Current Events > So why is the KKK not deemed a terrorist group?

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Any ideas?

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Cuz white is right according to Trump

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It's easier to keep tabs on them if they're allowed to operate in the open. I'm not sure whether or not I agree with it, but I understand that line of thinking.

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Because Trump is a member.

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I thought they were

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DuranOfForcena posted...

they're not? wtf?

JBaLLEN66 posted...

I thought they were

nope

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Probably, before this year, they thought it would be bad precedent . Even if most modern politicians openly and privately consider them vile

Then Drumpf was a conspiratorial narcissist with a little penis and made a knee-jerk reaction to Antifa, breaking precedent. The KKK will be soon.

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FortuneCookie posted...

It's easier to keep tabs on them if they're allowed to operate in the open. I'm not sure whether or not I agree with it, but I understand that line of thinking.

Is that an actual reason given? Of course its complete bullshit and not true in any way, I just havent heard this as a reason before.

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How is it not abundantly clear to you why lmao.

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you know why

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I thought they were.

I know the FBI regards the sovereign citizen movement as a homegrown terror organization.

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Do they even do anything anymore other then say blacks and whites shouldn't marry? Granted I don't research them or anything, but I thought they had mellowed out and given up on the whole trying to get rid of all the black people one way or the other? Whenever I see anyone from the KKK on TV or whatever they just say stuff like they don't think the races should interbreed. They seem to be fully aware of the fact that they aren't going anywhere so they have accepted that and just want us to live together but seperate. I could be wrong, its just the impression I have got from them in recent time, I don't know if thats changed or not since Trump.

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Because the southern states would get pissed

They already threw a big fit over desegregating schools

Gamerguymass posted...

Do they even do anything anymore other then say blacks and whites shouldn't marry?

yes


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Taken from an occult website:

" 1925: KKK membership reaches 4 million. They are nearly impervious to arrest,much less conviction,in small southern communities. 1944: The organization is disbanded again after a number of Klan leaders are arrested for corruption and murder and the nation weathers first a Great Depression and then World War II. 1950s: The KKK is revived when the civil rights movement heads south. Robert Shelton organizes the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, and nightriders once again terrorize those blacks who want to vote. Lynching is still used as method of controlling the black population. September 15,1963: A bomb explodes under the steps of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham Alabama, injuring twenty-three and killing four girlsthree fourteen-year-olds and one eleven-year-old. October 8,1963: Robert Chambliss, a member of the KKK identified as the man who placed the Birmingham church bomb, is found not guilty of murder, fined one hundred dollars, and sentenced to six months in jail for possessing a box of 122 sticks of dynamite without a permit. Summer 1964: The KKK instigates the firebombing of thirty black homes, thirtyseven black churches, and the beatings of over eighty civil rights volunteers. James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner are murdered by the KKK on June 21 in Mississippi. March 21,1981: Henry Hays, son of the second-highest-ranked Klansman in Alabama,
and James Knowles abduct nineteen-year-old Michael Donald and lynch him. Local police claim Donalds death is the result of a drug deal gone bad. JuneDecember 1983: Knowles is found guilty and sentenced to life and Hays is found guilty and sentenced to death for the murder of Michael Donald. February 1987: Morris Dees and Joseph J. Levin of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) support Beulah Mae Donald, who launches a civil suit against the KKK for the lynching death of her son Michael. The allwhite jury finds the KKK responsible and orders it to pay damages of $7 million, resulting in the Klans turning over all its assets, including the national headquarters in Tuscaloosa. June 6,1997: Henry Hays is the first white man executed for a murder of an African American since 1913. May 17,2000: The FBI announces that a splinter group of the KKK,the Cahaba Boys (Robert Chambliss,Herman Cash,Thomas Blanton,and Frank Cherry),carried out the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing and the murders of Denise McNair,Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson,and Cynthia Wesley. May 2002: Seventy-one-year-old Frank Cherry of the Cahaba Boys is sentenced to life in prison. June 21,2005: Forty-one years to the day that the civil rights workers Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner disappeared, former Klansman Ray Killen, eighty, is convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to twenty years in prison for each killing. Today the name Ku Klux Klan has become public domain, and dozens of groups use all or part of the name in their titles."

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The biggest thing the KKK seems to stand for is the reinstitution of racial segregation.

They have mellowed in that I think (at least they project as much) they don't oppose non-whites right to live but don't want them interacting with whites. Their notion seems to be "as long as we never cross paths, all is well" and they get bent out of shape when racial boundaries don't exist.

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Because they're white people.

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Solid Sonic posted...

The biggest thing the KKK seems to stand for is the reinstitution of racial segregation.

They have mellowed in that I think (at least they project as much) they don't oppose non-whites right to live but don't want them interacting with whites. Their notion seems to be "as long as we never cross paths, all is well" and they get bent out of shape when racial boundaries don't exist.

They don't lynch people anymore, see?

