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Snarkoleptic

(5,995 posts)
Wed Jul 19, 2017, 10:08 AM Jul 2017

Right-wing media are freaking out as anti-LGBTQ hate groups are called out

https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2017/07/18/right-wing-media-are-freaking-out-anti-lgbtq-hate-groups-are-called-out/217298

In a July 13 National Review article, senior writer and former ADF senior counsel David French called SPLC a “dangerous joke” that spreads “vicious hate.” French claimed that ADF was labeled a hate group “merely because [its members] advocate for orthodox Christian principles and the liberty to live those principles.” He also suggested that there are only two forms of extremism that SPLC should track -- “racist terrorists and white supremacists” -- and concluded that “media outlets who use the SPLC to assess Christian speech expose only their own bias and incompetence.”

Mollie Hemingway, senior editor at The Federalist, declared that ABC News reporters “smeared Christians who believe the Bill of Rights secures religious liberty as a ‘hate group’” and argued that ADF “is not a hate group at all, but a civil liberties organization that battles for religious liberty.” Hemingway went on to warn the media against using SPLC’s designations in the future, threatening that they would be turning “journalism into anti-religious propaganda on behalf of a partisan group” and could potentially “be perceived as enemies of average Americans.”

Katrina Trinko, managing editor of The Daily Signal, wrote that SPLC’s designations put “conservatives’ safety at risk” of persecution and violence by the left, and that “once again, the mainstream media is demonstrating it doesn’t care about the impact of extremist rhetoric on conservatives.” Right-wing outlet The Daily Caller published a post about ADF’s demand that ABC News retract its story, writing that SPLC “frequently smears conservatives as ‘extremists.’” It also published tweets from conservatives who “blasted the media coverage of ADF as an obvious example of media bias.”

During the July 14 edition of his show, Fox News prime-time host Tucker Carlson called SPLC a “totally discredited but extremely rich left-wing organization” that attempts to “shut down legitimate debate by labeling ideas it disagrees with as ‘hate speech.’” Carlson asserted that NBC News and SPLC “think they’re in charge” of deciding “which ideas are legitimate and which ideas are so dangerous we must suppress them.” Carlson also hosted ADF Vice President Kristen Waggoner, who asserted that ABC and NBC had committed “journalistic malpractice,” and she and Carlson both said SPLC is a “scam.”

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Right-wing media are freaking out as anti-LGBTQ hate groups are called out (Original Post) Snarkoleptic Jul 2017 OP
It would be nice Proud Liberal Dem Jul 2017 #1
Not once did you say what SPLC or ADM etc stand for onit2day Jul 2017 #11
Are you responding to my post Proud Liberal Dem Jul 2017 #14
Some people just have to hate. It's their essence of life and is in essence mental masturbation for RKP5637 Jul 2017 #2
it is particularly ironic when they hate in Jesus' name. Snarkoleptic Jul 2017 #3
How True Fatemah2774 Jul 2017 #4
What about pro-religious journalism propaganda... Grins Jul 2017 #5
Carlson... Grins Jul 2017 #6
SPLC doesn't attack the Heritage Foundation MountCleaners Jul 2017 #7
ADF - Alliance Defending Freedom rurallib Jul 2017 #8
Thanks nowhere in OP was ADF acronym defined bucolic_frolic Jul 2017 #10
Faux News should be on this list. broadcaster90210 Jul 2017 #9
btw. voting should be considered free speech onit2day Jul 2017 #12
I support a constitutional amendment establishing a positive right to vote. Snarkoleptic Jul 2017 #13

Proud Liberal Dem

(24,353 posts)
1. It would be nice
Wed Jul 19, 2017, 10:18 AM
Jul 2017

if they were as concerned about the impact of their extremist rhetoric on LGBTQ persons. Even if they can't get their extremist ideas always enacted into law, their rhetoric and ideas breed anger, fear, and resentment of LGBTQ persons, which very often leads to violence (which is often dismissed and sanctioned) and negative attitudes against LGBTQ persons and encourages LGBTQ persons to struggle and harm themselves. While I disavow anybody on the left or pro-LGBTQ side inciting or encouraging violence against, I don't see the two situations as being equivalent as the people promoting hatred of LGBTQ persons are the ones writing and trying to pass laws against them.

 

onit2day

(1,201 posts)
11. Not once did you say what SPLC or ADM etc stand for
Wed Jul 19, 2017, 01:21 PM
Jul 2017

So how can I understand what you are referring to if you don't tell me what these acronyms stand for.

RKP5637

(67,030 posts)
2. Some people just have to hate. It's their essence of life and is in essence mental masturbation for
Wed Jul 19, 2017, 10:21 AM
Jul 2017

them.

Fatemah2774

(245 posts)
4. How True
Wed Jul 19, 2017, 11:19 AM
Jul 2017

I went to a meeting discussing hate crimes with the assistant district attorney responsible for hate crime prosecution. Topics discussed included what is considered a hate crime and ways for victims to report to authorities if and when they feel their rights have been infringed on by another party. I spoke as an African-American Muslim transgender woman and was even interviewed by the local TV station.

As I was leaving and got in the elevator with another African-American woman she informed me that if I ever was in the same bathrooms with her granddaughters she would kill me. I tried to explain that I am transgender, not a pedophile, have no criminal record, and am currently engaged to my fiance, a cisgender man, but she let her hatred fly.

So sad. So very sad.

Grins

(7,128 posts)
5. What about pro-religious journalism propaganda...
Wed Jul 19, 2017, 11:36 AM
Jul 2017

Hemingway: turning “journalism into anti-religious propaganda on behalf of a partisan group (that could) be perceived as enemies of average Americans.”

What about pro-religious journalism propaganda, Ms. Hemingway? Could they also be "enemies of average Americans"? I think they are.

Grins

(7,128 posts)
6. Carlson...
Wed Jul 19, 2017, 11:44 AM
Jul 2017

Carlson: “(They) think they’re in charge” (of deciding) “which ideas are legitimate and which ideas are so dangerous we must suppress them.”

"'Cuz that's my job!", he didn't add.

MountCleaners

(1,148 posts)
7. SPLC doesn't attack the Heritage Foundation
Wed Jul 19, 2017, 12:05 PM
Jul 2017

...or the American Enterprise Institute. Scary how "mainstream" RW media parrot the anti-SPLC argument that militia and patriot types spout on the internet.

ADF is pretty repugnant and, yes, HATEful.

Snarkoleptic

(5,995 posts)
13. I support a constitutional amendment establishing a positive right to vote.
Wed Jul 19, 2017, 01:54 PM
Jul 2017

Automatic voter registration for all citizens of majority age, who have paid their criminal debt to society.
That plus repealing unwinding Citizens United, establishing the fact that corporations are not people, and undoing the definition of money as free speech.
Then on to gerrymandering...

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