Publisher of Alabama newspaper calls for the Klan to ride on DC with "hemp ropes"

[doctorow]

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/02/18/terrorist-sympathizer.html

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[ChrisDemon]

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[TobinL]

Fuck 45 for making it okay to publicly spout off this shit. Fuck this asshole because he owns the paper and probably wont face any consequences.

Are we tired of all the winning yet?

[Wanderfound]

Seems like a good thread for some history:

American Protective League

Opinion | How Prohibition Fueled the Klan

The Klan has never been far from power. The Confederacy lost the war but won the peace.

[Brainspore]

…Democrats got us into World War I and World War II.

Let’s be real: he isn’t mad that the Democrats got the United States into World War II, he’s mad because we didn’t side with the Nazis.

[FGD135]

The lunatics have taken over the asylum.

[hotel]

@Brainspore

Let’s be real: he isn’t mad that the Democrats got the United States into World War II, he’s mad because we didn’t side with the Nazis.

I think this is probably it. Comments like his and Candace Owens’ show just how much the right would like to rehabilitate past racist/genocidal movements.

Living in France the last few years, I’ve had the distinct impression that the only fundamental objection the Rassemblement national (formerly Front national) had to the Nazi atrocities in France is that they were perpetrated by foreigners…

[timber_munki]

So this gentleman believes the Klan was actual a multiracial vigilante group (that he tacitly approves of) according to ‘Slaves just freed after the Civil War were not stupid. At times they borrowed their former masters’ robes and horses and rode through the night to frighten some evil doer’. OK got it.

[stephen_schenck]

Posting text as an image is really poor interneting: unsearchable, rubbish for people using Braille interfaces or text-to-speech…

[Wanderfound]

@stephen_schenck

Posting text as an image is really poor interneting: unsearchable, rubbish for people using Braille interfaces or text-to-speech…

You have a point.

Here’s the relevant text:

A few months after the Armistice, the League officially disbanded, even as its members insisted they could serve as they had earlier in wartime against America’s post-war enemies, “these bomb fiends, Bolsheviki, IWW’s and other fiends.”[24] The publication of the organization’s story as The Web: A Revelation of Patriotism was an attempt to revive its fortunes as well. That volume by Emerson Hough, an author of Western novels, called for a program of “selective immigration, deportation of un-Americans, and denaturalization of ‘disloyal’ citizens and anarchists.” It said: “We must purify the source of America’s population and keep it pure.”[25] On June 3, 1919, the Washington Post called for the revival of the APL to fight anarchists.[26]

The APL survived as a series of local organizations under other names, such as the Patriotic American League (Chicago) and the Loyalty League (Cleveland).[27] New Jersey members served as investigators for New York’s Lusk Committee investigation of radicals and political dissenters.[28] APL members continued to provide information and manpower to the Department of Justice, notably during the Palmer raids of January 1920. In the 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan recruited members from the Southern branches of the APL.[29] For years following the war, J. Edgar Hoover’s General Intelligence Unit in the Justice Department drew on the APL for information about radicals.[30]

[Wanderfound]

Another relevant vid about Wilson and the Klan:

[FGD135]

Movie Night

[tsath]

Just another white terrorist

[Boundegar]

Wow that’s some serious revisionism. Why does the right hate American history so much?

[GagHalfrunt]

If the Klan ride out with “hemp ropes”, won’t the godless Commies steal the ropes and smoke them?

[evilkolbot]

@Boundegar

Wow that’s some serious revisionism. Why does the right hate American history so much?

Because it’s not on their side

[RickMycroft]

@doctorow

the Democrat-Reporter

Founded 1911, and they couldn’t be arsed to change the name later.

[anon41977465]

because the historians were not avowedly with them in all things.

[Comment_999]

I like his hi-tech setup with that newfangled cathode ray tube display.

[FGD135]

The hemp ropes are a concession to the environmentalists in the movement.