• frostysauce@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        I know skinheads were originally a workers movement. But here in the states skinheads were white supremacists by the time they got imported. I’m from Dallas, Texas where skinheads were always Nazis and a big problem.

        Up with workers, fuck off to Nazis.

        • ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          On the west coast you’re right, on the east coast you’re wrong. -an East Coast skinhead that had interesting experiences in Orange county and Compton while on vacation

        • Norah (pup/it/she)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          3 months ago

          But there are lots of folks here who aren’t American? The vast majority of skinheads I’ve met irl here in Australia have been anti-fascist as heck. It’s just not as clear-cut as tankies.

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          Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice was founded in 1987 by Marcus, a skinhead from New York City. It emerged as a response by suburban adolescents to the bigotry of the growing White Power Movement in 1982. Traditional skinheads (Trads) formed as a way to show that the skinhead subculture was not based on racism and political extremism.”