I see the SPLC as a leftist organisation that uses the "hate group" label as a tool to discredit its political opponents and further its own agenda. Their activities betray their biases, and thus they have no business posing as a super partes (neutral) judge. In recent times, this has been recognised even by the FBI.

The Southern Poverty Law Center, which has labeled several Washington, D.C.-based family organizations as "hate groups" for favoring traditional marriage, has been dumped as a "resource" on the FBI's Hate Crime Web page, a significant rejection of the influential legal group.

The SPLC regularly covers men's rights issues in their blog, in the category "anti-woman", despite the fact that men's rights sites and activists are not trying to take away women's rights, but only to fight the discrimination against men and boys that's occurring in our society.

It should be noted that the SPLC doesn't have an "anti-man" category, in other words it doesn't even acknowledge the existence of an anti-male sentiment (even though there are plenty of examples of it, both on the internet and in real life).