Morris Dees, Founder of the SPLC
SPLC Uses Their Hate Map to Advance a Political Agenda
One example of the SPLC’s tactics is its “Interactive Hate Map.” The SPLC Hate Map is a scam designed to portray political organizations that disagree with the SPLC in a negative light. Pitched as an easy-to-use list of hate groups, it’s really just a mash-up of organizations that hold political views opposed to those pushed by the SPLC. There are a few genuine hate groups tossed in – most of them neo-Nazi organizations. But the presence of a small number of actual hate groups merely seems calculated to lead map users to the conclusion that mainstream political opponents of the SPLC are guilty by association.
Designed by the Southern Poverty Law Center and published on SPLCenter.org, the “Hate Map” only contains information that the SPLC wants you to see. Anything that might accurately portray a group of which the SPLC disapproves is deliberately left out. While the map may have once had noble intentions, it now has a sinister dark side. Overall, the “Hate Map” actually contains very little accurate, useful information.
For example, groups like the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS) and the Federation for American Immigration Reform(FAIR) work responsibly – and more importantly, totally transparently – on issues connected with immigration policy, national security, and the economy. These organizations exist to inform the public about the potential negative effects of uncontrolled mass migration. Americans want good information on controversial issues, so they can make responsible decisions when voting and communicating with their political leaders. That’s how political debate in the United States works. However, the SPLC doesn’t agree with the political positions that CIS, CAPS, FAIR, and other organizations focused on political issues believe in, so it intentionally misleads the public in order to squelch open debate. It’s much easier to slander your opponents with emotionally-charged slurs than it is to engage them in logical arguments about questionable policies.
The SPLC Hate Map
How the Southern Poverty Law Center uses their hate map to silence their political opponents.
What is The SPLC?
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) began as a legitimate civil rights organization. In 1987, it sued the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) for the role it played in the death of a black Alabama teenager and won a $7 million verdict. In recent years, however, the SPLC has become a very controversial and partisan organization. Rather than defending victims of discrimination, the SPLC has changed its focus to smearing any group that disagrees with its own political agenda.
“Groups like CIS, CAPS, and FAIR have members of every color and creed. In fact, many of their members are immigrants who are concerned that irresponsible border management practices will ruin the American dream for future generations of people seeking a new life in America.”
Why Does The Southern Poverty Law Center Care About Immigration?
It is not abundantly clear why the SPLC has gotten involved in the immigration debate. Immigrants aren’t a “race.” They come from every race and religion found on Earth. And no one who is not a U.S. citizen has a “civil right” to be admitted to the United States. Groups like CIS, CAPS, and FAIR have members of every color and creed. In fact, many of their members are immigrants who are concerned that irresponsible border management practices will ruin the American dream for future generations of people seeking a new life in America.
Labeling CIS, CAPS and FAIR “hate groups” doesn’t reflect any meaningful research by the SPLC. It’s just a political smear. And the fact that the SPLC has resorted to juvenile name-calling and a politically charged hate map is a strong indication that it is no longer attempting to protect the interests of any particular group that is suffering mistreatment. Instead, it has decided to capitalize on mud-slinging in order to stir up controversy, silence its opponents, and capitalize on fear to generate donations.
That’s probably because the SPLC sees the U.S. as a racist nation and thinks that all patriotic Americans who love their country are racists. If you ask us, that’s a pretty negative view of America. And it’s downright insulting to everyday Americans – who are proud of their homeland and love their fellow Americans, native born and immigrant alike.
So now, Stop Politicizing Legitimate Causes (the other SPLC!) sets out to focus on the positive things America has to offer, rather than the negatives. We bring you the SPLC Greatmap, which shows all the wonderful things here in America and highlights just how wonderful it is to be an American.
Additional Reading: What is a Hate Group?
The southern poverty law center is a sham!
