They even admit that they ignore left wing hate groups:
"This does not mean that extremism and violence on the far left are not concerns. But groups that engage in anti-fascist violence such as Antifa, for example, differ from hate groups in that they are not typically organized around bigotry against people based on the characteristics listed above."
So while the SPLC says that violent left wing hate groups which hate based on ideology are supposedly a concern the SPLC is not going to include them in their list of hate groups.
This is a big deal because the Internet giants turn to SPLC to help define what they should censor. So the SPLC is saying to censor groups who oppose redefining marriage but not groups that advocate violence to silence speech they don't like.
Interestingly SPLC lists the Proud Boys as a hate group even though the group denies racism and says that it simply opposes leftist ideology as Antifa opposes anything to the right of communism. The examples of "racist" speech by Proud Boy members are no worse than what many main stream reporters say about Trump supporters. Or when Antifa members told Black cops that there are no good cops. I'm not defending Proud Boys but I do know that Antifa is, as SPLC admits, a group based on hate and SPLC says that's not enough to get them on the SPLC list.
If SPLC didn't refuse to list Antifa I'd have no problem with them listing Proud Boys but the fact that they confine their concern to organizations that they dislike politically means that the SPLC isn't some objective observer.
Clearly the SPLC is admitting to hating the right because they refuse to list groups that hate the right as hate groups.
Nothing spells hatred by a group like saying that others who share their hatred aren't haters.
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