Maybe the SPLC will get around to labeling them a hate group.
Or not.
The SPLC opposes antifa. And the article's from a RW source.
Richard Cohen, the president of the SPLC, told the Washington Examiner the loosely organized antifa movement, short for anti-fascism, is "wrongheaded" in opposing free speech and using violence.
"We oppose these groups and what they're trying to do. We just don't think anyone should be able to censor someone else's speech," Cohen said, echoing and endorsing recent statements from progressive scholar Noam Chomsky.
And here's the explanation for not calling them a hate group.
He said, however, the SPLC won't label antifa a "hate group" because adherents do not discriminate against people on the basis of race, sexual orientation or other classes protected by antidiscrimination laws, such as religion. There might be forms of hate out there that you may consider hateful, but it's not the type of hate we follow," Cohen said.
