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Re: Emails show White House advisor Stephen Miller promoting white nationalism to Breitbart
I understand your point, I'm at a different stance, in your scenario, I could see them being viewed as a hate group, but I can also discern that my view is biased enough, where although I view it as hate, others might not. They aren't using illegal scare tactics, they aren't lynching people, they are using resources that they have, legally, to promote their point of view, however much I disagree, that's their right.
Focus on the Family was designated a hate group because it expended a huge amount of money and resources in fighting against the government recognition of same sex marriage, has expended a large amount of money and resources in fighting against discrimination protections for gays and lesbians, and puts a lot of money into gay conversion programs, has fought against gays and lesbians being able to adopt and so on.
10 Things You Should Know About Focus On The Family | Human Rights Campaign
Now, let's say you were gay or lesbian. If an organization was putting significant resources into legally preventing you from marrying who you want to marry, putting significant resources into banning your ability to adopt, and putting significant resources into preventing you from having legal discrimination protects - despite you being a member of a group that has historically been a big target of hate crimes and discrimination, would you view that organization as a hate group? I think you probably would and rightly so.
As a married heterosexual man with a family, I think we often can take for granted the legal freedoms and protections that we have that were until recently not extended to same sex couples.
I understand your point, I'm at a different stance, in your scenario, I could see them being viewed as a hate group, but I can also discern that my view is biased enough, where although I view it as hate, others might not. They aren't using illegal scare tactics, they aren't lynching people, they are using resources that they have, legally, to promote their point of view, however much I disagree, that's their right.