Remember, pretending your minority group is discriminated against gains you more and more privilege. That's the trend in today's society.
For me the SLPC lost all credibility when it decided to mark some actual Islam critics, both former and one that is still a Muslim, as "Anti-Muslim Extremists". These people are looking to reform Islam and the SLPC goes "nope, you're Muslim haters and we're gonna put you in what is basically a blacklist". So I'm not gonna believe them saying that BLM isn't a hate group.
I think "All lives matter" came from a latino, because latinos also experience similar problems, but no one gives a shit about them unless they are needed to bloat numbers under the umbrella term "POC".Many of its harshest critics claim that Black Lives Matter’s very name is anti-white, hence the oft-repeated rejoinder “all lives matter.” This notion misses the point entirely. Black lives matter because they have been marginalized throughout our country’s history and because white lives have always mattered more in our society. As BLM puts it, the movement stands for “the simple proposition that ‘black lives also matter.’”
I lost all respect for the SPLC when they put Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Maajid Nawaz on their list of anti-Muslim extremists. Last I heard Maajid is actually suing them because he's not just going to sit and take it when a bunch of white people from Alabama label him, a Muslim, as an anti-Muslim extremist.
On the topic of BLM, they're close enough to a hate group that I don't see a relevant distinction. They're about as radical as the alt-right, which I also consider to be a hate group. I also don't fuss too much about labels though unless I think it matters.
You can quibble over whether BLM or the alt-right technically is or isn't a hate group all you want. I wouldn't invite either over for dinner and a movie.
I am too dead inside to even care anymore, let me play my games while the world burns.
This is just going to run off into forbidden topics, so I'm locking this here.