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[–] HexadecimalSky@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It will never stop being funny to me that bwfore the movie"Birth of a nation" the KKK was dressed fairly differently, the getup and terminology come from that movie (Not the ideolog, ofc they kept that), and the reason for the white baggy cloth is because the movies explanations was that african Americans where scared of ghosts so we should dress up as ghosts to scare them.

[–] NichEherVielleicht@feddit.org 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] HexadecimalSky@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Lol, yeah beating the KKK is just modern ghost busting.

[–] NewDark 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Three of those originate in the US. Amazing.

We're such a nation of reactionaries and we are so primed for fascism.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Wait until you find out where Hitler took a lot of inspiration from...

[–] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

I'm sorry, but one of these is fundamentally different from the others!

The KKK one is a hood, not a hat.

[–] chellewalker@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Slightly bugs me that the KKK hat is before the Confederate hat; it was so close to being in chronological order.

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 2 points 2 months ago

It was originally ordered but entropy and all that.

[–] Goldmage263@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Awww. Image broke. Just me, or does anyone have a reupload?

[–] NastyNative@mander.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

Where is the OIF helmet?