Encyclopedia - Southern Poverty Law Center: Encyclopedia Ii - Southern Poverty Law Center - History
The Southern Poverty Law Center was organized by Dees and Levin in 1971 as a law firm to handle anti-discrimination cases in the United S...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Southern Poverty Law Center: Encyclopedia Ii - Southern Poverty Law Center - Controversy
The SPLC has a history of attracting controversy surrounding its politics, "hate group" identification and monitoring methods, and financ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Southern Poverty Law Center: Encyclopedia Ii - Southern Poverty Law Center - Educational Programs
The SPLC's political initiatives include a project entitled "Teaching Tolerance" based at the website Tolerance.org. According to the SPL...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anti-catholicism: Encyclopedia - Anti-catholicism
Anti-Catholicism is opposition to the Roman Catholic Church or to Catholics, often employing mischaracterizations, stereotypes and negati...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ludwig Von Mises Institute: Encyclopedia Ii - Ludwig Von Mises Institute - Criticisms
Ludwig von Mises Institute - Southern Poverty Law Center. The historical views of the Institute and of several people affiliated with i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ludwig Von Mises Institute: Encyclopedia Ii - Ludwig Von Mises Institute - Mission And Activities
The Mises Institute's stated goal is to undermine statism in all its forms. Its methodology is based on praxeology, a description of indi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ludwig Von Mises Institute: Encyclopedia Ii - Ludwig Von Mises Institute - Background
The Ludwig von Mises Institute was established in 1982 under the direction of Margit von Mises, widow of Ludwig von Mises, who chaired it...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kevin B. Macdonald: Encyclopedia Ii - Kevin B. Macdonald - Early Years
MacDonald was born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. His father was a policeman, his mother a secretary. He went to Roman Catholic schools and playe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kevin B. Macdonald: Encyclopedia Ii - Kevin B. Macdonald - Academic Works Addressing Judaism As A Collective Evolutionary Strategy
MacDonald is best known for his trilogy that claims to analyze Judaism and Jewish culture from the perspective of Evolutionary Psychology...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kevin B. Macdonald: Encyclopedia Ii - Kevin B. Macdonald - Relations With Other Academics And The Public
Kevin B. MacDonald - Accusations of poor scholarship to promote anti-Semitism. Academic Jaff Schatz has accused MacDonald of misreprese...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nationalist Movement: Encyclopedia Ii - Nationalist Movement - Lawsuits
In 1987, the Nationalist Movement won a lawsuit in which the Southern Poverty Law Center alleged that it had violated the Civil Rights Ac...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Southern United States: Encyclopedia Ii - Southern United States - Symbolism Of The South
The "Rebel Flag" of the Confederacy has become a highly contentious image throughout the USA. Although it and other reminders of the Old ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kevin B. Macdonald: Encyclopedia Ii - Kevin B. Macdonald - Professional Background
MacDonald is the author of seven books on evolutionary psychology and child development and is the author or editor of over thirty academ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Southern United States: Encyclopedia Ii - Southern United States - Symbolism Of The South
The "Rebel Flag" of the Confederacy has become a highly contentious image throughout the USA. Although it and other reminders of the Old ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anti-catholicism: Encyclopedia Ii - Anti-catholicism - Religious Anti-catholicism
On the Internet anti-Catholic sites are reportedly rampant. A check on the words "Catholicism is evil" yields some examples.[1] The South...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - National Alliance: Encyclopedia Ii - National Alliance - Business
Before the death of Pierce, the SPLC and the FBI called the Alliance the best-financed and best-organized white nationalist organization ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Steve Sailer: Encyclopedia Ii - Steve Sailer - Controversy And Criticism
Critics often criticize Sailer's work as racist.[13] The Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil-rights advocacy group, argues the science o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Roy Moore: Encyclopedia Ii - Roy Moore - Federal Suit
On Tuesday 30 October 2001, the ACLU of Alabama, Americans United for Separation of Church and State and Southern Poverty Law Center were...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Morris Dees: Encyclopedia Ii - Morris Dees - Criticism
Dees' tactics and legal actions against hate groups have made him a target of criticism from many of these organizations. He has allegedl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - David Horowitz: Encyclopedia Ii - David Horowitz - Criticism
In 2003, liberal activist Chip Berlet wrote an article for the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) entitled "Into the Mainstream", which n...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty: Encyclopedia Ii - Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty - Criticism Of Shac
SHAC has been cricitized for condoning or encouraging violence. Activists may use the information published by SHAC, which includes names...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Westboro Baptist Church: Encyclopedia Ii - Westboro Baptist Church - Criticism
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) describes the Westboro Baptist Church as "virulently homophobic", whose anti-gay rhetoric they say is of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anti-mormonism: Encyclopedia Ii - Anti-mormonism - Hate Groups?
