Any of the following are exempted from the provisions of G.S. 14-12.7, 14-12.8,21
14-12.9, 14-12.10 and 14-12.14:
Any person or persons, as members or members elect of a society, order or
organization, engaged in any parade, ritual, initiation, ceremony, celebration
or requirement of such society, order or organization, and wearing or using
any manner of costume, paraphernalia, disguise, facial makeup, hood,
implement or device, whether the identity of such person or persons is
concealed or not, on any public or private street, road, way or property, or in
any public or private building, provided permission shall have been first
obtained therefor by a representative of such society, order or organization
from the governing body of the municipality in which the same takes place,
or, if not in a municipality, from the board of county commissioners of the
county in which the same takes place.
Any person wearing a mask for the purpose of ensuring the physical health or
safety of the wearer or others.
ITT: How the right shifts goalposts and gaslights the left
The bill was created to crack down on the KKK originally. I'm not seeing any sources that it creates an exception for them. Come on, let's not be like the right and just make shit up.
Yeah, my first thought is what's the source. I wouldn't put it past any GOP legislature to do this, but I came to the comments explicitly looking for a source.
Post has just been updated. It doesn't explicitly exempt the KKK, but it does provide exemptions for organisations' parades, rituals, initiations, ceremonies, celebrations, or general requirements. It also explicitly permits hoods under this exemption.
The KKK typically files the proper paperwork for their demonstrations and parades in advance. Under what circumstances do you envision them being denied permission to wear their hoods during a permitted demonstration without gifting a first amendment victory to the Klan?
I was under the wrong impression that it's actually banned in the US, but it is not, from wiki:
As of 2016, the Anti-Defamation League puts total KKK membership nationwide at around 3,000, while the Southern Poverty Law Center puts it at 6,000 members total.
It still isn't a stretch. The KKK aren't routinely rejected for parade applications in regions they're active, they basically just need to add a line about wearing hoods to their application.