Why would the BBC do this?

[CREATIVE!11]

BBC is infested with SJW's.

 

[angel102]

BBC is infested with SJW's.

yes, because having issues with Nazi's makes you a SJW.

 

[plasmahal]

Members of which American political party formed the original KKK?

The Democrats...

Founded in 1866, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) extended into almost every southern state by 1870 and became a vehicle for white southern resistance to the Republican Party’s Reconstruction-era policies aimed at establishing political and economic equality for blacks. Its members waged an underground campaign of intimidation and violence directed at white and black Republican leaders. Though Congress passed legislation designed to curb Klan terrorism, the organization saw its primary goal–the reestablishment of white supremacy–fulfilled through Democratic victories in state legislatures across the South in the 1870s.

Which 2016 Presidential Candidate received $20 million from the KKK's Californian chapter?

Clinton but it wasn't to the tune of $20 million...

 

[MagicBoy]

Ask the BBC. It's not difficult.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints

 

[matt100]

Willfully misrepresented stuff

Continue the story?

You know the bit where it turns out the modern incarnation of the KKK is situated pretty much entirely with the republicans and has been for over 100 years..

The longer version.

 

[plasmahal]

Continue the story?

You know the bit where it turns out the modern incarnation of the KKK is situated pretty much entirely with the republicans and has been for over 100 years..

The longer version.

Try understanding the original question.....

Members of which American political party formed the original KKK?

 

[matt100]

Try understanding the original question.....

Members of which American political party formed the original KKK?

I understand the question. The reason you're asking it and then contextualising it with long out of date info/half story is clearly to create an impression or equivalence to today. Which is doesn't so it's completely disingenuous.

Put differently, the democrats have clearly moved on a long way, the republicans seem to be going backwards.

And this whataboutism is a very weak argument for really awful behaviour.

 

[Orionaut]

Or you respect the history of the area even if it's rather dark in places.

The American civil war wasn't about slavery.

"Emancipation" was about destroying the agricultural economy of the Southern states so they would not have the resources to fight the industrialized Northern ones.

 

[plasmahal]

I understand the question. The reason you're asking it and then contextualising it with long out of date info/half story is clearly to create an impression or equivalence to today. Which is doesn't so it's completely disingenuous.

Put differently, the democrats have clearly moved on a long way, the republicans seem to be going backwards.

And this whataboutism is a very weak argument for really awful behaviour.

I didn't ask the question, just replied with the facts.

I can't help it if you don't like the facts!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[matt100]

I didn't ask the question, just replied with the facts.

I can't help it if you don't like the facts!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No you replied with half the story which was my point so seeing as it's not me who's got issues with the facts it's you who has issues with context which I suspect are intentional.. here's the facts..

https://www.politifact.com/virginia...sen-stephen-martin-says-democratic-party-cre/

Details about the hate group’s founding are murky -- including the exact year it began. Some cite 1865 as its start, others say it was 1867. Historians generally agree it was founded by a handful of Confederate veterans in Pulaski, Tenn. as a social fraternity and it quickly changed into a violent group that terrorized newly empowered black and white Republicans in the South.

J. Michael Martinez, the author of a 2007 book "Carpetbaggers, Calvary and the KKK," told us many angry Southern whites during the 1860s and 1870s were Democrats and a smaller number of them joined the KKK.

So there is some historic link between Democrats and the KKK. But Martinez said it is misleading to say that the hate group was started by the Democratic Party because it was more of a grassroots creation.

There’s another point to consider.

"To say that the Ku Klux Klan was started by the Democratic Party -- it’s not the Democratic party of today," Martinez said. "(From the) 1930s until today, you think of the Democratic Party being considered the party of the disenfranchised."

Other historians had similar takes.

Carole Emberton, an associate professor of history at the University at Buffalo, wrote in an email that various "Klans" that sprung up around the South acted as a "strong arm" for many local Democratic politicians during Reconstruction. Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest -- believed to be the KKK’s first Grand Dragon -- even spoke at the 1868 Democratic National Convention, said Emberton, author of "Beyond Redemption: Race, Violence and the American South after the Civil War."

But Emberton added a major caveat:

"The party lines of the 1860s/1870s are not the party lines of today," she wrote to us. "Although the names stayed the same, the platforms of the two parties reversed each other in the mid-20th century, due in large part to white ‘Dixiecrats’ flight out of the Democratic Party and into the Republican Party after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. By then, the Democratic Party had become the party of ‘reform,’ supporting a variety of ‘liberal’ causes, including civil rights, women’s rights, etc. whereas this had been the banner of the Republican Party in the nineteenth century."

Elaine Frantz Parsons, an associate professor at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh said that most post-Civil War southern whites were Democrats who were unhappy with Republican policies on Reconstruction while large numbers of newly-freed slaves were Republicans.

"So it is not surprising that the Reconstruction era Klan would have been very largely Democrats attacking Republicans," Parsons said in an e-mail. "But this simply does not map well at all onto the party structure we know today. Among other things, the Republicans (during Reconstruction) were condemned as the party of big government and as wanting to centralize authority on the federal level."

Our ruling

Martin said the KKK was created by the Democratic Party. He acknowledged he was wrong.

Historians say the KKK consisted of a group of Southern whites after the Civil War who were Democrats. But there’s no evidence the KKK was created by their political party.

It should also be noted that the anti-black Democratic Party of the 1860s and 1870s bears no similarity to the party of today.

Recognizing that Martin has expressed regret for his statement. We rate his claim False.

So where now? Politifact being biased or some mental gymnastics to suggest that's what you meant all along?

Or maybe "oh wow I never knew that I just read something on Facebook that I agreed with"?