A hate group is defined as "one with beliefs or practices that attack or malign an entire class of people, usually based on characteristi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anti-mormonism: Encyclopedia Ii - Anti-mormonism - Hate Groups?
A hate group is defined as "one with beliefs or practices that attack or malign an entire class of people, usually based on characteristi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - William Luther Pierce: Encyclopedia - William Luther Pierce
William Luther Pierce (11 September 1933–23 July 2002) was an associate of the American Nazi Party (ANP), founder of the white supremac...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Black Supremacy: Encyclopedia - Black Supremacy
Black supremacy is the belief that blacks as a group are superior to members of other races. Black supremacy - Black supremacy versus Whi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Westboro Baptist Church: Encyclopedia - Westboro Baptist Church
Westboro Baptist Church is an organisation based in Topeka, Kansas, headed by minister Fred Waldron Phelps, Sr. and notorious for running...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anti-defamation League: Encyclopedia - Anti-defamation League
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Encyclopedia - Human Rights: Encyclopedia - Human Rights
Human rights refers to the concept of human beings as having universal rights, or status, regardless of legal jurisdiction, and likewise ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Southern United States: Encyclopedia - Southern United States
The Southern United States or the South constitutes a distinctive region covering a large portion of the United States. Due to the region...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anti-racism: Encyclopedia - Anti-racism
Anti-racism refers to beliefs, actions, movements, and policies adopted or developed to oppose racism. In general, anti-racism is intende...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - White Nationalism: Encyclopedia - White Nationalism
White nationalism is the belief that white people have a common identity and common interests, a belief proponents argue is considered un...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Washington Times: Encyclopedia - The Washington Times
The Washington Times[1] is a daily broadsheet newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States. On Sundays its m...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Washington Times: Encyclopedia Ii - The Washington Times - Relationship To The Unification Church
The Times is the flagship publication of News World Communications, Inc. (NWC). NWC was founded by the Rev. Moon, and some of its officia...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hate Group: Encyclopedia Ii - Hate Group - Violence By Hate Groups
The California Association for Human Relations Organizations (CAHRO) asserts that mainstream hate-groups such as the Ku Klux Klan and the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anti-racism: Encyclopedia Ii - Anti-racism - Origins Of Modern Anti-racism
North American Indian nations had more of a direct influence on anti-racism. Many Indian nations were very egalitarian in comparison to E...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Southern United States: Encyclopedia Ii - Southern United States - Culture
Southern culture has been and remains generally more socially conservative than that of the north. Due to the central role of agriculture...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Human Rights: Encyclopedia Ii - Human Rights - Human Rights In International Law
The 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights resolution was adopted virtually unanimously by the United Nations General Assembly. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of University Of Alabama People: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of University Of Alabama People - Alumni
Alumni and other attendees of the University of Alabama include: List of University of Alabama people - Art and Humanities. Mark Child...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ku Klux Klan: Encyclopedia Ii - Ku Klux Klan - The First Klan
Ku Klux Klan - Creation. The original Ku Klux Klan was created at a Christmas Eve, 1865 meeting in a law office by six educated, middle...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jewish Defense League: Encyclopedia Ii - Jewish Defense League - Controversies
Jewish Defense League - Terrorism and the JDL. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has described the Jewish Defense League in Congressi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - National Alliance: Encyclopedia Ii - National Alliance - History
The group was founded in 1974 by William Pierce, a former physics professor and author of the book, The Turner Diaries: (under the pseudo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anti-defamation League: Encyclopedia Ii - Anti-defamation League - Relations With Blacks
Historically, some African-American organizations in America and the ADL have worked closely together in the American civil rights moveme...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - White Nationalism: Encyclopedia Ii - White Nationalism - The Concept Of Race
