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nordfjording · 1 year ago

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Also just as an fyi using "norse" as a collective term for current-day nordic or scandinavian people and languages is both incorrect and also, notably, a very common narrative in white supremacist and neonazi communities so like. I'm not saying anyone's inherently a bad person for this but it might be worth having a think about why this is the word used okay thank you 😊

#i see a lot of people using it here probably innocently #at she same curve as im being exposed to more and more yknow #neopagan white supremacy bullshit in my social feeds and its #the sort of path its easy to go down on accident especially #with north american ideas of nationality and ancestry where #a lot of stock is in your blood heritage which makes a lot of sense for indigenous peoples and minorities but gets #really ugly real fast when you start applying them to national majorities because THAT #make them oppressive and ALSO #when scandinavians talk about being scandinavian it isnt about genetic heritage #but about culture and language #thank you for coming to my tedtalk

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