Posted on 03/26/2010 9:14:26 AM PDT by stainlessbanner
The number of hate groups in the United States continues to rise, says Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center. Potok discusses how the rhetoric of hate groups has increasingly entered the mainstream in the wake of the nation's changing demographics and the election of President Obama.
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If true, its no longer extreme.
I’m EXTREEEEME!!!
No “barf alert” necessary as the source is NPR and the first sentence quotes the SPLC.
Mark Potok’s Education
University of Chicago
1974 — 1978
Enough Said.
“If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun,”
Barack Obama
Philidelphia
June 2008
Democrats so desperately want social unrest. Its pitiful.
Hate Groups = any collection of two or more people who are not toeing the Democrat Party lie.
Philadelphia
Did NPR ever write anything about left wing hate? These people are fools who think we are fools. Someday we’ll shut off government funding for NPR and then the libs can finance it entirerly by themselves.
Yep - i usually don’t alter the headlines on FR, but you know this one is a two bagger
Take a look at this from the SPLC Watch site.
Director, Intelligence Project, Mark Potok
Mark Potok, director of publications and editor of SPLC’s periodical Intelligence Project, has overseen the Center’s vaunted research on “hate groups” and “hate crimes” during the dozen years (1997-present) he has worked for the Center.
Potok, who left the University of Chicago without graduating over thirty years ago, would seem to have little academic or practical experience to qualify him as an expert on dissident groups and ideologies.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-potok
Potok’s special expertise—tabloid-style emotionalism and “branding” through well-couched smear or deft innuendo—builds on his twenty-year career as a journalist (USA Today, the Dallas Times Herald, and the Miami Herald), during which he covered the Oklahoma City bombing and the militias. His skill with shrill and lurid verbiage, joined to SPLC’s techniques for discerning “links and ties” (what was called “guilt by association” when practiced by Sen. Joseph McCarthy), has imbued the Center’s invective with a new urgency fed by classic yellow journalism as well as the take-no-prisoners zeal of the classic extremist. Potok’s attacks on mainstream figures who have dared to differ with the Center are just as revealing: to cite a representative instance, in SPLC’s blog he called the combative conservative columnist Ann Coulter “rabid” and her book Guilty a “foaming-mouth tome.”
http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2009/02/13/columnist-ann-coulter-defends-white-supremacist-group/
Potok has admitted that SPLC’s methodology has been suspect: he stated that the Center’s “number counts for [“hate groups”] initially weren’t very reliable” (while failing to explain why current counts are any more trustworthy [see below]).
http://socialistworker.org/2006-2/593/593_07_MarkPotok.shtml
Potok has conceded that only a tiny minority of “hate crimes” is carried out by “hate groups,” but implied that such groups influence “hate crimes” offenders. He has also claimed that the FBI reports well under 10 percent of all “hate crimes” committed.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5506152
http://www.splcenter.org/news/item.jsp?aid=19
In line with SPLC practice, Potok has concentrated on white, right-wing, “nativist,” and domestic “hate groups.” to the practical exclusion of nonwhite, left-wing, and foreign ones (see “Hate Groups” below). Under his leadership, the Center’s Intelligence Project has strained to exaggerate the domestic terror threat from the right and to minimize the danger of imported Islamist terror, a position that the 9/11 attacks (carried out by aliens, many here illegally) have made much less tenable. Potok has praised a recent Department of Homeland Security report that, thanks in great part to SPLC’s input, was so focused on lawful and law-abiding groups (including returning U.S. combat veterans) that it had to be disavowed; he has whined about the FBI dragging its feet on 60 “major” terrorist plots (while disregarding their work on radical Muslim plots).
http://24ahead.com/s/mark-potok
http://socialistworker.org/2006-2/593/593_07_MarkPotok.shtml
In a revealing admission, Potok recently stated that it is the immigration control movement (which he called “a rush of people identifying with a nation-state and its borders”) itself, here and in Europe, rather than “hate groups” as such, that concerns SPLC.
http://socialistworker.org/2006-2/593/593_07_MarkPotok.shtml
Not much is available through the Internet on Potok’s life and ideological background although he is evidently married and has adopted a child.
http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/antisemitism/voices/transcript/?content=20070621
He has given cordial interviews to at least two hard-core communist periodicals, the Trotskyite Socialist Worker and the People’s Weekly World (formerly the American Communist Party’s Daily Worker); similar links with dissident groups on the right have been invoked by Potok as proof of shared sympathies.
http://socialistworker.org/2006-2/593/593_07_MarkPotok.shtml
http://www.peoplesworld.org/reform-blocked-by-racist-groups/
http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=981
Tit for Tat: Hate Group Monitoring Organization Labeled a ’Hate Group’ in Turn
http://www.edgeboston.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=&sc2=news&sc3=&id=103870
Southern Poverty Law Center officially declared “left-wing hate group”
http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/mbarber/100325
People who are taken in by this rhetoric are being played like fiddles.
Has anyone talked about the lefties that wish that the Christians in the mid-west and anyon toeing traditional values should be exterminated? I consider that hate speech if I ever saw it, but that is not being reported.
thank you both - interesting links
Does anyone find it interesting the lack of articles in the official state media about the left wing extremist groups? The ones who have members like Van Jones, Saul Alinsky, Bill Ayres?
Oh, wait, I forgot. The official state media are members of those groups. Never mind...
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