Danzig is at the moment taking part in a handful of West Coast reveals and for no matter purpose, his merch line is kinda racist.
Quite a few Danzig followers have identified Danzig‘s use of the Sonnenrad – or Sunwheel, or Black Solar – on t-shirts and posters out there at his reveals. To cite the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) concerning the image, it is “one in every of quite a lot of historic European symbols appropriated by the Nazis of their try to invent an idealized ‘Aryan/Norse’ heritage.”
And yeah I do know, the Sunwheel pre-dates the Nazis and was appropriated for a shitty use. But it surely’s the identical factor as carrying a swastika and making an attempt to say it is truly an historic non secular image – everyone knows what you are making an attempt to do right here.
Danzig hasn’t commented on the difficulty but, and possibly he did not know? Who is aware of who authorized this, however nonetheless – it is not precisely an excellent look, and apparently the intense proper wing racists are already welcoming him as one in every of their very own. So if Danzig really did not imply this, he may wanna get on commenting concerning the scenario like… now. And if he really did imply it, then that is a complete separate article with some very stronly worded language.
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