![]() I'm a history teacher that researches white supremacy and the holocaust. OP may find themselves on the receiving end of a lot of that kind of decision making, which they may or may not care about in the abstract, but IRL, it could be difficult, especially if it's in the context of job searches or similar. But if they're not totally fine, then I could find myself in an unsafe situation, and I'm not willing to risk that. Is there a chance that that person is totally fine? Sure. Personally, as a person who is part of a couple of different communities (Jewish and LGBT, for those keeping track) who are routinely and often violently targeted by neo-Nazis, if I see someone with a rune tattoo, I am probably not going to investigate before opting to steer clear. So the real question here is whether potentially making people feel anything from uncomfortable to unsafe is worth having a cool rune tattoo. Not all Norse runes are hate symbols, but the issue is that the average person isn't necessarily going to know which are which (and to be fair, probably shouldn't be expected to any more than the average Anglophone should be expected to differentiate between Chinese characters or Urdu letters or whatever). This is what I was going to say, but better articulated. How much tolerance you have for that and whether it's worth it for a tattoo is for you to assess. ![]() Nobody would fault you for either decision, but if you do the former, there is a risk that you take of being misunderstood. Some people believe this but don't want to wear the symbols personally. Some people take on that risk and insist on using the symbols anyway, out of the belief that these groups should not be given the power to redefine them. Especially when the whole point of whistles is stealth. That being said, all it takes is a vocal hateful minority adopting a symbol for there to be some possibility of people not knowing if you mean it as a whistle, or for its original meaning. Much on the contrary, they are part of an ancient language and nothing people do in modern times completely erased that fact. To directly answer the post title, no, not all Norse runes are hate related. Maybe it's just the 'tism in me wanting to split hairs, but I feel like the question of "are all Norse runes hate related" and "do I run any risk of being misinterpreted" are very different questions.
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