Kluxer


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Noun1.Kluxer - a member of the Ku Klux KlanKluxer - a member of the Ku Klux Klan  
KKK, Klan, Ku Klux Klan - a secret society of white Southerners in the United States; was formed in the 19th century to resist the emancipation of slaves; used terrorist tactics to suppress Black people
white supremacist - a person who believes that the white race is or should be supreme
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Assuming an anti-self-disorder, for example, prior to Obama's election, the client still could admire Obama's presidential ascent as a prodigious achievement as could any Ku Kluxer and start sleepwalking or develop a work problem in response to the propounded imagery.
Back in the United States, starting in March 1933, the black press carried stories about "the new Germany." Within a week of the Reichstag election of March 5, the capitol's black newspaper, the Washington Tribune, featured the headline: "Jewish Massacres Feared Soon in Germany," with the subhead: "6,000,000 Are Living in Fear with Action Imminent, London Paper Says." Just after the first official boycott of Jewish shops and businesses in Germany, on April 1, the Pittsburgh Courier editorially deplored "Jewish Pogroms in Germany." Also appearing on April 1 was a widely syndicated column by Howard University sociologist Kelly Miller, entitled "Hitler--The German Ku Klux," describing Hitler as "the master Ku Kluxer of Germany." (54)
Crawford, Senior, wasn't studying about her, but you had to be careful doing that, in case a Ku Kluxer was somewhere around.
It seems to me, and indeed the evidence is plain, that compared to the Moscow brigands and assassins, Hitler is hardly more than a common Ku Kluxer and Mussolini almost a philanthropist" (1961, 403).
"My father had been a Marine Corps lifer stationed in Laurel, Mississippi, at the time that the military and the National Guard were called up to troll the bogues of Neshoba County for the victims' bodies, as memorialized in the film 'Mississippi Burning.' He was typical of many Southern whites, not sympathetic to the movement but no Kluxer either.
Mencken had no sympathy for Nazism, Teachout makes plain, but he rightly faults Mencken for failing to grasp that "Adolf Hitler was something more than a Ku Kluxer."
That's a double standard that I would not feel comfortable trying to defend the next time a Kluxer wanted to use the word and pointed to this guy's letter as justification.
The League's role became apparent when a large part of the list appeared in a booklet entitled "Is your neighbor a Kluxer?" printed by the League's publishing arm.
Within a week of the Reichstag election of March 5th, the Capitol's black newspaper, the Washington Tribune, featured the headline: "Jewish Massacres Feared Soon in Germany," with the subhead: "6,000,000 are Living in Fear with Action Imminent, London Paper Says." Just after the first official boycott of Jewish shops and businesses in Germany, the Pittsburgh Courier editorially deplored "Jewish Pogroms in Germany." Also appearing on April 1st was a widely-syndicated column by Howard University sociologist Kelly Miller, entitled "Hitler -- The German Ku Klux," describing Hitler as "the master Ku Kluxer of Germany."(7)
Robert Goldstein was a dreamy Los Angeles costumer who had supplied Abe Lincoln with his top hat and the Kluxers with their sheets in D.W.