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I legitimately don't know what Fraternity is and why it's normal in America and why these dudes are standing like this.

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[-] HarryLime@hexbear.net 56 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

A fraternity is a college club. Young men join them to make friends, party, and form connections that may help their careers down the line (the female version is known as a "sorority"). A "pledge" is a young man in college who wants to join the fraternity, and pledges often have to go through a period of hazing in order to be accepted as a full member. This sometimes results in abuse scandals, like what you see here.

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 45 points 2 days ago

You might ask yourself "why would anyone submit themselves to torture", well fraternities are pretty vital to rich kids to land jobs outside of school.

[-] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 51 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I was in one for a few months, but it was a new one with like 10 of us and the hazing was stealing crosses from the local KKK chapter so we could have a bonfire and drink beer.

Overall not too bad, there were a couple of weird guys, but that was one of the only ethnically diverse ones on campus lol

The pledge week was funny too, all the other ones had like a civil war era sword or some other legacy bullshit and these guys were just all laying around hungover with sunglasses on. When I asked them what their deal was they said "we like drinking and fucking with the local KKK"

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 49 points 2 days ago

I was in one for a few months, but it was a new one with like 10 of us and the hazing was stealing crosses from the local KKK chapter so we could have a bonfire and drink beer.

Okay in this instance I will allow it, carry on.

[-] ZWQbpkzl@hexbear.net 23 points 2 days ago

stealing crosses from the local KKK chapter

You've got to be ancient for those to have been around.

[-] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 47 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

This was like 12ish years ago. The local (kkk) chapter was literally just 2 hicks in the mountains lol. The (fraternity) chapter president grew up there and hated them.

[-] Johnny_Arson@hexbear.net 39 points 2 days ago

There was a Klan rally in California in like 2015 lmao

[-] HarryLime@hexbear.net 29 points 2 days ago

Enduring weeks of brutal torture is totally worth it to own a Ford dealership in Arizona.

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 25 points 2 days ago

Hi folks it's Chud Truckly from Truckly Ford where YOU name your price! :deadinside:

One sorority made a girl drink water until she overdosed. The girl died. I thinknhazing might be illegal in some places but they still do it. It's just a social club. In engineering school, you could get old tests for classes from a local frat house. We even had one professor that straight up told us to do that. I had a close friend in one, he is still my friend and was a really nice guy. Delta Chi was a nerd frat though, my other friend in Sigma Nu was wondering whybI would hang with Tue nerd frat guys.

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