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Help[Opinions] Re: Saxon
in reply to a message by Martha
I feel like tribe names are a let down...even names like Dorian, Wendell, Sabine, Saskia, that I want to like, I can only feel lukewarm about at best.
Saxon definitely leaves me with an impression. I think of animal skins and tattoos and that Hans Zimmer song, "Do You Think I'm a Saxon?" - ominous percussion and grunting. Because of that my initial reaction is that it's hokey but not in a way that is immediately much different than Odin (who is popular with white supremacists).
If I give it any thought at all beyond that, it sure does sound like a white supremacist dogwhistle in the US. But so many people are blissfully clueless about history and politics and tuned into pop culture instead that I'd need more context (they show up in movies as warriors, which I can see people liking).
There's also the female Jack London character.
And it seems a lot like Jaxon / Jackson to me, tbh. I feel like lots of people like that because of Stonewall Jackson and Andrew Jackson, but obviously not all of the people who use it do so because of those associations.
Saxon definitely leaves me with an impression. I think of animal skins and tattoos and that Hans Zimmer song, "Do You Think I'm a Saxon?" - ominous percussion and grunting. Because of that my initial reaction is that it's hokey but not in a way that is immediately much different than Odin (who is popular with white supremacists).
If I give it any thought at all beyond that, it sure does sound like a white supremacist dogwhistle in the US. But so many people are blissfully clueless about history and politics and tuned into pop culture instead that I'd need more context (they show up in movies as warriors, which I can see people liking).
There's also the female Jack London character.
And it seems a lot like Jaxon / Jackson to me, tbh. I feel like lots of people like that because of Stonewall Jackson and Andrew Jackson, but obviously not all of the people who use it do so because of those associations.
This message was edited 5/12/2021, 4:22 PM
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