Long story short: My cousin married a woman with kids. This woman was trash. She made awful comments about anyone not white or southern. Usually everyone ignored her.

If I were going to be a conspiracy theorist, my conspiracy of choice would be that Beck et. al. spent years purposefully stripping the Nazi-associated terms of all coherent meaning through inappropriate- and over-use as part of a plan to make them meaningless for when they really may be apt.

Every time someone does an expose on the KKK, it just highlights how impoverished and backwards the members are. I think that the problem with this kind of program is that it makes racists seem harmless and impotent, a bunch of pathetic yokels with nothing better to do than pretend they are superior to black people…

This guy.

This was really informative and we’ll written, thank you.

no, people need to see this because there are a lot of white people (I am white, have white friends, work with white people...so that is who I am talking about) who think this shit doesn’t exist anymore, and the only real hate group now are from people of color (be it Nation of Islam, BLM, some Latino group, whatever).

“Revealing” racism and hate like this is only helpful when the audience hasn’t proven itself in the mood to get off on this stuff. Yeah, now isn’t the time for this documentary series. America is kind of in a place right now where we’re not at our most discerning. We’re at a place right now where this is just as…

“...an ‘Imperial Wizard’ trying to recruit his daughter into the KKK”

This is a really good comment. Thanks.

Yeah... this strategy was taken when it came to Trump and his bigot army, with the constant exposure from even left-leaning media, basically saying “haha... can you believe this trainwreck?”, people ate it up, gave him all of the attention he could ever ask for, and look where that got us. I don’t think enough of the…

Ah, the KKK, for whom treason, sedition, and terrorism are family values.

In law school we had a group/organization that researched and worked on murder cases from the Civil Rights era and many (if not all) of these murders were committed by the Klan. Some of the documents I read were absolutely disgusting and I hate to think that this show will some how fetishize or God-forbid normalize…

Ah, that explains the lack of Duck Dynasty filled cabinet positions.

The problem isn’t the scuttling and hiding. The problem is the general apathy the common person has with turning to someone else and telling them that they have shit opinions and that they should go to hell.

I absolutely agree. I love history, particularly historical podcast. But the way most of these specials aren’t really examining the rise of hitler and delving deep into the historical context. It just feels like propaganda. If it was like a Ken burns type special I would have no objection. I wish I was a bit more…

Good point. The KKK (or any white nationalist\supremecy group) can’t be taken out of context from the whole alt-right phenomena now. While each group or faction may have it’s own peculiar agenda, Trump’s rise has given them a big tent in which to gather. Too much focus on one group may give others more space to…

My initial reaction was that this miniseries might show the viewing public how horrid these people are.

Related...There is and has been a disturbing trend of total fetishization of hitler everything. I swear there are multiple history related channels that might as well be called the hitler network. Yes their specials are titled THE MOST EVIL MAN IN HISTORY, but it’s still all hitler all the time in a way that can be…

I fear just as the media drove interest in ISIS (which led to higher recruiting numbers) this election has done the same with the whole “alt right” movement.

Hot damn! I just realized that I have become a Cougar. I wonder if he likes bigger kitties cause Ima raaaawr!