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Southern Poverty Law Center refuses to classify Antifa as a “hate group”

Sep 3, 2017 9:26 am By Robert Spencer

Of course. The SPLC and Antifa have the same overall goal: to destroy the freedom of speech and allow only Leftists access to the public square. The SPLC demonizes and tries to destroy dissenters (including foes of jihad terror) by lumping them in with the likes of the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazis. Antifa, a genuinely violent and hateful group, doesn’t make the list because it doesn’t dissent from the Leftist agenda, it works to advance it.

“Southern Poverty Law Center condemns antifa, but won’t call hate group,” by Steven Nelson, Washington Examiner, September 3, 2017:

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, echoing and endorsing recent statements from progressive scholar Noam Chomsky.

“We think they are contributing to the problem we are seeing,” Cohen said. “We think it’s likely to lead to other forms of retaliation. In Berkeley, antifa showed up and shut down speeches. The next time the white supremacists brought the Oath Keepers with them, they brought their own army.”

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.

“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.

Antifa activism generally but not always features black-clad activists confronting adversaries they deem fascist, such as neo-Nazis or white supremacists. The movement is decentralized, and Cohen notes in many cases it lacks discernible organization, though he said that’s not the reason against a hate-group designation.

Cohen said the SPLC does work to inform local police about the intentions of antifa activists and intends to speak out against the movement, adding “we follow them, but we don’t track them in the same way.”

The SPLC is controversial among some conservatives for its influential hate-group designations, which some on the list call unfair. The socially conservative Family Research Council was attacked in 2012 by a gunman who told investigators he saw the group listed on the center’s website….

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  1. Jaladhi says

    Sep 3, 2017 at 9:50 am

    SPLC itself is a hate organization!

    • Andy says

      Sep 3, 2017 at 3:36 pm

      The great Dr. Michael Savage talks about the SPLC on this show starting at 1:08:08. Very interesting. All of us can spread the news of these organizations.

      • underbed cat says

        Sep 3, 2017 at 9:14 pm

        Just maybe the officer had a overwhelming or unknown reason..and was desperate to get a sample ….and if she resists his request, and then if he tells her she is under arrest, and if a person resists., they can handcuff you and drag you away if you refuse to walk. I also watched the video, it was frightening, but no one yet knows why it was so urgent to get a blood sample, yet. Hospitals want to protect your privacy,but sometimes it can cause harm. I would not call a cop a” maggot”, or get too worked up until the facts come out. They are under attack daily and don’t need this to agitate some nut. If it was not legal, to arrest it will come out in the future. But you have a right to be upset.. the video was disturbing…just the comments were pretty harsh. This is my opinion, I don’t have all the facts, either, and I hope the nurse can recover from her experience. I learned about assumptions, when I witnessed an arrest with chains, and they were trying to protect the person who was harmful to herself and was not a criminal.

  2. Kay says

    Sep 3, 2017 at 10:32 am

    “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.”

    . . . and yet Mohammedism discriminates against women, Jews, Christians, homosexuals, which should all be protected classes. How does it avoid the hate group label?

    • mortimer says

      Sep 3, 2017 at 10:40 am

      The essential Islamic doctrine of apartheid is called ‘AL WALAA WAL BARAA’ (allegiance to Muslims and disavowal of dirty kafirs). That doctrine is clearly a doctrine of hate.

      Muslims must ‘HATE’, DISAVOW and STAY CLEAR from dirty kafirs whom they must hate ‘FOR THE SAKE OF ALLAH’.

      This is clearly RELIGIOUS BIGOTRY and hate speech by any definition. It is ESSENTIAL, CANONICAL ISLAM.

    • Terry Gain says

      Sep 3, 2017 at 10:59 am

      Mohammedism doesn’t just discriminate against Christians, Jews, Women and Homosexuals, it kills them. Islamic doctrine doesn’t just condone this slaughter, it mandates it.

      As Barack Obama said: “no religion condones killing”. Since Islam not only condones but mandates the killing of infidels it is a fake religion.

    • Mark Swan says

      Sep 6, 2017 at 2:02 am

      Islam has huge support from wealthy Muslims it is being marketed as a benign religion.

      In order to market such evil, supporters of Islam know they can not allow un-diluted facts.

      With the far-left offering a comfortable compliance to anything against our constitutional
      freedoms—Islam has found a real foot-hold in the West.

