Good ideas and conversation. No ads, no tracking. Login or Take a Tour!
user-inactivated · 2307 days ago · link · · parent · post: Let's check in with that self-destructive dumpster fire, the Alt Right, shall we?
The Black Sun became a nazi symbol because nazis started using it as a nazi symbol once waving swastikas around became unacceptable. I read that less as "LARPers are secret nazis" than "nazis are why we can't have nice things."
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."