SPLC head unwittingly admits they fit their own criteria for their hate map

The head of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) Bryan Fair was on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, where lawmakers grilled him over the role that the SPLC played in allegedly inciting hate groups and an indictment against the organization for wire fraud and other allegations. During his comments, Fair inadvertently admitted that the SPLC fits its own criteria for their hate map.  

When asked about why the SPLC classified TPUSA as a hate group and not Antifa—a far-left radical group that commits acts of domestic terrorism—as a hate group, Fair claimed that the group was simply an “ideology.”

SPLC's Bryan Fair is grilled on how they've targeted TPUSA but fail to list Antifa.

His response is that he was under the impression that Antifa is an ideology, not a group. pic.twitter.com/iHOIeV2TKX

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