I guess the KKK is being attacked, but it doesn't matter because their moral compass has been off since day 1. It might have been fine then, but times change.
Not talking about the KKK, talking about potential recruits from southerners who love their guns, their bibles and their confed flags. KKK can use all three as platforms to launch recruitment drives, going from the above topics of Obama's gun control drives, that recent court ruling on gay marriage going country-wide on the USA and the recent hurricane shitstorm on the confed flag onto "and then John was the jews" to swell their numbers with the people who use the south will rise again bumpers. It's like when the KKK defended the US army funeral from Westboro Baptist Church people; strike common accord, strike commonality - then you can strike. Three strikes you're out and you're into the KKK.
To be honest the KKK are not very smart and are made up of 50% CIA agents, there's nothing to worry about until they once more punch above the local level.
Also on the topic of their recruitment tactics there's nothing new, what's new is that their rhetoric has more oomph given the coinciding of loads of events in America (mainly the three above).
The ADL has this to say (years ago):
Of all the types of right-wing hate groups that exist in the United States, the Klan remains the one with the greatest number of national and local organizations around the country.
More than 40 different Klan groups exist, many having multiple chapters, or “klaverns,” including a few that boast a presence in a large number of states. There are over a hundred different Klan chapters around the country, with a combined strength of members and associates that may total around 5,000.
After a period of relative quiet, Ku Klux Klan activity has spiked noticeably upwards in 2006, as Klan groups have attempted to exploit fears in America over gay marriage, perceived “assaults” on Christianity, crime and especially immigration.
They are also unified in the sense that ISIS is a unified force stretching from Africa to Asia; it's a bunch of separate groups with varying political and religious goals that share the same name as fame = recruitment, and they don't fight amongst themselves because they hate everyone else more. It means that there's no central authorities beyond the klan level, so you can't just decapitate a snake because it's really more like combing through a field of worms. Also of note is that I remember an interview with a KKK man, not high level but one of their grunts going on about how he was disappointed in the organization because all they did was do marches that didn't really recruit anyone. If that is true then any recruitment they get now is far more than they're accustomed to, and as it gets bigger its opportunities to grow gets bigger too. I've also seen news reports where they say are 160 clans and there may be up to 8,000 members, but I'm not sure what has given them such a widely different definition. Either in the two years between the reports there was a fracture/new foundings or they just draw the lines differently. If these 5-8,000 were spread out they'd be no more harmless than your usual thug but I'm going to hazard a guess and say they're concentrated in certain areas, the ADL saying Midwest and South. Good luck there, must be just fun. I wonder how many people it'll take before they consider themselves strong enough to strike or if they'll just keep on trying to grow. I know their heroin running cousins in the Aryan Brotherhood killed some atourneys who were trying to imprison their guys a few years ago, though they're more money first and nazis second (one of the highest defectors is even on quote as calling the AB race traitors for doing nothing but run heroin).
Though on second thought it doesn't really matter much how many thousand more KKK members they recruit when they already have thousands - what matters more are how many sympathizers and supporters they get, the people who won't go so far as to join the KKK but will get all apologetic and give shekels for burning crosses and tablecloths. That'd be a larger pool of people you wouldn't really know are sympathizers, and their number can grow far larger.
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