The Wild Hunt (https://wildhunt.org/tag/white-supremacy)
“It seems like the United States is going through a real ‘Nazi moment’ for the past couple of weeks,” writes Ryan Smith of the Wayward Wanderer podcast, analyzing revelations on both the political Left and Right.
Following disruptions by members of the far-right at another St. Louis-area Pagan event this summer, the Midgard Makers Faire calls for a “loudly inclusive” approach to Heathenry at its event. Eric O. Scott speaks to vendors, attendees, and organizers.
Once the immediate danger had passed, though, it was not long before the facades began to crack and slide away like pieces of mud-caked siding. The groups of helpers that traveled in from other areas started to include hate groups, religious zealots, bigots, and con artists. Some local helpers began to show their true colors, too.
It’s always a fraught moment when somebody recognizes my necklace, which I realize is strange – the point of wearing a Thor’s Hammer is to publicly identify oneself as a Heathen, after all – but I’m still caught off-guard every time it happens. I’m forced to make a swift evaluation of my surroundings and my social context. Who is this person? What assumptions are they making about me? What assumptions do they think I will make of them?
The Smithsonian Institution will begin repatriating a collection of human brains collected unethically and with the intent of proving white superiority.