By its own definition the Southern Poverty Law Center has always been a hate group. One it excluded from its own list of so-called hate groups. A list that was nothing more than a ledger to which the Haters at the SPLC added whomever they ideologically disagreed–or with whom their benefactors disagreed.
Whether the list was ever meant to be anything other than a dark corner to segregate ideological enemies in is open to debate but that is what is has become.
The list’s overlords named themselves the arbiters of what hate was and who was peddling it and then cataloged political opponents along side actual hate groups to discredit them. This makes them little more than, ideological xenophobes who use their influence to intimidate, isolate, bully, and ultimately silence those with differing view points. Put simply, they are a hate group.
The FBI, for all their iniquities, has decided to scrub the SPLC from their hate crimes website. They are no longer listed as a resource for identifying or tracking ‘hate groups.’ The FBI also scrubbed the Anti-Defamation League from the hate crimes page as well. The FBI has not given any explanation yet as to why but family and conservative groups blacklisted by the SPLC have been prodding the FBI and DoJ to justify their association.