Danzig is at present taking part in a handful of West Coast exhibits 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 out there at his exhibits. To cite the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) in regards to the image, it is “one in every of numerous historic European symbols appropriated by the Nazis of their try and 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 sporting a swastika and attempting to say it is really an historic non secular image – everyone knows what you are attempting to do right here.
Danzig hasn’t commented on the difficulty but, and perhaps he did not know? Who is aware of who accredited this, however nonetheless – it isn’t precisely a superb look, and apparently the acute proper wing racists are already welcoming him as one in every of their very own. So if Danzig really did not imply this, he would possibly wanna get on commenting in regards to 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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