Editing David Duke (section)

==Trivia==
*In the 2018 biographical crime/comedy film ''BlacKkKlansman'', [https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/David_Duke David Duke], played by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topher_Grace Topher Grace], appeared as the main antagonist and was concerned about his appearance in the film. 
*David Duke, apart from his fanatic antisemitism, also espouses anti-Masonic views, and anti-Communism. He has also promoted [[Islamophobia]], [[homophobia]], [[transphobia]], and [[ableism]], among other things.
*Humorously, despite expressing Islamophobia, he has been to Syria and Iran, though in the US census, Arabs and Persians are considered “white”, and historical records suggest that Adolf Hitler considered Iran to be an “Aryan” state.
*He is an adherent of [[Christian Identity]].
*Ironically, David Duke dismissed [[Jason Kessler]] a racist.
**The irony is only pushed further with him having had attended an event he set up.
*David Duke founded a group called the [[NAAWP]] (National Association for the Advancement of White People), a white supremacist organization created in opposition to the NAACP. 
*In the 1991 gubernatorial election in Louisiana, many urged people to vote for Edwin Edwards rather than David Duke, with the slogan "pick the lizard, not the wizard", a reference to Edwards' corruption allegations and Duke's past of being a Klansman.<ref>[https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/07/david-duke-1991-governor-primary-edwards-roemer-slow-burn-transcript.html David Duke’s War Against Two Louisiana Governors], ''Slate''</ref>
*Duke was friends with serial killer [[Joseph Paul Franklin]], a fellow white supremacist whose victims were almost all exclusively Jews and African-Americans.
*He was banned from YouTube in late June 2020 for repeated violation of the platform's policies against hate speech, along with [[Richard Spencer]] and [[Stefan Molyneux]]. Duke's Twitter account was "permanently suspended" at the end of the following month for violating the company's rules on hateful conduct.<ref>[https://www.timesofisrael.com/twitter-permanently-bans-former-kkk-leader-david-duke/ Twitter permanently bans former KKK leader David Duke], ''The Times of Israel''</ref>