{"id":58239,"date":"2015-02-14T11:19:46","date_gmt":"2015-02-14T16:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=58239"},"modified":"2015-02-14T10:33:36","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T15:33:36","slug":"splc-inspiring-haters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=58239","title":{"rendered":"SPLC inspiring haters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TSO sends us a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/newsbusters.org\/blogs\/kristine-marsh\/2015\/02\/12\/chapel-hill-shooting-suspect-fan-left-wing-hate-group-splc\">Newsbusters<\/a> where Kristine Marsh writes that Craig Hicks, the fellow who murdered three innocent Muslim students in Chapel Hill, NC over a parking dispute this last week was inspired by the Southern Poverty Law Center along with other liberal activists;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hicks isn\u2019t the first SPLC fan to turn violent. In 2012, the group\u2019s \u201cHate Map,\u201d which lists the addresses of various groups SPLC claims are right-wing extremists, inspired a gunman to enter the Family Research Council in 2012 and attempt to kill everyone in the building. <\/p>\n<p>The media\u2019s continued use of the SPLC as a legitimate and ethical source of information is just plain irresponsible. Besides the Family Research Council shooting, incidents of death threats against conservative organizations and Christian pastors have cropped up because of the group\u2019s much cited \u201chate map.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The SPLC&#8217;s Mark Potok is the media&#8217;s go-to guy when they want to call the troops potential terrorists and racists, but why isn&#8217;t the media asking SPLC about the hate they generate themselves?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/potok.bmp\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/potok.bmp\" alt=\"\" title=\"potok\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21794\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TSO sends us a link to Newsbusters where Kristine Marsh writes that Craig Hicks, the fellow &hellip; <a title=\"SPLC inspiring haters\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=58239\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SPLC inspiring haters<\/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-58239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-splc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58239","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=58239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}