It's an interesting point. The KKK was much more popular than it is now. He was a leader of a local KKK chapter (it is and has been much less centralized than m

It's an interesting point. The KKK was much more popular than it is now. He was a leader of a local KKK chapter (it is and has been much less centralized than most people realize) during his early 20s. I would guess that most of us here during our youth have associated with people we don't care to associate with now. Should we be demonized and ostracized for the rest of our lives for youthful indiscretions? Or even for belonging to movements that were popular at the time, but have since fallen out of favor? The KKK had millions of members during the 1920s. At the risk of blackballing myself, I signed up for a campus Trotskyist email list while I was in college. I didn't attend any events, grew tired of their rhetoric and eventually unsubscribed. Should I decline promotions for fear of being demonized by association with what most consider a radical left-wing group in my past, even though I don't associate or agree with them now?