This is not normal: A&E announces new series Generation KKK

[inanna]

Monday, Dec 19, 2016 07:00 PM EST

At some point we'll have to ask ourselves whether a show like this is fighting white supremacy or normalizing it

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Instead, starting Tuesday, Jan. 10, we’ll get a weekly look inside the lives of several families headed by members of the Ku Klux Klan called “Generation KKK.” Giving racism a platform, even under the guise of increasing the public’s awareness of its existence, is all the rage now.

Granted, that’s not the purpose of “Generation KKK.” In a Sunday New York Times article, A&E’s brass and the “Generation KKK” producer explained that the show has been in the works for more than a year and a half. That’s basically right around the time that Donald Trump’s presidential campaign began capitalizing on the sublimated bigotry and racial tension that’s been coming to the fore of our national dialogue.

The show would have made it to air regardless of the election’s outcome, understand. Between the Klan’s rebranding of its intentions — it’s just about white pride now, never mind that inconvenient history of domestic terror and murder — and openly leaving literature on doorsteps in communities around the nation, the white supremacy organization has been steadily mounting its own campaign of normalizing hatred.

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“Generation KKK” may have a noble purpose, much in the way A&E’s “Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath” has also served as a piece of anti-Scientology advocacy programming (albeit one that also happened to net the channel its highest-rated premiere in two years). But it’s also joining a channel that currently airs “Duck Dynasty,” the unscripted series that follows the delightful high jinks of the Robertson family including its homophobic patriarch Phil Robertson, who remembered the Jim Crow South as an idyllic period when black people had no complaints in a GQ profile.

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http://www.salon.com/2016/12/20/this-is-not-normal-ae-announces-new-series-generation-k-k-k/

[mahatmakanejeeves]

1. Cut your cable. NT

[inanna]

2. Haven't had cable now for months

and when I did, I didn't pay for it.

A&E used to be a fairly decent channel though.

What the hell happened?

[still_one]

3. If you cannot downgrade you cable or satellite provider so you do not get A&E, I would cut

the cord

I downgraded my satellite package to the Family Package, which is essentially the locals, and a few channels like the Science Channel.

No CNN, no MSNBC, no fox, no CNBC, and no A&E

[global1]

4. All Part Of The Plan....

All part of the coup.

[world wide wally]

5. You can get rid of cable, but the actual problem is all those Trump-humpers watching this and

Feeling good about being part of this loving extended family.

[vinny9698]

6. The more exposure the KKK gets the better people will recoil against them.

I live in Texas and have worked with, gone to school with, KKK supporters and members. When they speak, they just keep insulting themselves with their nonsense. You really don't have a clue at how stupid they are until you hear their thoughts and speech.
They are poor, uneducated, and blame that on blacks getting special treatment.
They actually hope that slavery was bought back. I then tell them that if that happened they would not have jobs because their boss would just buy a slave to replace them. They just sit their dumbfounded. Which is why poor whites during slavery hated slavery, because they had no jobs. Why hire, when you can buy. Also slave owners would rent their slaves out to small business people. Slaves were expensive to buy, not anyone could just buy one.

[man on the moonshine]

7. MAN that network's gone downhill!