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“Important to remember that this same sort of document circled in the US around 25 years ago, igniting the Satanic Panic, which sent the entire country (nay, the world..?!) into a frenzy of paranoia around witchcraft, magic, delusions of baby-killing and child-ritual-trafficking, and a whole lot of thinking that Dungeons and Dragons would open a portal to the underworld and unleash a literal apocalypse.”
“And then about, what, twenty five or thirty years before that, the same thing, in the McCarthy Era. Different language, different scapegoats, same paranoid and delusional fear-mongering propaganda.”
"There is some great degree of irony in a leftist witch being declared a McCarthyist or attempting to initiate a witch-hunt."
well no the irony if it can be called that is that a self described leftist witch would even make such a list. but then:
"Paganism in general-and apparently Devotional and Reconstructionist Polytheism in particular-have been long overdue for a reckoning. How do we differentiate our own practices and beliefs from someone whose identical practises and beliefs actually lead them to advocate for racial purity or separtism, the primacy of European gods, eugenics to prevent the birth of disabled people, and even human sacrifice? What is really the difference between the Fascism of Augustus Sol Invictus, or New Right ideology of Stephen McNallen and Alain de Benoist, and the rest of polytheist belief?"
A reckoning? heh, does that mean a purge? Of course the list provides for those groups that should be monitored, and of course sets up the excluded groups who are 'pretty much immune' and thus given a pass. yes what are the differences?
"There are some deeply difficult questions that we need to ask. Do the gods want us to return to ‘tribal’ societies, do the gods demand we war against Muslims and Atheists and Leftists, do the gods demand we institute strict hierarchies and authority-relationships between priests and the rest of us? And did those gods happen to notice those are the same ideas of the New Right?"
Do the gods demand we war against capitalism and society and follow the 'new' priesthood who demands a 'reckoning'?
"Despite the fact that there are, indeed, writers and leaders who openly claim allegiance with many of the ideas of the New Right, it is the ideas which are the problem, not the people. In fact, we must not fall into that trap when confronting dangerous ideas-that’s the tool of Fascism, not of liberation. Humans are not the ideas or beliefs they hold, anymore than they are the color of their skin, their genitals, their ability, or their sexual orientation."
Well, no the ideas that the 'new right' are exploiting existed well before modern times and they didn't seem to be dangerous ideas then. It's not the ideas but PEOPLE. It's people who decide to implement those ideas to either beneficial or nefarious use. But lets blame it on ideas, and lets police ideas and only let the ones some think are the best to circulate, and lets discredit all other ideas.
"from AnomalousThracian'fb page "
“Important to remember that this same sort of document circled in the US around 25 years ago, igniting the Satanic Panic, which sent the entire country (nay, the world..?!) into a frenzy of paranoia around witchcraft, magic, delusions of baby-killing and child-ritual-trafficking, and a whole lot of thinking that Dungeons and Dragons would open a portal to the underworld and unleash a literal apocalypse.”
“And then about, what, twenty five or thirty years before that, the same thing, in the McCarthy Era. Different language, different scapegoats, same paranoid and delusional fear-mongering propaganda.”
"There is some great degree of irony in a leftist witch being declared a McCarthyist or attempting to initiate a witch-hunt."
well no the irony if it can be called that is that a self described leftist witch would even make such a list. but then:
"Paganism in general-and apparently Devotional and Reconstructionist Polytheism in particular-have been long overdue for a reckoning. How do we differentiate our own practices and beliefs from someone whose identical practises and beliefs actually lead them to advocate for racial purity or separtism, the primacy of European gods, eugenics to prevent the birth of disabled people, and even human sacrifice? What is really the difference between the Fascism of Augustus Sol Invictus, or New Right ideology of Stephen McNallen and Alain de Benoist, and the rest of polytheist belief?"
A reckoning? heh, does that mean a purge? Of course the list provides for those groups that should be monitored, and of course sets up the excluded groups who are 'pretty much immune' and thus given a pass. yes what are the differences?
"There are some deeply difficult questions that we need to ask. Do the gods want us to return to ‘tribal’ societies, do the gods demand we war against Muslims and Atheists and Leftists, do the gods demand we institute strict hierarchies and authority-relationships between priests and the rest of us? And did those gods happen to notice those are the same ideas of the New Right?"
Do the gods demand we war against capitalism and society and follow the 'new' priesthood who demands a 'reckoning'?
"Despite the fact that there are, indeed, writers and leaders who openly claim allegiance with many of the ideas of the New Right, it is the ideas which are the problem, not the people. In fact, we must not fall into that trap when confronting dangerous ideas-that’s the tool of Fascism, not of liberation. Humans are not the ideas or beliefs they hold, anymore than they are the color of their skin, their genitals, their ability, or their sexual orientation."
Well, no the ideas that the 'new right' are exploiting existed well before modern times and they didn't seem to be dangerous ideas then. It's not the ideas but PEOPLE. It's people who decide to implement those ideas to either beneficial or nefarious use. But lets blame it on ideas, and lets police ideas and only let the ones some think are the best to circulate, and lets discredit all other ideas.
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