What is another word for the Ku Klux Klan?

Pronunciation: [ðə kˈuː klˈʌks klˈan] (IPA)

The Ku Klux Klan is a white supremacist and racist organization that has been known to promote hate and violence against minorities. Due to the negative connotations associated with the name, journalists and writers sometimes use synonyms to refer to the group. Some of the synonyms include the KKK, the Klan, the Invisible Empire, the knights of the Ku Klux Klan, and the White Brotherhood. The use of these synonyms is mainly to avoid giving the group any sort of legitimacy or to avoid promoting their hateful ideology.

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A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Famous quotes with The ku klux klan

  • A woman's asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black person's demanding equality in the Ku Klux Klan.
    Mary Daly
  • I had explained that a woman's asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black person's demanding equality in the Ku Klux Klan.
    Mary Daly
  • if History or Progress or 'change' is to be our guide, if the truth of relativism is to replace the truth of the Declaration, then the cause for which the nation fought at its birth, and in the Civil War, was meaningless, too. White power, black power, the Nazis, the Ku Klux Klan, Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, are as justifiable as Jefferson, Lincoln, or the doctrine of the equal natural rights of all human beings
    Harry V. Jaffa
  • The executive branch has sometimes abused its mandate -- most famously, with the surveillance of Dr. King -- but not as much as the Church Committee would have us believe. The FBI's political spying was not the creation of right-wing reactionaries, and it was not systematically targeted at the innocent grassroots left. It was begun by our most liberal of presidents, FDR, who ordered the surveillance of fascist sympathizers in 1936. The most controversial domestic Counterinteligence Programs (Cointelpro) were actually born in the Kennedy administration, as an attempt to disrupt the Ku Klux Klan. The FBI also disrupted "Black Nationalist Hate Groups," including the Black Panthers. This was not political repression; it was a largely successful effort to deal with violent militant groups.
    Mark Riebling
  • Obviously, the faster we process information, the more rich and complex our models or glosses — our reality-tunnels — will become.Most animals, including most domesticated primates (humans) show a truly staggering ability to "ignore" certain kinds of information — that which does not "fit" their imprinted/conditioned reality-tunnel. We generally call this "conservatism" or "stupidity", but it appears in all parts of the political spectrum, and in learned societies as well as in the Ku Klux Klan.
    Robert Anton Wilson

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