Portlandia Chapter?
November 11, 2014 6:03 PM Subscribe
"The requirements for joining the new KKK group, called the Rocky Mountain Knights, are to be aged 18 and live in the Pacific Northwest."
And here, and here
And here, and here
This post was deleted for the following reason: The KKK doesn't really need any more visibility, even if this is real -- mathowie
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posted by Saxon Kane at 6:10 PM on November 11, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by Saxon Kane at 6:10 PM on November 11, 2014 [1 favorite]
Here's a thought process nobody's ever actually had:
"I'm not at all racist, have no problems with POC or Jews, so what makes sense for me to do is join the KKK and change the incredibly tarnished image of the Klan from the inside."
posted by axiom at 6:10 PM on November 11, 2014 [7 favorites]
"I'm not at all racist, have no problems with POC or Jews, so what makes sense for me to do is join the KKK and change the incredibly tarnished image of the Klan from the inside."
posted by axiom at 6:10 PM on November 11, 2014 [7 favorites]
Are you sure the FBI hasn't run COINTELPRO on white supremacist groups at some point?
posted by Apocryphon at 6:17 PM on November 11, 2014
posted by Apocryphon at 6:17 PM on November 11, 2014
Here's a thought process nobody's ever actually had...
I wouldn't count on that. People can be very creative and idealistic -- who knows, sometimes it works out.
posted by amtho at 6:19 PM on November 11, 2014
I wouldn't count on that. People can be very creative and idealistic -- who knows, sometimes it works out.
posted by amtho at 6:19 PM on November 11, 2014
It's about ethics in american exceptionalism.
posted by boo_radley at 6:28 PM on November 11, 2014 [8 favorites]
posted by boo_radley at 6:28 PM on November 11, 2014 [8 favorites]
Weird shit happens when hate forks.
posted by echocollate at 6:32 PM on November 11, 2014
posted by echocollate at 6:32 PM on November 11, 2014
This makes me wish for the Chapelle show to still be running..
posted by k5.user at 6:33 PM on November 11, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by k5.user at 6:33 PM on November 11, 2014 [1 favorite]
This is taking ironic racism to an absurd extreme.
posted by feckless fecal fear mongering at 6:36 PM on November 11, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by feckless fecal fear mongering at 6:36 PM on November 11, 2014 [1 favorite]
He's trying to hide behind the KKK to further his political career
Well that's not something you hear often.
posted by BungaDunga at 6:37 PM on November 11, 2014 [2 favorites]
Well that's not something you hear often.
posted by BungaDunga at 6:37 PM on November 11, 2014 [2 favorites]
$100 says this is like those Mormon videos that came out a few years back about how they love gays but hate the sin.
posted by a lungful of dragon at 6:37 PM on November 11, 2014
posted by a lungful of dragon at 6:37 PM on November 11, 2014
The KKK have previously allied with groups of all races. Separatism knows no boundaries.
Well, except it does. You know what I mean.
posted by Tell Me No Lies at 6:43 PM on November 11, 2014
Well, except it does. You know what I mean.
posted by Tell Me No Lies at 6:43 PM on November 11, 2014
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Both of the supplemental links cite the IBT story. Are we sure this is real?
posted by escape from the potato planet at 6:08 PM on November 11, 2014