The Mikado
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« on: November 02, 2015, 10:52:31 PM » |
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Goddamn some of you are gullible. No one joins the Klan anymore, not even Steve Scalise. Not even David Duke is part of the Klan. They join groups with innocuous sounding names that were founded by former klansmen and they don't wear hoods or burn crosses. It's not 1925 anymore.
John Cornyn was born in 1952. Even at the height of the "Third Klan" in the 1960s, no estimate has them over 50,000 members, and often significantly less than that, and the sort of people who joined the Klan weren't hotshot young law students on their way to UVA Law School. Hell, in the mid-1960s, the last time the Klan was relevant, John Cornyn was in Japan, where I'm pretty sure they don't have Klan chapters.
As some of you familiar with civil rights history know, by the 1960s-1970s, the vast majority of white supremacist activists had joined relatively non-violent and non-hooded groups like the White Citizens Council rather than the Klan, which had by then received a (well-deserved) image for being drunken hooligans even among those circles and wasn't viewed as a proper group for any respectable member of society to join. The White Citizen Council renamed itself the Council of Conservative Citizens in 1985 and is still a fringey, but vaguely acceptable group on the right wing of American politics with white supremacist leanings. If you want to go witch hunting look at them, not at the f**king Klan, which hasn't seriously existed as a relevant organization in half a century and hasn't been mainstream in 90 years.
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