{"id":19789,"date":"2010-07-20T06:31:53","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T10:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=19789"},"modified":"2010-07-20T06:31:53","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T10:31:53","slug":"paying-lip-service-to-hate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19789","title":{"rendered":"Paying lip service to Hate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Potok&#8217;s Southern Poverty Law Center&#8217;s Hate Watch is hot on the trail of that hateful group at Fox News this week with an article that charges &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.splcenter.org\/blog\/2010\/07\/19\/another-long-hot-black-nationalist-summer-at-fox-news\/\">Another Long, Hot Black Nationalist Summer at Fox News<\/a>&#8220;. Of course, twisting the story completely around, the story&#8217;s author, Alexander Zaitchik, exonerates two thugs outside a polling place in Philadelphia and points his finger at Fox News as the racists instead;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On nearly 100 occasions since June 30, Fox News anchors and hosts have breathlessly discussed the marginal group and the \u201cscandal\u201d of the Justice Department\u2019s dismissal of a voter intimidation case filed against two of its members who were videotaped standing outside a Philadelphia poll station on Election Day 2008.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>[Abigail Thernstrom, a conservative George W. Bush appointee on the U.S. Civil Rights Commission] told Politico. \u201cThis has to do with their fantasies about how they could use this issue to topple the [Obama] administration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And what better way to do that than play sensationalized loops of militant-looking black men with zero political power or connections to the White House?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Militant-looking black men with zero political power&#8221; but enough power to count them in the number of right wing hate groups on their &#8220;Hate Map&#8221; this year;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/NBBP-Hatemap.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19790\" title=\"NBBP Hatemap\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/NBBP-Hatemap.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"496\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/NBBP-Hatemap.jpg 936w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/NBBP-Hatemap-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 496px) 100vw, 496px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course, if you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.splcenter.org\/get-informed\/intelligence-files\/ideology\/black-separatist\">follow the link on the hate Map to SPLC&#8217;s idea of black separatists<\/a>, you&#8217;ll notice it&#8217;s not their fault;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/SPLC-Black-Separatist.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/SPLC-Black-Separatist.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"SPLC Black Separatist\" width=\"348\" height=\"157\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19791\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/SPLC-Black-Separatist.jpg 348w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/SPLC-Black-Separatist-300x135.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 348px) 100vw, 348px\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>So basically, the SPLC will go along with counting the Black Panthers in their BIG NUMBER of right wing hate groups, but when it comes down to actually doing something about them, well, that&#8217;s an entirely different story. Fox News must pay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Potok&#8217;s Southern Poverty Law Center&#8217;s Hate Watch is hot on the trail of that hateful &hellip; <a title=\"Paying lip service to Hate\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19789\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Paying lip service to Hate<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-splc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}