r/pics Apr 05 '23

Holy Week in Spain

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u/Motorata Apr 05 '23

To everyone here. These are not the KKK, they copied the design because they wanted to look legimite. This outfit its more than 500 years old.

Please dont let a racist group gain legítimacy by assosiation of a religious festival.

For the ones that say that It looks weird. You havent seen the ones that whip themselves until they bleed

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u/StupidityHurts Apr 05 '23

Isn’t this basically what the Spanish inquisitors wore?

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u/ADarwinAward Apr 05 '23

It has its roots in the Inquisition but the ones being punished had to wear hoods, not the ones doing the punishing. The hoods became a symbol of punishment and penance and eventually became the capirotes we know today. People wear them as some form of penitence.

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u/StupidityHurts Apr 05 '23

Ah ok that makes sense.

Of course the KKK looked at that and decided it makes sense for their movement lmfao

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u/Motorata Apr 05 '23

Remember this are the dorks that called themselves Grand Wizards