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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAnonymous has consistently said that they would release KKK info on November 5th.
The info released now is being done by others who are probably trying to get ahead of the story and discredit what will be coming. Anonymous is an idea. You belong or you don't. Those taking direct action have done some good.
They have pushed others to open or reopen sexual assault cases in Steubenville and Nova Scotia to name two. They have also tracked down those posting videos abusing animals. Others have shut down or exposed pedophiles and their rings.
Are they perfect? No. However, I am glad they are around to make life miserable for those who are seemingly untouchable.
Old Union Guy
(738 posts)I'm still very skeptical that "they" have anything.
I mean the KKK. Really?
This isn't the 1920s or the 1950s.
The KKK today is a few poor white losers and a bunch of agents provocateurs.
No organizational continuity with the old KKK and no power or influence at all.
The real racist action in the USA is not the KKK any more, and hasn't been for a long time.
Are_grits_groceries
(17,111 posts)Check the SPLC's website. They have tracked hate groups for years. The KKK is still there with many others.
Old Union Guy
(738 posts)I'm not trying to minimize the amount of racism out there, but the KKK isn't where the action is since around 1965.
Even if the SPLC says otherwise in their fundraising literature.
eShirl
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I think people have no idea how this organization is intertwined in our country.
From Blacks to Mexicans to Native Americans, the Klan hates them all.
I'm white and I've lived all over this country.
I remember the klan standing just off school grounds passing klan pamphlets to school kids. This was a school near Siler City, NC. These were cartoon form and for children not parents. My kids brought them home. School said nothing could be done because they were on public property.
I've seen the klan in South Texas and here in South Dakota there have been crosses burned to scare the Lakota. One Native American woke up after surgery in Rapid City with KKK carved on his abdomen.
If your white and have no friends of a different race you can ignore this and say it's not true.
I know different.
Enthusiast
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Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)that I've been pointing out since day 1 -- *Anybody* can claim to be speaking/acting for them, and has to be taken at least half seriously...