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GunnarRene 18:49, 15 March 2007 (UTC)reply
I think the current lead is good too: This category contains people whose past or present membership in the Ku Klux Klan has been self-proclaimed or reported by a reliable information source.--
GunnarRene 18:11, 15 March 2007 (UTC)reply
Disavowal of membership
Following the logic of including any who themselves publicly admit to being a Klan member, shouldn't we distinguish between those who are current members and/or espoused the group's tenets et al up till the time of their death, and those who joined but later themselves strongly and publicly disavowed the group and its tenets and/or activities. Not everyone who was confirmed as a Catholic, for example, should be in a category of Catholics. If one consciously gives up smoking, one is a former smoker, and it would be unreasonable to put that person into a category of smokers. If a gay person chooses to go through conversion therapy and lives a heterosexual life, they would be categorized as such, and both heterosexual and homosexual categorization would be misleading.
I propose a new Category for Klan members who later disavowed the Klan, with those members of this list who have done so moved there and perhaps links to RS disavowals.
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I concur. There is a category for individuals who renounced Scientology. (Not that I'm comparing the two, just pointing out there is a precedent). --
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GunnarRene 18:09, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
GunnarRene 18:49, 15 March 2007 (UTC)reply
I think the current lead is good too: This category contains people whose past or present membership in the Ku Klux Klan has been self-proclaimed or reported by a reliable information source.--
GunnarRene 18:11, 15 March 2007 (UTC)reply
Disavowal of membership
Following the logic of including any who themselves publicly admit to being a Klan member, shouldn't we distinguish between those who are current members and/or espoused the group's tenets et al up till the time of their death, and those who joined but later themselves strongly and publicly disavowed the group and its tenets and/or activities. Not everyone who was confirmed as a Catholic, for example, should be in a category of Catholics. If one consciously gives up smoking, one is a former smoker, and it would be unreasonable to put that person into a category of smokers. If a gay person chooses to go through conversion therapy and lives a heterosexual life, they would be categorized as such, and both heterosexual and homosexual categorization would be misleading.
I propose a new Category for Klan members who later disavowed the Klan, with those members of this list who have done so moved there and perhaps links to RS disavowals.
Abrazame (
talk) 22:54, 27 September 2009 (UTC)reply
I concur. There is a category for individuals who renounced Scientology. (Not that I'm comparing the two, just pointing out there is a precedent). --
T smitts (
talk) 05:01, 4 September 2010 (UTC)reply
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