What Tom Holland has said about Ku Klux Klan
1 quote · 1 episode · Mar 29, 2026
Tom Holland, English actor cast as Telemachus, has been quoted on Ku Klux Klan once in 1 episode of The Rest Is History, most recently on March 29, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Holland argues that adopting the name and costume of a racist organisation makes racism intrinsic to the second Klan regardless of its social functions.
“I think if you're taking the name and dressing up as people who were a racist organization, I think that's baked in”
The Rest Is History: 656. The Ku Klux Klan: Birth of a Nation (Part 3) (Mar 29, 2026) · Listen from 27:16
Episodes
656. The Ku Klux Klan: Birth of a Nation (Part 3)The Rest Is History · Mar 29, 2026 · 1 h 15 min
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook trace the 1915 rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan as a mass fraternal, marketing-driven, anti-Catholic movement.
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