Don’t get me started on skinheads. That subculture comes from Jamaica and the music they listen to was created by black people and/or leftists.
Right wingers can’t create culture. They can only steal from others.
QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Ahh, the irony of white supremacists using a form of musical self-expression that black people created: rap.
TimeNaan@lemmy.world 3 days ago
phutatorius@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
They can only steal from others.
And then degrade it and dumb it down.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 days ago
At least they left skinheadism for the most part, because it was a very easy identifier of political extremism. Most Hungarian skins at least became “football fans”, and no longer use razor to shave their heads. Even heard of some of the remaining ones getting doxxed by more dapper-looking alt-righters, to keep the image of “moderation” they go for.
TimeNaan@lemmy.world 2 days ago
That’s even worse. They infiltrated another subculture, and a much bigger one - football fans.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 days ago
At least they left skinheadism for the most part, because it was a very easy identifier of political extremism. Most Hungarian skins at least became “football fans”, and no longer use razor to shave their heads. Even heard of some of the remaining ones getting doxxed by more dapper-looking alt-righters, to keep the image of “moderation” they go for.
db2@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Or rock, blues, house, country, etc. I think white people can solidly claim bagpipe dirges though, as long as the racists think Scottish people are white enough.
QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The Scottish and Italians not being white, I just could never understand. XD Racism’s some crazy work.
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
The Irish weren’t for awhile, either. What’s really wild is [this case] (en.wikipedia.org/…/United_States_v._Bhagat_Singh_…) where an Indian man argued that he was white due to being Aryan, but the Supreme Court ruled that his argument did not contain a “common sense” definition of whiteness. So, the highest court in the land determined that whiteness is purely based on vibes.
QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Wow, I had no idea that case existed. It really shows how dumb the concept of race is.
BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Maybe they aren’t white supremacists and have no issue with other cultures?
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
Far-right, aren’t white supremacists?
Lol, what dimension are you from?
BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Dimension more nuanced than yours. You take extreme minority and apply their shortcomings to half of the political spectrum
phutatorius@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Half the political spectrum are not far-right. At this stage, it’s probably not even a third, depending on where you draw the line. And of those third. what percentage are not (explicitly or implicitly) white supremacists?
Anyway, they’re still fascists, even if they’re inconsistent ones, so fuck 'em.
BranBucket@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Prejudice tends to lack a capacity for self reflection and an understanding of irony.
It’s the same with nazi punks and MAGAs who like Rage Against The Machine, they just want something that sounds loud, aggressive, and violent and rarely understand what they’re listening to or how it came about until it’s shoved right in their face. Then they get all offended about it.
Most of the time, the best they can make themselves is a cheap, talent-less imitation that lacks any sense of authenticity, and to try and overcome that they’ve resorted to something that can produce a finely polished turd that still lacks any sense of authenticity.
lechekaflan@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Or Creedance Clearwater Revival. Or Guns N’ Roses. Those white redcappers hear something “anti-authority” as being exciting and “edgy” until they fucking read the lyrics and realize it’s messaged against them.
BranBucket@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Precisely, but you’re giving them too much credit by expecting them to figure it out from reading the lyrics alone.
ContriteErudite@lemmy.world 2 days ago
“Born in the U.S.A.” by Bruce Springsteen is widely regarded as a patriotic anthem. It’s played at so many sporting events and political rallies that most people think it celebrates American pride. But the song itself is about a small-town kid who gets drafted, sent to war, and then comes home to find himself unemployed, homeless, and abandoned by the system that sent him there.
The irony is that media and propagandists grabbed the punchy chorus and stripped it from the rest of the song. An anti-establishment story about neglect and disillusionment that got balefully repurposed as an advertising jingle for military recruitment.