I believe as a white person I can offer some insight and I know what to call them: white supremacists. You say with almost understated reservation that you may believe that not all Viking wash or shippers and Odinists are not white supremacists. Thanks for trying to spare my white feelings, but I’ll go ahead and say it: Yes, they’re all white supremacists. Sure, I know what you’re getting at, that just because Thor is the main super powered white got in the Marvel movies doesn’t mean he represents the southern confederate type of good ole boy white white supremacist bro, or an idealized version of that guy, with big muscles, an honest yet slightly obnoxious sense of humor, a deep sense of “honor” that resembles “brotherhood” almost like a marine, and….No, wait a minute. That is exactly who Thor is. Holy cow. Come to think of it, this attractive Viking white man is the most powerful next to the Hulk (a raging green monster of anger—see white mobs stabbing, burning and lynching black men (like Sam Holt) in the South in 1899 or the 1930s for example and their mindless barbarity). OMG — that’s exactly who Thor is. I was wondering how Marvel attracted such a wide audience. OK, now that I’ve just called Thor a gold ole boy supremacist stand in, I’m going to get some severe blowback. I get it, you love Thor and Chris Hemsworth is a hunk. But please let me think about this comparison before canceling me.
And all those other Viking shows on Netflix and cable, both fiction and factual ones that have surged over the last few years—holy cow. I had a sense last year that this was a type of white supremacism in open disguise but was in denial and didn’t want to think down that road. Adolf and his SS loved that Aryan Viking type and based their whole future civilization on that image and concept. Have you seen the model capital city they were to build after winning the war? (Full disclosure, the Nazis lost so Hitler didn’t get it built.) But the model Hitler oversaw was so Viking-seque. Conclusion: I don’t think these whiters are playing at being Aryan Vikings. I think they’re serious under their smiling debauchery.
I didn’t know anything about the Hotep, and it’s easy to understand from your description though that these type of ADoS blacks are “playing” at Egyptian monarchy and other such groups. They are “exploring” their roots that were deliberately obliterated from their minds and should by salve-bible wielding confederate plantation owners in an centuries long act of ethnic genocide. They are justifiably interested in exploring their Roots, and use imagery that suggest strength and power, of “Excellence” to counter the imagery of the degenerate gangster type that the white owned media company pushes (except for Beyoncé who pushes back with African imagery promotion). These type of black American men are searchers, look for imagery of proud portrayal instead of criminal portrayal pushed on the evening news (you would think if watching the local news that all crime is committed by young black men—not true of course, but that’s American media for you). I have to have sympathy and understanding on this “Hotep” types though, even if they are perhaps clinging to imagery of Monarchy and autocracy —which white democrat loving Americans would never do.
Wait, what, a new season of The Crown is on? Just a minute, I have to go indulge in watching the Queen who recently died and I have to pay that dear monarch respects. All Hail the Queen! All Hail King Chuckie!! Wow, my blood is really boiling, maybe I will watch the new Nordsman series. All Hail our ancient pure blooded ancestors of whitely! (OK, may that Viking worship is a little bit too supremacy and got to me just now, if not totally supremacy).
I do appreciate your diplomacy in sparing my feelings by mitigating your language though, but really no need since I know now what the Viking trope means and will stop being in denial. The Hotep seekers I did not know about, and for that I thank you as they should be honored. Those though who are forcing their known unquestioned identity down the throats of blacks Americans and other minorities like GLBTQ+ with their macho white sword play of straight male bondage, well, the opposite of honor is due to them.