SPLC Now Labels White Lives Matter As A Hate Group

In this Sunday, Aug. 21, 2016, photo, people with a White Lives Matter sign demonstrate in front of the NAACP office in Houston, Texas. (Darla Guillen/Houston Chronicle via AP)
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The White Lives Matter group, which started as a pointed response to the Black Lives Matter movement against police brutality, is now classified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, the New York Times reported Tuesday.

White Lives Matter touts its role combating the “white genocide” caused by immigration, “integration by force,” and “24/7 race mixing propaganda.”

“The White Lives Matter website says their movement is dedicated to the preservation of the white race. That tells you all you need to know,” Heidi Beirich, the director of SPLC’s Intelligence Project, told the Times. “They’re against integration, immigration. This is standard white supremacist stuff.”

According to SPLC researchers, White Lives Matter, which grew out of the #WhiteLivesMatter rebuke to Black Lives Matter’s active social media presence, is now backed by the Aryan Renaissance Society, a Texas-based member of the white supremacist network United Aryan Front.

Members of White Lives Matter held a protest last week outside of the Houston offices of the NAACP, where some protesters reportedly showed up toting Confederate flags and assault rifles.

White supremacists have enjoyed a resurgence in the last year because of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, Beirich said.

“Trump has given these people hope they didn’t have before that they could influence politics or that they would at least be listened to,” she told the Times.

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  1. Good. This is only the START, as we bring all of the roaches into the light and give them no shadows into which they can escape.

  2. Why think small, the SPLC should just identify Hate States? The November election will make it easy to identify them by their red color.

  3. Avatar for paulw paulw says:

    They didn’t have to be assh*les to have that name. But they sure chose to be.

  4. So now everyone can take offense at “All Lives Matter”.

  5. FOX: Obama has now declared all White people as bigots and has effectively outlawed us. Would he allow us to vote for Trump?

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