Are most polytheists okay with Galina being our self-appointed spokesperson?

lokispriestess:

glegrumbles:

lady-feral:

systlin:

honorthegods:

mizstorge:

themodernsouthernpolytheist:

lordognar:

answersfromvanaheim:

honorthegods:

Does anyone else see the irony in Galina’s outrage about the Troth’s statement strongly condemning racism, homophobia, and similar forms of discrimination?

How does she expect anyone to take her seriously when complains about “polytheists attacking another group of polytheists – and not just verbally but with real world consequences”,  while her blog is a record of the many times she’s done that herself?  Yet she has the audacity to accuse a group who assures its members it stands against racism, homophobia, and transphobia  of demonizing other polytheist groups and forcing them to “confirm ideologically.” (I think she meant “conform”, but who even knows with her anymore?)

Everyone deserves to be treated with respect and dignity. Those who refuse such treatment to certain groups based on bigotry can expect to be treated with wariness and suspicion.

My favourite part about this whole tirade is how she acts like groups like the AFA and some Dianic Wiccans are “just trying to practice their traditions” (or something like that) like no GK they’re not just innocent victims just trying to do their things in peace, they’re talking about excluding and discriminating against minority groups, using language that can and has gotten people killed. Me and my friends disagreeing over whether black forest cake is delicious it’s not and it deserves to rot in Hell is a difference of opinion, but when these groups call trans women “tr*nsies” and the AFA talks about gender and protecting “beautiful white children” there’s….kind of an issue?

About to show how new I am…but who is Galina? I know of the statements issued by the AFA but I keep seeing things about this Galina person pop up and have no idea to whom they refer.

She’s a BNP (Big Name Pagan) author who has proven herself time and time again to be unnecessarily hostile, rude, and defends bigots in the name of “tolerance.” Granted, this is akin to your racist Uncle Bob who says things like “run em over” in reference to BlackLivesMatter and then says you’re oppressing him when you tell him he’s an asshole. What sucks is she’s done some great research in the past and is genuinely academic in a lot of ways, somethin I often find to be missing, but I just can’t ignore her complicity in bigotry.

Galina Krasskova has written Devotional Polytheism: An Introduction, Northern Tradition for the Solitary Practitioner, Runes: Theory and Practice, The Whisperings of Odin, Honoring Sigyn, and has contributed to a number of Neos Alexandria’s devotional volumes. 

This is what I know from reading her posts at krasskova.wordpress.com:

– She abhors Tumblr and those polytheists she calls "tumblr types" to the point that she demands anyone who takes her classes not only refrains from using Tumblr for the duration, but must also delete their Tumblr blog(s). 

– She derides pop-culture pagans, and any polytheists who happen to have fandom hobbies and interests.  

– She opposes Declaration 127 and defends the right of polytheist groups to be racist, homophobic, transphobic, and and misogynist, especially if she agrees with their theology. She has called efforts to eradicate racism from Heathen religion “This is the worst kind of slacktivism that I’ve seen in awhile and I’m sure these people entertain notions that they are equivalent to Martin Luther King and Malcolm X…” (her)

– She opposes Muslim immigration to Europe and has supported other bloggers’ anti-Muslim rhetoric. 

– She’s okay with human sacrifice, and favors animal sacrifice to the extent that she condemns even those who oppose it on ethical or historical grounds.

I feel strongly about this, because she calls herself a “lineage carrier”, and because people who purchase the devotional prayer cards and booklets she sells at her Etsy store and her Heathen 101 books probably are not aware of her biases.

tl;dr – Galina Krasskova writes and teaches about Heathenism. She refuses to condemn racist, homophobic, transphobic and misogynistic behavior of any group or individual, as long as she agrees with their politics and theology. She criticizes pop-culture pagans, polytheists who have lives beyond religion, Liberals, Socialists, vegans and vegetarians, and people who think human sacrifice has no place in any religion.

Having a Tumblr doesn’t make you a bad Heathen. Having a fandom doesn’t make you a bad pagan. Being a Democrat or supporting animal rights doesn’t make you a bad polytheist. 

Supporting racism, sexism, transphobia, or homophobia?  Those beliefs certainly don’t make someone a good person. Galina Krasskova doesn’t represent my polytheism.

Galina is on my list of “Fight on sight” people, incidentally. Right alongside at least half the entire government and Hernando De Soto (I know he’s dead I will still fight him.) 

She’s garbage.

Extra garbage, this is just the tip of the iceberg. I don’t even have the energy to go into everything. Wants to strip away human rights from all non-polytheists. Likes violent Hindu superiority/nationalists and publishes in places that publish them, or publishes in support of them. Ironically encouraged pop culture paganism worship of a symbol of colonialism. Is good buddies with a now violently transphobic alt-right dude who used to make money being the white person publishing books for white people about ATRs. Is on record for bringing back life-or-death coming of age rituals for kids like dropping them into the wilderness to see if they survive, and on record saying she’d make her kids homeless if they ever converted away from hard polytheism if she had kids. (She doesn’t, thankfully.) The list just keeps going.

