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The Southern Poverty Law Center performs a variety of good works. They are not spinning, the page linked to with listing ~1,000 anti-government groups says "Lis
by extra88 10y ago
The Southern Poverty Law Center performs a variety of good works. They are not spinning, the page linked to with listing ~1,000 anti-government groups says "Listing here [d]oes not imply that the groups themselves advocate or engage in violence or other criminal activities, or are racist." [0]
These people are already on the margins, this article is trying to inform the public that the Bundys and their cohort seen in the headlines are at the more extreme end of a continuum that's larger than most Americans might think.
I understand a discomfort with list-making and it plays into these groups' persecution complex (and apparently yours) but it's a good idea like it's a good idea to pay attention to houses on a sandy cliff; when a big storm comes they're the ones most likely to fall.
[0] https://www.splcenter.org/active-antigovernment-groups-united-states https://www.splcenter.org/active-antigovernment-groups-unite...
- DrScump 10y agoThey label these groups without so much as a shred of documentation or even stating their criteria in specific, objective terms. Certainly, "engaging in groundless conspiracy theorizing, or advocate or adhere to extreme antigovernment doctrines" applied to pretty much the entire Occupy movement, yet no such groups were ever counted by SPLC.