femmenietzsche:

tanadrin:

I wanna start a secret society, but I don’t think “because it would be fun” is an ideological basis that would provide a coherent enough in-group identity to really support an actual secret society.

I mean, it’s enough to start at least:

The first Klan was founded in Pulaski, Tennessee, on December 24, 1865,^[42] by six former officers of the Confederate army:^[43] Frank McCord, Richard Reed, John Lester, John Kennedy, J. Calvin Jones and James Crowe.^[44] It started as a fraternal social club inspired at least in part by the then largely defunct Sons of Malta. It borrowed parts of the initiation ceremony from that group, with the same purpose: “ludicrous initiations, the baffling of public curiosity, and the amusement for members were the only objects of the Klan”, according to Albert Stevens in 1907.^[45]