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22 April 2020 17:05![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
haptalaonBut part of the discomfort around engaging enthusiastically with folk/folk horror/folklore is, I suppose, what the Norse pagans have been dealing with for a while (and metal; and punk).
You don't want to make people of colour feel uncomfortable by, say, displaying runes in a way which might be misunderstood; or engage in a wider community context which is often implicitly white supremacist.
But you don't want to leave huge chunks of, like, our heritage and history and music to the fascists. There has to be a fight back, too; it isn't good enough, for me at least, to say "a lot of folk culture is fashy, therefore I will not engage with it". I like folklore! It seems both positive, and necessary to enthusiastically and full-heartedly participate in these things, and reducing the amount of cultural space in which these ideas can percolate unchallenged.
You don't want to make people of colour feel uncomfortable by, say, displaying runes in a way which might be misunderstood; or engage in a wider community context which is often implicitly white supremacist.
But you don't want to leave huge chunks of, like, our heritage and history and music to the fascists. There has to be a fight back, too; it isn't good enough, for me at least, to say "a lot of folk culture is fashy, therefore I will not engage with it". I like folklore! It seems both positive, and necessary to enthusiastically and full-heartedly participate in these things, and reducing the amount of cultural space in which these ideas can percolate unchallenged.
