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How many political ideologies are you willing to tolerate as not "hate"? Facebook is partnering with SPLC, which I perceive as a once noble organization turned

How many political ideologies are you willing to tolerate as not "hate"? Facebook is partnering with SPLC, which I perceive as a once noble organization turned into a hate group. Yesterday I delivered food to a group of nuns that were labeled as hate group members by the SPLC. SPLC's justification was that a now-dead man had sold an anti-Semitic book back in the 1980s. SPLC has no due process and no fair way of getting unlisted, even if the listing was for something completely unconnected to the organization's reason for being. Local Jewish congregations told the SPLC they had no problems with these nuns this millennium, but the SPLC would rather keep hating than forgive or overcome ignorance and get to know what some groups actually believe. By smearing loving and peaceful groups of people, putting themselves on the same level as the worst and most dangerous groups, the SPLC shows itself to be quite prone to the harmful generalizations it was founded to oppose. There are all sorts of hate still allowed by social media companies, but they are the kinds you like.

dragonwriter 9y ago
> Yesterday I delivered food to a group of nuns that were labeled as hate group members by the SPLC. SPLC's justification was that a now-dead man had sold an anti-Semitic book back in the 1980s. This seems highly improbable to be the sole basis for such a designation, and would be readily verifiable (or falsifiable, either way) if you identified the group, since the SPLC publishes details of the designated organizations and their activities that led to the designation online.
rdtsc 9y ago
Speaking as a donor to SPLC, they are getting a bit ridiculous lately. Just reading the literature they send and everything they identify as hate is looking more like they are reaching too far. Pretending they are an unbiased arbiter of hate is just being dishonest. They clearly have a political bias and strong views. Nothing wrong there, but it's good to call a spade a spade and not something else.

dragonwriter 9y ago

> Yesterday I delivered food to a group of nuns that were labeled as hate group members by the SPLC. SPLC's justification was that a now-dead man had sold an anti-Semitic book back in the 1980s. This seems highly improbable to be the sole basis for such a designation, and would be readily verifiable (or falsifiable, either way) if you identified the group, since the SPLC publishes details of the designated organizations and their activities that led to the designation online.

rdtsc 9y ago

Speaking as a donor to SPLC, they are getting a bit ridiculous lately. Just reading the literature they send and everything they identify as hate is looking more like they are reaching too far. Pretending they are an unbiased arbiter of hate is just being dishonest. They clearly have a political bias and strong views. Nothing wrong there, but it's good to call a spade a spade and not something else.