Tangentially related fact: In RDR2 you don't lose honor for killing Klansman.
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“Little hooded rats… I’ll KILL ALL OF YE!”
when did games get all political smdh my darn head
... How many klansmen are in the game?
Not a lot
The player can encounter members of the Ku Klux Klan on three occasions. In these three encounters, the Klan is portrayed as comically incompetent and hateful racists.
Primarily found in Lemoyne.
The player has the option of killing Klansmen in all three encounters for positive honor, or observing the encounters and not intervening.
There is also the Racist in Saint Dennis who you can off without consequence.
ⓘ 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘤𝘢𝘵. 𝘗𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘴𝘶𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘳.
Arthur seems to have a particular disgust for the Ku Klux Klan, as he will often insult them and even refer to them as "hooded rodents".
Not sure on the total, I think they continue to spawn. I know I've come across them randomly between missions. Like one time it was night and I saw a burning cross in the distance, so I snuck up on them and circled them to find a good angle to quick draw on their asses 
Name my character Johnny B, open terminal.
spawn klansmen rally
Rinse, repeat.
Same for Wolfenstein
They have the opportunity to do something really funny by having him do nothing but eat Gushers.
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on my first playthru of RDR2, i was pretty timid on doing wack shit in town because i was clumsy and paying off fines for crimes is expensive. there's too many witnesses! of course, finding the klan out in the woods is pretty much license to do whatever, because no witnesses.
however, that the dude in the big city (new orleans/st. denis) who was spouting all the eugenics shit, i was like "fuck this guy". and when i hog tied his ass and kidnapped him, i liked that nobody on the street gave a shit enough about him to consider what i was doing a crime.
i was still too afraid of wildlife like the gators, so i just took him to a big mud patch near the edge of town and threw him in it face down still bound, letting him struggle and gurgle until he suffocated and died. it didn't even give me a ding to my honor either, lmao. emptied his pockets and then went back to whatever important business i had come to the city for. probably trying on fancy clothes at the store.
Am I the only one that thinks the depiction of racism was somewhat softened in RDR2? Not even the eugenics guy really says anything that specifically racist and mostly just compares miscegenation to bestiality in pretty general terms. For comparison, RDR1 had shit like that one brazenly anti-semitic shopkeep that kept making horrible remarks about Jews every time you went to his store (he also got a really funny death scene in the zombie DLC). Now that I think about it, Herbert Moon also exists in RDR2 but I don't think he ever says anything racist which seems a bit out of character
That's not to say RDR2 pretended racism didn't exist in 1899, we see and hear how racism exists and affects many characters throughout the game and there's at least one hard N-word. I guess Rockstar wanted to be a bit more tasteful about it instead of having NPCs constantly spouting slurs and literal hate speech
The way you know they really, really pulled their punches is that Micah isn't an insanely huge racist. He would be.
That said, I'd say good call to all of it on account of I don't think the rockstar writing department has the chops to tackle racism in depth without yucking it up entirely
He is a racist though. Right in the beginning of the game he grumbles about having to bunk with "Bill Williamson and a bunch of darkies." He also has camp interactions with every non-white gang member where he antagonises each of them by saying something racist but he's still not as horrible as you'd expect.
Micah is such a cartoonishly massive asshole it contrasts wildly with all the other gang members who are all pretty well-rounded characters and makes you wonder why someone hasn't shot him in the back and left him in a ditch already
he is but the entire fact he calls them darkies instead of n-words kind of proves my point. I mean like what, the misanthropic serial killer has objections to saying the N-Word on some sort of moral ground?
Yeah, like I said, you definitely get the feeling Rockstar didn't want to put full-fat 1800's racism into their game
I think the depiction of the Klan as comic relief kinda accentuates how softened it is. While the Klan was more or less dead by 1899 and wouldn't get its revival for 16 years, there were still plenty of white supremacist paramilitaries running around. One of them even overthrew a city's government just a year prior.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
There should be three panels and the last one should have cross hairs with the caption, "People up range"