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Skinheads were a punk-adjacent subculture that got overrun with neonazis. They never did shake the association.
by CondensedBrain 7y ago
Skinheads were a punk-adjacent subculture that got overrun with neonazis. They never did shake the association.
- tanin 7y agoYes, that was it. It was also way shorter than what I imagined/wanted.
- walshemj 7y agoSkinheads predate Punk
- CondensedBrain 7y agoI didn't put them on a timeline. The neonazi invasion happened around when both tended to show up in the same discussions. More people know about punks than skinheads, so I used one to give context to the other. The recent movie about the late '90s punk scene, Bomb City, even had a skinhead with an anti-Nazi jacket.
- asveikau 7y agoI don't know how it was in Europe, but I remember by the 1990s in the US there were media portrayals of "skinheads" as a totally American and totally white power thing, with absolutely no recognition or memory of a non-racist UK subculture from a few decades earlier. It was before the internet made it easy to look up that it existed in another context, some TV show talking about "skinheads" could define the term for millions.