jakelafort wrote:
i did not notice anything about Islamic terorism.

Based on government and independent analyses, right-wing extremist violence has been responsible for the overwhelming majority of fatalities, amounting to approximately 75% to 80% of U.S. domestic terrorism deaths since 2001.

Illustrative cases include the 2015 Charleston church…

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Jake:

Another story with more detail on the SPLC. “Forward” was a favorite word of You Know Who Else:

After Allegations Of Toxic Culture, Southern Poverty Law Center Tries To Move Forward
April 17, 20195:01 AM ET
Heard on Morning…[Read more]

Read it quickly Simon but i did not notice anything about Islamic terorism. And i am not sure how that would be categorized. Belongs on left not right. But i don’t see any reckoning. No doubt the wack job right wing racists are dangerous. Hard core Maga fuckerz will kill a bitch. And yet i don’t think they are any kind of existential threat or…[Read more]

Jake,
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/right-wing-extremist-violence-is-more-frequent-and-deadly-than-left-wing-violence-data-shows

Jake:

The SPLC isn’t good at “living the Dream.”
Famous civil rights group suffers from ‘systemic culture of racism and sexism,’ staffers say
By Nick Valencia and Pamela Kirkland, CNN
6 min read
Published 6:12 AM EDT, Fri March 29, 2019
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/29/us/splc-leadership-crisis/

Thanks Enco.

Politics should be divorced from this shit but good luck with that. I wonder how the far left attacks/violence line up with far right. Right has Waco wack job Branch Davidians and Timothy McVeigh and idk how many lone wolves and some other major incidents. Not sure how the shootings in schools are even categorized. Obviously…[Read more]

Jake:

The Hate Map of the the Southern Poverty Law Center (SCLP) has several categories of ideologies that are mostly considered Far Right, including Anti-Muslim–but has no category for Muslim-Identifying Hate Groups or for Pro-Palestine Hate Groups, even though those would probably be about as numerous as the other categories:

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Enco,

Seems like a weird indictment…for paying informants? Stoking racial hatred? How did the informants do that?

Some years ago i read a book written by one of the top dogs in Southern Poverty Law Center. I don’t remember a lefty bent. Maybe i just wasn’t hip to it. Is there some indication they only want to uncover far right hate groups?…[Read more]