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[kimberlysteele]

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Can anyone translate this word salad article from Patheos?

[kimberlysteele]

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/agora/2020/12/irish-american-witchcraft-why-the-roots-of-your-fairy-beliefs-matter/?fbclid=IwAR081fTzmarz92Sf0f6rIYYaGz_4b85AWimFMe20KHFBzsce-7zcjwa19iI

I skimmed the article linked above, but it is so full of gobledygook I can barely get through it. I think the author is saying that believing in ancient Irish fairy myths in any meaningful way is racist and ableist.

Re: Can anyone translate this word salad article from Patheos?

[houseofmirrors]

Yes that is what they are more or less saying. They've been doing the same to Norse mythology for a few years now. Not long ago, the Swedes were subjected to an ad campaign from their own government telling them that a Swede isn't even a thing. No history. No culture. Nothing. At what point does all this stop being a coincidence and start being an intentional attack?

Re: Can anyone translate this word salad article from Patheos?

[kimberlysteele]

OK, thank you, that's what I figured. I'm also guessing that the writer of the article is a self-hating white woman with extensive grad school. She's such a complete ass -- meanwhile, materialist atheists are laughing at her for entertaining those beliefs in the first place. Her notion of myths is a Disneyfied caricature anyways, and she operates from the presumption that anyone who believes in the Fae/fairies envisions the same silly cartoons she has dancing in her vacuous skull.

I saw the stupid airline ad that tried to claim Swedish meatballs weren't Swedish or some such nonsense.

Re: Can anyone translate this word salad article from Patheos?

[(Anonymous)]

What is the cause of self-hating white women? They seem racked with guilt over things they have no control over.

Re: Can anyone translate this word salad article from Patheos?

[kimberlysteele]

I think it's a hangover from Christianity. They were most likely guilt-ridden, cower-before-God types in their immediate set of past lives, so they've taken to self-flagellation because they've never done enough deep thinking to strike at the root of their self-hatred. They are still racists. The bigotry of low expectations is the most insidious form of racism. By accusing her own race of thoughtcrime against all the brown and disabled people, Daimler is actually saying she knows herself to be superior because she was born in a certain race. She is projecting her own thoughts on fellow white people rather than dealing with her own internalized racism. In other words, she should try meditating upon her diatribes before she hits the publish button.

Re: Can anyone translate this word salad article from Patheos?

[(Anonymous)]

What is happening to the Swedes absolutely is an intentional attack, indeed it is what a genocide attempt looks like in the 21st century. There are a whole bunch of those going on simultaneously in the world as we speak.

Re: Can anyone translate this word salad article from Patheos?

[kimberlysteele]

I find Sweden interesting because it is the perfect example of a bunch of highly intelligent people being corrupted over the course of several generations. Sweden practiced forms of eugenics and compulsory sterilization for most of the 20th century. The end result has been ironically similar to what happens in overly genetically homogenous wealthy families (a.k.a. rich inbreds). The intelligentsia, which I would argue is majority of Swedes, have become emotionally and pragmatically crippled. They have almost no Mars energy: they are divided of will, listless, and unwilling to deal with the consequences of their actions. They are infected with venereal excess: rampant materialism, elite snobs clinging to creature comforts ignoring the starving peasants shouting at the gates.

Re: Can anyone translate this word salad article from Patheos?

[temporaryreality]

This, "Current theories and genetic studies support the idea that there was no massive population shift, rather there was an influx of new cultural influences which would make the idea of an older population being driven out by invaders impossible."

Is the fancy way of saying, "they're not taking your jobs and pushing you to the margins, they're bringing you diversiteeeee"

Re: Can anyone translate this word salad article from Patheos?

[kimberlysteele]

I think it's her way of telling us she's insane.

"In all these cases we see the actual, older folklore is being rewritten or reimagined for a plot point, which makes sense in fiction but contributes to the erosion of older folk beliefs. There is also an unpleasant layer of colonialism here, where people outside the cultures these beliefs come from are taking them and using them in a way that doesn’t reflect the actual belief and results in those beliefs being radically changed by the dominant culture without concern for the culture being taken from."

Huh? Her head is so far up her ass she has to vomit in order to defecate. I've seldom seen someone more tormented by her own carefully disguised racism. She takes pretentious, dissonant, partitioned self-loathing to new levels! If she is what is called a pagan nowadays, no wonder the pagan movement is disintegrating.