What did the Klan do that was so terribly wrong exactly besides dress up like ghosts to scare black people away from clean safe white neighborhoods and keep them that way?>uh.. there was a lynching this one time, o algoThere were barely any lynchings, the crips and bloods killed way more black people.
>>18451283I assume you mean KKK iteration from the 20sThey depicted themselves as moralfaggots that defend the virtue of americanism (WASP virtues) (see: prohibition period) and made a country in a country with its own insurance company, institutions, subklans such as Ku Klux Kiddies(kek) etc., with their tentacles spread, in the congress and senate, so they could use system to their advantage to combat everyone that was deemed non-white. Note that blacks weren't their main consern, as racial segregation was in full swing in the south. They mainly targeted catholics and orthodoxs from central and eastern Europe because they supposed 'whiteness' was untrue due to 'moronism' (they tested people on inteligence in English [most immigarnt didn't know it] and when the results were abysmal)and they claimed we should get rid of them or at least curb immigartion. Besides this, they often caused disorder in majority non-protestant towns organisting pickets and marches.
>>18451283>scare black peopleactually there was alot more than just "scaring"
>>18451283There are different iterations of the KKK. The 2nd iteration was so violent it made the original founder of the first one quit.
>>18451283The 2nd iteration banned jews. That was their only relevant mistake
>>18451283Protestants larping as a Greek fraternity that hates Catholics. Senior leadership is all degenerate alcoholics and sex freaks. One leader rapes and kills a young girl.
Taig scum got in power in america and persecuted the based klan because they remined them of orangemen back home
>>18451470taig lies
>>18451295>>18451470Yeah, the Second Klan was popular when it was a freemason-adjacent multi-level marketing scheme with a bit of racist/sectarian rhetoric thrown in for flavour. They owed much of their expansion to a marketing strategy we'd call pyramid-selling today. Their problem wasn't actually anti-black racism - most of the country was at least mildly racist at the time. The problem was that they became a moralistic vigilante group terrorising white communities and attempting to influence politics while their own leadership was profoundly seedy, unscrupulous and often downright criminal. They collapsed after their leadership got exposed in a series of scandals, undermining the hyper-moralism the whole thing was built around. Their pyramid scheme setup also didn't help, with loads of infighting over money and regional power developing as a result. They went from 5,000,000 members to 30,000 in the space of five years because of this.
>>18451471Moralfags stay losinghttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._C._Stephenson
>>18451473What is "K of C" on one of the snakes mean?
>>18451705Knights of Colombus.
>>18451295makes sense, ellis islanders were voting for "progressives" and included ashkenazi jews like bernie sanders, they were trying to convert society into the one we see today, perhaps unwittingly but all the same
>>18451326Much of the Klan’s early reputation may havebeen based on almost frivolous mischief and tom-foolery. At first, a favorite Klan tactic had been for awhi te-sheeted Klansman wearing a ghoulish maskto ride up to a black family's home at night anddemand water. When the well bucket was offered,the Klansman would gulp it down and demandmore, having actually poured the water througha rubber tube that flowed into a leather bottleconcealed beneath his robe. After draining sev-eral buckets, the rider would exclaim that he hadnot had a drink since he died on the battlefield atShiloh. He then galloped into the night, leaving theimpression that ghosts of Confederate dead wereriding the countryside.
>>18451745The largest mass lynching in America was Italian Catholics, not black people. Ironically, the US ended up having to pay Italy off to restore diplomatic relations.
>>18451283The thing you forget they were also anti Catholic and anti Jewish. If they had won Italians, Irish, Mexicans and Jews would be never allowed to enrich American culture
>>18451963None of the thirdies who make threads like this understand that the KKK was a revanchist group of Confederate sympathizers who hated basically everyone who wasn't a southern protestant. They think it's just some street gang that went around lynching niggers to own the libs.
