Worth noting, this is actually more Nazi than the swastika itself, which has significance to Buddhists, Hindus, Slavs, Balts, and others that massively predate its appropriation by facists.
This thing, by contrast, has only one meaning.
I WAS LOOKING UP PUNK PATCHES AND SAW ONE WITH THAT FUCKING THING ON IT WTF
*edited the first point because desantis himself didn’t make the video. it was one of his aides, who was later fired. he still had neo-nazis working for him. i think that’s important to note. everything else is accurate as far as i know
Also remider that weeding out the nazi’s is your duty to your punk and metal scene. Don’t let them think no one knows they are a nazi. If they don’t know they are wearing nazi symbols, educate them by ripping off their patches and throwing them out of the venue. If that’s too much, keep shouting “Nazi!” And pointing at them.
It’s your duty to wreck the altars and interrupt the prayers of nazi pagans, too. Lots of people do bad pagan research and allow nazi symbols into our practices because they cannot or do not research our authentic traditions, allow white supremacists to weave in little lies and fabricate iconographic associations that have never been parts of Nordic, Germanic, Celtic prechristian religions. This allows them to hide among us with a shield of claimed ignorance, but we should not make any exceptions.
In fact, I say we need to give them no quarter, we should re-appropriate actual symbols and runes to antifacist messages. Man is for all humans.
I know some people will get anxious but that’s why you really really REALLY need to do actual research, not just agree with everyone signing OBO at the end of their pintrest post.
An old college friend went from casually worshipping Thor and Odin to becoming a white supremacist who hinted at slaughtering the serpents. He meant other pagans. He has tattoos that he will lie about. I have no idea what’s he’s up to now but he lives in Florida and he’s raising a son and I’m concerned.
one of the most infuriating things about becoming an adult is when you realize that it actually is 10x easier to solve problems by making a phone call vs literally any other communication method
