If you don’t already know, the KKK has a humanitarian charity wing which helps poor white families, buys toys for white children, and funds community relief efforts in economically-depressed white areas in the South.
I donated $300 to said wing today.
What is your opinion of me?
Hamas runs hospitals as well as terrorist training camps. Would you donate to them too?
Zev Steinhardt
Why would you donate to the KKK instead of the United Way or the Salvation Army or something like that? I mean, it’s your call, but I wouldn’t trust the Klan with even a single cent of my money.
Besides, you know as well as I do that the bedsheets they’re buying for the poor have more than one use.
I think of insteading of preaching my own beliefs on what you did, I should follow your lead and help a charity out myself.
I suspect you’re probably sympathetic to the aims of a white supremecist organization with an offshoot that does ethinically related charity work, and willing to donate hundreds of dollars. I wouldn’t be surprised if you’ve done this kind of thing before. And I’m wondering, cynically, if this is some sort of bizzare litmus test.
I think there are better charities for you to donate money to that will help the same people. You really have no idea whether all of that money went to those families and not towards the automatic weapon pot or ink for printers that will be used for hate/recruitment material. Also, by donating money to these people, you’ve given the recipients of said money the idea that the KKK isn’t so bad after all.
I’m ninety percent sure you’re being hypothetical, and I think I know where you’re going with this. With that said, I worded my response accordingly.
I’m waiting for the “Gotcha!” part when he reveals that he’s not talking about the Ku Klux Klan but some unrelated organization with the same initials who helps poor whites (and blacks).
Klan or not, my opinion of the OP includes a sense of eye-rolling contempt for the clumsy self-indulgent attempt to push people’s buttons.
Your question is worded a lot more like a classroom hypothetical exercise than a real world scenario. I do hope you’re not playing that game with us.
I echo Askia’s sentiments.
Donating money to a terrorist organization that exists primarily as an institution of bigotry when you had numerous other options available to you is, at best, suspicious and asking our opinions on it afterwards seems like nothing more than some odd attempt at validation.
I don’t. where?
(I don’t think Paul Fitzroy really is donating to the KKK, but I’m not sure what he means. Something about Islamic charities? ) 
If you have actually donated this money, and then came in here to wave your arms and say, “Hey! HEY!!! Look what I did everybody! Doesn’t it suck?” then my opinion is that you are a provoker; one who has spent $300 to provoke people on this message board. You might have other reasons too-- reasons known only to you, which may or may not include a desire to support deplorably racist activities.
Who would name an organization with the initials “KKK?”
Zev Steinhardt
That’s what I’m thinking.
Pesonally, I like Cat Stevens.
I think it’s another “Gotcha!” based on the whole “Cat Stevens can’t come to the country because he donated to a Hamas related charity”, and that some people are saying that it’s not a big deal that he donated money there. Just my guess, though.
Well, Paul. If you want an honest opinion, my opinion of you for this action is pretty low.
Here’s why:
There are numerous charities that perform the same functions of aid, toy for tots, and community releif, that do not discriminate who to help by race.
Out of all of these you have selected one that does discriminate on such a bias.
I think this is a poor choice, but it’s not why I think poorly of you.
For example, the United Negro College Fund is a charity set up specifically to help colored people. I would not think that would be a good choice for a donation since it discriminates as well.
But I wouldn’t have too much of a problem with it, either. I just don’t like the choice.
The United Negro College Fund is not set up with the express purpose of keeping the black race pure, chasing white people off the continent, eliminating them from the government, etc etc. nor does the United Negro College fund have a history of violence against white people.
The KKK however has the goal of doing all these things to black people and has a history of violence against them.
Here’s the key: Because you could choose to assist people in like manner without contributing to an organization that does these things, your contribution cannot be construed as other than an endorsement of the KKKs actions, violence and discrimination against black people… and Jews and Catholics, and everybody else the KKK hates.
I think a person that makes such an endorsement deserves me to have a low opinion of them.
Does that answer your question?
No, I did not donate any money to the KKK. I wanted to know what our resident Islamic apologists would have to say about this, since I constantly hear the “charitable wing” of Hamas being defended by various factions on this board. In other words, the OP was a test, and the results were quite predictable: people were incensed at the idea of anyone donating to the KKK, even if it was for the sake of “charity.”
If the KKK did indeed have a charity wing, it’s inconcievable that anyone on this board would support me donating to it for the sake of “white children.” Yet I constantly hear people defend Hamas as having “some reasonable goals” EVEN IF, alright, maybe it supports a little suicide-bombing here and there. Hey, it’s for a good cause.
The jig is up. Let the moral relativism begin.
If that’s the case “Dance puppets! Dance!” is not best way to introduce a hypothetical in GD. People get banned for that crap.
Well, it’s not inconceivable to me that there exists an organization called the Kentucky Kindergarden Knights, who specialize in buying toys and helping the families of poor children. The chances are remote, I know, but my opinion of the OP includes the possibility of deliberate deception. Heck, we had an incident a while back involving an outspoken poster named december who pulled a similar stunt; posting quotes from a Presidential speech while neglecting to specify which President was the speaker (as I note the OP has neglected to use a specific word like “Klan”).
He was banned for it. If my suspicions are correct and this is a repeat, the best thing the OP could do would be to not post again to this thread and let the matter drop.