I have called SPLC three times, spoken to a young lady three times, left messages with “hate reporting line and emailed as well. No response has come in 10 days. My question? SPLC President in a letter to the WSJ responding to an article by Kimberly Strassel. Cohen asserted that the Family Research Council and Alliance Defending Freedom, use “incendiary name-calling and demonizing lies” that render them “hate” groups. My question is and was that Mr. Cohen, provide me and the WSJ with examples. So far the only one calling names and exhibiting hate appears to be Mr. Purity of Heart Cohen. I was a supporter and contributor to SPLC from its inception many years ago. Unfortunately it has been transformed itself into a left-wing provocateur, from what started as an organization that put the Klan out of business. The ugly irony is that SPLC confuses religious conviction with hate. Maybe Mr. Cohen and his staff should to do some openminded religious research. I find virulent hate coming from two directions today. The radical left and radical Islam. Of course some Christians promote hate. But in tiny numbers. The freedom that SPLC was founded to protect today is threatened by organizations and ideologies they tip-toe around for fear of offending the real haters in 2017.
Well said.
The spec has crawled into bed with their equals– the kkk
What a stupid comment!
seriously? in tiny bits from christians? i find that hilarious.
Just look up Tony Perkins on YouTube calling for the killing of gays right before a speech with Ted Cruz he is the head of the AFA
ted cruz & tony perkins need to crawl under a rock and take the”tea party with them.Then invite Donald Trumpand all the hate groups with them. Then be removed to a remote country so they can fight each other and leave everybody else alone…
One magor side note: a real Christian would not hate. Only people claiming to be Christians. Anyone with a real conviction from our Almighty Lord and Savior Jesus Christ would not have hate within themselves. (With the exception for hating sin.)
Oh Please ! Religious organization in this country put out the message that if you aren’t part of their cults you have no moral compass. So far from the truth but they love to take the “moral high ground”. And with Pence in line for the highest office in the land, we will all have to fight to keep separation between church and state
Sure sounds like you just demonized the far left and ignored the radical right like alt-right nazis and infowar jockeys… so its hypocritical that you’re doing exactly what you have just condemned. To stop being devisive we have to approach the people we disagree with (so long as they’re not spewing violent hatred or promoting separatism) and ask questions. I need to reach out and practice empathy.
Morris Dees defended the kkk in the 60’s
He has found a more lucrative way to make money as a different kind of racist
AMEN!! Just another tool of the left !
Seems to me that SPLC needs to label itself as a hate group
EXACTLY! Unreal! What satanic deceoption the SPLC is! God wins! You’re on the wrong side!!
SPLC. YOU ARE ABOUT TO BE JUDFED BY THE ALLMIGHTY.
I saw the name before and thought it was cool but now with all the rioting and political murders assassination attempts clinon mafia etc. , that seems to associate with their rhe toric I give them absolutely no credence.
sham? OR the epitome of a major HATE GROUP. How are they still getting donations? sickening, and uneducated giving their HARD EARNED money to this org?
Who made the Southern Poverty Law Center judge and jury of what is hate or not and who is a hate group? Why are they so special….
Why are you anonymous?
Because people like you take info like that to RUIN peoples lives!
Correction. Liberals like to use people’s opinions against them.
Merriam-Webster did.
Definition of hate
a : intense hostility and aversion usually deriving from fear, anger, or sense of injury
b : extreme dislike or disgust : antipathy, loathing had a great hate of hard work
they aren’t. USA Should be ashamed.
Splc contracts with the DHS.
All Americans are thankful for necessary checks and balance by of SPLCinfo.com to protect our democracy from one single private organization — the Southern Poverty Law Center — self appointing itself to damage respectable non-profit organizations without required investigation, public participation or trial. Organizations such as CIS, CAPS, FAIR and countless other Population Stabilization, think tank, study, and community groups raising illegal immigration as a concern, have been wrongly tagged by the Southern Poverty Law Center. To add further damage to insult, APPLE, Amazon, and other huge corporations are “all accepting of SPLC’s erroneous tagging” and without independent investigation of merit, prevent their customers from supporting and donating to these deserving organizations via their websites. Political correctness used to slander is simply unAmerican: Wrong. I stand with those demanding SPLC learn more about groups wanting to stabilize America’s population and enforce the rule of law until laws are democratically changed. Yes, immigration reform is needed. Yes, for environmental and survival reasons, populations need to be stabilized to reflect the area’s carrying capacity. Is it hateful to research, study, share information, debate, and advocate accordingly? Bigotry, racism is categorically wrong and hateful. Information, discussion, research are problem solving, educational tools offered by these respected organizations.
