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White Lives Matter will be officially listed as a hate group

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The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) will be listing White Lives Matter as a hate group the next time they update their hate map which tracks the activity of hate groups around the United States.

"I can't speak to how many chapters will be listed, but it's clear that the leadership of the group, the ends of the group ― it's just a flat-out white supremacist group," Heidi Beirich, director of the center's Intelligence Report, told the media. "The ideology behind it, the racist leaders, everything about it is racist."

White Lives Matter have been making headlines with the group going so far as to send armed protesters to an NAACP office in Houston. Once there they waved confederate flags.

"Their organizations and their people are shooting people based on the color of their skin," White Lives Matter member Ken Reed stated. "We're not."

According to the Anti-Defamation League the protest was organized by the Aryan Renais­sance Soci­ety which is known to be a white supremacist organization.

"Dur­ing the August 21 protest, the ARS sym­bol, a light­ning bolt and a runic sym­bol, was vis­i­ble on the group's 'white lives mat­ter' ban­ner and on white shirts worn by some of the dozen or so par­tic­i­pants. Their mes­sage also included a sign read­ing '14 words,' a ref­er­ence to the most pop­u­lar white suprema­cist slo­gan in the world: 'We must secure the exis­tence of our peo­ple and a future for white children.'

According to the SPLC one of the leaders of White Lives Matter is Rebecca Barnette, a woman from Tennessee who also happens to be the vice president of the women's division of the racist skinhead group Aryan Strikeforce. That is not the only racist movement she has been involved in, she was also part of the National Socialist Movement, the countries biggest neo-Nazi group.

Now White Lives Matter will join those groups on the SPLC hate map.

"We are listing them because they are clearly white supremacists," Beirich said. "Their motto should be 'only white lives matter.'"

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There are some who have said that Black Lives Matter should also be on the hate map but the SPLC disagrees.

"There's no doubt that some protesters who claim the mantle of Black Lives Matter have said offensive things, like the chant 'pigs in a blanket, fry 'em like bacon' that was heard at one rally. But before we condemn the entire movement for the words of a few, we should ask ourselves whether we would also condemn the entire Republican Party for the racist words of its presumptive nominee ― or for the racist rhetoric of many other politicians in the party over the course of years."

The update to the hate map will be completed in February.
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SPLC is hate group, so consider the source.
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Meanwhile, the SPLC has actually inspired real terrorists. The SPLC needs to add the SPLC to the SPLC hate group list. I don't know why anyone discusses this group as if it has any legitimacy.
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USN_Hokie wrote:Meanwhile, the SPLC has actually inspired real terrorists. The SPLC needs to add the SPLC to the SPLC hate group list. I don't know why anyone discusses this group as if it has any legitimacy.

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USN_Hokie wrote:Meanwhile, the SPLC has actually inspired real terrorists. The SPLC needs to add the SPLC to the SPLC hate group list. I don't know why anyone discusses this group as if it has any legitimacy.


Do you think the WLM is racist? I realize the SLPC designations are sometimes meaningless but the WLM website has some pretty silly stuff, and a fascination with Hitler.
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HokieFanDC wrote:
USN_Hokie wrote:Meanwhile, the SPLC has actually inspired real terrorists. The SPLC needs to add the SPLC to the SPLC hate group list. I don't know why anyone discusses this group as if it has any legitimacy.


Do you think the WLM is racist? I realize the SLPC designations are sometimes meaningless but the WLM website has some pretty silly stuff, and a fascination with Hitler.
I've never seen their website and wasn't making a judgment on them. I was making a judgment on the SPLC.
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I don't need the SPLC to tell me that WLM is a hate group.
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It's probably safe to say that (insert specifically identified race here) Lives Matter is likely a hate group. Unless you're ready to join hands with all human beings and accept that ALL lives matter, you're a racist.
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I never heard of an officially organized group called WLM.

I do know that BLM is a hate group. Does SPLC list them?
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RiverguyVT wrote:I never heard of an officially organized group called WLM.

I do know that BLM is a hate group. Does SPLC list them?
No. As a matter of fact...

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The Hypocrisy Of The Black Lives Matter Movement & The Southern Poverty Law Center
Ken Blackwell
4:36 PM 08/22/2016

The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement has many allies within the Progressive movement. Funded largely by the most liberal elements of the Left, especially those within the George Soros network, like his Center for American Progress, BLM has been a major motivator for the attacks on police officers all over the country. With chants like “Pigs in a blanket, fry-em like bacon” and “What do we want? Dead Cops!,” the simple fact is that BLM has created an atmosphere of anger and hatred, and has incited violence against law enforcement officers across the country. In no way has the killing and wounding of law enforcement officers dampened the enthusiasm of the BLM. It would seem that no reasonable person or group, regardless of how liberal, would want to be associated with any organization that advocates the killing of anyone, especially police.

None of the BLM supporters are more dangerous and hypocritical than the Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). SPLC is a self-appointed “hate group” watchdog that produces a libelous and deceptive list of people and organizations who are deemed to be “hateful”. While there are no clearly stated criteria for groups being on this “hate” list, the SPLC’s specialty is the targeting and slandering of conservatives and conservative groups. As Laird Wilcox, an expert on extremist groups, has pointed out, “What they [the SPLC] do is a kind of bullying and stalking. They pick people who are vulnerable in terms of public opinion and simply destroy them. Their victims are usually ordinary people expressing their values, opinions, and beliefs – and they’re up against a very talented and articulate defamation machine.”

The hypocrisy of their support of BLM is that the SPLC conducts training for law enforcement groups in various parts of the United Sates. The SPLC also maintains a “law enforcement resources” page that – not surprisingly – claims the most credible threats to law enforcement are those arising from right-wing actors. While the SPLC is advocating violence against police by supporting BLM and its associates, they are simultaneously instructing police on how to identify “hate groups.” And the story gets worse.

Now it has been exposed through BLM’s own documents that they are unashamedly anti-Semitic. The recent release of the BLM “” accuses Israel of “genocide” and “apartheid.” Despite this, SPLC continues to support BLM while BLM calls for the cessation of all foreign aid to Israel and blames this U.S. ally for atrocities against the Palestinians. How can SPLC continue to support BLM when it is now abundantly clear that BLM is both anti-police and anti-Israel?

Part of the answer can be found in the fact that SPLC was connected in federal court in 2013 to domestic terrorism during the trial of Floyd Lee Corkins II who was convicted of attempted murder. On August 15, 2012, Corkins entered the offices of the Family Research Council (FRC) in Washington, D.C. and shot the building manager, Leo Johnson. Corkins admitted that he targeted FRC because they were listed as an anti-LGBT “hate group” on SPLC’s website. Corkins admitted that he was motivated to try and kill as many FRC employees there as possible because they did not support same sex marriage. Corkins’ conviction was the first ever under the Domestic Terrorism Statute in the nation’s capital. SPLC’s influence on Corkins through its reckless labeling was established in the court proceedings. Now the SPLC is once again inciting – violence, this time against police, while portraying themselves as police supporters.

By endorsing BLM, the Southern Poverty Law Center has demonstrated that it has no concerns about the consequences of its actions. Now they are complicit in the targeting of police and the condemnation of Israel, yet there seems to be no “hate” label anywhere in this. In fact, the SPLC has cheered BLM, stating it is not only not a hate group, the “perception that it is…illustrates the problem. Our society…does not accept that racial injustice remains pervasive.”

What hypocrisy.

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