Also, who on earth substitutes "Spanish" for "Hispanic"? 70-year-olds, I guess.
People concerned that Señor Wences is taking our jorbs?
In American history class in high school, we read the KKK constitution (Konstitution?), or some founding document, and yeah, it was mostly about boggling at the ridiculousness of it. Didn't dsquared have some theory about the KKK having been organized by drycleaners trying to get the white-robe/hood cleaning business?
3: The 20's KKK revival, that would be, I think.
Oh, right. I mean, the OG Nathan Bedford Forrest Klan, not so much about drycleaning.
1: One of my grandmothers, born and raised in Nowheresville, North Carolina, euphemized (from her perspective) Latinos/Hispanics as "Italian."
I am not a crackpot making this up.
Can we, as a society, agree to establish a biennial holiday long weekend of punching KKK members and similar white supremacists, Neo-Nazis and other depraved filth in their wretched faces? It could really bring the rest of us together, à la that snake-killing holiday on The Simpsons.
1 - I guess some people here will mock it as a lawyerly/establishment liberal "oh my stars" reaction, but I was for real shocked by that. We now have the presumptive presidential candidate from one of our two major parties making fun of the Latino ethnicity of a sitting federal judge, in a case involving that candidate?!? What the hell.
Fortunately there's no special reason to worry about this kind of language, because either (a) the Republican party has always already used exactly this rhetoric and/or (b) at least Trump is an anti-establishment populist.
6.3: Too late! Trump already has Secret Service protection.
2: A formerly resident historian mentioned a paper about them.
"who knew that the KKK had such dorky fucking names for everything
Everyone? I mean, their leader is the "Grand Wizard". And, you know, they're the Ku Klux Klan.
I wonder how much right wing violence and political activity could be defused if only they had a more harmless outlet for their obvious deep desire to LARP.
How many lives has D&D saved?
10: really, you clicked through and knew those titles?
International Order of St. Hubertus, for instance.
Deum Diligite Animalia Diligentes
How many lives has D&D saved?
Can one truly call them "lives"?
LARP the '50s? LARP the '20s? LARP the post-Reconstruction? LARP the Middle Ages? How's a white guy to decide?
10: really, you clicked through and knew those titles?
Obviously I didn't know a lot of them, but I did know that every single bit of official KKK nomenclature, including the KKK itself, that I had heard, was fucking dorky.
Also, it may be a bit late now, but given past experience on Sadly, No! and LGM, should we not be googleproofing this thread?
3: I think there was a Mitchell and Webb skit along those lines.
Christ, how far does he go down his Google hits, that you have to Google-proof his name?
Do Armenians count as white for the Klan? There could be some real synergy between the Klan and the Kardashians.
Everyone? I mean, their leader is the "Grand Wizard". And, you know, they're the Ku Klux Klan.
What an obnoxious response! I forgive you. You're probably just having a bad day.
This must mean that America is finally ready for a Mortal Kombat reboot.
21: Clinton could make it even more exciting by picking Kanye as her VP.
Don't blame me, I voted Jill Stein/Raw Poetic.
6.3: Too late! Trump already has Secret Service protection.
Are we sure those aren't the Hell's Angels?
Something else they're banking on as hurting Trump by showing up scandalous secret reasonableness - perhaps a bit better chances compared to, say, when they thought the same on his Social Security position, since this new one is more directly contrary to how he got popular, but not holding my breath.
21: Those girls seem way too fond of black dick for that to work out.
OP.2: Superman knew!
That is still one of my favorite comic-book-stuff stories. He may be fictional, but that doesn't mean that Superman didn't defeat the real life KKK and nearly eliminate them as a serious political force from the country! (Ok they came back a bit later but not as what they had been before.)
I almost feel like Trump should get off the hook for Trump University, in a way he probably shouldn't for all the other "Trump X's are the greatest ones ever!" scams he ran. I mean, he was selling it as "Hey, I'll teach you how to get suckers to give you lots of money - for only $30,000!". And he made a huge amount doing it as well. At some level there has to be some kind of "Your honor it was too ridiculous and come on they deserve it" defense for this kind of thing.
30.last sounds like the bad version of November.
Waiting for this crowd to start chanting ""Gooble gobble, we accept you, one of us! One of us!"
I thought I knew how dorky KKK names were, but dang.
Kludd? Kligrapp? Kleagle?
This is awesome: "A Klokann of three members, each one named a Klokan"
These all seem like names Doonesbury would have come up with.
I have Trumps' new slogan: Yes we KKKan
31: Sure, but honestly if we agreed that only people who voted for Trump get Trump for their president (maybe we could divide up the country that way) I think I'd have about the same reaction...