I hate SPLC! thanks again for all the info
Could not have said it any better. Why has SPLC gone so far left that they fail to see our rights as American citizens to religious freedom. SPLC believes that if you don’t agree with their philosophy then you must be a “Hate Group”. How ridiculous is that? Why don’t they look into and research their allegations before they just put a conservative group on their so called “Hate Map”. Why doesn’t the mainstream media researched this allegations before they label the conservative organizations a hate group totally relying on SPLC allegations. Could it be that SPLC in itself is the biggest “Hate Group” in the United States?
Let’s see Tony Perkins, Westboro Baptist Church there also nice people talking about the killing of other Americans because they’re gay but they’re not hate groups in your opinion I think you’re pretty delusional. Pull your head out of that science fiction book that’s brainwashed you stop eating those McDonald’s cheeseburgers that are clogging the arteries to your brain and start to really think
AGREED!!
SPLC IS a hate group! AFR that is on this hate map is a loving Christian organization! Seems to me that splc only likes folks who agree with them! gross organization for sure!
In a article written by the SPLC they say that hate groups can come from any background but come out of hate and fear. I don’t think picking a side will keep violence, hate, and fear out of our country. Its not about the specific hate groups but why they are here in the first place. I can not find a single demographic or article on that. Or how we can help end hate groups, or at least bring more peace.
Well said!
Your labeling of cities is going to create riots. Great job. With a bunch of BS of with “anonymous” sources behind you.
We don’t have problems, you create them as a “Law Center”.
You are the problem not the solution.
Excellent comment, my respect to you.
S-Subversive
P-Political
L-Liberal
C-Crap
This site is awesome!
Thanks for this report / I have written to Apple to let them know I will stop buying their products and services if they continue to support this organization.
I will Not buy Apple Ever again. And I spent thousands but I hope they go out of business.
Ditto. This biased group has declared American Family Radio a hate group simply because THEY(SPLC) hate Christians.
Yeah why would hating something as a group make you a hate group… idiot
Need to list all the people that work for the TERROIST group called southern poverty law center
Another alt left hate GROUP needs to go to PRISON
why isn’t Antifa groups listed
When will the add Antifa to the list?
They won’t, that’s why the hypocrisy smells so bad in their offices.
Apparently, the Southern Poverty Law Center is actually a hate group.
The southern poverty law center is the largest threat to our Constitution and way of life they are one of the largest well funded hate groups in America
Give me a break. Yeah, sure, man, they are equivalent to neo-Nazis who fantasize about the genocide of non-Anglos.
Wow, the far right has really lost its bearings.
Just pathetic.
Agreed. But it happened a long time ago. Before the SPLC became a “hate group” for calling out the over 1000 “hate groups” in Amerikkka.
Meg – it’s difficult to gain a truly objective viewpoint when we limit our information streams to similarly biased or untrue information. All hate is evil!
No, YOU ara pathetic. Labeling far right anyone, who does not agree with premise of Socialist America. You have no idea what you’re talking about.
You know they list “hate groups” of all types, of different races and religions right? Not just white hate or Christian groups who preach hate of others. There are black separatist groups and “non-white/Christian” groups on their list
Exactly, when will they be shut down?
Why isn’t Antifa considered a hate group. They hide their face. They carry weapons. They are opposed to free speech. They have attacked people who do not support their views.
They are opposed to hate speech, not free speech.
Read up on laws in Western Europe and feel fortunate that you can freely harass and denigrate people of all types in this country, you ingrates.
The more I read about right wing America, the more I realize how many of them support genuinely dehumanizing “free speech.” You already have a troll-“free speech” disaster and global embarrassment of a celebrity-cult demagogue in the Oval Office but you guys are still not satisfied.
Just utterly pathetic.