The term "race" itself is somewhat contentious. Anthropologists tend to be of the opinion that the concept has little or no scientific va...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Black Supremacy: Encyclopedia Ii - Black Supremacy - Black Supremacy Versus White Supremacy
In its simplest form, black supremacy is the racist belief in the inherent superiority of the "black race." Unlike many white supremacist...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - William Luther Pierce: Encyclopedia Ii - William Luther Pierce - Cosmotheism
Pierce adopted Cosmotheism as his religion in 1978. In effect it is a form of panentheism, a belief that God is the animating force withi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Westboro Baptist Church: Encyclopedia Ii - Westboro Baptist Church - Activities And Statements
The group carries out daily picketing in Topeka (purportedly six per day with fifteen on Sunday, "Lord willing", per the index page of it...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - National Alliance: Encyclopedia Ii - National Alliance - Politics
"White survival" is the core political position of the National Alliance. The group hopes to secure a "homeland" somewhere within North A...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Human Rights: Encyclopedia Ii - Human Rights - History Of Human Rights
The best-known histories of the human rights movement tend to begin with the ancient religions and societies and show the evolution of co...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Westboro Baptist Church: Encyclopedia Ii - Westboro Baptist Church - Claiming Divine Vengeance
WBC views numerous murders, accidents, natural disasters and terrorist attacks as being perpetrated by God on their behalf. After busines...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Murray Rothbard: Encyclopedia Ii - Murray Rothbard - Rothbard's Law
Rothbard's law is a self-attributed adage. In essence, Rothbard suggested that an otherwise talented individual would specialize and focu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ku Klux Klan: Encyclopedia Ii - Ku Klux Klan - The Ku Klux Klan In Popular Culture
While the Klan has faced decline during the latter part of the twentieth century, it nevertheless managed to resonate in the minds of tho...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Westboro Baptist Church: Encyclopedia Ii - Westboro Baptist Church - Responses
Responses include the creation of an opposing website, godlovesfags.com a pro-gay rights website, launched by Kris Haight on March 1 1999...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Westboro Baptist Church: Encyclopedia Ii - Westboro Baptist Church - Other Prejudices
The Westboro Baptist Church attributes membership of most religious groups, such as the Roman Catholic Church or Islam, as akin to devil ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Westboro Baptist Church: Encyclopedia Ii - Westboro Baptist Church - Similarities To The Christian Identity Movement
While not known to be directly connected to the Christian Identity movement, many of Phelps' sermons do reflect some of the principles wh...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Washington Times: Encyclopedia Ii - The Washington Times - Notable Current And Former Contributors
The Washington Times - Writers. News Bill Gertz (Defense and foreign policy reporter) Ralph Z. Hallow Donald Lambro John McCaslin Bill...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ku Klux Klan: Encyclopedia Ii - Ku Klux Klan - Ku Klux Klan Vocabulary
Membership in the Klan is secret, and the Klan, like many fraternal organizations, has signs members can use to recognize one another. A ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - White Nationalism: Encyclopedia Ii - White Nationalism - Definition Of White
White-nationalists often have a definition of whiteness that is more limited than official usage. Whiteness, in this case, requires an an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Westboro Baptist Church: Encyclopedia Ii - Westboro Baptist Church - The Westboro Compound
The Westboro facility is organized as a fortified compound, made up of ten homes organized in a block at 3701 SW 12th Street in Topeka. T...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - White Nationalism: Encyclopedia Ii - White Nationalism - A Critical View
White nationalism is more controversial than other forms of ethnic or racial identity politics because it is often allied with ideas of i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Westboro Baptist Church: Encyclopedia Ii - Westboro Baptist Church - Composition Of The Westboro Membership
Research done by the Topeka Capital Journal in 1994 indicated that the church has roughly 100 to 200 congregants, most of whom are relate...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Washington Times: Encyclopedia Ii - The Washington Times - History
The Times was founded in 1982 by Reverend Sun Myung Moon, leader of the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification (Unification Ch...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Westboro Baptist Church: Encyclopedia Ii - Westboro Baptist Church - Theology
