ergiinmiddleearth:

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Panel 1:
The Vikings didn’t have WHITE or NORDIC pride.They didn’t know
what the Hel  those things were.
Image: ‘Trade negotiations in the country of Eastern Slavs.’ (1909) By Sergei Vasilyevich Ivanov.

Panel 2:
Racism is the belief that humans are or should be classified into “races”, with criteria usually based on political motives, not reliable scientific data. Race =/= Ethnicity
Image: Phrenology Booth, Ohio 1938

Panel 3:
This nonsense started in the 1600s, in the American colonies to divide
and alienate poor “white” people, indentured servants and African slaves.
#GloucesterCountyConspiracy
Image: A depiction of the Gloucester County conspiracy

Panel 4:
Nordicism, an ideology of racial separatism which viewed Nordics* as an endangered racial group was created much later.In the late 19th century.*Joseph Deniker coined this name for an ethnic group. And also, the term, “ethnic group.”
Image: Sigurd and Fafnir (1906)

Panel 5:
Such ideas from“racial science”grew in popularity and acceptance throughout the 20th and 21st centuries.
Image: Cartoon of Hitler with his trousers pulled down to reveal swastika boxers with the caption: LET’S CATCH HIM WITH HIS “PANZERS” down!

Panel 6:
So remember; White Pride has nothing to do with Heathenry or Asatru. You’re just an asshole.
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Some References:

ORIGIN OF THE IDEA OF RACE by Audrey Smedley, Anthropology Newsletter, November 1997

The Invention of the White Race, Verso Books
Europeans invented the concept of race as we know it, by Anjana Cruz

How America invented Racism — and Why you Don’t Have to Hate Black People to be a Racist, by Rachel Bjerstedt

Medieval history scholars are suddenly on the front lines in the fight against white supremacists , by Brent Bambury
We need to have a talk about Folkish Heathenry, by Grumpy Lokean Elder
What The Heathen Community Needs to Know by lokavinr
Wikipedia entry for Nordic race
Were Medieval People Racist?, The Public Medievalist