More than 4,000 blacks were lynched by the KKK and associated groups between 1877 and 1950. And this is not counting people like Emmett Till, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson, Addie Mae Collins, and Denise McNair who were killed by KKK terrorism after 1950.
For anybody who has half a brain cell to rub together, it’s clear that the KKK was a racist terror group. But of course, racists generally don’t have half a brain cell to rub together, which is why Georgia Rep. Tommy Benton (R-Klan) said last fall that the KKK “was not so much a racist thing but a vigilante thing to keep law and order” that also “made a lot of people straighten up.” Well, I guess Denise McNair straightened up after she was killed by the KKK. Though what kind of crimes she could have committed at 11 years of age that justified the death penalty eludes me, but she’s definitely not committing crimes anymore, yessiree.
So now the state of Georgia has appointed him to the committee in charge of the state’s Civics curriculum. Where, apparently, he will be free to push guidelines saying that Abraham Lincoln was a criminal for stealing fine Southern gentlemen’s property (i.e., their black slaves).
Just as you think maybe these inbred backwoods cretins are about ready to join the 21st century, they come out and prove they haven’t even reconciled with the 20th century yet, much less the 21st century…
– Badtux the Head-shakin’ Penguin
Cracker-ass weasels such as Benton know the Klan was a mob of racist terrorists. But in the current out-and-loud reich-wing politiKKKal environment, they feel embrazened enough to lie to everyone’s faces. They know that everyone knows they’re lying. They don’t give a rat’s arse. It’s called bullshitting, and Harry Frankfurt wrote a slender book about the topic. It’s a way of showing contempt to decent people who know what the truth is. “I hold you in such low regard that I’m going to spout a line of complete bollocks, because I don’t have the balls enough to just go ‘Fuck you!”” They’re dying to have people call them out on the lies so they can get belligerent or act butthurt that someone was being un-civil to them. Fux Nooz shitheels such as Bill O’Lielly (RIH*) based their shows’ raison d’etres on it.
Further, I see from the linky that Benton is spewing a bullshit counter-argument to the idea of slavery reparations for American blacks:
“Benton once railed against the United States government for trying to end slavery without compensating Southern property owners for $2 billion in lost ‘property.’”
It’s a slimy position to espew, that slave-owners should have been paid out for their crimes against humanity after their slave-lover’s army got its ass whupped. But to a bullshitter, the validity of a point isn’t the point. It’s the spewing that counts, and the disdain it demonstrates for the listener.
* Rot In Hell
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