The Southern Poverty Law Center's Neo-Volkisch extremist group listing, from 2018, is an advocacy organization's own classification and description, not independent academic scholarship. Its strength is that the SPLC has tracked and documented extremist and hate groups in the United States for decades and its listings are widely used as a reference point by journalists and researchers. Its limit is that it is one advocacy organization's own classification framework, which some scholars and the groups themselves have disputed, so its labels should be read as the SPLC's own judgment rather than a neutral academic taxonomy.
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Reliability tier 2: an advocacy organization's own classification, widely used as a reference point by journalists and researchers though its labels are its own judgment, disputed by some scholars and by the groups it names. NotesThe Southern Poverty Law Center's own extremist group listing and description of the Neo-Volkisch movement (2018); an advocacy organization's own classification, not independent academic scholarship.
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AuthorSouthern Poverty Law Center
PublisherSouthern Poverty Law Center
Publication Year2018
Source Typereference
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