A member of the Ku Klux Klan who says his name is Gary Munker poses for a photo during an interview with AFP in Hampton Bays, New York on November 22, 2016 (AFP Photo/William EDWARDS).
If you support Trump and/or his “policies”, you might want to check just how much you have in common with the KKK. Obviously, open white supremacist scum love him to pieces, but there are a lot of people who aren’t white supremacist scum who voted for our tiny dictator, and you really should be aware of the company you keep.
Ending illegal immigration, building a border wall and preventing terrorists from coming into the U.S. are a handful of the points on Klu Klux Klan leader Will Quigg’s checklist for “making America great again.” And Quigg, who says the nation was “founded to be free, white and Christian,” feels confident that President Donald Trump’s promises to grow the economy and prevent “illegal aliens” from coming into the U.S. are aligned with the KKK’s visions for America.
Quigg, a Grand Dragon and King Keagle of the Loyal White Knights’ West Coast chapter, isn’t the only KKK member excited by the prospects of a Trump administration. As a high ranking member of an infamous white supremacist organization, Quigg said he sees everyday how the rhetoric of Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan is resonating with people who want to join or who have recently been recruited by the Klan.
“We’ve seen a rise in [Klan] membership in the last two years, well, ever since Trump put in his dollar to get into the race. And especially every time he would say something that was not socially acceptable on a mainstream level,” Quigg told International Business Times in a phone interview.
If you think things like ethnic cleansing, genocide, putting people into ovens, and so on are not good things, perhaps it’s time to have a think about your viewpoints. And, if you tell yourself bullshit lies like this:
These days, people join the Klan not because they are racist or supremacists, but because they want to help other white people, he said.
You need to stop lying to yourself and face up to the fact that yes, you are a racist and white supremacist.
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“Grand dragon” and “King keagle” -- shit, they’re like unfunny live action role players. Unlike LARPers, they need a punch in the face.
Why did they interview him?
I dealt with these folks back in the Reagan years when he sparked another rise in their membership.
No thanks, they may not have been quite as bad aas the nazi I worked with a few years later (a real bundist from the ’30’s) but not by much.
And when that inevitably fails, who will be blamed? It’s a serious question; there are so many minorities and marginalised groups to choose from. Of course the blame could just be placed on the ‘progressives’ and ‘leftists’ and what have you but that would be terribly generic and ever so dull. Communists? Again?
Marcus, let’s not forget the grand wizard. Every party needs one! But one would think all this mystic and / or pagan stuff is surely at odds with all the god-fearing Klaners do. Or maybe I confuse them with some other very christian hate group, or the piety is secondary to the bigotry in these modern times.
And I must confess I have no idea what a “Keagle” is and after googling the word I’m no wiser. Google just presents me with a misspelled references to Kegel exercises -- not entirely inappropriately, methinks. Still, the Klan Keagle probably has nothing to do with that. “Kegel” is also German for “bowling pin”. Maybe someone really wanted to call himself* a King Pin and was just a tiny bit too embarrassed to go straight for it.
*Presumably no gender-neutral pronouns are needed for the KKK.
Actually Quigg is a King Kleagle. When the Klan was revived circa 1915 they adopted a number of terms beginning with kl. A Kleagle was primarily a recruiting officer. Local Klan groups became Klaverns. The treasurer was called the Klabee. And on it went. Presumably they were supposed to sound mystical and mysterious, and perhaps they did in that era. Today they mostly sound silly. Who would want to be called a Klexter?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan_titles_and_vocabulary#Second_Era
I’m trying to figure out why I should click through and read an article that, essentially, is normalizing the KKK and presenting in a sympathetic, “we have changed our ways” light (I did, though, of course I did).
You can’t wash that any whiter and pretend it’s inconsequential or in the past, because neither the KKK nor anyone involved with them ‘in the past’ (so far as I know) has even tried to express anything close to an apology. And their current actions (‘helping white people’, seriously?) also do not indicate any change in their original purpose, just an acceptance of quieter, ‘more polite!’ methods. This interview, though, make their issues sound legitimate. Fuck that.
So, really, why the fuck did they interview him at all?
Speaking of KKK and their ilk: This is scary though not very surprising. Apparently radical white supremacists have been infiltrating into local police forces and FBI hasn’t dared to gone public with the info in the fears of Republican backlash. The Intercept has got this info with a FOIA request.
Well, timgueguen, that was … interesting. Thanks. But while their “mirth-provoking” nomenclature is all very well it doesn’t improve anything regarding the KKK’s hateful agenda. Even ridiculous vile tosspots are still just vile tosspots.