KKK vs BLM

The Klu Klux Klan has an estimated 5,000 members.  That's a lot less than the 20,000-50,000 estimate given for the Nation of Islam in 2007.  People talk about the KKK, as if they are this powerful organization.  It's like they use the past of the Klan to make their point of how bad white racism is.  The current KKK, which is split into different independent branches, is a relic of what the group used to be.  They aren't respected.  The simple implication that a white person is a Klan member is a hugely derogatory thing to insinuate.  They have trouble having marches without getting beaten up.  Compare this to the racist Nation of Islam, which regularly has big events.  Louis Farrakhan's Million Man March drew an estimated crowd of 837,000 in 1995.  Just last year he led a "Justice or Else" event that drew a significant crowd, though I couldn't find an estimate on how many people were there.  Imagine a known member of the KKK trying to throw some shit like that, in Washington D.C. just like Farrakhan's marches.  They wouldn't get away with some shit like that.  What political power does the Klan have?

Tomi Lahren got into an argument with Trevor Noah on The Daily Show.  Her most controversial point was saying that Black Lives Matter was the new KKK.  I can see why people think the comparison is stupid.  BLM is portrayed in the mainstream as if it is some freedom fighting movement.  Like that shit is just like the civil rights movement of the 60s.  To take this group, and then compare them to a group with a reputatuion as bad as the Klan, could seem like a ridiculous comparison., but it isn't.  BLM is a racist movement.  The Black Lives Matter group is racist, just like the Klan.  The difference is their race, and who they are racist against.  Blacks being racist against whites is more acceptable than whites being racist against blacks.  One problem this causes is that black racism isn't checked.  Black people can say some racist shit about white people, without facing criticism.  Not only that, but they can gain a reputation as being a conscious person.  While the KKK has caused much harm over the past 150 or so years, recently BLM has been more of a problem.  That's the reason so many people arguing against Lahren's comparison, go back to the distant past to tell us why it doesn't make sense.  What about dealing with the recent years?  What group presently is more of a danger.  In terms of body count BLM has done more in this one calendar year, than the Klan has in years.  They have real political power like the Klan used to have.  They are more powerful, and more respected than the Klan, and guess what they are also more dangerous, and I'm not talking about the early 1900s.  Fuck it, you can say the same thing about the Nation of Islam compared to the KKK.  The Klan has fallen that hard.  Look the KKK is a stupid, and racist group.  It's a good thing to see their numbers dwindle, but Black Lives Matter is also racist, divisive, and are dangerous.  They have a strong anti-police/anti-white theology that often goes unchecked.  They shouldn't be respected the way they are.




References
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KUyc16Kow8&t=1658s
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/257808/profound-racism-black-lives-matter-john-perazzo
http://archive.adl.org/learn/ext_us/kkk/default.html