• @Viking_Hippie
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    316 months ago

    Because the Nazi skinheads did a great job of co-opting the punk title

    Nah. They tried REAL hard to infiltrate and take over, but real punks always managed to repel them.

    for most people who weren’t actually interested in punk

    And/or were just old fogies.

    The news media were very complicit in pushing that specific image to undermine the punk movement to the general public.

    Corporate news and undermining left wing people by conflating them with far right hate clubs. Name a more iconic duo.

    • @Cypher
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      146 months ago

      The US government and coups in South America?

    • @[email protected]
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      26 months ago

      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.