Word: klan
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...Tang Clan, we just look at it as Clan. Clan is the crew, the family, everything is family-oriented. FM: When you say ‘The Clan,’ I just think, it just sounds like...doesn’t it sound like... R: Ku Klux Klan? FM: Yeah. Does that sound weird? R: (laughs) I know, it sounds like that only because you think of it like that. But The Clan to us, it means like a family, if you got a bunch of siblings, that’s a clan too, it’s just...
...liked the movements it represented. They saw it as an inverted broken cross or "the footprint of the American chicken." But it kept spreading through the culture. Like the Christian cross, which has served the purposes of soup kitchens and Crusaders, the Sisters of Mercy and the Ku Klux Klan, it was adaptable. Over time, it evolved from its narrow association with nuclear disarmament into an insignia for countercultures of all kinds. Hippies made it a sort of all-purpose symbol of peacefulness. The environmental group Greenpeace, the militant wing of flower power, adopted it for its eco-defense campaigns...
...examples prove our point: banning an image doesn’t extinguish the hatred behind it. Germany banned the swastika in 1945, yet neo-Nazis still fester in the far-right National Democratic Party. And we highly doubt that banning burning crosses would kill the Ku Klux Klan. Rather, these hate groups would find another symbol to abuse, or ignore the law altogether. It is unfortunate that racist incidents involved noose imagery have spiked in New York lately, but we cannot support banning an image. Indeed, such a move ignores the real problem: the hatred that motivates a person...
...Donahue got involved when Young said he wanted to meet Ralph Nader, and Donahue, a Nader friend, came along. But the political hero of Body of War is Byrd, nine-term Virginia Senator and, in his 20s, an Exalted Kleagle of the Ku Klux Klan. Though the Senator and the soldier might seem to have little in common, they are bonded by their opposition to the occupation, and their meeting serves an apt climax to the film. Byrd is near 90 now, and he walks with difficulty; as Young says, "I see we've both got some mobility issues." Together...
...mallard is waddling up to the bar to order "a slow comfortable screw up against the wall of a bus station in Passaic, New Jersey," or enduring a spot of gay-bashing in an episode (from the 3min. filmettes on which the feature is based) called "Ku Klux Klan and Ollie...