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Trump 'fear-mongering' fuels rise of U.S. hate groups to record: watchdog

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Reuter’s:

“The number of hate groups operating in the United States rose 7 percent to an all-time high last year, the Southern Poverty Law Center said on Wednesday, attributing the increase largely to anti-immigrant rhetoric from President Donald Trump.”

“The words and imagery coming out of the Trump administration and from Trump himself are heightening these fears,” Heidi Beirich, director of the SPLC’s Intelligence Project, told reporters on a conference call. “These images of foreign scary invaders threatening diseases, massive refugee caravans coming from the south. This is fear-mongering.”

“The last surge in new hate groups came in the early years of Barack Obama’s presidency, a reaction to the first black U.S. president, the group said. The number rose 9 percent during the first three years of Obama’s administration to reach the prior record then dropped until 2015.”

Trump 'fear-mongering' fuels rise of U.S. hate groups to record: watchdog | Reuters

Kind of a sad state of affairs, if you ask me. America is better than this.
 
Reuter’s:

“The number of hate groups operating in the United States rose 7 percent to an all-time high last year, the Southern Poverty Law Center said on Wednesday, attributing the increase largely to anti-immigrant rhetoric from President Donald Trump.”

“The words and imagery coming out of the Trump administration and from Trump himself are heightening these fears,” Heidi Beirich, director of the SPLC’s Intelligence Project, told reporters on a conference call. “These images of foreign scary invaders threatening diseases, massive refugee caravans coming from the south. This is fear-mongering.”

“The last surge in new hate groups came in the early years of Barack Obama’s presidency, a reaction to the first black U.S. president, the group said. The number rose 9 percent during the first three years of Obama’s administration to reach the prior record then dropped until 2015.”

Trump 'fear-mongering' fuels rise of U.S. hate groups to record: watchdog | Reuters

Kind of a sad state of affairs, if you ask me. America is better than this.

Yeah if this has anything to do with the SPLC, then I'm out.

This is the same group that considers over half of the church assemblies in the country to be hate groups. So no, I'm not even going to begin to trust them on this one.
 
Yeah if this has anything to do with the SPLC, then I'm out.

This is the same group that considers over half of the church assemblies in the country to be hate groups. So no, I'm not even going to begin to trust them on this one.

Link?
 
Reuter’s:

“The number of hate groups operating in the United States rose 7 percent to an all-time high last year, the Southern Poverty Law Center said on Wednesday, attributing the increase largely to anti-immigrant rhetoric from President Donald Trump.”

“The words and imagery coming out of the Trump administration and from Trump himself are heightening these fears,” Heidi Beirich, director of the SPLC’s Intelligence Project, told reporters on a conference call. “These images of foreign scary invaders threatening diseases, massive refugee caravans coming from the south. This is fear-mongering.”

“The last surge in new hate groups came in the early years of Barack Obama’s presidency, a reaction to the first black U.S. president, the group said. The number rose 9 percent during the first three years of Obama’s administration to reach the prior record then dropped until 2015.”

Trump 'fear-mongering' fuels rise of U.S. hate groups to record: watchdog | Reuters

Kind of a sad state of affairs, if you ask me. America is better than this.

It's funny how the SPLC never goes after churches that "Pray to Jesus on Sunday" and "Hate Whitie" on Monday.
 

It's been a long time since I've actually seen a link on it. Though I know that one of the main claims that the SPLC uses is the "Christian identity" terminology. Which is an extremely loose definition as it is and targets "traditionalist" Christian group. Those that promote a standard family unit and the such. One church they designated as a hate group wasn't even over what the church was doing, or it's practices. But it was because of the churches pro-family stance and something that the pastor had said, that was considered anti gay. Which right now, I'm trying to find what it was that he said as well.

I do have two older links though.
SPLC ‘Hate Map’ Targets Christians, Pro-Family Groups
This concerns some of the churches being designated as a group on the SPLCs "Hate Map" and fighting back.

This one deals with how wide the SPLC will cast the net of designating these churches as hate groups.
Hate groups: Critics question SPLC's list, fundraising style | Idaho Statesman
 
Yeah if this has anything to do with the SPLC, then I'm out.

This is the same group that considers over half of the church assemblies in the country to be hate groups. So no, I'm not even going to begin to trust them on this one.

I'd love to see your source showing the SPLC considers half of all church groups hate groups. You made up a ridiculous number you know you can't defend.
 
I'd love to see your source showing the SPLC considers half of all church groups hate groups. You made up a ridiculous number you know you can't defend.

