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Should the Trump administration be seen as a hate group no different than the KKK or Neo-Nazis?
From the SPLC's "What is a hate group?"
The Southern Poverty Law Center defines a hate group as an organization that – based on its official statements or principles, the statements of its leaders, or its activities – has beliefs or practices that attack or malign an entire class of people, typically for their immutable characteristics.
The organizations on our hate group list vilify others because of their race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation or gender identity – prejudices that strike at the heart of our democratic values and fracture society along its most fragile fault lines.
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We define a “group” as an entity that has a process through which followers identify themselves as being part of the group. This may involve donating, paying membership dues or participating in activities such as meetings and rallies. Individual chapters of a larger organization are each counted separately, because the number indicates reach and organizing activity.
https://www.splcenter.org/20171004/frequently-asked-questions-about-hate-groups#hate%20group
The organizations on our hate group list vilify others because of their race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation or gender identity – prejudices that strike at the heart of our democratic values and fracture society along its most fragile fault lines.
...
We define a “group” as an entity that has a process through which followers identify themselves as being part of the group. This may involve donating, paying membership dues or participating in activities such as meetings and rallies. Individual chapters of a larger organization are each counted separately, because the number indicates reach and organizing activity.
https://www.splcenter.org/20171004/frequently-asked-questions-about-hate-groups#hate%20group
* It is an entity, a domestic entity, not a movement. It has a physical location.
* Maligning the GLBTQ community and trying to purge transgender citizens from the armed forces
* Attempting to normalize discrimination against the GLBTQ community
* A leader who has described Muslims as a "problem" and has made racist remarks against the Mexican American community
* Politicizing violence, we all know what would have happened had the Las Vegas shooter been a Muslim
* Rallies and meetings - Like the Values Voter Summit
* 43 previous Presidents and Trump and his cohorts always seem to be comparing their record to the black one's. Coincidence?
* An obsession with NFL player protests, protests that just happen to involve a concern over the plight of the black community.
* Giving aid and comfort to other hate groups such as ACT for America and the "alt-right"
What would exclude the Trump administration as a hate group at this point?
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