Things the Southern Poverty Law Center will label a hate group
1. Casa D'Ice Signs - a sign outside a bar in Pennsylvania
2. Individuals, including me, Bosch Fawstin, etc...
3. Ex-Muslim and Muslim critics of Islam
Things the Southern Poverty Law Center won't label a hate group
1. Antifa
The leader of the Southern Poverty Law Center said the organization condemns the antifa movement but won't brand it with the center's often-cited "hate group" designation.
Richard Cohen, the president of the SPLC, told the Washington Examiner the loosely organized antifa movement, short for anti-fascism, is "wrongheaded" in opposing free speech and using violence.
"We oppose these groups and what they're trying to do. We just don't think anyone should be able to censor someone else's speech," Cohen said
Except that the SPLC's whole mandate is censoring speech. That's the mission of the derivative Color of Change blacklist.
And "wrongheaded" is a tactical condemnation of your own allies. It says they have the right overall views, but are going about it the wrong way.
He said, however, the SPLC won't label antifa a "hate group" because adherents do not discriminate against people on the basis of race, sexual orientation or other classes protected by antidiscrimination laws, such as religion.
Hate groups don't "discriminate" in the legal sense. So the distinction is meaningless. And the SPLC defends CAIR which has spewed hate at Jews. It has no intention of listing Black Lives Matter as a hate group despite its targeting of "white spaces".
"There might be forms of hate out there that you may consider hateful, but it's not the type of hate we follow," Cohen said.
Sorry, this is not the hate we're looking for.