Yes, you would have plenty of experience in that field wouldn't you?

Seeing as the SPLC will consider a group that follows what they call the "Christian identity" a hate group and plenty of churches have had an issue with being placed on the SPLCs hate map. It's not too hard of an assumption to make.
 
Yes, you would have plenty of experience in that field wouldn't you?

Seeing as the SPLC will consider a group that follows what they call the "Christian identity" a hate group and plenty of churches have had an issue with being placed on the SPLCs hate map. It's not too hard of an assumption to make.

Nope, total BS and I notice you couldn't provide any sources to back that ridiculous statement up. Simply being a Christian makes one a hate group according to SPLC? Why do you make up these outrageous lies then refuse to prove them when confronted?

Show us that 50% of churches are on the SPLC hate group list. Shouldn't be hard to find. Hell, if the number is even 1% of churches I will make a thread publicly apologizing to you. So go on and show us.
 
This is the same group that considers over half of the church assemblies in the country to be hate groups. So no, I'm not even going to begin to trust them on this one.

It's been a long time since I've actually seen a link on it. Though I know that one of the main claims that the SPLC uses is the "Christian identity" terminology. Which is an extremely loose definition as it is and targets "traditionalist" Christian group. Those that promote a standard family unit and the such. One church they designated as a hate group wasn't even over what the church was doing, or it's practices. But it was because of the churches pro-family stance and something that the pastor had said, that was considered anti gay. Which right now, I'm trying to find what it was that he said as well.

Oh look, the mean ole SPLC picks on Christians who only support traditional family units. Well if you actually read your second link in your second post, you’d see the ‘church’ in that article that thinks it’s been unfairly labeled a hate group thinks “gays who flaunt their sexuality should be prosecuted”. That meets the SPLC’s definition of a hate group. Its a pretty simple definition.

The SPLC says it lists groups that “attack or malign an entire class of people, typically for their immutable characteristics.” These groups “vilify others because of their race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation or gender identity — prejudices that strike at the heart of our democratic values and fracture society along its most fragile fault lines.”

And from the same link, the SPLC has identified 954 groups and the largest group was black nationalists. Wow, that alone shreds your “half ” nonsense. If fact, that comment was so ridiculously false its hard to just call it hyperbole. And remember, you posted that link to prove your point. Why does conservative "victimhood" always rely on falsehoods and hyperbole?
 
Reuter’s:

“The number of hate groups operating in the United States rose 7 percent to an all-time high last year, the Southern Poverty Law Center said on Wednesday, attributing the increase largely to anti-immigrant rhetoric from President Donald Trump.”

“The words and imagery coming out of the Trump administration and from Trump himself are heightening these fears,” Heidi Beirich, director of the SPLC’s Intelligence Project, told reporters on a conference call. “These images of foreign scary invaders threatening diseases, massive refugee caravans coming from the south. This is fear-mongering.”

“The last surge in new hate groups came in the early years of Barack Obama’s presidency, a reaction to the first black U.S. president, the group said. The number rose 9 percent during the first three years of Obama’s administration to reach the prior record then dropped until 2015.”

Trump 'fear-mongering' fuels rise of U.S. hate groups to record: watchdog | Reuters

Kind of a sad state of affairs, if you ask me. America is better than this.


Good grief ... 4th thread on the same subject within the last 24 hours ... :roll:
 
It's funny how the SPLC never goes after churches that "Pray to Jesus on Sunday" and "Hate Whitie" on Monday.

Black hate groups make up the biggest number of hate groups the SPLC has identified. Why would you post something just because you really really really wish it was true? Oh yea, they criticized your dear leader. From Obo's second link:

It categorizes hate groups by ideologies ranging from “neo-Nazi” to “Black Nationalist.” (The latter is this year’s leading category, with 233 total organizations listed.)

seriously guys, stop with the whiny (and of course false) "victimhood".
 
Good grief ... 4th thread on the same subject within the last 24 hours ... :roll:

I did not see the other threads. Apparently, people feel this is important.
 
Yeah if this has anything to do with the SPLC, then I'm out.

This is the same group that considers over half of the church assemblies in the country to be hate groups. So no, I'm not even going to begin to trust them on this one.

I just read the 66 page report the OP linked. They mention no regular church groups.

You're spinning.
 
Good grief ... 4th thread on the same subject within the last 24 hours ... :roll:

And in those 4 threads, not a single poster refuted the data inside.

As expected.

