I legitimately don't know what Fraternity is and why it's normal in America and why these dudes are standing like this.
this post was submitted on 21 Feb 2026
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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.
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.
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.
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"
Okay in this instance I will allow it, carry on.
You've got to be ancient for those to have been around.
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.
There was a Klan rally in California in like 2015 lmao
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and they call it "greek life."