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Originally Posted by Arch0wl

no, the "hate group" label is useless, vague, and irrelevant. the term "hate" is meaningless, and more ideological than substantial.

According to the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), a hate group's "primary purpose is to promote animosity, hostility, and malice against persons belonging to a race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, or ethnicity/national origin which differs from that of the members of the organization."[1]
that doesn't seem very vague to me though.

the splc's definition in particular has not been meaningful in any way. https://www.law.com/americanlawyer/2...20180724171554

soft paywall, please link to this article from elsewhere

what a given group is able to do, and therefore what sets the standard for what is possible and what people are okay with -- aka, societal and legal precedents -- is far more important than whether any given group receives money or not.

which is precisely why hate groups should not be given platforms.