Danzig is presently enjoying a handful of West Coast reveals and for no matter motive, 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 obtainable at his reveals. To cite the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) concerning the image, it is “considered one of numerous historical 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. However it’s the identical factor as sporting a swastika and making an attempt to say it is truly an historical non secular image – everyone knows what you are making an attempt to do right here.
Danzig hasn’t commented on the problem but, and perhaps he did not know? Who is aware of who authorised this, however nonetheless – it is not precisely look, and apparently the acute proper wing racists are already welcoming him as one of their own. So if Danzig actually did not imply this, he would possibly wanna get on commenting concerning the scenario like… now. And if he actually did imply it, then that is an entire separate article with some very stronly worded language.
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