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It started out as a prank organization to scare black people… Those outfits they’re canonically supposed to be dressed as dead confederate soldiers haunting the south.

If you ask me they leaned too heavy into the racism, and not heavily enough into theatrics and costumes. The problem is they held onto some 1900s sense of injustice, and didn’t roll with the times, didn’t stay up to date. They didn’t stay justice or improve on their first poorly selected target… So they became violent and nasty instead.

A shame, I’d love a horse back theater group “haunting” cops and healthcare CEOs… In that timeline the KKK would be a different organization entirely.

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sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Hmm, we should start a rival organization. We can keep the ghost theme, but perhaps go with dead WW2 heroes that push against fascism and abuse of power of every variety.

Maybe the WWW? World War Wraiths.

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- captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I’m in. And we can bring back the thing with women wearing bright red lipstick because Hitler didn’t like it. Am I just imagining rockabilly goths doing antifascist pranks and protests? Yes. Does that reduce this in the slightest? Not in the slightest.
  
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- rambling_lunatic@sh.itjust.works ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  The Sextuple-U
  
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  - LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    “Sex U” for short
    
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Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
So, gray hoodies and green fiddler hats?

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agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

If you ask me they leaned too heavy into the racism, and not heavily enough into theatrics and costumes

You know, I watched my wife work all day gettin’ thirty bags together for you ungrateful sons of bitches! And all I can hear is criticize, criticize, criticize! From now on, don’t ask me or mine for nothin’!

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