Court lets defamation case against SPLC proceed over weaponized ‘hate’ label of Dustin Inman Society
By Tyler O'Neil | The Daily Signal
How can a leftist group present itself as the authority on “hate groups” in public, touting the fact that police and even the FBI have relied on its materials, and then reverse course when challenged in court, claiming that its statements are unprovable “opinion” rather than expert statements of fact?
Has the Southern Poverty Law Center no shame? To ask the question is to answer it.
As I wrote in my book “Making Hate Pay,” the SPLC has long engaged in ritual character assassination, putting mainstream conservative and Christian nonprofits on a “hate map” with chapters of the Ku Klux Klan, claiming that the map exposes the “infrastructure upholding white supremacy.” It persisted in doing this after the “hate map” inspired a terrorist att...
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