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Opening paragraph-
"Their primary targets are African Americans, Hispanics, Jews, Latinos, Asian Americans, Native Americans, Italian Americans, Irish Americans, and Catholics, as well as immigrants, leftists, homosexuals, Muslims, atheists, and abortion providers."
Can we just change the sentence to say their "primary targets" are African Americans, who pretty much everybody considers to be the "primary enemy" of the Klan? I believe the sentence just listed African Americans as the "primary enemy" until about four years ago, when somebody added those zillion other groups to the list. The current sentence has an extremely long list of people and it's kind of hard to comprehend the sentence or keep track of all those enemies. Saying that African Americans are the "primary enemy" of the Klan isn't the same thing as saying they're the Klan's only enemy.
And I'm not sure that the Klan actually hates all of those groups. The "third" Klan from the 1950s to the present has abandoned anti-Catholicism (and actually the "first" Klan of the 1860s wasn't anti-Catholic either- only the "second" Klan of the 1920s was). I really haven't seen a lot of evidence to suggest that the Klan has ever viewed atheists or abortion providers as an enemy. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikidude87654321 (talk • contribs) 00:37, 1 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The Klan is described as "the first organized terror movement in American history" twice in the article, both sentences being very close to each other. The first use of this descriptor is in the lede, and the second is in the third paragraph. Is there a way we can make this less redundant? JohnR1Roberts (talk) 22:29, 19 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
DoneDN (talk) 23:00, 19 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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in "origin of the name", change "probably" to "likely" 108.189.72.130 (talk) 16:59, 21 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Not done: no reason given for the proposed change. M.Bitton (talk) 18:33, 21 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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The Wiki article states that the Klu Klux Klan was a far right extremist group. That is historically and categorically false as it was founded BY Confederate Nathan Bedford Forrest AS a white supremacist Democrat organisation. And remained as such into the early to mid 1900s. To say otherwise would be to intentionally spread misinformation. Facts are objective. To assume they are subjective in order to manipulate them is disingenuous at best.
[2]2604:61C0:2800:CA20:D901:9FE4:7E83:5A55 (talk) 14:31, 14 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Not done: Much of this is wrong. I'm also not sure what you're proposing. Edit requests are for either uncontroversial fixes or changes that have consensus. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 14:35, 14 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Probably time for an FAQ to explain to those who bother to look at it that political parties have exchanged positions and members over the past 150 years, and that what might have been plausible in the late 19th century and the early 20th century is now a fallacy, given the intentional strategies of the parties to on one hand reject this kind of organization and the other to move in their direction. Acroterion(talk) 14:44, 14 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
level-5 vital article is rated B-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
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Not done: Much of this is wrong. I'm also not sure what you're proposing. Edit requests are for either uncontroversial fixes or changes that have consensus. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 14:35, 14 March 2024 (UTC)