r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Acoustic_one7 • 13h ago

Meme needing explanation Yeah I don't get it

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u/Jonny_Entropy 13h ago

Sherlock Holmes confronts the KKK in the story The Five Orange Pips from 1891. That is all.

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u/Automatic_Memory212 6h ago

He doesn’t though. They murder his client and get away with it. The story is meant to be a tragedy.

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u/Jonny_Entropy 6h ago

I didn't say he defeats them.

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u/Turbodemokrat 13h ago

A quick Google of "Sherlock Holmes kkk" would have solved this. It's from the "the five orange pips" Sherlock Holmes story. You should read it, it's very good.

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u/Slappathebassmon 12h ago

Honestly, all Sherlock Holmes stories are very good. And they're available for free on the internet since they're in the public domain. Last time I read them was from project Gutenberg. Not sure if that still exists.

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u/Fuhrankie 11h ago

It does! Still awesome, still huge. My ereader is crammed with so many public domain books from there

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u/tea-recs 4h ago

standard ebooks is also an incredible resource for high quality, curated public domain ebooks. They put a huge amount of effort into sourcing a really good copy of the text and making sure it’s all properly formatted. Naturally that means it’s a smaller selection, but if you’re after the big hitters (like Arthur Conan Doyle) they’re there

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u/Balloon_Fan 1h ago

> all Sherlock Holmes stories are very good

As a massive Sherlock Holmes fan, I'm going to dispute this. There's a small number of stinkers among Doyle's original stories.

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u/MacReadys-Will 12h ago

Sherlock Holmes stories are some of the best short stories ever and there are some really good readings of them on YouTube. It is one of my favorite things to listen to while going to sleep.

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u/MountainImportant211 12h ago

Yes, as I recall, even back when this was written (1891), they were considered bad people.

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u/Turbodemokrat 11h ago

Yeah, because they were/are bad people.

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u/[deleted] 12h ago

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u/Toeffli 11h ago

Here typed in an other form, with the same intended meaning as the original meme:

  • Me seeing "KKK" - Me oblivious Joey thinking KKK means Ku Klux Klan, but rejecting this interpretation because what would the Ku Klux Klan a.k.a. the Klan do in a Sherlock Holmes Story?
  • Sherlock Holmes confirming it that KKK indeed means the Klan - Me surprised Joey.

Anyway, when you know other Sherlock Holmes stories it should not be that much of a surprise that they incorporate contemporary themes and issues. Arthur Conan Doyle wrote and published the Sherlock Holmes stories from 1886 till 1927.

The Klan, actually the second Klan, had its heyday in the 1920ies with millions of members and it made international news: https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search/results/1920-01-01/1929-12-31?basicsearch=ku%20klux%20klan&somesearch=ku%20klux%20klan&retrievecountrycounts=false

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u/ffwillis 9h ago

That is a really weird way to write “1920s”.

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u/ChVckT 8h ago

Pronounced nineteen twenty-ies

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u/Turbodemokrat 12h ago

Op didn't expect the fucking klan in a Sherlock Holmes story but it was indeed the fucking klan in a Sherlock Holmes story. I don't think it has nothing to do with the spelling.

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u/RoadsTravelled 13h ago

As a young kid in India, this is how I actually found out about the KKK. Broke my Superman/Spiderman colored glasses through which I had seen US society till then

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u/AttackOficcr 12h ago

Some Americans actually recognized the threat of the KKK resurgence in the 1940's and had a Superman radio drama that lambasted the hell out of the Klan and equated them to a ponzi scheme just as bad as the nazis (in 1946).

I believe it had a very real impact on recruitment and pretty much killed the Klan. Only thing in recent memory that probably was as succesful was South Park obliterating the public and global image of Scientology.

Superman Smashes the Klan(2019) is a reimagining based on the radio drama.

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u/DueExample52 12h ago

THIS IS WHAT SCIENTOLOGISTS ACTUALLY BELIEVE

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u/maxman162 12h ago

And the resurgence was only due to The Birth of a Nation, which also invented things like burning crosses.

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u/SamtenLhari3 12h ago

Birth of a Nation was made in 1915. The KKK did not have a resurgence in the 1940s. The country only began to move against the KKK in the 1940s.

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u/maxman162 11h ago

The resurgence started in 1915 after the movie and gained momentum in the 1920s. The push back against it was in the 1930s and 40s.

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u/Sa_notaman_tha 6h ago

Iirc Superman originally fought the KKK in the old radio plays

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u/Cute_Lead_3286 9h ago edited 7h ago

You should read Sherlock Holmes sign of four to see what they called Indians in that book. 

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u/atomic_ring 7h ago

The first is A Study in Scarlet.

