Archive article: https://archive.is/EfZkV “We don’t have a military full of Nordic pagans,” he said. “No more beards, long hair, superficial individual expression,” he added. “We’re going to cut our hair, shave our beards, and adhere to standards.”

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[–] 76 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Wait .. a white supremacist who rejects Viking Age cultural appropriation‽

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The beard thing is targeted at POC in the military. Most black men can't closely shave without catastrophic damage to their faces.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Oh I know. It's just unusual for a tatted up white supremacist to not have some misplaced affinity for Vikings, based on the Nazified version of them rather than the reality. So for Hegseth to specifically call out a rejection of Nordic aesthetic is odd. The pagan part of his callout is weird, because Christian Vikings were very much a thing, too.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Plus we learned in Vietnam that racial tensions in your military doesn't make a effective fighting force. All you end up with is a whole bunch of dead white leaders with no way to tell if the enemy killed them or their own men.

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