Thread by @Tyler2ONeil

🚨REMOVE IT IMMEDIATELY

It's not enough for the Southern Poverty Law Center to condemn the assassination of Turning Point USA Founder Charlie Kirk.

If the SPLC wants to prove it opposes political violence, there is one thing it must do.

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A few months before the assassination, the SPLC added Turning Point USA to its "hate map," alongside chapters of the Ku Klux Klan.

The SPLC says this map shows the "infrastructure upholding white supremacy" in America.

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Kirk's assassination didn't represent the first incident of political violence against an SPLC target.

In 2012, a terrorist targeted @FRCdc for a mass shooting, using the map.

The SPLC condemned the attack, but it has kept FRC on the map ever since.

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In fact, at the same time as the SPLC put Turning Point USA on the map, it also put @FocusFamily on the map, revealing—by its own standards—that the SPLC is, indeed, anti-Christian.

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In 2017, Bernie Sanders supporter James T. Hodgkinson, who "liked" the SPLC on Facebook, opened fire at a Congressional Baseball Game practice, nearly killing @SteveScalise. The SPLC condemned the attack, but it had also attacked Scalise.

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We don't know who killed Charlie Kirk in cold blood, and we don't know if the SPLC played any role in inspiring the assassination.

The SPLC rightly condemned the assassination.

But, given the violence the "hate map" has inspired, that's not enough.

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If the SPLC wants to prove it opposes political violence & wants to put its money where its mouth is, it should remove Turning Point USA from the "hate map" immediately. This wouldn't come close to reversing the harm SPLC has caused, but it would be a show of good faith.

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The SPLC has no credibility.

It systematically smears good, law-abiding upstanding conservative and Christian organizations by putting them on the "hate map" with Klan chapters, trying to cut them off from polite society.

I'd know, I wrote the book on it.

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The Left is constantly lecturing us about turning down the temperature, and toning down the rhetoric.

Here's SPLC's golden opportunity to practice what it preaches.

I want SPLC to remove every good conservative from its map, but it can make a start with Turning Point.

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Let's all demand the SPLC prove its dedication to peaceful dialogue by removing Turning Point USA as a pledge to do better.

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