>>18451283>What did the Klan do that was so terribly wrongThey created Hollywood.In 1915, a US court rules in United States v. Motion Picture Patents Co. that the Edison's Motion Picture Patents Company trust is monopolistic and orders it to be dissolved. After the collapse of Edison's trust, Eastern European Jewish entrepreneur such as Zukor, Laemmle, Mayer, and Fox took over the business and move to California to get away from Edison. The Motion Picture Directors Association (MPDA) is formed by twenty-six film directors in Los Angeles, California. Universal Studios Hollywood opens. Fox Film Corporation is founded. Metro Pictures, a forerunner of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, is founded. D.W Griffith's The Birth of a Nation premieres at Clune's Auditorium Los Angeles and breaks both box office and film length records. DW Griffith originally worked for Edison, who worked with Tesla under Morgan. Both Edison and Tesla were instrumental in the technological media revolution. This movie was filmed/financed by Billy Bitzer, wardrobed by Robert Goldstein, and distributed by Louis B Mayer (MGM). Despite its controversial material, The Birth of a Nation signaled the birth of Hollywood.Remembering that Hollywood has been accused of being commie since the 1930s.>With this as a backdrop, the U.S. government began turning its attention to possible links between the CPUSA and Hollywood. Under then-chairman Martin Dies, Jr., the HUAC released a report in 1938 claiming that communism was pervasive in the movie industry. Two years later, Dies privately took testimony from a former Communist Party member, John L. Leech, who named forty-two movie professionals as Communists. After Leech repeated his charges in supposed confidence to a Los Angeles grand jury, many of the names were leaked to the press, including those of stars Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Katharine Hepburn, Melvyn Douglas and Fredric March, among other Hollywood figures
>>18451990>DW Griffith originally worked for Edison, who worked with Tesla under MorganOh yeah, I forgot to mention that it was J.P. Morgan who created the Federal Reserve during the presidency of Woodrow Wilson, the first Southern president after the Civil War and which screened The Birth of a Nation at the White House. It also gave women rights and brought the US into WWI.
>>18451479>freemason-adjacentNo.It's literally just masonic.
>>18452245You don't know what free masons are like. The KKK actively recruited people because it was basically a pyramid scheme run by crooks, the free masons don't recruit new members, and have never recruited, ever. The KKK was basically a sham parody of a fraternal order, with its bogus mystic titles and fake rituals designed to make the public confused and alarmed.
>>18451283The real redpill is they were shutdown by the government because they were a successor organization to a challenger government.Its very reasonable for the "personality' of the Federal Government to slowly destroy the Klan as a potential rival "king".Regardless of whether they could launch another Revolt or a Decapitation and "take the throne" is irrelevant, thats what they were and appeared as. A fifth column successor of a breakaway state.Morally, they werent any worse than anyone else.They were morally better than a lot of their enemies.
Klan 2.0 in the 1920s was pretty goofy despite gaining some real political clout in the Midwest for a brief time. In a way they were just another wacky fad like the decadent jazz age culture they opposed, and as other anons have pointed out, they were more of a scammy pyramid scheme than terrorist gang. The original Klan had a well earned reputation for political violence and the 50s-60s revival had some killers as well as lots of Feds, but 1920s Klan was mostly a bunch of LARPing klowns.
Wasn't the head of the colorado KKK a kike?
>>18451990>Remembering that Hollywood has been accused of being commie since the 1930s.Remember that we now know those accusations were and are accurate.
this >>18452413The problem was the 2nd Klan weren't the real deal just a bunch of goofballs, rather like /pol/. They complain a lot but they aren't willing to do much about it, they don't really strategize or plan just shitpost.Ww1 and ww2 PTSD veterans would often join fraternities to bring regimentation back into civilian life and the 2nd Klan blended this with solid south politics and being a "Birth of a Nation" LARP club. Except it wasn't like the bierhallen of München around the same time, they lacked a Führer.
