We are talking about the Anti-Defamation League, not the Southern Poverty Law Center. I'm not certain about the ADL except that they were involved in antisemitism. The SPLC has been found to have been used as a political weapon on a few occasions, maybe the same can be said of the ADL.
https://adflegal.org/article/truth-about...s-and-splc
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/...er-215312/
Quote:“For groups that do not threaten violence, the use of SPLC ‘hate group’ or ‘extremist’ designations frequently are exploited as an excuse to silence speech and speakers.”
https://adflegal.org/article/truth-about...s-and-splc
Quote:But the SPLC did not back down after it labeled Tony Perkins’ Family Research Council—one of the country’s largest and most established Christian conservative advocacy groups—a “hate group” for its positions on homosexuality, and even after an unhinged gay-rights supporter named Floyd Corkins subsequently shot up the FRC’s lobby in an attempt to murder its staff, in 2012. Corkins said he had read on the SPLC’s website that the FRC was an anti-gay group.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/...er-215312/
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