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Are far-right pagans a thing IRL, or is it literally just varg?

Are they a thing? Yes.

Are they as common as kids on reddit like to pretend? Not even remotely. It's a tiny scene gets brought up only because it's so juicy and so easy to rile up the leftist online troops.

The reason it's always Varg who keeps being brought up is that he's pretty much the only one in the tiny scene who actually did something. Even that something had nothing to do with being far right but was "just" killing his ex-bandmate and burning some churches.

It's tough to code what exactly counts as Far Right once you try to eliminate Christianity, capitalism, and the living memory of traditional morality. Depending what you were trying to do, either left or right could play them as allies or as enemies.

I've definitely met pagans who were racists, so if racist=right wing then yes. But they're also more sexually libertine, so on the sexual revolution they're leftists. They have no interest in corporations, being more in the way of anarchists economically, so that codes left. Etc.

But pagans in general are a rounding error of a group, so you're generally just getting fringe nutcases.

Though this is making me think, what rituals would classical pagans have formed around corporations? Would Walt Disney and Henry Ford and James Pierpont Morgan be deified?

I've not had much direct contact myself, but I have an IRL friend from grade school who knows several IRL.

I've met a couple, though it is unclear to me if they were truly pagans or just atheists who liked the aesthetics.

I've met far-right pagans in the metal scene when I was younger. Far right ideology used to be very present in underground metal, but in person there's pushback so the people I met were low-key and didn't talk about it unless comfortable. Definitely more of a presence online where you could find tonnes of shitty black metal cassettes with undertones of white supremecy amd paganism. Even some larger black metal acts lean into it. Not sure nowadays, I assume it is still present but more lowkey or rare.

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