The Advocate is Louisianas leading news source, providing awardwinning local and regional news coverage. Come aboard for a tour of North Americas top whalewatching destinations. Spectrum Community was a regional cable television network owned by Charter Communications through its acquisition of Time Warner Cable in May 2016, with coverage. Enough with the hate labels. Why Im standing up to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Hannah Scherlacher. Courtesy of the author. News, contacts and links to publications from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Southern Outdoors Tv Program' title='Southern Outdoors Tv Program' />Nazi. Fascist. Misogynist. White supremacist. These are some of the most hateful terms around, and yet they are freely lobbed at anyone who even slightly diverges from the lefts worldview. This fall, I became the one targeted by exactly this sort of bullying at the hands of the Southern Poverty Law Center. AzA8ciqw5S0/0.jpg' alt='Southern Outdoors Tv Program' title='Southern Outdoors Tv Program' />Its an understatement to say that I was dumbfounded as to how I ended up on the Southern Poverty Law Centers SPLC LGBTQ hate list  I have never said or done anything to indicate hate for the LGBTQ community. When I called to inquire, SPLC informed me that I am guilty because I did a radio interview with Family Research Council Radio FRC. I am a program coordinator for The Leadership Institutes Campus Reform. The segment was about socialism, but because FRC holds traditional family values, I was labeled an LGBT hater just for being a guest on the show. No LGBT topics even came up. SPLCs hate list exemplifies a bullying tactic employed by the left to silence conservative ideas. Regardless of the issue, support for the conservative point of view results in a litany of hateful labels and reputation smearing. The goal is to paint any opposition to the far left as morally depraved and, therefore, unworthy of being included in conversation. Dr. Carol Swain, an African American woman and former Vanderbilt professor, is a perfect case in point she was labeled a white supremacist sympathizer by the SPLC for pointing out SPLCs hypocrisy on racial issues. This tactic is more than illogical its dangerous. Reckless and irresponsible hate labeling not only stifles free speech and expression, it empowers and emboldens vicious groups and individuals to violently attack people. Consider the 2. 01. Family Research Council shooting, when a man walked into the organizations office in Washington, D. C., with 1. 00 rounds of ammunition and 1. Chick fil A sandwiches. He planned to kill as many staff members as possible and smear the sandwiches in their faces. He said he chose his target based on SPLCs Hate Map. Nowhere is the danger more real than on our college campuses where Antifa, By Any Means Necessary, and other domestic terror groups which are not found on any SPLC hate list now feel emboldened to attack conservative students and shut down events under the guise of ironically fighting fascism, hate and white supremacism. Two Berkeley students recently spoke to Martha Mac. Callum about being targeted, stalked and physically assaulted by Antifa for being members of the College Republicans club. This bullying needs to stop if we want to protect a free society on and off campus. Americans are afraid to voice any form of dissent from the social or economic progressive agenda for fear of losing their academic standings, their jobs, or being labeled hateful and bigoted. Americans are afraid to voice any form of dissent from the social or economic progressive agenda for fear of losing their academic standings, their jobs, or being labeled hateful and bigoted. While I am lucky to have a current employer that is understanding of this injustice, many others are not willing to give the benefit of doubt. I will now have to explain to every future employer why my name is on a hate list. Western Digital Serial Ata Hard Drive Jumper. If theres one thing I gained from this, its a newfound respect for conservative students who face this type of mistreatment every day on campus. Groups like the SPLC threaten our constitutional rights and the very fabric that makes this nation great. We need to start pushing back. If this trend of bullying and ostracizing anyone with a different opinion continues, we can only expect a chilling, mob rule effect and the suppression of speech and ideas in this country. I am calling on SPLC to remove me from this list and stop engaging in the game of identity fear politics. I urge all Americans who have been bullied, silenced, and pushed into a corner by radical groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center to push back too. Hannah Scherlacher is the Program Coordinator and a contributor for the Leadership Institutes Campus. Reform. org, which reports on liberal abuse and bias on Americas colleges campuses.