I will continue to use this report, as well as FBI's official stats which mesh with said report, in threads and replies.
 
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I just read the 66 page report the OP linked. They mention no regular church groups.

You're spinning.

A lot of people are forced to spin. If they don't, there will be nothing left but to admit the truth about themselves and their friends.
 
Probably because they are imaginary. That's why Trump loves some people, they're gullible and will believe anything they're told.

Donald Trump loves the 'poorly educated' — and they love him

Nice, but I do not support Trump and never have. I notice that you also love your liberal biased news sites.

They also depend on the gullible like yourself.

Educated? I have never seen so many brain dead, but "supposedly educated " dolts until I followed a few political forums.
 
Yeah if this has anything to do with the SPLC, then I'm out.

This is the same group that considers over half of the church assemblies in the country to be hate groups. So no, I'm not even going to begin to trust them on this one.

Sorry to hear that your echo-chamber doesn't report actual news to you.
 
Reuter’s:

“The number of hate groups operating in the United States rose 7 percent to an all-time high last year, the Southern Poverty Law Center said on Wednesday, attributing the increase largely to anti-immigrant rhetoric from President Donald Trump.”

“The words and imagery coming out of the Trump administration and from Trump himself are heightening these fears,” Heidi Beirich, director of the SPLC’s Intelligence Project, told reporters on a conference call. “These images of foreign scary invaders threatening diseases, massive refugee caravans coming from the south. This is fear-mongering.”

“The last surge in new hate groups came in the early years of Barack Obama’s presidency, a reaction to the first black U.S. president, the group said. The number rose 9 percent during the first three years of Obama’s administration to reach the prior record then dropped until 2015.”

Trump 'fear-mongering' fuels rise of U.S. hate groups to record: watchdog | Reuters

Kind of a sad state of affairs, if you ask me. America is better than this.

Source? The article quotes this:

"there were 1,020 operating in the United States in 2018, breaking the 1,018 record set in 2011."

This is a 0.2% increase in 7 years, which doesn't even cover population growth.
 
Reuter’s:

“The number of hate groups operating in the United States rose 7 percent to an all-time high last year, the Southern Poverty Law Center said on Wednesday, attributing the increase largely to anti-immigrant rhetoric from President Donald Trump.”

“The words and imagery coming out of the Trump administration and from Trump himself are heightening these fears,” Heidi Beirich, director of the SPLC’s Intelligence Project, told reporters on a conference call. “These images of foreign scary invaders threatening diseases, massive refugee caravans coming from the south. This is fear-mongering.”

“The last surge in new hate groups came in the early years of Barack Obama’s presidency, a reaction to the first black U.S. president, the group said. The number rose 9 percent during the first three years of Obama’s administration to reach the prior record then dropped until 2015.”

Trump 'fear-mongering' fuels rise of U.S. hate groups to record: watchdog | Reuters

Kind of a sad state of affairs, if you ask me. America is better than this.



Trump, Making America Hate Again.


Wonderful.
 
Yes, you would have plenty of experience in that field wouldn't you?

Seeing as the SPLC will consider a group that follows what they call the "Christian identity" a hate group and plenty of churches have had an issue with being placed on the SPLCs hate map. It's not too hard of an assumption to make.

So you admit you have made an assumption on half. If it were 1% would you change your mind?


I know, 1%, 50%, it's all the same, right?


The SPLC is not without controversy, some say they have overreached, but maybe so, one thing is true, it's historical record for fighting serious hate groups is unimpeachable, but, give a rightist something to quibble over, and they will throw the baby out with the bathwater every time, as long as they perceive that doing so furthers their agenda.

Hinting at a famous quote by Goldwater, I'd say the SPLC views it this way: Moderation towards hate is no virtue. If they err, they choose to err on the side of fighting hatred, than to chance being moderate towards it.
 
Nope, total BS and I notice you couldn't provide any sources to back that ridiculous statement up. Simply being a Christian makes one a hate group according to SPLC? Why do you make up these outrageous lies then refuse to prove them when confronted?

Show us that 50% of churches are on the SPLC hate group list. Shouldn't be hard to find. Hell, if the number is even 1% of churches I will make a thread publicly apologizing to you. So go on and show us.

Continuing to bluster about something that I know you're not even capable of, is at this point a wasted effort.

You do realize however, that I said "considered" a hate group correct? I made no such statement that it was listed in such a way and trying to get me to quantify such a number with how wide even their definition is. Is pretty much pointless.
 
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