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"
"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.
Re: Can anyone translate this word salad article from Patheos?
Date: 2020-12-31 04:58 am (UTC)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?
Date: 2020-12-31 05:43 am (UTC)"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.