Guidestar, the nonprofit whose website provides a massive database of information on other nonprofits, has backed down and announced it will no longer flag nonprofits on its site that the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) claims are "hate groups." (Although as of this morning, the flags are still on Guidestar.org entries.)
The SPLC is a radical group that uses its infamous "hate groups" list to lump together genuine racists like the KKK with mainstream conservative groups. Many ordinary Americans consult the Guidestar site before giving donations, so when it recently began plastering "Hate Group" at the top of charities' entries, it strongly reinforced SPLC's smear campaign and potentially endangered the revenues of groups SPLC has attacked.
