There are maybe 5,000 KKK members in the US

[theboss]

Most of the probably can't spell their names let alone add them to a listserv.

What exactly are we hoping to find here again?

Is there a belief that it is 1924 and the Klan has real political power?

I don't understand what is even happening right now.

[brucefan]

1. Seems

Like a pretty low number to me.Ill bet there are counties in Alabama with 5,000 klansman

[theboss]

2. The Southern Poverty's Law Center's job is to track this stuff.

Since the 1970s the Klan has been greatly weakened by internal conflicts, court cases, a seemingly endless series of splits and government infiltration. While some factions have preserved an openly racist and militant approach, others have tried to enter the mainstream, cloaking their racism as mere "civil rights for whites." Today, the Center estimates that there are between 5,000 and 8,000 Klan members, split among dozens of different - and often warring - organizations that use the Klan name.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=post&forum=1002&pid=7310465

There really is no centralized KKK at this point. There's a bunch of tiny groups that use the names and the symbols to do something that is generally not really effective.

[PatrickforO]

3. Because Anonymous just found out that 4 US Senators are active Klan members.

That's a pretty big deal.

[Throd]

4. Is there actual proof of this?

If true, then yes it is a big deal, but the KKK is a bunch of irrelevant fuckwits who wield no political power.

I would think the liability of being tied to the Klan would be far greater than any benefit.

[TexasBushwhacker]

5. It was not Anonymous

They won't release their list until Thursday, November 5th to coincide with their Milluon Mask March. Remember remember the 5th of November ......

[backscatter712]

9. I'll bet when Anon releases the real list on Nov. 5, there will be a lot of Klan cops outed.

Wouldn't surprise me one bit.

[TexasBushwhacker]

12. I think Anon will be more careful about checking

and double checking. If the Klan has John Cornyn's e-mail, it just mean they've sent him e-mails. I don't like him, but I don't think he's stupid. How could it possibly benefit him to be a member of a hate group?

[840high]

6. This was disproved.

[former9thward]

11. Do you really believe anything that is posted on the internet?

This was a totally made up list. It says a lot more about you than the people on the list that you would actually believe it.

[LanternWaste]

15. And yet by consistent application of your own premise, your sentiment should be disbelieved

"It says a lot more about you than the people on the list that you would actually believe it..."

And yet by consistent application of your own premise, your sentiment should be disbelieved simply because it's on the internet, and those who accept your notion are merely illustrating their own gullibility, regardless of what we may pretend it "says about you..."

(space provided below free of charge to insert righteous distinction lacking both difference and relevance)

[FLson]

7. Most folks who sympathize with the KKK

don't actually belong to the KKK. It's not like the Masons, there's no real benefit to belonging to it anymore. No unique business deals or real community. The official ranks are largely made up of the dumbest and laziest you'll find anywhere. Men of wealth and means who sympathize know better than to identify with them out of fear of having to deal with the FBI or ATF. The FBI loves to go after the KKK types left and right because they are sloppy on personnel checks and security and are often walking to the right of the knife's edge on what is and is not illegal (at least far enough for a jury to convict.

The sympathizers keep to themselves and only deal with people of wealth and means.

[MFrohike]

8. Ignorance run wild

It seems a lot of people don't realize the Klukkers of the 60s weren't community leaders. They don't seem to realize the powerful were members of the Citizens Councils, while the Klan was for what they'd call white trash.

[Nevernose]

10. The KKK changed their initials to CCC

And just rebranded as the Council of Conservative Citizens.

They're nationwide, have the support of numerous Republican politicians, have thousands of members, and have direct ties to literally dozens of hate and "patriot" groups. They stopped burning crosses and started registering voters.

IIRC, Thurgood Marshall called then "the uptown Klan."

Besides the KKK and the CCC, there are dozens of other racial supremacy groups, many unofficial and therefore not monitored by agencies like the SPLC or FBI.

[theboss]

13. I agree with that

Most of the racist organizations that we need to be concerned with are cloaked in respectability.

No one with an IQ over 80 joins the freakin' Klan in 2015.

[theboss]

14. I'm right so often it's scary

Seriously, please start listening to me.

Thank you.