Ok, can I throw in a weird .02 that I noticed after deciding to sift through this person’s blog to try to get a better idea of what the hell is going on here?
I really do think this person is a legit Nazi. As in, not a troll. But they’re a super weird Nazi, who came to this conclusion in a way that we in the witch community should find REALLY CONCERNING.
As far as I can tell, this person jumped to conclusion: Nazism by way of hatred of the Abrahamic religions, from a pagan perspective.
Yes. Really. And can I get a show of hands, for how many of you have seen that hate for Christians and Jews in our community? Oh, all of you? You don’t say.
They seem to believe that Christianity = oppression of pagans, and it was invented by Jews as a form of Judaism that would be more suited to infiltrating “Aryan” nations. This, of course, gives them their tidy segue to anti-Semitism and general hatred of POC. And from there, they also have a reason to get into Holocaust denial, etc.
This is why they seem to be ok about LGBT people. That isn’t the perspective they came from, when trying to find a direction for their hate. They came from the perspective of hating the dominant faiths in their culture because they’re seen as “the enemy” of pagans. And this is EVERYWHERE in the pagan community, from $ilver Ravenwolf to the endless ignorant, “THEY STOLE OUR HOLIDAYS!” rants we all see (and Bree tirelessly debunks) every single sabbath.
Why do I find that so worrying?
Because it means that this person isn’t just crazy, trawling our community like this. There are a huge number of uninformed people who are PRIMED to be groomed for hate, if only someone gives them just the right push.
In this historical environment of extremism, the ignorant railing of young pagans against other religions is more than just a phase a teenager hopefully grows out of when they become more informed. It leaves them vulnerable to recruitment by fascists.
We need to get a handle on this. Quickly.