How I Became a Hate Group

[Achilles]

How I Became a Hate Group

[SIZE=4.5] [/SIZE] When I went to sleep last night, little did I know that while outside sirens competed with car alarms in the symphony that is New York City, I had already been declared a hate group.

Being declared a hate group wasn't in my plans for the day, but like winning the lottery, it seems to be one of those things that happens when you least expect it. Except that as the little bald man in front of the bodega tells you, you have to play to win, but you don't even have to buy a ticket to be declared an official hate group.

My first response on finding out that I was now a hate group was to look around to see where everyone else was. A hate group needs the group part and one man and a cat don't seem to be enough. Even when the cat is a well known bigot who hates mice, birds, car alarms that go off in the middle of the night, the plumber and sudden noises.

Still the Southern Poverty Law Center had listed, "Sultan Knish a blog by Daniel Greenfield" as one of their Active Anti-Muslim Hate Groups, alongside such other vast organizations as "Faith Freedom", a website for ex-Muslims, and "Casa D'Ice Signs", the signs on a bar located on K-Mart Plaza in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.

Someone with less faith in the fact checking abilities of the Southern Poverty Law Center might have thought that whoever had made up this list had no clue that "Casa D'Ice" was a lounge with signs outside, that there was no such group as "Casa D'Ice Signs" and that signs are pieces of plastic and not a hate group. But I had faith that the Center knew more than I did. Perhaps its crack team of researchers had learned that the signs had come alive and formed their own hate group, somehow arranging their own letters to form messages about illegal immigration and the need to get out of Iraq.

My first thought was to wonder whether some mistake had been made in my own case, but the Southern Poverty Law Center people are experts on hate groups, even if they don't seem to know what the definitions of "hate" or "groups" or "hate groups" might be. Even if they seem to have copied their list off a forum somewhere at the last minute to have something to show the donors. Clearly I was now a hate group and with tax season upon us, I called my accountant to find out if there was a tax deduction for that. There wasn't.

Read More:
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2012...ate-group.html

[Rhodie]

Thanks Achilles,

A very good read, yep the SPLC is off their rocker.

To make their hate list, you have to
Pay your taxes
Vote
Own a computer
Talk to other people whom you like or even don't like,
Own a gun
Don't own a gun.
Have served in the Military,
never served in the Military.
Voiced concern that the Fed Government is to big.
Been vocal that the Federal Government needs to be larger.
Be a Black, White, Red, Yellow or Brown human.
Been born in America
Been born outside the US but now a US citizen.
And oppose anything that the SPLC finds in poor taste.

If I left anyone out sorry,
I guess I should have said Everyone that draws a breath is on their list.

Pop and point, for lunch.

Rhodie

[jed turtle]

i hate it when that happens.