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kleinbl00  ·  2067 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Let's check in with that self-destructive dumpster fire, the Alt Right, shall we?

I read it a couple days ago but the gist of the article was arguing that LARPers are secret nazis:

    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.”

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.