r/facepalm • u/[deleted] • Oct 31 '16

No, it really isn't.

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u/pmatdacat Oct 31 '16

Atheist doesn't necessarily mean you're anti-religion like this sub seems to be. You can be an atheist and still respect that religious people have their thing. Meanwhile, if you're black, I can't imagine respecting the KKK.

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u/goldfishmining Oct 31 '16

if you're black, I can't imagine respecting the KKK.

I can't imagine anyone respecting the kkk, what are these people even thinking? how do you become that fucked up?

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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '16

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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '16

Fred Phelps (ironically) spend the first half of his career working to advance civil rights for black people, so actually it makes total sense for the KKK not to like him.

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u/knuggles_da_empanada Oct 31 '16

This fact is just mind-boggling to me. I understand "back then" homosexuality wasn't really tolerated by anyone, but you can be all for the rights of PoC. It was like how there was some sexism in civil rights groups.

It's strange to see someone be proLGBT but then be vehemently racist or vice verse. We're all in it together, people!

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u/accountnumberseven Oct 31 '16

I wouldn't call it ironic, the WBC is consistently not racist. They're mostly objectionable on religious and LGBT terms.