Kkk news about accepting POC homosexuals etc

[BIXX]

http://thesource.com/2014/11/10/the-klu-klux-klan-is-expanding-to-accept-african-americans-jews-homosexuals/

I don't even know what to say.

[Ethics Gradient, Traitor For All Ages]

Nation of Islam accepts white people in some auxiliary capacity as of a few years ago. Between this and the PR spin the catholic church have been putting out we live in a bizarre time for hate groups

[BIXX]

I think it's because really its getting harder to get away with being out about your hatred of folks, in way of more sneaky oppression.

[The Feral Underclass]

Is this real? The website doesn't say anything about this and has the tag line: "Bringing a Message of Hope and Deliverance to White Christian America!" and another that says: ""There is a race war against whites. But our people - my white brothers and sisters - will stay committed to a non-violent resolution."

If you look at subsidiary websites they all contain the same racist, anti-Semitic, homophobic rhetoric...I'm not convinced this is real.

[Sinister Intents]

It's a trap?

[The Feral Underclass]

I can't find any KKK group in America that accepts anyone who is not a white, straight Christian American.

[Sinister Intents]

I know a KKK supporter in my area who is okay with LGBTQIA people... kinda... He's really fucking stupid and inbred

[Ethics Gradient, Traitor For All Ages]

Im surprised the kkk is advanced enough to have a website

[synthesis]

It's apparently a Montana chapter:

http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2014/11/10/3590689/kkk-nondiscrimination-naacp/
http://www.greatfallstribune.com/story/news/local/2014/11/02/abarr-proposes-inclusive-kkk-chapter-mt/18397651/
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/11/03/inclusive-kkk-montana-chapter/18406129/
http://www.jpost.com/Christian-News/Klu-Klux-Klan-diversifies-to-include-Jews-and-other-minorities-381328
http://abcnews.go.com/US/white-supremacists-effort-rebrand-kkk-inclusive-group-prompts/story?id=26832019
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ku-klux-klan-opens-its-doors-hispanic-blacks-jews-gays-1473907

What I find interesting about all this is how many news sources are using the spelling "Klu Klux Klan."

[Sasha]

the KKK is a more fractured and infighting than the trots, it already goes from a older white men reenactment society to hardcore neo-nazi skinheads, every once in a while one of the many groups or individuals who lay claim to the kkk name says something spectacular to get more media attention than its competitors.

[Ethics Gradient, Traitor For All Ages]

Yeah that guy sounds like he's just looking for cult members to control, what the cult is named or is supposed to represent is beside the point. Reforming the klan might be a dumb enough idea to draw in some suckers though.

[RedBlackStar]

Well they've been dressing like Burqa-clad Muslim women for years now; this was bound to happen.

[The Feral Underclass]

Are the Rocky Mountain Knights actually a KKK chapter though, I can't find any online presence that says so. There are some Rocky Mountain Knights, but they appear to be a motorcycle club from Utah... http://www.rmk67.com/index.shtml

[Ethics Gradient, Traitor For All Ages]

It sounds like he's creating a new sect, but that he had been associated with some other white power group before

[Red Commissar]

It's odd but not unprecedented. While blacks have been a constant target of the Klan they used to also target Catholics (Italians and Irish in particular), Jews, northerners, and communists at different points in their history, with the targets changing depending on the generation. Even geographically they weren't restricted to the south- in their arguably strongest form at the turn of the century they were the most powerful in Indiana of all places to such an extent they counted among their members politicians in state government. The Indiana chapter's growth, while also focused on blacks, was heavily motivated by virulent anti-catholicism that said Italian and Irish immigrants were part of a fifth column to impose the pope's rule on the land (compare to the Sharia scares nowadays).


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While it's weird to drop something that defend their organization, going after more politically favorable targets like immigrants or culture war nonsense, thinking that'll help get members.

There is no national KKK, by and large they are small local groups broken by splits and leadership feuds that were even worse than some of the communist parties at the same time. Lot of cross-pollination too with other white supremacist groups. Some chapters have incorporated junk from christian dominionism and neo-nazism. So this guy can go do what he wants and has no real impact on the other ones, but he's definitely attracted attention to his outfit compared to the hundreds floating around, even if it's just 15 minutes of fame.

[Sabot Cat]

In the words of the honorable Admiral Ackbar:

http://www.reactiongifs.us/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/its_a_trap_star_wars.gif

[Jimmie Higgins]

Yeah I read it was just some random group using the name. More generally, the more "official" groups do seem to have been shifting to a focus on (Latino) immigrants and that seems to be their more popular cause since general conservatives take a line on immigration not too different than what the kkk said about Catholics and Jews back in the 1920s (bringing disease, won't "assimilate", are both poor parasites and all-powerful elites, secret plots to run society, etc). But as recent events have shown, they're still down to enforce white supremacy against blacks.

Anyway, there isn't much to this story, it's popular because it's oddball and seems like a joke. In fact... (About 3:00 in)... http://youtu.be/3Q4txN1ut20

[Brandon's Impotent Rage]

Sasha already mentioned it in passing, but it needs to be said again:

There is no major, all-reaching Ku Klux Klan organization in America, and there hasn't been one for several decades. The old major Klan organization all but died in the 70s around the time David Duke became the GIW, and what remains today are a bunch of small splinter klans, all who trace their origins to the original Klan, all who hate each other about as much as they hate Non-WASPS.

.....Actually, for anyone whose curious, the History Channel did a really good documentary on the history of the Klan a few years ago. Here it is on youtube:

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(Trigger warning, for pretty obvious reasons)

[Blake's Baby]

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What I find interesting about all this is how many news sources are using the spelling "Klu Klux Klan."

That's because most people think that's what it's called. I think it' one of those 'hallowed by convention' things that everyone believes is true (like Napoleon being short for example) that is just wrong.

[cyu]

I did some searching and (unexpectedly) found this http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/04/naacp-kkk-meeting_n_3865883.html

...I'm sure there are still plenty of bigots in the KKK, but I suspect that if the USD crashes due to loss of reserve status or something, ironically some more pragmatic members may to try to push aside their hatreds to try to work with others to attempt to solve more pressing matters.

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

This is, by all accounts, a groupuscule desperately trying to get attention, but it should be kept in mind that even one of the founders of the original Klan, N. B. Forrest, could spout some meaningless rhetoric about accepting American blacks. It never pays for extremists bourgeois groups to be seen as a bunch of knuckle-dragging bigots; therefore they will often go to extreme lengths to maintain an air of respectability, even when their actions are anything but.