Westboro refers to itself as a Primitive or "Old School" Baptist[10] and claims to adhere to the philosophy of John Calvin and the princi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Westboro Baptist Church: Encyclopedia Ii - Westboro Baptist Church - Purpose
Phelps has stated many purposes for Westboro, some of which appear to be inherently contradictory. Note the statements below, which indic...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Washington Times: Encyclopedia Ii - The Washington Times - Political Leanings
The Times is generally seen as being politically conservative, particularly on the opinion pages. For example, it usually supports Republ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Westboro Baptist Church: Encyclopedia Ii - Westboro Baptist Church - Overview
"GOD HATES FAGS" -- though elliptical -- is a profound theological statement, which the world needs to hear more than it needs oxygen, wa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fundamentalist Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints: Encyclopedia Ii - Fundamentalist Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints - Membership And Headquarters
The number of members of the church is unknown; however, their population is estimated at between 6,000 to 10,000 in the twin communities...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - William Luther Pierce: Encyclopedia Ii - William Luther Pierce - The Turner Diaries
After earning his Ph.D., he soon lost interest in physics and joined various white nationalist groups, forming his own group, the Nationa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Black Supremacy: Encyclopedia Ii - Black Supremacy - Melanin And Melanin Theory
Based on the single-origin hypothesis, black supremacists believe that, because human beings first evolved in Africa with darkly pigmente...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Black Supremacy: Encyclopedia Ii - Black Supremacy - Nation Of Islam Through Malcolm X
In the 1930s, the Nation of Islam emerged, coming to prominence during the 1960s, when charismatic minister Malcolm X became a spokesman ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - William Luther Pierce: Encyclopedia Ii - William Luther Pierce - National Alliance
The National Alliance, which he founded, was to be the political vanguard and the spiritual priesthood of this program, which was designe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - William Luther Pierce: Encyclopedia Ii - William Luther Pierce - Final Years
Pierce spent his final years in relative seclusion in West Virginia, where he hosted a weekly radio show, American Dissident Voices and o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anti-defamation League: Encyclopedia Ii - Anti-defamation League - Fighting Anti-semitism Bigotry And Racism
The stated purpose of the ADL is to fight "Anti-Semitism and all forms of bigotry (in the United States) and abroad, combat international...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anti-defamation League: Encyclopedia Ii - Anti-defamation League - History
Founded in October, 1913 by Sigmund Livingston, the ADL's charter stated "The immediate object of the League is to stop, by appeals to re...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anti-racism: Encyclopedia Ii - Anti-racism - Controversies
Despite anti-racism's successes, however, some people feel that racism is still a powerful force in Western societies. Proponents of the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anti-racism: Encyclopedia Ii - Anti-racism - Anti-racism's Influence
Anti-racist ideology has been hugely influential. It has been a catalyst for feminism, anti-war, and anti-imperialist movements. Henry Da...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Southern United States: Encyclopedia Ii - Southern United States - Race Relations
African Americans have a long history in the South, stretching back to the first settlements in the region. While some Blacks came to the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Southern United States: Encyclopedia Ii - Southern United States - Cultural Variations
There continues to be debate about what constitutes the basics elements of Southern culture.[6] This debate is influenced, in part, by th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anti-catholicism: Encyclopedia Ii - Anti-catholicism - Historical Anti-catholicism
Many countries have had a long history of conflict between Catholics and Protestants, or less commonly, Catholics and Orthodox Christians...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anti-catholicism: Encyclopedia Ii - Anti-catholicism - Anti-catholicism In Modern Times
The submission to the Pope has led to several governments to try to separate local Catholics from their Church. Thus, the juror priests o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anti-racism: Encyclopedia Ii - Anti-racism - The Revival Of Anti-racism In The United States
Anti-racism showed signs of revival in the 1920s and 1930s. At that time, anthropologists such as Franz Boas, Ruth Benedict, Margaret Mea...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anti-catholicism: Encyclopedia Ii - Anti-catholicism - Contemporary Anti-catholicism
