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<blockquote data-quote="gerhard1" data-source="post: 3031514" data-attributes="member: 5391"><p>Here is a C&P of a post I made on a largely-British website.</p><p></p><p><strong>If I might, I'd urge the esteemed Mr Mercado to be careful of using figures from the ADL, and especially the Southern Poverty Law Center*. Both of these organizations started with a noble purpose: the ending of discrimination. But with their main goals--the enactment of some very strong laws against discrimination--accomplished, the view by many is that they struggle to remain relevant and so perhaps in an effort to show their relevance, and induce people to fund them, they exaggerate the problem. </strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>I note, for example that SPLC includes in their list of 'hate' groups, the Family Research Council. The reason they were included is because they support the Biblical definition of marraige as between a man and a woman. Thus, accordng to the logic of SPLC, they hate gays. Howard Phillips Taxpayer Party was also included at one time. </strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>Now some honestly deserve their place on the SPLC list, such as the KKK, the neo-Nazis, and that odious Phelps group in Topeka, Kansas. And, to be fair, they also include several Black nationalist groups as well. But the threat of violence that these lunatic groups pose is, in my opinion, not great.</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>The motivation to over-state the threat posed by RW extremists (whom I thoroughly detest, BTW) would seem to be there. Plus, the media, especially here, is infested with what former CBS news reporter Bernie Goldberg calls 'good racial manners'. He defines that term as avoiding coverage that they feel could lead to creating or reinforcing negative ethnic stereotypes. Black people, for example, are typically portrayed as constant victims of White racism. If a Black person is targetted by a White mob, it is widely heralded as an example of Black victimization that we are told is part and parcel of being Black in America. So, it would stand to reason, then that accounts of Klan violence would be blasted over the airwaves, and splashed across the front page. The paucity of media coverage leads me to believe that such events are not quite so common as the ADL and similar groups would have us believe.</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>My point is to take what the ADL, and especially SPLC says with a lot of salt. They might very sincerely believe that an epidemic of racial violence exists in the USA. But believing it, however sincerely, does not necessarily make it so.</strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gerhard1, post: 3031514, member: 5391"] Here is a C&P of a post I made on a largely-British website. [B]If I might, I'd urge the esteemed Mr Mercado to be careful of using figures from the ADL, and especially the Southern Poverty Law Center*. Both of these organizations started with a noble purpose: the ending of discrimination. But with their main goals--the enactment of some very strong laws against discrimination--accomplished, the view by many is that they struggle to remain relevant and so perhaps in an effort to show their relevance, and induce people to fund them, they exaggerate the problem. I note, for example that SPLC includes in their list of 'hate' groups, the Family Research Council. The reason they were included is because they support the Biblical definition of marraige as between a man and a woman. Thus, accordng to the logic of SPLC, they hate gays. Howard Phillips Taxpayer Party was also included at one time. Now some honestly deserve their place on the SPLC list, such as the KKK, the neo-Nazis, and that odious Phelps group in Topeka, Kansas. And, to be fair, they also include several Black nationalist groups as well. But the threat of violence that these lunatic groups pose is, in my opinion, not great. The motivation to over-state the threat posed by RW extremists (whom I thoroughly detest, BTW) would seem to be there. Plus, the media, especially here, is infested with what former CBS news reporter Bernie Goldberg calls 'good racial manners'. He defines that term as avoiding coverage that they feel could lead to creating or reinforcing negative ethnic stereotypes. Black people, for example, are typically portrayed as constant victims of White racism. If a Black person is targetted by a White mob, it is widely heralded as an example of Black victimization that we are told is part and parcel of being Black in America. So, it would stand to reason, then that accounts of Klan violence would be blasted over the airwaves, and splashed across the front page. The paucity of media coverage leads me to believe that such events are not quite so common as the ADL and similar groups would have us believe. My point is to take what the ADL, and especially SPLC says with a lot of salt. They might very sincerely believe that an epidemic of racial violence exists in the USA. But believing it, however sincerely, does not necessarily make it so.[/B] [/QUOTE]
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