay shot up the group’s lobby.

The Center for Immigration Studies, a nonprofit led by Mark Krikorian that supports lower immigration, appeared in the SPLC’s 2017 “Year in Hate and Extremism” report for producing “fear-mongering misinformation about Latino immigrants.”

Political scientist Charles Murray has been a fixture on the SPLC’s roster of “extremists,” in part for his writing on race-based intellectual disparities. In March, Middlebury students informed by the SPLC’s designation violently prevented Murray from speaking on campus.

Somali-born Dutch activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali was stoking controversy for her vocal criticism of Islam long before she found her way onto the SPLC’s 2016 “Field Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists.” But while some say she is a bigot, others laud her as a human rights icon. …

The SPLC has included Senator Rand Paul and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson among the neo-Nazis and white supremacists on its extremists lists (Paul for suggesting private businesses shouldn’t have to adhere to the Civil Rights Act and criticizing the Fair Housing Act; Carson for his views opposing same-sex marriage). The group did back down after it put Carson on the 2014 “extremist watch” list—removing his name and issuing an apology that earned a lot of coverage in the conservative media. “This week, as we’ve come under intense criticism for doing so, we’ve reviewed our profile and have concluded that it did not meet our standards,” the organization’s statement said, “so we have taken it down and apologize to Dr. Carson for having posted it.”

Not sure what in the world is up with this group, but it seems they’ve been drinking too frequently from the well of nuttiness that is located firmly at the center of the land of liberalism.

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People have grown so sensitive these days that anything and everything is “racist” or “sexist” or some other kind of “ist” and “ism” that suits the offense in question.

You have to wonder if this means the SPLC is about to be taken down once and for all. It’s hard to say, but it wouldn’t necessarily be a bad thing if this organization went the way of the dinosaur.

Source: Daily Wire

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