No way. Coen brothers made sympathetic KKK characters in O Brother Where Art Thou. They had an entire movie to punch and punch hard at the racist Southern population, and they completely whiffed. It can only be concluded that this was intentional.
The guy running for office that got booed out of the hall at the end or the violent robber bible salesman?
Every KKK in the movie. The worst is when they are played for laughs when they are dancing like the Wicked Witch’s soldiers. None of them are denounced in the strongest terms. I mean, they’re KKK, how hard a message is that to insert into a movie? It writes itself.
So, the scene where the heroes rescue their black friend and nearly spear a kkk member on their own flag after toppling a burning cross and setting several on fire and it being clearly depicted as good isn’t a strong enough denunciation?
