Dude dude you missed the funnier one linked from that post: the nazis with shields are literally LARPers.
I read it a couple days ago but the gist of the article was arguing that LARPers are secret nazis: The Black Sun became a Nazi symbol because the Nazis took over a castle that had it in the middle of the floor. By that logic the Muppets are members of Al Qaeda.The significant overlap between Nazi fans and European history fans has led to a phenomenon medieval scholar Paul Sturtevant calls “Schrödinger’s Medievalism”: “a piece of medieval culture found in the wild that you know has been appropriated as a symbol by right-wing nationalists or racists ... You can’t tell which is it until you get more information—and sometimes doing so is impossible. So, sometimes you are left in the uncomfortable position of having to treat it as both benign and hostile at the same time.”
I get the sentiment but at the same time if there's anybody who should be able to rock Norse symbols it's the LARPers and whatever Norse symbols the Nazis haven't appropriated yet, they will. That the bulk of the article was a riff on "oh, shit, you mean I need to be offended by this symbol now?" kinda rubbed me the wrong way. The article was about "some Nazis are LARPers" but it was trying for "all LARPers are Nazis."