The problem with using similar terms, whether publicly or privately, is that they carry distinct meanings with distinct baggage. Nativism and indigenism aren’t exactly the same, although the concepts may be similar. The same with Odinism and Germanic polytheism, and so forth. It isn’t my business to meddle with closed communities, but I know full well once the difference is found between using public and private terms, the “folkish” people will be accused of being disingenuous. Don’t all communities wish to expand to some degree? It helps to be absolutely honest about intentions (thus making public & private discourses the same) and prevent any kind of unnecessary misconceptions. Otherwise, to offer a strong example, you’ll get people privately admiring Hitler and publicly using all sorts of rhetorical complexity to avoid being honest about what they believe. Germanic polytheists need to leave behind all the Nazi baggage and move forward; interest in Germanic polytheism predated the Nazis and if a few Nazi leaders were attracted to such ideas, it doesn’t say anything against Germanic polytheism so long as (emphasis on this conditional statement) no continuity is perceived. No quibbling intended, but I must stress this simple point: the problem with the term “folkish” today is that it allows (sometimes intentionally) for a continuity to be made with the “Volkisch” movement of which the Nazis were a part. Such continuity and connection, intentional or not, will only lead to the subversion and polarization of Germanic polytheism. Symbols and terms need to be used with extreme caution and sensitivity, but instead of this I see total rejection on one side and plenty of unrestrained pride on the other. And now the latter is fighting the former, and vice versa. One side says “We need disregard ancestry altogether and to welcome everyone in order to fight against racism”, but the other side, not aware at all of what they are doing, says “We will not be defeated and we will rise again”–and the real problem is, the latter quote is usually directed against “Jewish corporations and globalists” rather than against Christianity. Believe me, I’ve seen it all over the internet and it shows no sign of decline. So, the fight will go on, until re-education and reflection occurs. But thankfully, since both sides are “pagans”, the rising movement of “polytheists” can take charge of the re-education rather than be adsorbed into the fight. But this hasn’t quite happened yet…