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Aussie Prankster Finds Club That Won’t Have Him as a Member: The KKK

On his new Sundance show “John Safran vs. God,” John Safran travels to America to join the Ku Klux Klan. But he finds it’s not easy convincing a KKK Grand Dragon to admit a Jew, no matter how non-practicing or self-loathing he may profess to be.

My favorite part of their exchange:

SAFRAN: Wasn’t there a time when the Klan didn’t let Catholics in?

GRAND DRAGON: Yes.

SAFRAN: Do you foresee a time in the future when they’d let Jews who hated Jews in?

GRAND DRAGON: No, I don’t really see that happening.

SAFRAN: Well, isn’t that a bit discriminatory?

GRAND DRAGON: Well, yes, we are a discriminatory organization. Let me make that perfectly clear: We’re racist, white supremacist and bigots.

Watch the video here:

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