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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhite Lives Matter Has Been Declared a Hate Group
Source: NYT

A white nationalist group called White Lives Matter, which calls itself an opponent of the Black Lives Matter movement, has been declared a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, an organization that tracks extremist groups in the United States.
The White Lives Matter website says their movement is dedicated to the preservation of the white race. That tells you all you need to know, said Heidi Beirich, the director of the Intelligence Project at the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Ala. Theyre against integration, immigration. This is standard white supremacist stuff.
The group, which grew out of a social media meme, argues that white Americans are victims of a genocide caused by factors like the immigration of nonwhite people and marriage between white Christians and nonwhites or Jews, Ms. Beirich said. The law centers designation is meant to draw attention to and increase scrutiny of the groups activities.
Last week, its members held a protest outside the Houston office of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to demand that it denounce Black Lives Matter, according to video posted online by the group. The Houston Chronicle reported that some of the protesters carried assault rifles and Confederate flags.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/31/us/white-lives-matter-has-been-declared-a-hate-group.html
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White Lives Matter Has Been Declared a Hate Group (Original Post)
demmiblue
Aug 2016
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TexasTowelie
(118,673 posts)1. Color me shocked.

I wouldn't expect anything different for a group of bigots and haters like WLM.
etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)2. As it should be
riversedge
(74,187 posts)3. Good. REC
sheshe2
(89,421 posts)4. Overdo.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)5. Whats that thing on their shirts?
I'm guessing its a clever attempt to do something with the letter "K"
demmiblue
(38,001 posts)9. The symbol for the Aryan Renaissance Society.
The Aryan Renaissance Society is a small but long-lived white supremacist group that has resembled both a racist skinhead group and a prison clique at times. It has had members from a variety of places, but many came from Texas and New Jersey. Its logo is a phoenix image superimposed with a lightning bolt and a runic symbol.






Via: http://www.adl.org/combating-hate/hate-on-display/c/aryan-renaissance-society.html
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)10. Figured it was something like that.
demmiblue
(38,001 posts)11. One of the women held a sign that read "14 Words".
Fourteen Words is a reference to a well-known white supremacist and white nationalist slogan: "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children." It can be used to refer to a different 14-word slogan: "Because the beauty of the White Aryan woman must not perish from the earth."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteen_Words
There are no words to describe how repulsive these people are.

Calista241
(5,618 posts)6. "white americans are the victims of a genocide"
wow. that has to be the worst strategized, totally completely ineffective, and most poorly executed genocide campaign in all of history.
I have to wonder if Liam Stack was laughing hysterically as he typed that sentence.
mdbl
(5,612 posts)7. What a bunch of Morons.

romanic
(2,841 posts)8. More like White Supremacists matter.
lpbk2713
(43,203 posts)12. Skinheads waving confederate flags.
Who would have guessed?
