generally considered by whom the splc is but one of many organizations that maintains a hate group list the fbi for example maintains its own database of hate groups which is more narrowly and sensibly defined as groups that commit hate crimes we need to be very careful about peppering the article lede with the hate group badge of shame that has only been applied by one major political interest group if multiple independent sources begin to apply the hate group label to the frc then i would be more inclined to include it in the lede see for example vdare and kkk