The Rise Of The Kkk

[sp1814]

Do you think this is true?

Are the KKK becoming more popular?

If so, why?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/kkk-trump-membership-rise-grown-record-pace-says-leader-chris-barker-a7905811.html

[scooping]

Who says they are? Think it is probably gibberish.

[fender62]

i see them as a bunch of red neck inbreds without education of cultural exchange.. ie never left hillbilly country and seen there is a whole new world beyond moonshine and chewing tobacco..funny actually

[scooping]

But how do you get "they are becoming more popular"?

[mikey4444]

We must take anything the Leader of the KKK says, with a wheel-barrow-full of salt. Any organisation that can spout the hate-filled rubbish that they do must be suspect in everything else they do and say.

Are they more popular ? ...surely the important question to ask is why they exist at all ?

[scooping]

Fender: They're not funny but find it difficult to believe they might be' on the rise'.

[ToraToraTora]

a KKK bloke in the indy? PMSL not enough salt in the world SP!

[mikey4444]

How would we know for sure whether the KKK membership is dropping, rising, or staying where it is ?

After all, we would need to rely on their figures, and I'm not sure if any of them could count to 12, without taking their shoes and socks off first.

[sp1814]

TTT

Yeah, I think he might be 'shouting the odds' but they certainly seem to be more visible than when I was growing up. Back in the 80s, they were an anachronism - you only learned about them in History at school when I was a lad.

But now, they fit into History and Current Affairs!

[mikey4444]

We should be wary of mixing up an increase in popularity, with a increase in visibility.

Of course the KKK and other Far Right Nazi groups are more visible, now that being a racist has become acceptable and even fashionable to some people.

[ToraToraTora]

mikey, you'll have to join and get us some reliable figures, a greater love hath no aber that he layeth down is own opinion for the good of the site!

[mikey4444]

TTT....as I have explained, there are no reliable figures as to the Membership of the KKK.

But they have, without doubt, become more visible of late, more visible since the bad old days of America's past.

[ToraToraTora]

whoooosh!

[jourdain2]

I didn't know that membership is on the rise. If it is, then it will be because too much unpalatable stuff is being shoved down American throats. Action/reaction is an immutable law. Balance and tolerance is required.

[sp1814]

jourdain2

//If it is, then it will be because too much unpalatable stuff is being shoved down American throats//

Such as?

I mean, whatever it is would have to be pretty horrific to make someone want to join a group who (within living memory) were lynching black people and/or chaining them to the back of pick-ups and driving down carriageways until their skin came off.

[jourdain2]

I agree that they are pretty 'far out', sp. But the question was 'Why?' and I gave an appropriate, if unpalatable, answer. :)

[andy-hughes]

I'd agree with the view that rising visibility does not equate with rising numbers.

[sp1814]

jourdain2

I mean...what is 'unpalatable'???

Whatever it is has to pretty incredible to make someone want to join the KKK don't you think?

[Zacs-Master]

Could it be linked to Trump becoming president? He has a lot of southern voters and people like to be associated with success.

[jourdain2]

Yes, of course, SP, but I'm not an American, thank Heavens, so I can't visualise or approve of what some of them think is 'too much'. It is a fact, however, that when people think that things have gone too far (in their opinion)then that is when a reaction sets in. This is probably what is behind the rise in numbers of the KKK. (I don't like it, by the way.)

[naomi24]

Mikey constantly tells us we must beware of the far right because its numbers are increasing, and yet here, for some unknown reason, he appears to doubt it. I don’t know if the KKK in particular is becoming more popular, but why the far right is on the rise is the real question. If you look at recent history and really think about that, the reason there is more social discontent is obvious. Political correctness promotes multiculturalism and diversity and those who have the gall – for that it what it apparently is - to criticise those dubious wonders are demonised as bigots, etc., etc. We have organisations supporting and lauding black/Asian people and their achievements, whereas organisations supporting white people and their achievements don’t – and more to the point cannot - exist because that would be deemed ‘racist’. As unpalatable as it may be, the playing field is not perceived to be even. That is why. It’s not rocket science.