Social Justice
White Lives Matter to be listed as a hate group
White Lives Matter will be listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

White Lives Matter will be listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
White Lives Matter labeled as a hate group
The law center said the status will be updated with its hate map, which tracks the activities of racist hate groups.
“I can’t speak to how many chapters will be listed, but it’s clear that the leadership of the group, the ends of the group ― it’s just a flat-out white supremacist group,” Heidi Beirich, director of the center’s Intelligence Report, told the Houston Chronicle. “The ideology behind it, the racist leaders, everything about it is racist.”
About White Lives Matter
White Lives Matter made national headlines earlier this month when they protested in front of the Houston NAACP headquarters where they waved confederate flags. They said they were protesting Black Lives Matter and the killing of police officers, in which they believe Black Lives Matter caused.
However, the Anti-Defamation League said the protest was organized by the white supremacist organization Aryan Renaissance Society:
“During the August 21 protest, the ARS symbol, a lightning bolt and a runic symbol, was visible on the group’s ‘white lives matter’ banner and on white shirts worn by some of the dozen or so participants. Their message also included a sign reading ‘14 words,’ a reference to the most popular white supremacist slogan in the world: ‘We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.’
The SPLC said in a blog post that one of the leaders of White Lives Matter was Rebecca Barnette, a 40-year-old Tennessee woman “who is also vice president of the women’s division of the racist skinhead group Aryan Strikeforce.” Barnette was also allegedly involved in the National Socialist Movement, the country’s largest neo-Nazi group, SPLC said.
While those organizations are already known as racist/hate groups, the addition of White Lives Matter will be new to the map.
“We are listing them because they are clearly white supremacists,” Beirich told VICE News. “Their motto should be ‘only white lives matter.’”
BLM
While some called for the Black Lives Matter organization to be listed as a hate group after the shooting deaths of police officers in Dallas and Baton Rouge, that organization doesn’t hold supremacist or separatist views and its leaders have not advocated violence.
The SPLC said in a blog post last month:
There’s no doubt that some protesters who claim the mantle of Black Lives Matter have said offensive things, like the chant ‘pigs in a blanket, fry ‘em like bacon’ that was heard at one rally. But before we condemn the entire movement for the words of a few, we should ask ourselves whether we would also condemn the entire Republican Party for the racist words of its presumptive nominee ― or for the racist rhetoric of many other politicians in the party over the course of years.
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