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Kluxer

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Noun1.Kluxer - a member of the Ku Klux KlanKluxer - a member of the Ku Klux Klan        
KKK, Klan, Ku Klux Klan - a secret society of white Southerners in the United States; was formed in the 19th century to resist the emancipation of slaves; used terrorist tactics to suppress Black people
white supremacist - a person who believes that the white race is or should be supreme


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It seems to me, and indeed the evidence is plain, that compared to the Moscow brigands and assassins, Hitler is hardly more than a common Ku Kluxer and Mussolini almost a philanthropist" (1961, 403).
Mencken had no sympathy for Nazism, Teachout makes plain, but he rightly faults Mencken for failing to grasp that "Adolf Hitler was something more than a Ku Kluxer.
That's a double standard that I would not feel comfortable trying to defend the next time a Kluxer wanted to use the word and pointed to this guy's letter as justification.
 
 
 
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