What led to the rise of the KKK in the 1920s?

Jim crow

Probably an alphabet agency work.

Probably funding from wealthy elites to counter growing progressive and socialist movements.

Anti-Catholic
America truly is most heretical nation

WWI and the Communist Revolution in Russia made Americans hate everything deemed foreign, and that included blacks, Jews, and Catholics.

Top kek I didn't even know they hated catholics I thought KKK were just a bunch of black-killing bunch. Have I been lied to by the Jews?

>Have I been lied to by the Jews?
The answer is always "yes".

Unironically this. They were completely disconnected from the original Klan who the US Army has wiped out half a century ago.

not true, many protestant immigrants joined the klan, religion was at the heart of most klan activities and "muh jerbs" was an opportunistic side hustle

America already hated all those things though. It is pretty interesting how a large portion of the base for the early Democratic party came from Catholics who knew they needed southerners to protect them from the Protestant northern middle class, but later the most extreme wing among those same Democrat southerners goes full anti Catholic when it was already too late.

Niggers and the awful mismanagement of Reconstruction.

Wouldn't you want to be a good Klansman?

The KKK is very seductive like scientology, communism or fascism, the idea a group of people are going to come together and solve all the world's problems, all swelling with pride and the approval of their peers. It petered out very quickly though when the fad wore off.

why did they use catholic imagery if they were anti-catholics

Because it wasn't really about the protestantism, it was about tribalism. They probably didn't care about theological issues, they just liked wearing a cool outfit and being a part of a secret club. (and killing blacks)

The fire eaters of the Confederate aristocracy were made up of crypto-catholic larpers, the Klan started out as a fraternal brotherhood for former Confederate officers.

Flynn effect

Catholics are literal Satanists, if anything it's them that are the heretics

>Catholics are literal Satanists
Do people unironically believe this ? I've seen this posted once but i assumed it was some low-quality bait because you'd have to be a complete moron to seriously think catholicism comes close to revering satan.
I mean, a significant deal of Catholic Christianity history is "burn dah satan worshipper". What kind of twisted logic leads you to believe such a retarded statement ? Either you're baiting and we're both clearly wasting bandwidth or you have no idea what catholicism is

it's protestant logic
also the vatican looks like a snake or something

it was started but general gump, so i guess youre right?

oh yes, it's died out among mainstream protestants but there's still a sizable anti-catholic following among fringe sects and fundamentalists, and as they tend to view the Pope as the antichrist incarnate it goes from there.
Ian Paisley is a great example (he's from Northern Ireland but the fact this nutjob was so influential says a lot)
>In 1988, having given advance warning of his intentions, Paisley interrupted a speech being delivered by Pope John Paul II in the European Parliament. Paisley shouted "I denounce you as the Antichrist!" and held up a poster reading "Pope John Paul II ANTICHRIST". Other MEPs jeered Paisley, threw papers at him and snatched his poster, but he produced another and continued shouting. He was admonished by Parliamentary President Lord Plumb, who formally excluded him. He was then forcibly removed from the chamber.[22][23][24][25] Paisley claims he was injured by other MEPs—including Otto von Habsburg—who struck him and threw objects at him.[26][27][28] Paisley believed the European Union is a part of a conspiracy to create a Roman Catholic superstate controlled by the Vatican. He claimed in an article that the seat no. 666 in the European Parliament is reserved for the Antichrist.[29]

back to Croatia or some other papist shithole with you

I honestly have a much more general response to this thread, more than just MUH KKK.

I think a lot of us forget just how severely destabilizing WWI was to the world as a whole. Yes WWII was bigger, with more deaths and with more guns, but in my opinion, WWII was simply the aftershock from the truly 'Great' War.

Look at it this way. WWII didn't do much besides cement the USSR and the US over the Nips, Germans, or Great Britain. Yes it was a conflict fueled by ideologies, but you knew that one of those five (or more) nations was going to be a superpower, WWII just decided who.

WWI was insane. Although the British navy could probably wreck the British or German navy from 1914 (less ships today, sure, but only 5% of all artillery fired from a ship even hit another ship back then). Today we have missiles, rockets, helicopters, planes... Ez Pz.

But think about the fact that Great Britain's naval strength RELATIVE to its neighbors was so amazingly strong. The German army's RELATIVE strength compared to its neighbors was insane. The American industrial might RELATIVE to all other industrialized nations was insane.