30.3: Isn't there some line about it being immoral to leave a sucker's pocket unpicked?
"You can't cheat an honest man; never give a sucker an even break, or smarten up a chump."
There's beer in the hotel room mini-fridge. I can't find a price list. Does that make it complementary?
To not much, apparently. I've never had Skol beer before but its pretty bad.
Higham's history of nativism in the US, Strangers in the Land, is something like 50 years old but still probably worth reading. There's a long section about the KKK of the 1920s resembling a pyramid scheme. I think there's been some recent work on the KKK but I'm no historogaphing type person anymore.
14: True, it depends how they were resurrected after losing all their hit points.
I thought I knew how dorky KKK names were, but dang.
"Affiliated with the Wip Wap Wop and the Bingley Bongley Boo." (The Mitchell & Webb link is on Standpipe's blog.)
41 slolernr linked to something in the comments a while back.
38: No. It means that if you have to ask the price, then you probably can't afford it.
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A previous guest stole the price list.
I've never had Skol beer before but its pretty bad.
The beer is not complimentary. Neither is Spike.
Due to a childhood obsession with secret societies I knew about the Klan's wacky names for everything (Klavern and Klonklave being my favorites). Also I learned their recognition system, which is as comically stupid as everything else about them.
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Is today really Supertuesday? All the sites are only talking about the fucking Republicans, as if the Dem race were over. Sanders chances are slim, but 2016 Supertuesday only allocates half the delegates that 2008 did.
I'm ridiculously tempted to memorize and use the Kalendar system. Hey what's today? Dark, Woeful, and Hideous! When's dinner tonight? Oh, sometime between Bloody and Doleful, probably.
This used to be a stable subject of D^2's blog - how many secret societies the US used to have, and how many of them were basically providers of life insurance. I forget if he covered the KKK (K^3?)
"Oh - don't forget! You have a Bloody Woeful dentist appointment."
I guess in some cases I could see the appeal?
This used to be a stable subject of D^2's blog - how many secret societies the US used to have, and how many of them were basically providers of life insurance. I forget if he covered the KKK (K^3?)
Woodmen Life is still around!
A list of ones in North America.
Forester's still around as well.
Dr. Oronhyatekha [A Mohawk] held the office of Supreme Chief Ranger (now called "International Fraternal President") from 1879 until 1906; he died in 1907. By the early 1890s he had successfully transformed the Foresters into one of North America's leading fraternal benefit societies.
I thought it was sort of common knowledge that the Klan started out as something analogous to a fraternity, or modelled on a fraternity, and that all its nomenclature came from that heritage of intentionally comical frat pranksterdom. ("Frat bros: never turn your back on one.")
(Leastways I remember happening across that answer the first time I heard they had leaders named "Grand Wizards" and "Grand Cyclops.")
I know about "Kleagle," since that's the usual bit of soi-disant evidence that Democrats are the real racists. And "Grand Wizard" is memorable. In that context, none of the other examples here are surprising, but I admit I didn't know them in advance.
Grand Cyclops
Memorably portrayed by John Goodman in O Brother, Where Art Thou?.
Looks like I'm totally paying for the beer. Still don't know the price, though. At the grocery store its like 70 cents a can. I was hoping to buy one and sneak it back into the fridge before they did inventory but I missed my chance.
Typically water is $4/bottle and beer would be $7 per can. Based on my extensive surveying of chain hotels.
I have it on good authority that the water is only $2, so I'm hoping I'll catch a break.
What's the skit where some horrible organization has typical bureaucratic infighting and regulations? I like to imagine something similar at the offices of the KKK. "No, Cletus, you can't just start inserting extra Ks in your business title for your cards and letterhead."
Remember ladies to do your kleagle exercises to keep that area tight down there.
63: David Duke actually was a big Kegel advocate for awhile.
If anyone wants to help out the brave antifascists injured in Anaheim: https://www.gofundme.com/p9rzjhhg
64: Oh fuck those idiots. For christ's sakes, they managed to cede the high ground to Klan members. Real brave of them to fight with like twenty on three odds and kick the shit out of a literal senior citizen. Maybe getting stabbed will be an educational experience.
Don't suppose anyone has a link to anything approaching actual reportage of what happened with the anti-fascists? All I can find is slapfights in the comments sections of the crowdfunding sites.
Doesn't have much detail, though.
Crap, that was the wrong link. http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-kkk-rally-stabbings-wanted-20160229-story.html
I guess if they tell the DA that you attacked an old man in his bed sheets, you get charged with elder abuse instead of assault.