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One week after a Ku Klux Klan member shot three people dead at Jewish institutions in Kansas, CNN is speculating, Can the Klan rebrand?
Imperial Ancona, who lives in Missouri, insists theres a new Klan for modern times a Klan thats about educating people to our ideas and getting people to see our point of view to help change things, CNNs Ashley Fantz writes. He said he and those like him can spread that message without violence a sort of rebranding of the Klan.
To learn if this is possible, Fantz asked marketing and PR experts if Americas most infamous white supremacist group could shed its violent past. According to one quoted ad agency president, lynchings are not too different from products, like a car that kills people because of an exploding gas tank. In his words, if you have a car that is killing people because the gas tank is exploding, it doesnt matter how fantastic the ad campaign is for that car. CNN should have also taken note that this is not the first time the KKK has declared it is rebranding.
The 2,000 word story has provoked backlash and derision on Twitter and in the media. Gawker described it as a landmark expression of idiocy.
CNN, in a roundabout way, answers its own question of whether this is conceivable. No, a hate group forever linked to lynchings and violence does not have a chance to transform into a kinder form of racism. A Time story called The KKK Tries To Make a Comeback arrives at a similar conclusion, quoting experts who say the idea is ridiculous. Some groups do try to position themselves to say theyre just fighting for white rights, that theyre not racist. But thats absurd. Its just racism dressed up in a new language, Heidi Beirich of the Southern Poverty Law Centers Intelligence Project told Time.
LBJ: I'll Have Those ******* Voting Democratic For The Next 200 Years.
"The party lines of the 1860s/1870s are not the party lines of today," she wrote to us. "Although the names stayed the same, the platforms of the two parties reversed each other in the mid-20th century, due in large part to white ‘Dixiecrats’ flight out of the Democratic Party and into the Republican Party after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. By then, the Democratic Party had become the party of ‘reform,’ supporting a variety of ‘liberal’ causes, including civil rights, women’s rights, etc. whereas this had been the banner of the Republican Party in the nineteenth century."
After Former KKK Leader Shoots Up Jewish Centers, CNN Asks: 'Can The Klan Rebrand?' | ThinkProgress
One week after a Ku Klux Klan member shot three people dead at Jewish institutions in Kansas, CNN is speculating, Can the Klan rebrand?
Imperial Ancona, who lives in Missouri, insists theres a new Klan for modern times a Klan thats about educating people to our ideas and getting people to see our point of view to help change things, CNNs Ashley Fantz writes. “He said he and those like him can spread that message without violence a sort of rebranding of the Klan.
To learn if this is possible, Fantz asked marketing and PR experts if Americas most infamous white supremacist group could shed its violent past. According to one quoted ad agency president, lynchings are not too different from products, like a car that kills people because of an exploding gas tank. In his words, if you have a car that is killing people because the gas tank is exploding, it doesnt matter how fantastic the ad campaign is for that car. CNN should have also taken note that this is not the first time the KKK has declared it is rebranding.
The 2,000 word story has provoked backlash and derision on Twitter and in the media. Gawker described it as a landmark expression of idiocy.
CNN, in a roundabout way, answers its own question of whether this is conceivable. No, a hate group forever linked to lynchings and violence does not have a chance to transform into a kinder form of racism. A Time story called The KKK Tries To Make a Comeback arrives at a similar conclusion, quoting experts who say the idea is ridiculous. Some groups do try to position themselves to say theyre just fighting for white rights, that theyre not racist. But thats absurd. Its just racism dressed up in a new language, Heidi Beirich of the Southern Poverty Law Centers Intelligence Project told Time.
CNN isn't called Fox Lite for nothing but WTF?
The shooting at the Jewish center made it clear that so-called white supremacists are registered democrats. The shooter even ran for office as a democrat. KKK bigots were democrats during the 50's and 60's and the democrat party was the party of segregation. Robert Byrd, the democrat senator from W.V. was a KKK leader. The bigot supreme court justice appointed by FDR, Hugo Black, hated Catholics and coincidentally wrote the majority opinion regarding the modern version of separation of church and state that bigoted left wingers have used for fifty years to subjugate Christians.
Wow, you people don't even try to be creative anymore. Democrats are racists, GOP is racists...blah, blah, whoopity fucking doo, blah, honey boo boo is fat, blah, KKK are dems, blah dah GOP is evil and racist, blah, insert irrelevant link, insert ad hominem attack, blah, blacks are inferior, blah Republican KKK, blah, Stephanie nonsense, blah, Guno nonsense, lublub chimes in, more generalized attacks against one side, blah...
I just saved you 8 pages of USMBC style debate!
In effect, the Klan was a military force .. of the Democratic party, the planter class, and all those who desired the restoration of white supremacy. It aimed to destroy the Republican party.
Well, I thought I saved you 8 pages of the nonsense. What does this have to do with the KKK rebranding itself?They have rebranded - They now just call themselves Democrats. Where as in the past they were Klans men and Democrats.
In effect, the Klan was a military force .. of the Democratic party, the planter class, and all those who desired the restoration of white supremacy. It aimed to destroy the Republican party.
To this very day, a large majority of African Americans continue to support the Democratic party which continues to enslave Blacks under an increasingly sophisticated methodology. The type of slavery has changed, it was once forced servitude where now it is a slavery to handouts.
E.W. Jackson of Virginia, Black Politician, Republican Party candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Virginia
"The party lines of the 1860s/1870s are not the party lines of today," she wrote to us. "Although the names stayed the same, the platforms of the two parties reversed each other in the mid-20th century, due in large part to white ‘Dixiecrats’ flight out of the Democratic Party and into the Republican Party after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. By then, the Democratic Party had become the party of ‘reform,’ supporting a variety of ‘liberal’ causes, including civil rights, women’s rights, etc. whereas this had been the banner of the Republican Party in the nineteenth century."
State Sen. Stephen Martin says Democratic Party created the Ku Klux Klan | PolitiFact Virginia
You can't spell KKK without GOP