    • SweetOlBob says

      Sep 12, 2017 at 11:21 am

      Awwwww, C’mon now ! Just because they like to play “dress-up” with masks like the old Lone Ranger’s outlaw enemies, and hurt people, and shout vulgar and violent things, and carry weapons
      like boards with protruding nails and even guns, doesn’t mean they are “HAAAAAATE GROUPS”.
      Does it ???

  3. rubiconcrest says

    Sep 3, 2017 at 10:34 am

    It is impossible to take the SPLC seriously when they call Jihadwatch.org a ‘hate group’ and Aayan Hirsi Ali an ‘extremist’ for exposing Islamic doctrine and jihad. They are doing harm and have become the very thing they say they are fighting against.

    • Terry Gain says

      Sep 3, 2017 at 11:01 am

      SPLC are serious dhimmis who have submitted to Islam. They are cowards.

      • SweetOlBob says

        Sep 12, 2017 at 11:28 am

        Terry:
        WRONG ! The SPLC is an active anti-American, filthy muslim promoting, terrorist condoning, group financed in part by George Soros and donations from like minded, New World Order individuals and groups.
        It is THEY, not JW, Not BNI, and none of the groups and individuals on their list, who should be designated as a HATE GROUP !

  4. mortimer says

    Sep 3, 2017 at 10:37 am

    Antifa goon squads are working with SPLC as its enforcers to intimidate those with other political views and silence all debate.

    SPLC is a censorship organization and Antifa is its ‘police force’. In fact, the Antifa ‘Black Shirts’ were created at the same time as Hitler’s ‘Brown Shirts’ (STURMABTEILUNG) and in opposition to them.

    Antifa is a Leftist goon squad very similar to the Maoist ‘RED GUARD’ goon squads which vandalized universities and colleges in China and beat up teachers and low-level managers, even eventually arresting and publicly humiliating leaders at the top of the communist party (CPC).

    The question is: WHO IS CONTROLLING ANTIFA? Is George Soros hiring fake ‘protesters’ through a marketing agency in California to intimidate Americans?

    • Terry Gain says

      Sep 3, 2017 at 11:03 am

      Great question Mortimer. I have two more. Is Trump’s FBI investigating Antifa? If not, why not?

  5. mortimer says

    Sep 3, 2017 at 10:48 am

    Slogan of SPLC: “It isn’t hate or intolerance when WE DO IT!”

    (sarc/off)

    • Westman says

      Sep 3, 2017 at 12:53 pm

      Quotes from a former SPLC leader on their definition of a hate group: “Does this group say that a whole group of people, by virtue of their group characteristics, is somehow less?”

      Jihad Watch is on the SPLC “hate” list because of its, SPLC perceived, group characteristics.

      Quotes from a former SPLC leader: “I want to say plainly that our aim in life is to destroy these groups, completely destroy them,”

      Uhhh, doesn’t this logically mean that the SPLC should be on its own hate list? What part of “completely destroy these groups” points to a moral, non-violent character?

  6. mortimer says

    Sep 3, 2017 at 10:49 am

    Will SPLC condemn Antifa violence?

  7. Santa Voorhees says

    Sep 3, 2017 at 11:27 am

    “antifa movement, short for anti-fascism”

    No, it is short for anti-facts. You simply can’t be against hate and support Islam at the same time.
    As I noted before, Antifa will be slaughtered if Islam takes power.

  8. Voytek Gagalka says

    Sep 3, 2017 at 12:15 pm

    “…it’s not the type of hate we follow.”

    How convenient is to be blind and agnostic on moral grounds! But being agnostic on moral grounds helps to spread evil more that evil itself would ever be capable to do. By selectively choosing what they brand as “hate group,” they expose themselves as those who have the least right to pronounce moral judgment. Subsequently, their credibility in that matter is damaged PERMANENTLY and IRREVOCABLY! The SPLC is the biggest HATE GROUP currently running in the USA!

    • Mark Swan says

      Sep 6, 2017 at 2:10 am

      Yes, absolutely, by saying “it’s not the type of hate we follow” they are acknowledging it is
      a hate group, for what ever that may mean.

  9. janwaarbibi says

    Sep 3, 2017 at 12:28 pm

    The SPLC is to Antifa what moderate Muslims are to extremist Muslims. They have the same goal but they have minor differences on how to achieve their goal.

