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> The Troth also strongly opposes the statement made in the FBI affidavit stating Mr. Holzer had received “various white supremacy paraphernalia as gifts for the UCs, including a flag, several patches, a metal Thor’s hammer and a mask.” The Thor’s Hammer, also known as a Mjolnir, is a sacred symbol in our religion, and worn by Heathens across the world. It is not a symbol of hate, but symbol of those of us who are of the Heathen faith.
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While this is certainly well-intentioned, it’s also deeply unimpressive. From the treatment of antisemitic violence as being primarily about religion as opposed to about race to its stunningly tone deaf decision to take the occasion of a narrowly averted act of racist terrorism to complain about the FBI’s description of a Thor’s hammer pendant—one that appears to have been part and parcel of Holzer’s membership in a neo-nazi organization in upstate New York—as white supremacist paraphenalia, and, for that matter, the implication that their condemnation of this is coequal with their condemnation of violent terrorism, the statement displays an appalling sense of mismatched priorities that seems more concerned with managing heathenry’s public image than it does with an attempt at mass violence. Unfortunately, it’s grimly typical of our faith’s attempts to engage with its persistent nazi problem—efforts that, as someone who is steeped in anti-nazi activism and who has written a book about contemporary far-right movements, are consistently misguided.
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Let’s talk, then, about how we might do better.
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