Southern Poverty Law Center The hate group that gets to define all other hate groups

Townhall

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Sadly, the Southern Poverty Law Center has more than lost its way.  The going astray from the original mission can be traced back to 1986, when most of the organization resigned, except founder Morris Dees, when Dees turned the focus of the group to strictly monitoring hate groups. The list of hate groups has kept getting longer and longer while our nation has become more tolerant of those who are different.  In March 2013, the publication Foreign Policy ran an expose on the methodology of SPLC’s listing of hate groups, noting that SPLC counted many groups several times. The overall impression from SPLC’s list is designed to make Americans believe that America is a nation filled with racism, sexism, homophobia, anti-Semitism, and every other form of hatred that the conservative cause specifically disavows.

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SPLC’s senior leadership is shameful.  It uses its past legacy of fighting against racism to add legitimacy to their evolving agenda of hatred towards the large number of Americans who hold conservative and religious values. In 2010, SPLC added the conservative Family Research Council to its list of hate groups. In early 2015, SPLC added Dr. Ben Carson to its list of hate groups.

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Why is this one group, which is itself a hate group, allowed so much power and the right to define other groups as hate groups?
They work closely with social media platforms to label and ban all content that they deem as hate speech.
And you can guess which groups and individuals they are against. Yep, anything mildly conservative.
Groups like this are effectively silcencing all opposition voices, and are making criminals out of conservatives that only want a right to have differing opinion.