She is a garbage person and tried really really hard to be a cult leader for a while (possibly still does).

Any baby pagans, heathens, Odin, or Loki devotees steer far far away from her.

She is racist, violent, and abusive.

STAY AWAY

date-a-jew-suggestions:

prismatic-bell:

date-a-jew-suggestions:

If you would report an undocumented immigrant to ICE you would have reported me to the Nazis and I don’t fucking trust you

A note:

I live in a state where you “have to” report anyone you suspect of being undocumented (that wonderful hellhole of Arizona). Now in practice this law has fallen far short, thank goodness. But if you live in such a place and they start enforcing it, here is how you get around it:

Assume everyone who doesn’t speak English is visiting.

Never ask about their job, because if they tell you they work here then you know they’re not visiting. You see them a lot for several weeks or months? Hm. Someone in the family must be ill. That’s terribly tough. They always dress in old, ratty laborers’ clothes? I feel you, my dude, I can’t afford new clothes either, and my dad has the fashion sense of an aardvark, so sometimes it’s not even about “affording” them. They say they’ve been here for years? You must have misunderstood. Spanish isn’t your first language, after all. First and last name? It never came up, or you don’t recall–you meet a lot of people.

And then, if you’re asked: no, you haven’t seen anyone residing illegally in the United States. Just people visiting.

Very good very important addition

allthecanadianpolitics:

I’m not seeing much information or outrage about Olando Brown (outside of social media), a Black Canadian man who apparently was killed by Barrie Police Officers who tasered him to death.

These are the only articles I could find, none of which name him or make it explicitly clear that a black man was killed by the police:

SIU investigating after man dies following arrest by Barrie police

Ontario man dead in police custody after Tasering

Friends of Barrie man who died after being Tasered on Friday shocked, upset

This is FUCKED UP:

Barrie police say the arrest took place at around 2:30 p.m. on Friday. Police have not confirmed the exact location of the ordeal.

They say the man was then taken to the Barrie Police station for processing where he went into “medical distress.” Paramedics provided first-aid at the station and transported him to Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre where he later died.

Family and friends have identified him as 32-year-old Olando Brown.

A witness who captured video of the altercation on his cell phone later posted it on social media. The video has been viewed thousands of times.

The video appears to show the officers struggle with Brown while trying to arrest him near some trees between two buildings.

Throughout the video, the sound of a Taser being deployed could be heard before Brown is brought to the ground. An officer shouts “stop resisting” and “put your hands behind your back” while the others forcibly hold him on the ground.

Lance Freeman, who recorded the video, told CTV News Barrie that he watched the officers approach Brown while he was asleep near a bush.

“They asked him to see his ID and before he even had a chance to pull his ID out, the one guy just kicked him and the other started chasing him,” Freeman said.

He said he pulled out his cellphone when he saw one of the officers kick Brown “right in the temple.”

“Everybody was telling the cops to stop, that they were using force,” he said. “How do you expect someone to sit still when you’re Tasering him?”

Freeman claims he stopped recording when one of the officers pointed at him and said he was “next.”

Continued:

Barbara South, Brown’s aunt, said her nephew was a generous and loving person who has “never been aggressive.”

“Yes he goes off the track a little bit… nobody’s perfect, but he doesn’t have a mean bone in his body,” she said.

South believes Brown would have never died after his arrest if he was white.

“They de-escalate and they find ways to get to calm a situation without any violence when the person is white. But when you’re black, your life has no value,” she said.

“My nephew was murdered… There’s no doubt about that.”

The mother of the victim’s 11-year-old child told CTV News Barrie that she’s beside herself with grief.

“She’s left without her dad,” Donna Dubois said via phone. “How do I explain this to her? How is she going to think that police officers are safe when this is what they did to her dad?”

Dubois said Brown was a “fantastic dad” who was always willing to help a friend in need. She said she believes Brown had “run-ins” with the law and had a warrant out for his arrest but intended on turning himself in.

“He did not deserve this whatsoever, not whatsoever,” she said. “I’m completely devastated I couldn’t even watch the video. I’m disgusted.”

BLACK LIVES MATTER.

#OLANDOBROWN

kropotkhristian:

karleenamarx:

kropotkhristian:

As a history graduate student, I can tell you that this is actually true. You can’t be a liberal, because you become an anarcho-communist.

Didn’t conservatives literally sanitize US history to make the genocide of native Americans seem like a voluntary migration and deemphasize any violent aspects of slavery?

Yes, the right-wing does more to cover-up and sanitize history than any other conceivable group of people. This is just another case of conservative projection. Trust me, history does not look kindly on any group of people, but it looks particularly harsh on the right-wing, particularly if you happen to have morals.