Yes, exactly. No, wait. The other thing.

[kierthos]

The Family Research Council, a group that thinks (among other things) that homosexuality should be outlawed, is blaming the Southern Poverty Law Center for the recent shooting that occurred at the FRC headquarters.

The SPLC, it should be noted, listed the FRC as a hate group, so that's the justification that the FRC is using. "We're not a hate group. We just hate gay people."

Now, let's be honest here. No one deserved to get shot, least of all the building manager. And luckily no one died. That being said, it's not fair to blame the SPLC for the shooting, and it's not fair to blame the FRC either.

Calm the fuck down, people.

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[cuddlycthulhu]

And yet when some guy and shoots up a UU church because they're the next best thing to Hannity's list of 100 Worst Liberals, Hannity isn't to blame because the guy was clearly some lone nutcase and how dare you imply otherwise.

I don't have enough eyes to roll.

[dreamshade]

But that's basically the idea. When conservative groups paint misinformation about homosexuals, or they label liberals as anti-American, there's always someone who suggests that those conservatives share some of the blame due to their rhetoric. So now that we have the one random crazed shooting of the decade that goes in the other direction, they want to have their chance to blame their enemies for it as well, whether or not it makes the least bit of sense.

I think my criticism is more like... if labelling a group as a hate group leads to violence against them, where are all the random crazies that hunt down the KKK?