Who ever thought punk was not progressive? At minimum it was blatantly anti-authoritarian and counter to the conservative culture in Thatcher's UK and Reagan's US. Why would anyone be shocked to find out that it was also pro-choice, feminist, and anti-discriminatory?

[–] RavenFellBlade@startrek.website 150 points 1 month ago (28 children)

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.

[–] Hikermick@lemmy.world 37 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

The Nazi skinheads co-opted skinhead. After the Geraldo Rivera episode everyone I knew let their hair grow out because they didn't want to be associated with that shit. Before that there were only a few isolated scenes where you'd see Nazi skinheads. Cutting off your hair was popular in the hardcore punk scenes because it was contrary to the long feathered hair popular in the 70's and 80's plus it was a lot easier than trying to get a Mohawk to stand up straight. That took a whole can of hairspray and we were all broke.

[–] RedAggroBest@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Y'all needed more Elmer's glue for the mohawks

[–] Hikermick@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Nah that stuffs water soluble, won't stand up in the pit

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