Spectacle Of Hate: What We Can Learn From White Supremacists' Long And Careful Cultivation Of Their Own Aesthetic

"The alt-right's Tiki-torch, khaki-pants parade on Friday night has birthed many a 'Hitler luau' joke." Yet, explains Rebecca Onion, white supremacist groups in the US, especially the two incarnations of the Ku Klux Klan, have a long history of deliberately making their physical appearance silly and using that silliness to help them get away with mayhem and murder.

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