Pray for a Meteor Strike: KKK Protests WBC

[roo_ster]

Alternately:
"How to make the KKK seem reasonable by comparison(1)."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/klu-klux-klan-protests-westboro-baptist-church-video/2011/05/31/AGgoiPFH_blog.html

Dennis LaBonte, who told CNN he was a military veteran and the “imperial wizard” of a KKK chapter, said the approximately 10 members of the group came in “support of the troops.” LaBonte, who said he’s not a “hate-monger,” said he “thinks that it’s an absolute shame that [the WBC] show up and disrupt people’s funerals.” The group was cordoned off in a separate area and reportedly “drew little attention.”

"When the communists show up to protest the nazis, you're supposed to pray for an asteroid, not pick a favourite."
----Kate McMillan


(1) This is relative, of course.  Something like gibbering cthulhuesque madness versus merely batshit crazy.

[AZRedhawk44]

cthulhuesque

Nomination for APS "Word of the Year" award.

[Perd Hapley]

Remember when the Klan was a secret society? Now they're angling for publicity?

[HankB]

I didn't know the KKK was still around . . . the last reference I saw to them was an editorial cartoon during the last election in which a guy in full Klan regalia was holding up a sign that read "Will Endorse Your Opponent For Money."

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

heck its a hard thing when you gtta root for the klan.  i can remember when they gave scholarships

[brimic]

As President Obama honored fallen soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday, three members of the Westboro Baptist Church protested the ceremony, holding signs that read “Pray for more dead soldiers” and “God hates your prayers,”

These people are really fishing for a beat down.

[Perd Hapley]

So do some people here prefer the Klan to WBC?

[41magsnub]

So do some people here prefer the Klan to WBC?

Where the heck do you get that?  however, I'd say the Klan is a lot less offensive than WBC purely because they have faded mostly into irrelevancy and don't matter much.  Same as the WBC would be if the media would stop supporting their attention-whoring.

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

So do some people here prefer the Klan to WBC?

i'll bite  yea  i like the klan more. wrong as they are in so many things they are more consistent less hypocritical .

[Perd Hapley]

But no one's been lynched in the name of the WBC.

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

yes   so? 

[Perd Hapley]

Yes. So.

[MicroBalrog]

But no one's been lynched in the name of the WBC.

The WBC literally hate all of humanity.

[vaskidmark]

But no one's been lynched yet in the name of the WBC.

FIFY.

stay safe.

[vaskidmark]

The thing about letting the Klan and WBC go off in a corner and decide who is going to be the world's champeen Azzhat is that I'm not sure the WBC folks can even punch like a girl, while the folks representin' as the Klan seem to at least know how to kick and stomp.

Then again, it would not have to be a really big asteroid to take them both out, would it?  So maybe this time we could keep the dinosaurs?

stay safe.

[Perd Hapley]

I'm not sure if one group is worse than the other, but the WBC doesn't seem likely to turn their hatred into action. The Klan has a history of doing that, even if they haven't been so active recently.

[brimic]

but the WBC doesn't seem likely to turn their hatred into action.

Nope. They are trying to bait people into physical action so that they can take legal action.

[roo_ster]

It is OK to despise them both equally.  My Despise-O-Meter, in the presence of so much despicability, pretty much pegs the needle and I lose precision.

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

lets see klan massacres wbc  survivors sue klan?  a perfect storm

[Perd Hapley]

It is OK to despise them both equally.  My Despise-O-Meter, in the presence of so much despicability, pretty much pegs the needle and I lose precision.

That's about how I see it.

[280plus]

Sounds like the pot and the kettle all together in one place. 

[seeker_two]

Maybe we can send in the New Black Panther Movement to negotiate a peace b/t the groups?.....






 

[Zardozimo Oprah Bannedalas]

Maybe we can send in the New Black Panther Movement to negotiate a peace b/t the groups?.....

Nation of Islam FTW!

[Perd Hapley]

Maybe we can send in the New Black Panther Movement to negotiate a peace b/t the groups?.....

I was thinking more like the Brady Center.

[280plus]

Maybe we can send in the New Black Panther Movement to negotiate a peace b/t the groups?.....






 

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