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[–] 3 points 1 day ago* (1 child)

depends. If we surrender these aesthetics to the fascists then weve lost the battle in advance. Its huge hassle to eternally have to kick nazis out of the revivalist norse religious movements fx. The few friends i have that are active participants in suvh a community often share how exhausting it is to have to eternally kick off the chuds who just wanna LARP despite the many warnings that they are NOT welcome. This only happens because a lot of peoe accept the narrative that norse religious symbols = fascist, but if you actually speak with the people who are seriously invested in that mythology, that assumption is shown to near opposite of the truth.

as always, the fucks are just tryna corrupt and coopt anything cool. And my way of combatting that is explicit pushback of their limp dicked attempts at it. It is on a deep level appaling to me that we as a society are comfortable signing off these deep pieces of history as just 'nazi shit'

the hindu peace symbol might be tainted for good. fucking wish it werent.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago

    maybe it's a difference of perspective, but when you grow up surrounded by runestones and old viking villages you learn to differentiate the larpers on sight. they've not coopted the symbol itself, only its use in a certain context. a bit like how the sauvastika is usually completely fine because it's the "wrong way round", but if you tilt it 45 degrees it's obvious what they were intending it to mean.

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