Summary

Ku Klux Klan flyers were distributed across 11 cities in northern Indiana, with the Trinity White Knights, a Kentucky-based KKK chapter, claiming responsibility.

Residents expressed outrage and discomfort, condemning the hateful message and its divisive tone.

Residents described the flyers as disturbing and emphasized the need for peaceful and just approaches to addressing societal issues.

The incident highlights ongoing challenges with extremist messaging in communities.

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    The far right has been emboldened. You’re seeing people start to say the quiet part out loud, and they’re shocked when they find their peers don’t agree. I’ve seen it personally and know many others who can say the same. It’s scary stuff.

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    Just a few days ago neo nazis openly marched in Ohio. Now the KKK is spreading flyers. I guess this is how you own the woke libs.

    Gonna be a long 4 years. Remember America, this is what you wanted.

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      Gonna be a long 4 years.

      Aw, you still think this is going to be over in 4 years? The US just had its last free and open election.

    • TʜᴇʀᴀᴘʏGⒶʀʏ
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      Remember America, this is what you wanted.

      No it isn’t. Would be cool if people would stop saying that. Only about 30% of Americans spoke up to say they wanted this

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        The people who sat on the couch are just as responsible for this as the people who voted him in. He actually won the popular vote this time around, so between the 2 groups this is what they wanted.

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            Can you expand upon that? Everyone knew that a vote for Trump/3rd party/or not voting at all was to Trump’s benefit. Did you see a model or theory that would allow Trump to get more votes and still lose the electoral college? Or is your argument that people that only enabled Trump but didn’t vote for him shouldn’t be put in the same bucket?

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        I’m in the US, I voted against Trump, I’m likely going to suffer if he is able to accomplish a smidgen of what he has talked about, and I think we got what we deserved. I know a lot of innocent people are going to suffer, but this is a country of very selfish people. Even some of the most liberal people I have met in this country still have a very selfish mindset and reason for the liberal bent. As soon as they attain a position where they have an advantage they basically pull up the ladder. I’m personally tired of it.

        People are going to die, ecosystems are going to burn, countries may very well fall. My only hope is that things only get bad enough that the masses learn an important lesson that at least lasts for their generation and that recovery is possible in that time frame.

        It’s not that I don’t care. It’s not even that I don’t have the fight left in me. I just don’t see any kind of path to a better place without substantial harm occurring first. I will not be happy to be right. I want to be wrong.

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          It’s not that I don’t care. It’s not even that I don’t have the fight left in me. I just don’t see any kind of path to a better place without substantial harm occurring first. I will not be happy to be right. I want to be wrong. I think many are feeling the same. Everybody wants peace not this, but seems this is where we going.

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        That’s how democracy works though. People didn’t show up, so it’s the same as voting him in effectively

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        And almost half of the population couldn’t be bothered to get off their asses and say “no, we fucking don’t want this”.

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          A good chunk of those folks stayed home to say “we don’t want any of this.”

          Arguing that that means they wanted trump is kinda like saying if you don’t call the police after witnessing an old lady get robbed, it means you wanted her to get robbed. Maybe they just don’t wanna participate in a fucked up system

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      4 years? Gonna be a long rest of our lives (until we die from lack of affordable healthcare or being put in gulags, anyway).

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    To paraphrase Ultron

    “They’re confusing peace with quiet.”

    If you want them to go away, you have to do more than complain.

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    This is going to be normalized in 4 years.

    Oh yeah, they’re warming up. And it’ll be allowed, of course, because fat-ass Trump will not care in the world except himself, to allow this.

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    I remember from HP, that once the deatheaters took the government suddenly everyone was a deatheater. It felt so unhinged back then…

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    We had some Aryan nation flyers being passed out last weekend here in Iowa. Or Aryan brotherhood or whatever. Fuck those guys.

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    … the need for peaceful and just approaches to addressing societal issues.

    If we’re not already beyond “peaceful approaches,” we’re gonna be real soon. Prepare to !Resist@fedia.io.