RNC to approve resolution that rejects the discredited and disgraced SPLC

It was reported today that the Republican National Convention (RNC) will approve a resolution that strips the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) of their legitimacy in regards to identifying hate groups.

The concern of the RNC is that the SPLC only identifies "hate groups" on the conservative side of the spectrum and ignores hate on the leftist side.

The SPLC has created a "hate map," in fact, that maps hateful organizations across the country. The list can be filtered by ideology, as well as location, and those hateful ideologies include: anti-muslim, black separatist, Christian identity, general hate, hate music, Holocaust denial, Ku Klux Klan, male supremacy, neo-Confederate, neo-Nazi, neo-Volkisch, racist skinhead, radical traditional Catholicism, and white nationalist.

The Federalist's Mollie Hemingway pointed out that this map, which does target Christian groups, was used to locate a group in DC, which was then targeted for extreme violence.

In 2012, Floyd Corkins used the SPLC map to find a hate group, and he ended up with the Family Research Council (FRC), which is listed by the SPLC as an "anti-LGBTQ hate group." In 2018, the FRC, was appointed to the US Commission on International Religious Freedom.

The FRC lists their mission as "dedicated to articulating and advancing a family-centered philosophy of public life," and seeking to "inform the news media, the academic community, business leaders, and the general public about family issues that affect the nation from a biblical worldview."

Corkins showed up to their Washington, DC, offices with a three loaded magazines, his gun, and a bunch of Chik-fil-A sandwiches, with which he intended to "smear in the dying faces of staffers."

Before he could enact his brutality, he was stopped by security.

Corkins planned to continue his conquest of terror had he succeeded in his initial attack. The head of FRC, Tony Perkins, stated at the time that the SPLC had a role to play in the attack, because they listed his organization as a hate group. He has continued to state that claim.

These days, the SPLC is best known for publishing failed hit piece after failed hit piece targeting prominent conservatives. In response to the SPLC's labelling of Majiid Nawaz, the Britain's anti-extremist Quilliam Foundation, was unfairly targeted, the Washington Post ran an article stating that the SPLC had "lost all credibility." Nawaz won $3.375 million due to the SPLC's "false and defamatory statements."

The SPLC have falsely labelled countless Christian groups as hateful.They recently attempted to smear OAN anchor Jack Posobiec for "ties to far-right extremists." But prominent members of the Jewish and conservative community that came to Posobiec's defence.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali took to the op-ed page of The New York Times in 2017 and pushed back against the SPLC's labeling of her as an "extremist." Her name was included, along with Nawaz's, in a "Field Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists." It claimed that Ali was a “propagandist far outside the political mainstream," and warned journalists to beware of the "damaging misinformation" she was spreading.

Ali wrote that "These groundless smears are deeply offensive," and noted that she has "dedicated much of [her] adult life to calling out the true extremists: organizations such as Al Qaeda and ISIS."

A RICO lawsuit was brought against SPLC on behalf of an immigration group incorrectly labeled as "hate." Vice co-founder Gavin McInnes also filed a lawsuit for defamation against the SPLC to combat their labeling of the Proud Boys as a "hate group." It was just after this lawsuit was filed that Morris Dees, founder of the SPLC, was fired, and the president stepped down, along with their top researcher. This was as a result of a scandal involving "workplace harassment, hostile workplace complaints and a lack of staff diversity."

The Alliance Defending Freedom, as well as the American College of Pediatricians, which speaks out against transgender ideology for minors, are on the hate group list. The SPLC's "Hatewatch" specifically "monitors and exposes the activities of the American radical right."

A recent blog post stated that "one way to counter the far right" is to "demilitarize the police." The example used was the tumult in Portland, where protestors and rioters stated that the reason for their nightly revolt was that there were federal officers in their city, and they wanted those agents to leave.

The post went on to say that "Beyond failing to make communities safer and disproportionately exposing communities of colour to police violence, the heavy-handed deployment of militarized federal troops has another, very disturbing byproduct: It inflames the paranoia of the far right."

Federal officers have left Portland, yet the violence and rioting continue night after night. The SPLC has refused to label domestic terror group Antifa as a hate group.