There is more than P.R. symbolism behind a letter delivered to major media outlets, signed by the leaders of 47 organizations. Major outlets are being placed on legal notice that use of the Southern Poverty Law Center as an arbiter of hate group status, including use of its notorious "hate map," may lead to liability through recklessness and defamation, among other possibilities.
The game that the SPLC and its media enablers have played is to brand utterly nonviolent law firms and think-tanks as "hate groups," the same label it uses for neo-Nazis and violent extremist groups that are white. The letter cites but one of a number of attacks in which the SPLC Hate Map played a role.
Take a look at the language in the first paragraphs.
The SPLC is a discredited, left-wing, political activist organization that seeks to silence its political opponents with a "hate group" label of its own invention and application that is not only false and defamatory, but that also endangers the lives of those targeted with it.
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