WWI changed everything. From an even playing field of around 8 equally strong nations, each mighty in their own way (Germany: Army; Britain, Navy; France, Army and Culture etc...), to a complete shell shocked landscape.

Britain's economy was in tatters and its empire on the brink of collapse. France for the next two decades would face massive political divide, electing a basic communist government with only 30% of popular support in the 30s. Germany went full on crazy.

WWI was so much more RELATIVELY destabalizing to the world than WWII. You went from massive 8 nations basically controlling everything, to a complete shit show.

People got scared, and as scared people often do, they went extremist in their politics.

The reason the aftershock of WWI is so fascinating is because it's like a Greek Tragedy. Each nation lost what they took pride in.

As it turns out, forcing people to live around other people they dont want to live around breeds aggression.

this is a lot more true than most realize

the Klan was at it's height in the 1920's, and a big part of that was because many members themselves described going off to WW1 thinking they were heroes fighting villains, only to have it be the worst most inglorious war ever.
So they decided to become their own Knights at home, Knights of the KKK.

it stemmed from fuck crazy irish and scottish protestant sectarianists

I think its just an old european costume that represents ghosts, KKK used it to represent ghosts of fallen civil war soldiers

>what is a capirote

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capirote

And this is an interesting account of why the KKK appears like it is today:

newrepublic.com/article/127242/klan-got-hood

Well that's oversimplification. I think the racist movements grew and grew following the Reconstruction and Jim Crow laws from late 19th century. The Birth of a Nation was made as a result of these sentiments which resulted in the rise of KKK. President Wilson was friendly towards them. His successors were against but it took WWII to change the situation.

>The reason the aftershock of WWI is so fascinating is because it's like a Greek Tragedy. Each nation lost what they took pride in.
list?

I think he meant the empire or the old European class system. Europe in 1914 still felt like 19th century in some ways and WWII turned it upside down. I always call it the end of the world and it seems it's a rather common conception.

20 something countries announced their independence and around 12 managed to defend it. Turkey, Germany, Austria-Hungary and Russia were decapitated and even though the British kept their monarchy the country was in a huge debt.

Germany lost its army/martial (though they sought of got it back in WWII)
Britain lost her naval supremacy
Don't know about America, they only really started de-industrializing in the 80s onward, or maybe he's talking about the great depression.

they are meant to represent ghosts too

kek

Right, but there's no way WWI didn't exacerbate that.

It doesn't help that they think everyone obeys the pope just because they are catholics, which is easily disproved by knowing just a little bit of european history

can someone explain why the KKK is anti-catholic?

Same reason they're anti-Muslim.

anti-catholic bias was historically a big thing in America for a while. Even with Kennedy, it was a big deal during the election because there was talk that, being a Catholic, he'd be subservient to the Pope.

A lot of the bias probably stems from the fact that the majority of white Americans come from protestant immigrants - mainly English and German. Larger Catholic populations tended to come later in American history, and the trend seems to be that they were among the less-appreciated minorities - Italians, Irish, etc. It probably also didn't help that the whole American ideal of not having a King seems to not fit in with the idea of following the Pope, particularly before the fairly recent liberalization of the Catholic Church.

>American pr*testants

the-american-catholic.com/2010/07/21/the-klan-and-progressivism/

America is White Anglo-Saxon Protestant, Catholicism is foreign, or at least relegated to the Maryland containment zone historically.

>many whites joined a white nationalist group
Okay

why are/were they so violent if they're so protestant?

>white nationalist group
>attacks whites

???

"American whites"

>white
>nationalism

You take it way too seriously comparedto here in England

God isn't real

how come they hate catholics but are fine with anglicans?

>attacks race traitors
fixed

The Democrats used to be the irreligious and belligerent war hawk group in the USA, as opposed to the exaggerated piety and pacifism of the northerners/Republicans. Gradually the north ceased to be politically animated chiefly by Protestantism and moved on to other newer memes, the bellicose nationalistic lower class was incongruously left holding the bag of Protestantism as a remnant of the old order.

You say that but you literally had a civil war next door over this shit.

Your government was collaborating with protestant supremacist terrorists into the 1990s dude.

I don't usually agree with the whole
>reddit spacing
meme, but for god's sake, make your paragraphs at least 3 fucking sentences mobilefag.

>UVF