33 people killed in a missile strike in Chernihiv, just hours ago.Why is everyone in the West pretending not seeing these horrors?! pic.twitter.com/8xiB29Nstx— Inna Sovsun (@InnaSovsun) March 3, 2022
As for the pagan/Norse stuff, I think it has something to do with that whole "reject modernity, embrace tradition" meme, where "modernity" basically goes all the way back to the Holy Roman Empire and the spread of Orthodox Christianity and/or Catholicism, depending on the region. So they start reaching for any sort of identity they can dredge up -- especially when we start talking about Vikings, thanks to the ahistorical "omg based white people" aesthetic and the abundance of written historical accounts.
It really sucks for the Neopagans when their iconography gets hijacked by fash and white supremacists, too.
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As for the pagan/Norse stuff, I think it has something to do with that whole "reject modernity, embrace tradition" meme, where "modernity" basically goes all the way back to the Holy Roman Empire and the spread of Orthodox Christianity and/or Catholicism, depending on the region. So they start reaching for any sort of identity they can dredge up -- especially when we start talking about Vikings, thanks to the ahistorical "omg based white people" aesthetic and the abundance of written historical accounts.
It really sucks for the Neopagans when their iconography gets hijacked by fash and white supremacists, too.