Harvard professor Arthur Schlesinger, Sr. once observed that prejudice against the Catholic Church was "the deepest bias in the history o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anti-defamation League: Encyclopedia Ii - Anti-defamation League - Fighting Anti-zionism
The ADL holds that a modern and common form of anti-Semitism is the statement that Jews claim that all criticism of the State of Israel i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anti-defamation League: Encyclopedia Ii - Anti-defamation League - Other Positions
On September 23, 2003 the ADL awarded Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi the ADL's distinguished statesman award [3]. This in spite...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Human Rights: Encyclopedia Ii - Human Rights - Types Of Human Rights
Human rights are typically divided into two categories: negative human rights (rights to be free from) and positive human rights (rights ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hate Group: Encyclopedia Ii - Hate Group - Hate Group As A Label
The classification of other groups as a hate group is controversial and little or no consensus has developed as to whether political, rel...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hate Group: Encyclopedia Ii - Hate Group - Normalization Of Hate Groups
Using the pervasiveness of the Internet, hate groups are promoting a more "professional" veneer which may appear as more scientific than ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Human Rights: Encyclopedia Ii - Human Rights - Philosophical Basis Of Human Rights
Numerous theoretical approaches have been advanced to explain how human rights become part of social expectations. The biological theory ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jewish Defense League: Encyclopedia Ii - Jewish Defense League - Founding Of The Jdl
JDL was founded in 1968 by Rabbi Meir Kahane. The goal of the group was to protect Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods in New York City and to ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ku Klux Klan: Encyclopedia Ii - Ku Klux Klan - Later Ku Klux Klans
Following the demise of the second era KKK, there were three periods of resurgence, dubbed by some scholars and Klan participants as the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ku Klux Klan: Encyclopedia Ii - Ku Klux Klan - The Second Klan
Ku Klux Klan - Creation. The founding of the second Ku Klux Klan in 1915 demonstrated the newfound power of modern mass media. The year...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hate Group: Encyclopedia Ii - Hate Group - Hate Groups And New Religious Movements
White nationalists and white supremacists have created a number of religions. William Pierce, founder of the National Alliance, also foun...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hate Group: Encyclopedia Ii - Hate Group - Hate Groups On The Internet
In the mid-1990s, the popularity of the Internet brought new international exposure to many organizations, including groups with extremis...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anti-defamation League: Encyclopedia Ii - Anti-defamation League - Criticism Of Reporting On Pagan Symbols
The ADL publishes lists of symbols used by anti-semitic groups. [14] Included in these publications are several pagan symbols that were u...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anti-defamation League: Encyclopedia Ii - Anti-defamation League - Relations With Arabs And Muslims
The ADL has not often worked together with Arab-American and American Muslim civil rights groups, owing to disagreement concerning the Is...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anti-defamation League: Encyclopedia Ii - Anti-defamation League - The Adl Files Controversy
Since the 1930s, the ADL has worked to amass what it calls its "famous storehouse of accurate, detailed, unassailable information on extr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fundamentalist Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints: Encyclopedia Ii - Fundamentalist Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints - Distinctive Doctrines
The church teaches plurality of wives, who are required to be subordinate to their husbands, as a general requirement for the highest ete...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hate Group: Encyclopedia Ii - Hate Group - Psychopathology Of Hate Groups
According to a report published in 2003 in the FBI Law Enforcement bulletin3, a hate group, if unimpeded, pass through seven successive s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hate Group: Encyclopedia Ii - Hate Group - How Hate Groups Work
Hate groups disseminate historically inaccurate information about these persons or organizations. This inaccurate information is used for...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ku Klux Klan: Encyclopedia Ii - Ku Klux Klan - The Ku Klux Klan Today
Although often still discussed in contemporary American politics as representing the quintessential "fringe" end of the far-right spectru...   » Read the article