Poll: Which one of these violent extremist Republican hate groups is your favorite:

@Ozuye502 How is it not legitimate? All right-wing hate groups.

@Graylight 3%ers & oath keepers is a militia not a hate group because they don’t discriminate only hate there is is for government trying to restrict freedom or rioters. Proud boys they are accepting of all races but it’s a group for men. So men can’t have their own shit now.
White nationalists kkk and neo nazis are actually democratic socialist movements
Not familiar with the wolverine watchmen.
Boogaloo movement is just a pro gun owner movement who ever came up with this list is has zero concept of the truth and is just a brain washed media troll

@Ozuye502 A militia can still be a hate group the way a church can still be a cult.

[quote]In 2018, the SPLC identified 612 groups that belonged to the extreme antigovernment movement; about a quarter of these were part of the American militia movement.[2] A subset within this movement is the "sovereign citizen" movement. The SPLC states that "Generally, antigovernment groups define themselves as opposed to the 'New World Order, engage in groundless conspiracy theorizing, or advocate or adhere to extreme antigovernment doctrines. Antigovernment groups do not necessarily advocate or engage in violence or other criminal activities, though some have. Many warn of impending government violence or the need to prepare for a coming revolution. Many antigovernment groups are not racist."[40]

The SPLC has listed a number of antigovernment groups, including [b]Oath Keepers[/b], various [b]3 Percenters[/b] groups (also styled III%ers), the John Birch Society, Renew America, the Moorish Science Temple of America 1928.
(Antigoverment Movement, Southern Poverty Law Center.)[/quote]

@Ozuye502 Notice how she references the SPLC as the designator of a right wing hate group? Since when is the SLPC the arbiter of that? Why does her choice of authority somehow supposed to supersede your own research and opinions on these groups?

Great comment by the way.

@Graylight the SPLC has its views but groups like the 3%ers oath keepers I know guys who are of various skin pigmentation who roll with them into black and impoverished neighborhoods when riots begin to protect black and minority owned businesses so I don’t understand how that is a hateful? All while calling out law enforcement agencies that volatile people’s rights to PEACEFULLY protest. I don’t understand how that is hateful. Might as well add the Vietnam knights or Rolling Thunder to that list. Or the roof top Koreans in the LA riots

@Ozuye502 How did I know? Check any other source you like.

@Graylight try looking into the organizations themselves individually do your own research and make your own conclusions!

@Ozuye502 Do you perform surgeries on your own or take the advice of doctors?

Sounds like a stupid question, doesn't it? But on the off-chance you actually need to know, there's listening with open ears and open gullets as the rain comes down and then there's knowing how to vet research properly, compile data and analyze sources. Some of us do more than pick up USA Today.