Sunday, February 10, 2008
The KKK is not A-okay
In class, I was very surprised how the KKK used language in their website. To me, the KKK is both a backwards, and very wrong organization. I thought their website was interesting because I was expecting it to be very outwardly racist, which we saw was not the case. Instead, the website tried to present the organization as spreading faith and love. It gave me a bit more understanding of why some people are see this group in a different way then I. Since the group represents themselves as spreading "love" and "a Christian way of life" children brought up in this world, do not see this organization as innately evil. The language used in the website is naturalized to many of these followers. They don't think of the group's message as wrong or backwards. They see it as spreading love to their fellow (white) man. This is interesting to me, because I've been brought up to believe looking at the KKK in any type of positive way as preposterous. It is not naturalized for me to hear words like "love" and relate them to this group. Unlike their members, I cannot accept their words as truth, but as simply a load of crap. It is strange for me to realize there is an entire group of people for whom it is natural to think of this group in a positive way. I thought the website was a great example of the way institutions use discourse to control the way people think.
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zyes it is not ok. after reading your comment i went to the kkks website and i was also supriced on what they believe to be good.
You made a good point- it is weird to see the kkk being looked at in a postive way, and even weirder to think that some people have always felt that way, even before they changed the look of their website.
I agree with you. That is pretty sly of the KKK to make themselves appear as something their not. Maybe they think if they lie, they can get more people to eventually think they way they do.
Great way of looking at the KKK websites discourse. I think its interesting how you brought up the point of children being raised into that sub-cultural influence. Not really knowing or understanding what the real underlying message of the KKK is and when the child is older their view of the world is simply whats been engraved into their minds as they've grown. Goes to show how diverse our world really is.
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