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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: franksolich on May 04, 2012, 03:43:57 PM

Title: "we're not really set up to cover the extreme left"
Post by: franksolich on May 04, 2012, 03:43:57 PM
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/299011/occupy-wall-street-and-southern-poverty-law-center-charles-c-w-cooke#

Oh my.

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Occupy the Southern Poverty Law Center

In light of the May Day arrests of the Cuyahoga 5, the Occupy Wall Street–affiliated group of men who planned to blow up a bridge in Cleveland, Ohio, I called the Southern Poverty Law Center to find out of they had any plans to start tracking the Occupy movement. The first person I spoke to was so shocked by the question that she paused for a good 15 seconds before promising to put me in touch with a representative. This she eventually did, however, and after a game of cat-and-mouse — the person she’d found for me was busy “hosting an international conference on right-wing extremism,” natch — we managed to touch base and I to pose the question: “Do you have any plans to start tracking Occupy Wall Street after a hate group tried to blow up a bridge?”.....

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.....He paused. “We’re not really set up to cover the extreme Left.”.....
Title: Re: "we're not really set up to cover the extreme left"
Post by: thundley4 on May 04, 2012, 07:29:31 PM
That is not true.  They cover left wing hate groups.  They list the Nation of Islam.  However, that is the only one I know about.  Why don't they list some of the gay groups that have attacked people?
Title: Re: "we're not really set up to cover the extreme left"
Post by: Chris_ on May 04, 2012, 07:33:00 PM
If the SPLC had their way, they'd list the Southern Baptist Convention as a hate group.

**** 'em.
Title: Re: "we're not really set up to cover the extreme left"
Post by: Duke Nukum on May 04, 2012, 07:36:10 PM
They don't cover nazis?
Title: Re: "we're not really set up to cover the extreme left"
Post by: thundley4 on May 04, 2012, 07:37:42 PM
Quote from: Duke Nukum on May 04, 2012, 07:36:10 PM
They don't cover nazis?

They consider them to be right wing along with white power groups.