skaldish:densley3:regicide1997:densley3:skaldish:If you see a narrative that implies white people ha
skaldish:densley3:regicide1997:densley3:skaldish:If you see a narrative that implies white people have lost their pre-Christian heritage and can reclaim it through the brotherhood of Heathenry, then you might be dealing with a white supremacist narrative.Hey, by the way, MIGHT is important here. My roommate worships that pantheon, and is about as anti-nazi as anyone I’ve ever met.So does OP. Correct me if I’m wrong, OP, but I believe the emphasis here is the focus on whiteness and lost heritage, right?Yeah, I just worry that it could be misconstrued into prejudice against them in general. And they get enough of that. Ah okay, so it took me a moment to see the confusion here and I definitely can clear it up. To start with, yes, I’m a Norse Pagan and Heathen myself, and I created this meme to show how white nationalist ideologies have made their way into Heathenry by parading around as pre-Christian Heathen values and motifs. Not everything in Heathenry is like this, but the things I picked for this meme are. Going down the list in no particular order:The Black Sun symbol was created by a Nazi SS officer as a stand-in for the swastika. It’s not historical to the Norse people.The term “Folkish” is the English word for Völkische which is derived from the Germanic ethno-nationalist movement of the same name. It doesn’t simply mean “ancestral practice.”The term “Odinist” was created by Else Christensen to promote her incredibly race-based and racialist form of Heathenry. She brought it to the US and taught it to prison inmates. It’s not interchangeable with “Odinsperson.”The “SS” runes, of course, stand for the Schutzstaffel or the Nazi protection squad.Othala has been co-opted by racialist Heathens and is now recognized as a Hate symbol.The rest of the phrases in the meme are all dogwhistle phrases that Folkish and Odinist Heathens use to signal their values.The Nine Noble Virtues was created by the Asatru Folk Assembly, a Folkish Hate-Group.So…if you’re getting shit for displaying the Black Sun or calling yourself “Folkish”, it’s not because people are mad at you for being Heathen, but because these specific concepts are white supremacist. And no, they can’t be reclaimed because many of them were never ours to begin with.But the more we Heathens can differentiate between white supremacy and an authentic Heathen practice, the more we can educate other people about it.Hopefully this clears things up a bit. -- source link
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