A name appears on a list saying someone is a member of the KKK, is that all it takes to believe it?

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15. Exactly my point

I'm saying that being a Dem is not an automatic disqualifyer and there could even be something widely understood to be evidence. However, not all bigots join a club with criminal and hateful intentions.
I find micro-aggressions (and the refusal to admit and address them), vs outright criminal behaviors and endorsement pretty much equally contemptable. But, the direct results could be very different even if one enables the other.

I don't think that the consequences should be the same. The lines should not be manipulated or blurred as they were with the red scare, the way so many people of Middle Eastern descent have been treated since 9\11, and most relevant, the horrors that have been the results of assumptions that people of color live with daily.

I think I would find it satisfying to see actual KKK members face social, professional, legal penalties. But, I'm not so sure that setting up conditions which would leave room for errors and witch hunts is justifiable whether it is governmentally or privately driven.