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Posted on 06/30/2026 8:54:45 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Norway plays the Ivory Coast tomorrow afternoon in the first knockout phase of the soccer World Cup, and one suspects the New York Times will be backing the Norsemen.
The Gray Lady has gone gaga for Norway’s “Viking Row,” a synchronized routine where fans mime the rowing of a Viking longboat to the bang of a drum. It’s caught on among the Norwegian players as well as politicians back in Norway, who performed the row in parliament last week.
For the last two weeks the NYT has been publishing breathless pieces about the zany Norwegians and their Viking antics. “The ‘Viking Row’ is in full flow” was one headline on June 18; five days later they described how it “has taken the World Cup by storm.” And their editorial office from the sound of things.
You would have to be a crotchety killjoy to complain about the Viking Row. It’s just a bit of humorous high jinks. Humorous but also a little hypocritical.
The man who claims he came up with the idea of the Viking Row is Ole Froystad, who goes by the nickname “Mr. Row Row.” He recently explained the thinking behind the stunt. “It’s about rowing for the team, making sure that we get the team to feel good… A thousand years ago, the Vikings rowed.”
That’s not all they did. Vikings also raped, pillaged, murdered and enslaved. From the eighth to the 11th century the Vikings terrorized Europe, from the British Isles in the north as far as Sicily in the south.
The Dublinia Museum in the heart of the Irish capital explains that “slaves were a valuable commodity in the Viking age… Vikings took Irishmen and Irishwomen as slaves.”
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That's why they seldom if ever have anything to say about Arab slavers, one African tribe enslaving another in recent times, indentured servitude of poor whites in colonial times, or European serfdom (which persisted in the Russian Empire until the 1860s, just like slavery in the southern US). All of the above are instances of slavery, but they don't appear on liberal radar because they don't fit the narrative of evil whites oppressing colored races.
So when Leftists talk about the evil of some men making other men their property, that isn't really what they're concerned about.
If you convert to a Christian Church that accepts practicing homosexuals as priest and bishops you are not converting to Christianity.
Your morals may be a bit better but you have not accepted Christ as your savior.
You have been deceived and have joined a Satanic cult and there are pedophiles waiting in the wings to consume your children.
Muslims never stopped.
True and the left are importing them as fast as they can.
Do you why Scandinavian women are gorgeous? The Vikings never brought the ugly ones home.
You got off into rambling about something else it seems.
Norway just beat the Ivory Coast in the Round of 32 match—the first European country to advance to the Round of 16. So we can expect to see more Viking rowing the next few days.
Yeah. Odd look. Obnoxious.
This what most people think a Viking is like:
Haaland is the man!
But nobody is going to beat France.
In 2022 Argentina and France tied in the actual game and Argentina won first place by penalty kicks.
C.S. Lewis was a professor of medieval and renaissance literature at Oxford, then Cambridge.
He pointed out that slavery is what one did to one’s defeated enemies, if one spared their lives.
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