I recently saw somebody compare Charlie Kirk to Rush Limbaugh, but I think he was more like David Duke, a Grand Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. While all of them spewed hate speech, David Duke also wanted to effect political change in the country, while Rush Limbaugh seemed to be mostly a shock jock. Additionally, Duke tried to bring a clean-cut and "educated" image to the KKK.
In any case, they're all stochastic terrorists.
I was living in New Orleans when David Duke ran for office and got elected to the Louisiana House of Representatives in the late 1980s. I was stunned and disgusted when classmates openly told me they supported the Klansman, but this was the South after all.
BlacKkKlansman is the incredible story of an undercover Black police officer who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan. The premise may sound ridiculous and implausible, but it's based on actual events, and it involved David Duke, played brilliantly by Topher Grace.
BlacKkKlansman takes place in Colorado in the late 1970s, but the racist and anti-Semitic rhetoric hasn't changed. Playing a white supremacist in the opening scene, Alec Baldwin does a monologue whose hateful language is all too familiar.
It is extremely appalling and disheartening to see so many people still marginalizing and mistreating other human beings who just want to live in peace and with dignity. The hateful actions and speech of far-right extremists epitomize evil and represent the antithesis of Christian values.
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