Hate Labels
Unfortunately, too many other organizations take them seriously. In July, I wrote about GuideStar slapping a “hate group” label on certain groups merely because they were so designated by the Southern Poverty Law Center. For now, they have removed that label.
Now foundations (like the Clooney Foundation) and businesses (like Apple) have donated up to a million dollars to the Southern Poverty Law Center. No wonder they can now afford to take out full-page ads in USA Today.
On August 23, Dr. Frank Wright (President at D. James Kennedy Ministries) announced that the ministry filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court against the Southern Poverty Law Center. The lawsuit alleges that the Center “illegally trafficked in false and misleading descriptions of the services offered by the ministry and committed defamation against the ministry arising from the publication and distribution of false information that libels the ministry’s reputation and subjects the ministry to disgrace, ridicule, odium, and contempt in the estimation of the public.”
Another concern is the overuse and misuse of the hate label. We no longer seem to have an adequate public vocabulary to describe real haters and racists. Here’s a suggestion: if we want to end hate in America, maybe we should start by accurately defining it.
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Kerby Anderson is a radio talk show host heard on numerous stations via the Point of View Network endorsed by Dr. Bill Smith, Editor, ARRA News Service
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