Well they also have this belief that an impending race war is brewing but I didn't want to get into that.

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I imagine some political figures still has relations. I wonder how often topics of KKk come up in the Senate?

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probably because at this point the KKK meetings are little more then drinking clubs for racist old white guys. the actual dangerous racists groups dont advertise themselves as the KKK and probably dont even meet in person.

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Solid Sonic posted...

Well they also have this belief that an impending race war is brewing but I didn't want to get into that.

I mean based off the last two weeks it doesn't really seem like they are that far off on that one at this point.

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Bananana posted...

nope

they are

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Gamerguymass posted...

I mean based off the last two weeks it doesn't really seem like they are that far off on that one at this point.

Aaaaand...that's why I didn't.

I watched a documentary on a reporter who interviewed several active members and followed them around to various group events and that seemed to be a recurring undercurrent.

I even almost made a topic asking "Do you think the KKK is right?" in reference to that but I knew there would be massive backwash for trying.

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JBaLLEN66 posted...

they are

try again bucko. Its a hate group but not federally recognized as a terrorist organization

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pick4six posted...

How is it not abundantly clear to you why lmao.

i know, but im not gonna tell you cause it should be so obvious, how do you not know lol? *shits pants*

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Because they're irrelevant.

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KillerKhan420 posted...

Because they're irrelevant.

im glad you are privileged enough to not have hate groups against you that have a decades old track record of lynchings and violent crimes

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Honestly? They spend most of their time adopting highways

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KillerKhan420 posted...

Because they're irrelevant.

I use to believe that, even after they marched across my town's main street.

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Hate groups and terrorist organizations are different things, although the designation isn't mutually exclusive.

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Bananana posted...

im glad you are privileged enough to not have hate groups against you that have a decades old track record of lynchings and violent crimes

Members
1st Klan
Unknown
2nd Klan early 20th century
3,000,0006,000,000[1] (peaked in 19241925)
3rd Klan 1946 till today
5,0008,000

5-8 thousand in a country of 300 million. Your boogey man is a cockroach

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KillerKhan420 posted...

Because they're irrelevant.

https://twitter.com/ItssDunke/status/1270386352161505283

I think the KKK is just a out of sight, out of mind sorta thing now due to their lack of relevancy the past few decades.

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KillerKhan420 posted...

Members
1st Klan
Unknown
2nd Klan early 20th century
3,000,0006,000,000[1] (peaked in 19241925)
3rd Klan 1946 till today
5,0008,000

5-8 thousand in a country of 300 million. Your boogey man is a cockroach

how many members did al qaeda have in 2002? 170?

while theyre obviously different scenarios, the number of individuals is not what makes an ideology scary

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Bananana posted...

how many members did al qaeda have in 2002? 170?

while theyre obviously different scenarios, the number of individuals is not what makes an ideology scary

By the estimates at their peak was in the 10s of thousands 31,400+ 57,600+, not very big but that's a major war of ideology not a war that's winnable. The KKK is still out there yes but like I said, not big enough to hold office in the country like it used to. The FBI and other agencies infiltrated them and broke them up long ago.

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Trump would lose his membership

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What's disturbing how much the federal government tolerated lynching until the Soviet Union started using it against us for propaganda purposes.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/31/opinions/trump-antifa-domestic-terrorist-bergen/index.html

Because it would likely be unconstitutional to designate a domestic ideological movement as a terrorist organization.

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Why hasnt any preseident after JFK taken down the KKK is the bigger question

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The KKK may not be looking so hot these days (due to their well-earned reputation), but other White supremacist/nationalist groups are on the rise.

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KillerKhan420 posted...

Members
1st Klan
Unknown
2nd Klan early 20th century
3,000,0006,000,000[1] (peaked in 19241925)
3rd Klan 1946 till today
5,0008,000

5-8 thousand in a country of 300 million. Your boogey man is a cockroach

tell this to the freedom summer victims, michael donald, and all the unnamed victims of lynchings by the KKK since then
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Serious Cat posted...

https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/31/opinions/trump-antifa-domestic-terrorist-bergen/index.html

Because it would likely be unconstitutional to designate a domestic ideological movement as a terrorist organization.

But Antifa was declared one, though.

Because they adopted a 2 mile stretch of highway in Alabama.

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Were_Wyrm posted...

Because they adopted a 2 mile stretch of highway in Alabama.

this has me picturing guys in ghost outfits getting pelted with empty beer cans as they're cleaning up the side of the road...

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monkmith posted...

this has me picturing guys in ghost outfits getting pelted with empty beer cans as they're cleaning up the side of the road...

In Alabama? They would get cheers.

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because the president is a member

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When was the last time they did any actual terrorism?

I mean, I'm all for getting rid of them but saying stupid stuff isn't punishable by law yet.

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lolife67 posted...

But Antifa was declared one, though.

That's what the entire article I linked to was about.

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