Like an empty time capsule in tattooed tartan pajamas

[sovay]

I had not realized until tonight how early exposure to The Blues Brothers (1980) teaches a person to recognize Nazi dogwhistles, but I was linked to this article about a pseudo-Celtic fascist-prop TV series in attempted development and as soon as I read that "our present filmmaker froths about the Globalist Multicultural Romans bringing African soldiers over to oppress the Britons," I heard Henry Gibson through a bullhorn: "White men, white women, the swastika is calling you . . . The Jew is using the Black as muscle against you." Illinois Nazis.

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[cmcmck]

You've picked up on another favourite of mine! :o)

'I HATE Illinois Nazis'..............

[lauradi7dw]

Not the same folks, but someone pointed out on twitter the other day that the casting of Denzel Washington as Macbeth doesn't make sense because there weren't Black people in Scotland.

If you want a non-Nazi Celtic-esque mash-up, I recommend Roar, where recommend mostly means I wanted Heath Ledger's hair. I kinda still do
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z-LQXBYyRWs

[dewline]

Damn all Nazis.

[selkie]

Globalist Multicultural Romans bringing African soldiers over to oppress the Britons

I thought it was the night I had had, but that doesn't make any more sense in the grim light of caffeinated morning. It may make less sense.
Love,
The Globalist Multiculturalist Elephant Hauled Over the Alps the Hard Way

[asakiyume]

The coopting of cultures and images for awful messages is so enraging.

[davidgillon]

To really make them froth at the mouth, we could point out how those African soldiers probably settled down in the vicus outside the fort with a nice Celtic girl and became part of the Celtic bloodline.

Mind you, around about my home town it seems like they were mostly bringing in Frisians (Danes), Breuci (Bosnians), Vingones (Gauls) and Varduli (Celt-Iberians) to 'oppress' the Celts, and its easy to see why he wouldn't want any actual facts tainting his ur-myth, because especially with the Frisians that metaphor could twist back and bite him with it's tale of Tyr-worshipping blonde auxiliaries coming over here to steal our women.

[minoanmiss]

I am so sorry someone is trying to make that TV show, but/and ever delighted at mentions of The Blues Brothers.

[luzula]

Gee, I wonder why their story is not about the evil Anglo-Saxons invading and oppressing the Celts. Or the evil Vikings. Or the evil Normans. No, no, all the invading of the British Isles was done by Africans!

[muccamukk]

imagine that Tommy Wiseau and Neil Breen had locked themselves away for a year, rotting their brains by reading nothing but Stormfront and The Turner Diaries before embarking on a pseudo-historical fantasy.

Oh lord.

There was a good thing... somewhere about how neo-fascist groups in Italy glom on to Lord of the Rings, which was depressing but not surprising.

[owl]

Irish twitter has been thoroughly skewering this nonsense over the last couple of days.

It's a bit harder to get people to buy into this stuff when there was actual oppression in living memory, and the oppressors were inconveniently white!