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**f6HLLFcw** · 03-09-2011, 01:47 AM

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SPLC Reports Rise Of `Hate' Groups: But What Is `Hate'?
The Christian Science Monitor

Even as the Southern Poverty Law Center points out that the number of US hate groups has topped 1,000 for the first time, the civil rights organization is receiving flak from critics on the right who say an overbroad definition of "hate" vilifies innocent people and stifles vigorous debate about issues critical to America's future ... Neo-Nazi-like hate groups grew by nearly ten percent since 2009, to 1002; anti-immigration vigilante groups grew by trhee percent, to 319; and antigovernment "Patriot" groups -- defined as "conspiracy-minded organizations that see the federal government as their primary enemy" -- grew by 60 percent, to 824.

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03-09-2011, 01:47 AM	#1
f6HLLFcw Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 538 Senior Member	SPLC Reports Rise Of `Hate' Groups: But What Is `Hate'? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SPLC Reports Rise Of `Hate' Groups: But What Is `Hate'? The Christian Science Monitor Even as the Southern Poverty Law Center points out that the number of US hate groups has topped 1,000 for the first time, the civil rights organization is receiving flak from critics on the right who say an overbroad definition of "hate" vilifies innocent people and stifles vigorous debate about issues critical to America's future ... Neo-Nazi-like hate groups grew by nearly ten percent since 2009, to 1002; anti-immigration vigilante groups grew by trhee percent, to 319; and antigovernment "Patriot" groups -- defined as "conspiracy-minded organizations that see the federal government as their primary enemy" -- grew by 60 percent, to 824. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society...k-What-is-hate
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