ShortHand: The Ku Klux Klan
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🗓️ 29 May 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The KKK are the OG far-right trolls: one of the most evil groups in US history, and the best-known purveyors of white racism in the United States.
They have been responsible for countless deaths and acts of discrimination – but where did it all begin? And what do wizards and dragons have to do with it? This is the ShortHand.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Forrest, Forrest Gump. |
| 0:16.0 | That's not what I was expecting you to say. |
| 0:19.6 | Because Forrest Gump is named after the founder of the KKK. Is he really? Wow. It's right at the beginning of the film, which I know you haven't watched. I haven't watched it. I feel like I know too much about it now. You always say that. You're like, oh, like people talk about it, so I feel like I've seen it. And I'm like, that's not the point. |
| 0:38.9 | I know, I know. |
| 0:46.0 | Instead, I spent random moments of my bank holiday watching the ultimatum South Africa. |
| 0:53.2 | Which honestly, if we have any South African fans watching, listening. |
| 0:55.0 | We definitely do because I don't shut up about it. Please, please, please. Tell me. DM me on Instagram because I don't always like read |
| 1:01.2 | all the comments everywhere and like it's hard to keep track of. DM me your thoughts on what the |
| 1:06.1 | fuck has been going on on the ultimatum South Africa. I have so many opinions. I'll talk about it on Under the Duvei |
| 1:11.5 | next week, but I need to know what you think. I was actually in the pub the other day and these two girls came up to me and were like, oh, like, love your podcast, blah, blah, blah, blah. And also, we weren't sure whether we should come up to you, but we're South African so we knew that you would love us. I was like, yes, fair. Fair, fair, fair. I actually thinking about unfollowing my friends |
| 1:28.3 | who have just moved there because the spam I am getting of beauty is making me depressed. |
| 1:35.8 | Anybody. |
| 1:36.9 | We're not going to talk about South Africa today. |
| 1:39.4 | Today we are confronting head on the epitome of evil. |
| 1:45.9 | And evil is not a word we use on this show. |
| 1:47.8 | Well, we can use it on this one. |
| 1:49.6 | Breadhanded, maybe not. |
| 1:51.2 | We're going to talk about a group that has since 1865 morphed from being a secret society |
| 1:56.2 | to a pyramid scheme on steroids and then a paramilitary army brimming with shaved-headed bigots. |
| 2:03.5 | But through every metamorphosis of the Klu-Clux Klan, one thing has remained the same. |
| 2:09.7 | An unshakable commitment to racial terror and white supremacy. |
| 2:15.6 | This is the story of America's first terrorist group, otherwise known as the KKK. Here is the |
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