Synonyms for klan
klænklan

Princeton's WordNet

1. Ku Klux Klan, Klan, KKKnoun

   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

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1. • Secret Society
   • Terrorist Organization

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1. KLAN

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1. Scott Walter:

   They deserve praise because they used the law to hurt the Klan -- a lot, but as often happens in the charity world, it concocts new ways to keep donations flowing.

2. Eric Dreiband:

   This hate crime may be considered an act of domestic terrorism, as have other hate crimes throughout our history, like the violence wrought by white supremacists and the Ku Klux Klan.

3. Dion Garcia:

   It was crazy, a lot of us were trying to break it up. This was not necessary, they should've just let the Klan protest. This is America, we have free speech.

4. Stacey Plaskett:

   Qualified immunity has in many instances become the hood for bad police officers to, in fact, act as modern-day Ku Klux Klan members against Black and Isaiah Brown people in this country. And it has got to stop, the most conservative members of the Supreme Court say that Congress needs to do something about qualified immunity. And we can not shirk our responsibility to victims and Americans at large because we are afraid of the unions, or talking points, or those on the right who have used the blue wall as a shield against American justice.

5. Rutgers University:

   If I’m a Ku Klux Klan member, and I’m going to burn a cross on a vacant lot, that’s a constitutionally protected right, you put that cross on my front yard, and you light it, that is not constitutionally protected. That’s harassment. It’s an exception to the First Amendment.