The most important realization about God, is knowing you are not him. Nothing but anger eminates from your posts. I wish you well!
Meg, if anyone pathetic that would be you. who does not allow people express their opinion? Leftists, like yourself. Who brainwashed our children in colleges ? Leftists. The mostnignorant group of people who are afraid to learn the truth, because it is just too inconvinient to learn the truth. That left in America is trying to bring this country to its knees. Socialism is not the answer. Free enterprise, free exchange of ideas, less dependance on government, patriotism, love for the flag, love for our veterans, that is what America is all about. Plain and simple
They are now listed as a domestic terror organization by the Dep of Justice.
Thank you Jack, anyone that hides their face is a coward, antifa must go!!
They got Mt Rushmore wrong. There are no Democrats on Mt Rushmore. Some people think TJ was a Democrat because he was a Democratic Republican, but they are just imbeciles who don’t know the difference between a noun and a adjective. Everybody up there was a Republican and two of them were slave owners.
So there.
Just another example of SPLC getting it wrong
Chase Bank has just donated $500,000 to the SPLC. When I called chase they would tell me anything or let me talk to anyone about it. I am closing my 3 credit cards and bank account.
One of the directors on the Chase Board of Directors works for Warren Buffet.
Another works for GE, Boeing and Exxon.
I also contacted Apple. At first they denied they made a donation. When I mentioned that MSNBC and the San Francisco Chronicle reported they had, they checked again and said that Apple Had donated. When I asked if they were gonna contribute to antifa, they told me they had never hear of the group.
Is there a way to get a list of the major corporations that donate to SPLC? I’d like to stop doing business with them.
Richard Silver
Excellent Richard, if more good people stood up to this BS, the SPLC would dry up and blow away, great job my brother!
Who are the companies that support them?
I’m sure that’s how Christians in the Roman empire got rounded up into the stadiums where lions waited to eat lunch. Hate maps were devised to create national consensus about those whose views weren’t in line with the spirit of the age.
Spirit of the age?! That’s a made up fallacy. You need to find a stronger point to stand on…
I have sent an e-mail to SPLC saying it appears that BLM is violent at times and that Antifa is clearly violent. No response from SPLC after two weeks. Will give them another four weeks and will continue to report what I see and hear.
THEY ARE THE ANTAGONISTS!!!
Southern Poverty Law Center is a hate group.
I find the letter K very offensive, looking at it just reminds me of all the hate and bigotry in this country, KKK need I say more. Just imagine all the little children of color reciting the alphabet and being forced to say a letter that is a symbol of hate. The damage it has caused is unimaginable.
The letter should be removed.
Thank you
Joe Messina
You have got to be kidding me. Removing the letter K?! Yeah, you sound like the smartest person in the world with that comment. Lol
oh, and let’s remove all monuments, while removing letter K… How stupid somem people are!
Hahahaha, good one…
I guess Roy didn’t get the sarcasm Joe, lol
george Soros ought to be deported from USA
These people are race baiters and haters as well as their so called haters on their hate map. You are the pathetic ones and you are all losers!
suhhh dude
Because of Chase Bank donating $500,000 to the SPLC I called the bank to cancel my credit cards (3).
When asked why I was doing it I told them that Chase had donated to SLPC and that I had called the headquarters to as why. I called 3 times and was told someone would get back to me. “No one” ever did.
Next I plan to go to the bank and canceled my checking account. My new bank even gave me $25 for opening my account.
There are plenty of credit cards out there. We don’t need to use one from a bank that supports SPLC.
I would hope everyone reading this message would call Chase and ask them why they donated. Next, if they can’t give a response you cancel your credit card and then your bank account.
Yes, doing this is a pain in the ass, but if enough of us do this, it might have some effect on Chase.
Richard Silver
After Ayaan Hirsi Ali published her op-ed in the N Y Tmes on August 24, I submitted the following comment on the column:
I am a longtime, though modest, contributor to SPLC. Much of what they do should be applauded. However, too much of their focus is on the extreme right, almost completely ignoring the extreme left. I suggest they live up to the last word in their name: Center, and that they start from that point, and look both left and right for bigotry.
