Suruthi
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1,385 appearances
7 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 11 Jun
Suruthi’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But then, the Klan had a second wind.
As you'll learn very quickly, the history of the KKK is really like a game of whack-a-mole.
The Roaring Twenties was arguably peak KKK.
That is, until a high-profile sex scandal brought it all undone.
idolize it a bit it's like very glamorous yeah but also basically everyone who you're watching in the great gatsby was a fucking fascist you can't leave that bit out but before we get into this sex scandal that brought down the kkk at its peak let's back up a bit there were essentially three things behind the kkk's 1920s resurgence a movie a lynching and effective marketing
In 1915, America's first ever blockbuster, The Birth of a Nation, was released.
It was like the Avatar or Star Wars of the time, only really, really racist.
Have you seen it?
No, I haven't seen it.
So yeah, The Birth of a Nation was three hours of racist propaganda that portrayed the original Ku Klux Klan as this white feminist superhero squad which saved America from the Reconstruction period.
It was a smash hit.
It was shown in the White House.
President Woodrow Wilson was a fan.
And the new Ku Klux Klan were essentially a bunch of idiots cosplaying this film.
I was going to say that's quite the commitment.
Simmons decided to create a new club with a K, the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.
To mark the start of a new era, he declared himself the Grand Wizard.
He even burned a cross, a ritual straight out of the birth of a nation, but not actually practiced by the original KKK.
This clan had a beefed up list of enemies, which now included Asians, immigrants, bootleggers, dope, graft, nightclubs and roadhouses, violation of the Sabbath,
sex, pre- and extramarital escapades, and scandalous behavior of any sort.
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