That’s true everywhere. The issue isn’t what they are, the issue is how they were deliberately misrepresented. A whole lot of films and shows made it a point to conflate punks with white supremacists.
That’s true everywhere. The issue isn’t what they are, the issue is how they were deliberately misrepresented. A whole lot of films and shows made it a point to conflate punks with white supremacists.
That’s got a great ring to it!
Because the Nazi skinheads did a great job of co-opting the punk title for most people who weren’t actually interested in punk. The news media were very complicit in pushing that specific image to undermine the punk movement to the general public.
We’re going to the hardware store!
I… I need to do this. Thank you for giving me an excuse to revisit Portal!
Wait, what? I missed that one.
Just to be clear, here, I’m not suggesting that the neo Nazis actually did take over, only that that image was the wider public perception.