I also sent comments to SPLC, to which they never replied, as promised. As they have my rmail address, I urge them to contact me.
Truth hurts huh?
Splc is the new KKK.
Sad. MLK would be on their hate list nowadays.
I’ve been a member of SLPC since 1974 and a monthly subscriber. Please tell me you have added Antifa as a “Hate” group to the long list SLPC of watch groups. We need peace.
I have yet to understand why the people of Alabama have allowed the SLPC to exist all these years. Some of m family has lived in Alabama for many years, have been Conservatives all their lives, and claim they have never heard of the SLPC. People are too involved with their own lives to see where their political leaders are leading us. How can Jeff Sessions not know this group is in itself a hate group. And the election to fill his vacancy is today.
Jeff Sessions could be a hate group all by himself
Proud member of ACT for America, Florida chapter. Put me on your joke of a hate list SPLC.
SPLC’s focus on attacking conservative individuals like Dr. Ben Carson and conservative organizations does nothing to help the poor.
SPLC racist against white people and anything that doesn’t “agree” with their agenda. Useless idiots. Know the law about as well as a kindergartener with a law book lol
WE BETTER GET OUR ACT TOGETHER SOON OR WE WILL COLLAPSE FROM WITHIN !!!
I can’t believe the things you accuse conservatives of being. If there is a hate group, it is you. Obliviously, you spread the hate. How sad that there are people who believe you.
Obliviously?
I can see why this ad appeals to you. Thanks for the laugh !
Hey from Atlanta! I heard you have a hate list?! I am a Christian who believes the Holy Bible is God’s inerrant word and everything in it is true. I guess this makes me qualify for you hate list?! Happy to be on it then. Please add me when you find the time.
Thank you
You all forgot to add the meanest, hatingest group that ever existed to your list of hate groups.. Planned Parenthood! There have been over 60 million babies murdered in the US since 1973 – by their own mother’s too for God’s sake! Now that’s the best example of hate I can think of…
I’ve posted in this group in the past about SPLC and that we should cancel our various accounts with Chase Bank because they donate to the SPLC. I canceled my 3 credit cards and checking account. I hope you all will consider doing he same thing. When you do cancel, be sure to call in to the bank and let them know why.
Now I understand PayPal has also donated to SPLC. We need to boycott them. Don’t worry, there are plenty other apps online you can get to replace paypal.
these folks need to
I know this may be unconvient to do, but these folk need to know that people out there are upset about this and are doing something about it.
Beyond their specious claims and malicious, inaccurate labelling, they also fudge the math. Go to their hate map and pull up a state. They count as separate hate groups each office or branch of the same group. So, if Group X has four offices in the state, they are counted as four hate groups. It inflates the number wildly. Ridiculous.
To some commenters on here, this is NOT the SPLC. This is a group exposing the SPLC.
Hi! I asked to be added to your hate group list a few weeks back. How can I check to see if you all did what I asked you to do? Please make good on your promise and add me! Please also post my name front and center of your homepage.
Thanks and have a hate-filled day!
Do they investigate the black panther party or any other black street gang that targets white society? Yeah i didnt think so! Assholes
how true
Snopes Fact check = False
Laura trying to discredit the SPLC puts Hamer on. Hamer says: “I haven’t specifically looked at that organization” (SPLC). That’s FOX News for you.
Illuminati have this all working out pretty good. By creating and funding a bunch of different groups and promoting people who propagate hate and discord, what do you think will happen? The Illuminati will not be found out that they are the ones that are responsible. They worship Satan and promote everything that is wrong with our society. The top one percent have control of half the worlds wealth and resources while half the population of earth work like slaves and/or starve to death. This is the way they want it. The only way to stop them is to stop working for them.
SPLC has listed A2Z Publications LLC as a hate group. The refuse to provide any evidence of their assertion, they refuse to explain how a legal corporation can bear considers a group. They list a long line of letters as their evidence of hate, it is in fact SPLC who is the hate group!
Dr. A. H. Krieg CMFGE