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This Is Not The World’s Biggest Ku Klux Klan Rally

This is just how they celebrate Easter in some sectors of Spain, and it looks very, very strange to American eyes. These are penitents celebrating Holy Week, leading up to Easter, and they’ve been dressing up like this for nearly 500 years (well before the KKK gave the look a bad reputation).

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A penitent of “La Candelaria” brotherhood stands after the governing body of their brotherhood decided that penance could not be carried out in the streets due to rain during Holy Week in the Andalusian capital of Seville, southern Spain, April 3, 2012. Hundreds of Easter processions take place around the clock in Spain during Holy Week, drawing thousands of visitors.

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24. For those of you outside of the United States who may not be familiar, here’s why we’re creeped out by this.

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“The Ku Klux Klan is a racist, anti-Semitic movement with a commitment to extreme violence to achieve its goals of racial segregation and white supremacy. Of all the types of right-wing hate groups that exist in the United States, the Klan remains the one with the greatest number of national and local organizations around the country.” — The Anti-Defamation League

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    • AquaRegia 3 months ago

      Yes, let’s look at those weird foreigners and their weird traditions. If you cannot comprehend the difference between this and the KKK, then I fear what will happen once you discover that Buddhist statues have swastikas on them.

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    • rosyp a year ago

      You know it most countries the KKK is completely unheard of. It’s described in a Sherlock Holmes story as sort of a strange American evil. Everyone saying they should change this custom out of respect needs to face the fact that in their country, it’s not disrespectful. Kind of like the zwarte piet in Poland… It seems like blackface to us but to them it’s just a tradition. Now flashing this in America and claiming its “not offensive in other cultures” would be messed up, but it’s because you’re not IN THAT CULTURE, that it’s not okay. So yes, a swastica anywhere that experienced the holocaust is not okay -.-

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    • deniser7 a year ago

      Clayton Bigsby- Classic!!

    • aront a year ago

      Well, I think it’s only fair then that hate groups in Europe adopt the Justin Bieber haircut.

    • krisztinai thinks This Is Not The World's Biggest K... is Old &  about a year ago
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    • MARSHALL FOX a year ago

      I just wanted to pass along a few thoughts, RE: This ancient tradition of tall pointed caps —for “wizards,” princesses, dunces, etc. In the same way that spires in churches draw the “minds” (via the eyes) of the congregation “upwards,” so, too, does this article of clothing. It probably comes from something deeply rooted in animal psychology.  Anyone who’s ever had to face down a bigger animal knows that “dominance” can be achieved through “manufactured height”: standing taller, raising the arms, wearing a tall “warrior/hunter” mask. This also relates to how, say, stovepipe hats historically became symbolic of economic superiority.  The Wizards’ peaked cap (like a pyramid shape) supposedly draws the mind of the wearer “above himself” —to a place of observance/contemplation above and “outside” the ordinary mind, and nearer to the Divine/Supernatural (—and all of this grew from the subconscious physiological realization that the mind “sits above the eyes” within the skull).  The spire of the Princess cap achieves “fashionable” grandeur and a “relationship to Power” —without the the “weight” of a crown’s authority, yet requiring an almost extra-human gracefulness of the wearer, who is now the center of others’ visual attention.  The peaked dunce cap supposedly serves to help the subjected Fool “concentrate” his mind towards a higher specific point (this relates to the tradition of drawing a spot on the center of one’s forehead, a meditative zone which grew from the intuition of where the “thinking” mind resided in the neocortex.) All traditions are worth considering for what they reveal about Mankind’s psychological evolution. Even the Kluxer’s hoods are born from an Animal’s mind —one that wishes to project an “invisibility” of the eyes, a hidden face, and a taller, pointed countenance —all of which hold a deep-seated place of “fear” in our adversarial “lizard brains.” —Jus’ sayin’.

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    • lindsaybrohan a year ago

      where’s this guy?

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    • Scott W. a year ago

      It’s amusing that the KKK adopted this attire from their early years. Especially considering their early Anti-Catholic stance. So the question remains, did they choose the attire before becoming Anti-Catholic or independently of it’s Catholic origins. Sure today the question is moot, the group now accepts people from many different groups provided they are white and not Jewish. Everyone else is still on their shit list but at the very least they’re making some kind of progress.

    • alexy a year ago

      We need to be a little less ethnocentric. Rather than telling them they are wrong why don’t we embrace their culture and traditions (that have existed longer than America has been a thing) and use that to erase the negative power of the klan.

    • SkelIy a year ago

      I know it’s traditional and all but maybe it wouldn’t hurt to make a few alterations to the design of the attire.

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    • kaickulelrodm a year ago

      Stupid KKK, had to ruin it for everyone else.

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    • mattb17 a year ago

      Eh, wait til you get a load of a certain tibetan good luck symbol…

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