Does anyone else think a lot of magick has been co-opted by the white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy?

[momomo]

... or is it just me?

 

[Mannimarco]

... or is it just me?

It's just you.
Reality is literally the opposite, lots of magick has been co-opted by far left marxists.

 

[Digiquo]

I see a lot more leftist and sometimes even outright communist or anti-fascist groups that masquerade as being about the occult but really only care about politics and magic comes second.
I'm sure there are some neonazi and similar right wing groups that pretend to care about magic, but I usually see them resort more to inane conspiracy theories and how our government covers it all up. Most consider themselves Christian in some form, so I doubt they look upon people who claim they can perform magic favorably.

 

[Kepler]

The downfall of Jordan Peterson illustrates well what happens when white supremist capitalist patriarchy tries artifice to co-opt the occult to prevent progress away from hierarchies and Aristotelian concepts.

It's not like spirits can't tell a quack from a squawk.

 

[josuequiros777]

Well, the most religious of each political extreme put their religion over any other belief, including magick, but there's a good portion of each as well which study and practice magick of all flavours.

Also there are those who are with a foot in and another out, which come from a very religious background but are curious about magick and the occult (or viceversa maybe) but likely not the majority. Even if certain religious practice are magickal, their devotees would never admit that, unless it isn't taboo or an active part of worship.

Now I know lefties tend towards secularism and atheism but it isn't unlikely that conservatives also are like this, and even when ideologies look very different on paper, the behavior of extremists is very similar no matter their reasons for acting like this, their ideology or faith, they are mostly dangerous in some form or a have very unworked unconscious mind.

And of course, Politics is a form of Magick. It puts people under a spell, the idea that they have to give their power away to someone who can't use it effectively to fix what needs to be fixed, the idea that you can delegate your responsabilities to someone else. Even mages and witches have fallen under it.

 

[Kepler]

It's funny that the op and title didn't mention left and right political distinction associated with the behavior but it's how the post was mostly taken and answered with defensive avoidance fallacies to boot.

OP has picked up on an undercurrent.