New Klan, The
Synopsis
Tom Robb is a Grand Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and he is eager to market the Klan with “modern values for the modern world”.
Jon Ronson casts a suitably sardonic eye over Robb’s makeover of the race hate organisation and their attempts to project a more ‘positive’ image. Robb’s radical new policies include banning the ‘n’ word and the introduction of personality skills seminars. These are interspersed with footage of his followers’ everyday discussions of hate (of blacks, gays, Jews, liberals...) while they ponder the problems of stain removal in silk robes. “I’ve just always been a nice guy,” whines the misunderstood Robb, as we cut to footage of him spewing hatred and Nazi salutes at an earlier Klan rally.
Jon Ronson casts a suitably sardonic eye over Robb’s makeover of the race hate organisation and their attempts to project a more ‘positive’ image. Robb’s radical new policies include banning the ‘n’ word and the introduction of personality skills seminars. These are interspersed with footage of his followers’ everyday discussions of hate (of blacks, gays, Jews, liberals...) while they ponder the problems of stain removal in silk robes. “I’ve just always been a nice guy,” whines the misunderstood Robb, as we cut to footage of him spewing hatred and Nazi salutes at an earlier Klan rally.
Tom Robb is a Grand Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and he is eager to market the Klan with “modern values for the modern world”.
Jon Ronson casts a suitably sardonic eye over Robb’s makeover of the race hate organisation and their attempts to project a more ‘positive’ image. Robb’s radical new policies include banning the ‘n’ word and the introduction of personality skills seminars. These are interspersed with footage of his followers’ everyday discussions of hate (of blacks, gays, Jews, liberals...) while they ponder the problems of stain removal in silk robes. “I’ve just always been a nice guy,” whines the misunderstood Robb, as we cut to footage of him spewing hatred and Nazi salutes at an earlier Klan rally.
Jon Ronson casts a suitably sardonic eye over Robb’s makeover of the race hate organisation and their attempts to project a more ‘positive’ image. Robb’s radical new policies include banning the ‘n’ word and the introduction of personality skills seminars. These are interspersed with footage of his followers’ everyday discussions of hate (of blacks, gays, Jews, liberals...) while they ponder the problems of stain removal in silk robes. “I’ve just always been a nice guy,” whines the misunderstood Robb, as we cut to footage of him spewing hatred and Nazi salutes at an earlier Klan rally.
Duration
1 x 50'
Definition
SD
Genre
Factual
Subgenre
Current Affairs
Producer
WORLD OF WONDER