>>18452528The head of the Screen Writers Guild,John Howard Lawson, was a communist who personally checked all scripts. Any writer who didn't immediately alter their scripts to conform was blacklisted. This cancer started to spread to the rest of Hollywood too. It was in response to this that a handful of actors and directors threatened with being blacklisted called for investigations. The blacklisting in Hollywood was started by the communists, and oh how they cried when it was turned back on them.>John Howard Lawson (September 25, 1894 – August 11, 1977) was an American playwright, screenwriter, arts critic, and cultural historian. After enjoying a relatively successful career writing plays that were staged on and off Broadway in the 1920s and '30s, Lawson relocated to Hollywood and began working in the motion picture industry. In 1933, he helped to organize the Screen Writers Guild and became its first president. In the ensuing years, he was credited with a number of notable screenplays including Blockade (1938), Action in the North Atlantic (1943), and Counter-Attack (1945)>Partly due to the criticism he received from the Left, Lawson decided in 1934 to join the Communist Party (CPUSA). He sought to educate himself about the proletarian cause. He traveled throughout poverty-stricken areas of Alabama and Georgia where workers were trying to unionize, and facing violent resistance. While in the South, he submitted articles to the Daily Worker. He himself was arrested numerous times. These experiences inspired his next play, Marching Song. Produced by the radical Theatre Union, Marching Song opened in New York on February 17, 1937 and ran for sixty-one performances>As a result of his newfound communist commitment, Lawson wrote several politically-themed screenplays in the next decade, such as Blockade (1938) about the Spanish Civil War. This work earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Story
>>18452574>He wrote the critically acclaimed Algiers (1938), and two Humphrey Bogart war movies in 1943, Sahara and Action in the North Atlantic. Lawson also wrote Counter-Attack (1945), a tribute to the Soviet-U.S. alliance during the struggle against European fascism>One biographer notes that Lawson "became an important member of the small CPUSA community in Hollywood, then eventually its cultural czar." In 1941, Lawson ordered Budd Schulberg to make changes to his novel What Makes Sammy Run? to better fit the Communist message; Schulberg refused and quit the CPUSA in protest. In February 1943, Francis Biddle added the League of American Writers to the Attorney General's List of Subversive Organizations. In response, the Hollywood branch, spearheaded by Lawson, renamed itself the Hollywood Writers Mobilization. In 1946, Lawson organized and led a critical attack on Albert Maltz after the latter penned a New Masses article, "What Shall We Ask of Writers?". In the article, Maltz challenged the didacticism of the CPUSA's censorship of writers. Surprised by the ferocity of attack from his colleagues—including Lawson, Howard Fast, Alvah Bessie, Ring Lardner Jr., and Samuel Sillen—Maltz publicly recanted>Hollywood Ten, in U.S. history, 10 motion-picture producers, directors, and screenwriters who appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee in October 1947, refused to answer questions regarding their possible communist affiliations, and, after spending time in prison for contempt of Congress, were mostly blacklisted by the Hollywood studios. The 10 were Alvah Bessie, Herbert Biberman, Lester Cole, Edward Dmytryk, Ring Lardner, Jr., John Howard Lawson, Albert Maltz, Samuel Ornitz, Adrian Scott, and Dalton Trumbo.
>>18451954RIGHT WING BASICShttp://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1pi20Rr9_BxBbMIfcZUTTGslfZTifEiCmgoogle drive easy to use interface....there is a stack about the KKK kooks
>>18452544That infamous German cartoon mocking American slop kultur put a Klansman as the centerpiece for a reason. European fascists were hardass street brawlers who used ultraviolence to achieve political goals even if some were LARPers (Roman empire, tradcath, Germanic paganism, etc.) Klansmen were more interested in cosplay and selling gear and titles. The people smashing labor unions or doing lynchings in the 20s didn’t need funny ghost costumes.
>>18451799>makes sense, ellis islanders were voting for "progressives" and'Hol up there. Most of them other than Jews were hugely racist; the Boston busing riots were all in Italian and Irish 'hoods.
>>18452615>right wing is when you worship shitlerDidn't click.
Hollywood used to freely abuse ethnic stereotypes all the way until the civil rights era and entertainment biz Jews obviously had no issue with that when it was socially fashionable to do so.
>>18452723Ellis Islanders voted for liberal Democratic machines that gave them civil service jobs, decent schools, public infrastructure and a social safety net while still being racist af towards coloreds and even other Ellis Island tribes. It’s no different from the South, which had the highest support for the New Deal, partly because of Solid South one party rule but also because fedbux dragged the region into the 20th century, even as the same southern politicians maintained segregation.
>>18451283They persecute God's chosen people in the name of Jesus and are led by a Grand Dragon.
>>18452751>>18452757Thanks for the political hot takes, Reddit.
>>18452725it's a good read
>>18452751new deal led to civil rights, for example the schools all became "federal property", rather like fort sumter
>>18452927Based Eisenhower.
>>18451283The worst thing the second Klan did was being cringe, they were literally inspired by a movie
>>18453172It's like if after Fight Club came out a bunch of guys went out and started their own real version of it
