New Zealand councilor attends meeting dressed as Ku Kluxer

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD4ma24NfL4

Words fail me. Watch for yourself.

[CaptainChewbacca]

The term is 'Klansman', not ku-kluxer.

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The term is 'Klansman', not ku-kluxer.

... The fact saves good Ludwig's bacon. His music survives because it lies outside the plane of the popular apprehension, like the colors beyond violet or the concept of honor. If it could be brought within range, it would at once arouse hostility. Its complexity would challenge; its lack of moral purpose would affright. Soon there would be a movement to put it down, and Baptist clergymen would range the land denouncing it, and in the end some poor musician, taken in the un-American act of playing it, would be put on trial before a jury of Ku Kluxers, and railroaded to the calaboose.

- H.L. Mencken, The Baltimore Evening Sun, June 29, 1925

[Teebs]

I seriously checked around after seeing that to try to work out whether it was a parody or not.

The revelation at 3 minutes in just takes the biscuit, particularly with the interviewer's slightly plaintive "why would you have done that?" You have to ask what kind of person would be so stupid as to make a protest like that and yet also be able to get themselves elected, even to local government.

[CaptainChewbacca]

- H.L. Mencken, The Baltimore Evening Sun, June 29, 1925

That's an article 85 years out of date. In the same way we no longer say 'chinaman' or 'good-time-girl' the term is now klansman.

[NecronLord]

Stow the vocabulary nitpicking people.

[Stofsk]

Oh man. I wasn't prepared for the 3min mark. Holy shit.

I laughed, I admit it - this is so absurd. How can anyone seriously do this and not be joking? God.

[Skgoa]

What do you mean by "not be joking"? He said several times that its a parody to highlight this "hoody" issue. Though I think he could/should have been better prepared for the interview, in order to show more "I am sacrificing my dignity for this" and less "I am a total nutjob".

[Stofsk]

True - he did say this was a political satire.

[mr friendly guy]

This is from 2008 people. I remember this article being posted in N & P some time ago and just to make sure I wasn't mistaken I watched the video. Yes it was the same one where the guy blacks up his face which is revealed after removing the Klansmen hood. That thread turned into a fight between the "Pro-hoodies" and the "anti-hoodies" which I really don't have much interest.

[DudeGuyMan]

I think I was lurking for that '08 thread. I remember thinking "Gee, I own a couple hoodies and would never be taken for a thug in NZ or anyone else. Because I dress like a regulary guy in a hoodie and not a fucking thug."

[Skgoa]

Wait, this was about baning actual hoodies? OK, with a topic this ridiculous all bets are off, IMHO.