  10. gravenimage says

    Sep 3, 2017 at 5:14 pm

    Southern Poverty Law Center refuses to classify Antifa as a “hate group”
    ………………….

    This should surprise no one. There was an Antifa member interviewed on KCBS News Radio who was openly bragging about assaulting conservatives at a demonstration in Berkeley.

    The good news is that even a lot of people on the Left grasp that Antifa are thugs:

    “Berkeley Mayor: We Should Classify Antifa ‘As A Gang’”

    http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2017/08/28/berkeley-mayor-classify-antifa-as-a-gang/

    “Nancy Pelosi condemns Antifa violence in Berkeley”

    http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/08/30/nancy-pelosi-condemns-antifa-violence-in-berkeley/

    Berkeley police arrested quite a few of these violent creeps.

  11. RonaldB says

    Sep 3, 2017 at 5:32 pm

    JihadWatch readers are completely familiar with the nature of the SPLC, but to recap:

    The SPLC is a fundraising organization based around the affinity scam (Jewish leftists) of collecting money for fighting Nazis and KKKs. Condemning Antifa would cost SPLC some money. So, any further rational discussion on the matter is not productive, to the SPLC way of thinking.

    Like Hitler’s SA streetfighters, Antifa might have outlived its usefulness to the cultural Marxist mainstream. Leftist mayors and governors, and unethical police chiefs have taken over the job of squashing the rights of Trump supporters and nationalists to publicly demonstrate.

  12. tgusa says

    Sep 3, 2017 at 6:05 pm

    Old white hateful bigots making bank through the marketing of hateful bigotry. Clever. To condemn antifa would be to condemn themselves. Of course that wont do that.

  13. Mockingjay says

    Sep 3, 2017 at 7:16 pm

    – The SPLC refuses to classify Antifa as a “hate group”. –

    WELL – IMAGINE MOI SHOCK!

    • underbed cat says

      Sep 3, 2017 at 9:36 pm

      Anifa at Berkeley was completely crazy,and violent and destructive and SPLC closes their eyes when things( an investigation) get a little to close to exposing the directors with the cash. Who ever that is.

  14. Michael Casmer says

    Sep 3, 2017 at 11:22 pm

    But the Catholic Church is on their list as a “hate group”. Go figure.

    • Emanuele Ciriachi says

      Sep 4, 2017 at 4:28 am

      Really, they do that?!

    • Santa Voorhees says

      Sep 4, 2017 at 4:44 am

      Someone needs to tell them that it is the muslims who are killing us, not the catholics.

  15. Emanuele Ciriachi says

    Sep 4, 2017 at 4:10 am

    Fellow left-wing hate groups don’t snitch on each other, what a surprise.

  16. James Stamulis says

    Sep 4, 2017 at 7:08 am

    That is because they will not turn a real leftist terrorist group like themselves. Time for Trump to arrest Soros and confiscate all his assets which will destroy the SPLC!

    • John Forbes says

      Sep 4, 2017 at 8:16 am

      I am very disappointed in TRUMP now ! He has not done anything about the Muslim Brotherhood & has Mc Master still there & in control !!!
      The Southern Poverty Law group is a part of the Muslim Brotherhood & a part of the agenda to subvert & destroy the US from within !
      They need to be shut down & FAST !!

  17. Lorensacho says

    Sep 4, 2017 at 1:31 pm

    It’s amazing that there are Nazis marching on the streets of American and here we are preoccupied with the people who oppose them.

    • Emanuele Ciriachi says

      Sep 4, 2017 at 1:43 pm

      We are preoccupied about them. But those neo-nazis have no political power – I wouldn’t consider them a big threat.

      Antifa, on the other hand, call freedom fighters (like Spencer, David Horowitz, etc.) “fascists” and attempt to violently intimidate them. They are fascists of the left-wing kind.

  18. More Ham Ed says

    Sep 7, 2017 at 2:30 am

    THE BEST DESCRIPTION OF THE ‘SPLC’ I HAVE EVER HEARD
    (starts at the 20 minute mark)

  19. More Ham Ed says

    Sep 15, 2017 at 12:06 am

    The most misleading name other than the “Democratic” “Party”.
    (updated video link) (starts at the 20 minute mark)

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