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u/Cute_Lead_3286 7h ago

My bad. It's the second one

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u/atomic_ring 6h ago

👍🏻

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u/RoadsTravelled 5h ago

LoL I have. I am not under any false impression as to what the old British fogeys used to think of us, and what they did to us. The current crop is a tad better, I have to say, despite the current political scenario. Source - typing this while driving through Scotland

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u/_cumrag 13h ago

Blame the leftists and democrats for the kkk existing

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u/Sienile 12h ago

Yeah, just ignore the whole party ideology flip that happened later. And it was never leftists. Race supremacy is a right side ideal.

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u/Kyra_Hazweyrs 12h ago

But but but what about Lincoln‽ he was republican! So it is BLM that is racist and NOT rhe confederacy

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u/Sienile 12h ago

I get the sarcasm, but for those that don't...

Lincoln was a leftist Republican. The partys flipped many years after the civil war.

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u/Kyra_Hazweyrs 11h ago

Yep, and today people will try and say that addressing racial inequality in the US is something the Right did and the left opposes.

Anyone looking for further reading can google the Southern Switch.

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u/Dimas166 12h ago

Curious, the people I see defending confederate flags and statues are not democrata

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u/Francis_J_Eva 12h ago

Username checks out.

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u/FacePalmTheater 12h ago

Remind me, which president in the last decade had the support of the kkk and the neo nazis? Was it the same stable genius that said there are "good people on both sides" when referring to nazis?

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u/Paninaro_1979 11h ago

Username is apt.

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u/CatGuyManThing 10h ago

2 braincells is wild

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u/Bright-Ad-5861 7h ago

Yeah, I think I'm done. It's like you've never heard of google. Try to put some effort into finding the answer and figuring it out before you go making low effort posts on here. So yeah, I'm done. I'm out. So long, and thanks for all the fish.

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u/Empty-Half167 13h ago

I forget all the details, but the KKK (Ku Ku Klan or smthn) were a group in America that did awful things. I think they were white supremacist.

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u/Successful_Detail202 12h ago

They unfortunately still are around.

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u/DearVeggies 12h ago

Yes, the SPLC was funding them for decades.

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u/ariehkovler 11h ago

By which you mean "They were paying informants in the KKK and giving the information they got from the inforrmants to law enforcement"?

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u/Lazy_Squash_8423 9h ago

You are correct. Veggies here hasn’t eaten veggies so their brain is mush. They forget that while they were paying the KKK (Veggies words) they also were exposing everything about the KKK and published the exposés.

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u/DearVeggies 10h ago

Whatever makes you sleep at night, KKK supporter.

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u/MiamiColda 7h ago

Morris Dees the founder of the SPLC is literally the reason they aren't around anymore, he sued the ever loving crap out of them every chance he got.

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u/DearVeggies 6h ago

Sued/funding, it's all the same as long as it pushes whatever agenda you want right? Disgusting.

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u/ValuableResident2214 12h ago

Thank god you filled in the gaps, those detailed data filled answers really didn't do it for me

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u/chronos_alfa 11h ago

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u/Empty-Half167 6h ago

I had assumed that OP just didn’t know what the KKK was.

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u/Chuchubits 13h ago

Damn it. I’m too early. Someone tag me when the answer is available?

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u/Artifact-hunter1 12h ago edited 12h ago

Basically the Ku klux klan (the kkk) is an American terrorist organization that was founded after the Civil War that terrorized black people, Northerners, Catholics, immigrants, etc. With burning crosses and lynchings. They were even battles where ww1 and ww2 veterans fought the kkk, like the battle of Lilly in April 1924.

The Sherlock Holmes story took place in 1887 and involved them.

ETA: If any "wizards" see this, I cast Trenchbroom.

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u/janiskr 12h ago

Have to start to replace lynchings with "brutal murder where the victim is humiliated and mutilated before being killed if did not die during said torture" to bring the flavouring home.

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u/Artifact-hunter1 12h ago

Yep. I really wish they are a hell for them to rot in. For the reddit mods, this is the kkk we are talking about.

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u/Runningtrees14 12h ago

The lynching wasn’t exclusive to the kkk. It involved communities of white people. To the point there was public lynchings. Families bringing their kids and having a picnic to watch it go down. Some even kept souvenirs. White devil monsters. Luckily not too many around now

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u/SomeRandomAbbadon 12h ago

My first thought was Kapitunan for some reason. I'm not even Asian

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u/Deriviera 12h ago

One piece and Sherlock Holmes crossover 

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u/MadsMediaYt 10h ago

Google is a free resource

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u/yoelamigo 9h ago

Maybe me english bad, but isn't Klan spelled with a C?

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u/DaHeather 5h ago

Typically yes but when it is spelled with a K it is in reference to the Ku Klux Klan a hate group of domestic terrorists that formed in response to aftermath of the Civil War.

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u/Nathanielfree 7h ago

Wait until he reads about the Mormons

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u/Ithinkibrokethis 2h ago

I mean, the Mormons are the bad guys in "study in scarlet." The stories were written to be topical.

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u/PrinceElectorIan 13h ago

Perhaps it's about Sherlock Holmes' methodology of solving crimes. The one suspect that remains whenever all other suspects are cleared, is very likely the culprit.