Your original response was "All of the above tbh." to a list of critiques of the photoshoot. If you think that posing for a viking picture is too close to nazi symbolism, then why do you think that? I can't see anything that would directly associate the picture with the german nazi party, or fascism in general.

The only explanation I could figure was that you think the nazi appropriation of the general aesthetic taints the whole concept of vikings with the nazi label. If my assesment is incorrect, then I do apologize. It's just that that specific line of thinking is sadly somewhat common and is the core of a wider phenomenon of surrendering the symbols and aesthetics of many pre-christian traditions (particularly in northern Europe) to the nazis.

[–] undergroundoverground@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

As I never said that nazis and viking were interchangeable terms, I'm going to to ahead and presume that means "no, I can't quote where you said we have to discard every single thing the nazis claimed. However, rather than admitting that I made it up, I'm going to double down on the lie." Good for you. Enjoy your cheap rhetorical devices, used for Internet points. My mistake for engaging someone like you in good faith. I've learned my lesson. Some people in Norway themselves also think its close to nazi symptoms. I said, it a little bit of a little too close. But hey, let's not let what I actually said get in the way of things.