Naw, just southern right~ I'd have to be a Democrat to be an actual racist. Like the Nazis and the KKK~
Come on, you know your history, you know better~
Oddly enough there have been several wags on this very board that insist on rewriting "Democrats" into the Klan despite historical evidence but ------------------ Nazis?
You're actually suggesting that you had to be a Democrat to be a Nazi?
Perhaps mincemeat is not quite what you need.
Southern Democrats formed the KKK and the Nazis were Socialists, making them left wing. History doesn't have to be rewritten, except for the Lefties to try to distance themselves from those sources of embarrassment.
Southern Democrats did *not* form the KKK and I advise you not to even tread down this path as I am as well versed in this history as anyone. And the Nazis were "socialists" in name only, and no one in their right mind ever called them "left wing" --- that's absurd.
Revisionism of this magnitude, that would be your source of embarrassment.
Just try me. I've got this stuff all over this site, all I have to do is cut and paste it.
Your move. Prove me wrong, tell the class who formed the Klan. Names, places and dates. I already know.
I mean, if you disregard every single one of Hitler's domestic policies, sure, "in name only". No one calls them "Left Wing" only because the lefttards prefer to distance themselves from their mistakes, and the news media and education system are controlled by said lefttards.
Of course the Klan was formed by Democrats, if it wasn't, their targets wouldn't have been the Republicans, which was the party that freed the slaves in the first place.
Bullshit. And we note you can't answer the question. But I can.
The Klan was formed in the Jones law office in Pulaski Tennessee, December 25 1865, by Capt. John B. Kennedy, Capt. John Lester, Frank McCord, James Crowe, Richard Reed and Calvin Jones.
None of them were politicians or had any political affiliations --- and in Tennessee in 1865 the population was disenfranchised anyway. ALL of them were Confederate ex-soldiers.
That iteration of the Klan lasted less than a decade before being restarted forty years later by one William J. ("Colonel Joe") Simmons, Thanksgiving Day 1915 on Stone Mountain outside Atlanta. Simmons was a defrocked Methodist minister, a huckster, a club-starter, a gambler and a drunk, but again had no known political affiliation.
These are historical and recorded details ---- you don't get to just go "well I've heard they did X Y and Z, therefore they must have been Democrats because in my hopelessly narrowminded little world everything is binary". History is NEVER that simple and you insult it with that kind of loose logic.
The fact is those six vet soldiers were simply bored. Not only did they not have a political aim in mind (and specifically designed it to avoid such connotations), they didn't even have a racial objective in mind. There was no real objective at all except to find something to do. That loose organization was soon infiltrated and in effect taken over by elements that already existed --- including before the War --- known as "slave patrols", "night patrols" or "union regulators". These were in effect guerillas working to continue the War they didn't want to admit they had lost.
It was ugly and it was terrorism and it was dangerous. But it wasn't politics.
As for Nazis, the word "socialism" was a trendy buzzword at the time Hitler joined the party. He objected to it but went along with it for its marketing power. If you actually think that having a particular adjective in the name automatically transmogrifies that entity into the essence of that adjective, then please to essplain to the class the following:
- Grape Nuts
- The Democratic People's Republic of Korea
- 10,000 Maniacs
- The German Democratic Republic
- The "Pennsylvania Dutch"
- The Democratic Republic of Congo
That'll do for now