Talk:David Duke

DavidDuke.com is gone

The site is offline right now, and a check in the Wayback Machine shows it's been gone for over a month. Where is Duke? — Preceding unsigned comment added by ~2026-22167-56 (talk) 03:14, 11 April 2026 (UTC)

Redirection to wrong page

“Former Boris Yeltsin press minister Boris Mironov wrote an introduction to the Russian edition, printed under the title The Jewish Question Through the Eyes of an American.” This part of the text contains a link that redirects to an article dedicated to the Russian historian Boris Nikolaevich Mironov, when in fact the author of this introduction was another man named Boris Sergeevich Mironov. 185.30.229.162 (talk) 04:15, 23 January 2025 (UTC)

 Done. Now linking to the Russian article since there's no article on enwiki for the politician / journalist Boris Mironov. Nakonana (talk) 18:21, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 26 May 2025

Under the 'Antisemitism' drop-down, in the 'Activities in Ukraine and Russia (2005-2006)' part, it says, "gave Duke a non-accredited PhD in history.", and it should say something like gave Duke the first non-accredited PhD in history or something along those lines. 108.59.115.79 (talk) 01:30, 26 May 2025 (UTC)

 Not done I think you're misreading the intended meaning. It's a university whose accreditation is not recognized. The PhD itself is in the subject of history. ButlerBlog (talk) 02:39, 26 May 2025 (UTC)

Duke NSLF

PARAKANYAA, in regard to your recent removal...

According to this, DUKE joined the National Socialist Liberation Front around 1970...

• Kaplan, Jeffrey, ed. (2000). Encyclopedia of White Power: A Sourcebook on the Radical Racist Right. Walnut Creek: AltaMira Press. ISBN 978-0-7425-0340-3. (p. 98-99)

I realize its not exactly the same, so I am not suggesting a revert, but would a correction using this source be acceptable? DN (talk) 01:30, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

The NSLF was a different group. It is also kind of confusing because we do not actually have an article on the NSLF that Duke joined. PARAKANYAA (talk) 01:34, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

That's not what I'm asking. DN (talk) 01:35, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

No, it would not be appropriate to cite that he was a member of one group to a source that says he was a member of a different group. The NSLF was also not a "political party" so it would not go in that parameter. PARAKANYAA (talk) 01:36, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

You seem to misunderstand what I'm suggesting. Jeffrey Kaplan (academic) is a reliable source for stating Duke joined the NSLF. DN (talk) 01:40, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

You said we would "correct" it. If you are proposing an addition in the body to say he joined the NSLF in about 1970, sure. PARAKANYAA (talk) 01:43, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

early life

BlacKkKlansman (movie) asserts that Duke had a black maid/nanny growing up, and google AI claims that "seems" to be truthful.

if so, it should definitely in any bio of the man! ~2025-38061-76 (talk) 04:06, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

Neither are reliable sources. cheers. anastrophe, an editor he is. 04:11, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

yes, google AI is non-RS -- and oft wrong -- but is synthesized from other sources. which could be RS themselves. needs some digging.

here's the blurb as i get it:

Yes, it has been reported by several sources, including the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights (IREHR) and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), that former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke was nurtured by a Black woman who served as a nanny and domestic worker during his childhood. ~2025-38061-76 (talk) 05:47, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

And that's without value in the absence of actual cites of WP:RS. AI makes stuff up frequently enough that you can't assume the cites provided are legitimate. Go ahead and dig if you're motivated. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 07:19, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

I believe this is from the AI confusing him with his campaign manager, Michael Lawrence, who was in fact raised by black maids [1], which since the article is about Duke, I suppose confused the AI (and all the details these AIs give is about Lawrence).

There is one book about him that mentions in passing his family had one, though it's not dwelled upon:

"While Duke was glad to be back in New Orleans, relations with his mother, which had been tense, worsened with his father thou-sands of miles away. He hated his mother's drinking and yelled at her that she was a drunk and had to stop. Once he threatened to set her on fire if she did not quit drinking, according to the family's black maid, Florence Parker. David Duke's mother was so afraid of her son that she often accompanied Parker for the weekend to her home in a New Orleans housing project. "She couldn't stand David," Parker said. "She once said she must have gotten ahold of the wrong child."" PARAKANYAA (talk) 03:04, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

very interesting on both counts. but what book are u quoting there? ~2026-13473-36 (talk) 05:31, 2 March 2026 (UTC)

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