The Second KKK

Clansmen also played highly publicized baseball games, often against teams of people that they defined in their propaganda as aliens. Baseball functioned to normalize the clans, so that it could appear as a benign club akin to the elks or again, a labor union. The racism and bigotry was just there because in 1922, it sold. If the same PR people that had hatched this scheme were around today, they may have made a fraternal order that was super woke in PC.