(July 17, 2015 at 1:11 pm)Yeauxleaux Wrote: Can't these bastards come up with anything of their own? Another culturally significant symbol to a lot of people, appropriated into something that symbolises racism and white supremacy.
These people love talking about the superiority of the Anglo-Saxon race, then rather than creating their own shit they use symbols from "inferior" Non-Anglo Saxons. The irony...
"Celts" also far predate "white" as an ethnicity. Yes they're "white" in the sense that they're European but "white" as a racial classification didn't exist back then. You can have your little wood henges and hill forts, just remember your ancestors were making those at the same time the Egyptians were building pyramids, and my ancestors were building what's now the oldest free-standing structure in the world. The Celts get a pat on the back for trying though.
The term white race only showed up when Europeans needed to justify racism against Africans and use them as slaves - Eventually that led to various classifications of people to always justify why your country and your natives are superior. Truth be told, for many white supremacists, specially old school ones, celtics and southern Europeans were inferior versions of whites but still acceptable because they were still white, so using a celtic cross is just moronic. I don't mind people being proud of any heritage whatsoever because whoever you are you are unique in the combination of your personal traits, every one of us is just one human with no equivalent (even if you have twins) - Celts in the Iberia peninsula mixed with other tribes and formed what we historically call the Iberian-celts which represent one of the most important tribal and ethnic groups that have origin to Spain and Portugal, not to mention other tribes that mixed along the way to fight the Romans when they invaded.
Anyway, it's stupid to use it as a white supremacist symbol but for those folks anything that covers up the Swastika will do.
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