• SparkyBauer44@lemmy.world
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    Thank you! A friend tried that shit with me. “Why are you so against this, you hang out with racist skinheads!”… Face-palm. Amazing how one movie painted a whole anti racist subculture into boneheads. There are very few racist skinheads, FYI. It’s a very working class pro Unity subculture. IT WAS JUST A MOVIE!

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        I’m going to assume American History X. Though it’s certainly not the only movie to depict the neo-Nazi subculture, it’s probably the most well know.

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          It is this one. The most popular, and the basis for the rest. Was this stuff happening? did it happen? Sure, but few and far between. Once AHX gained popularity, all of a sudden every skinhead is a nazi skin. When, in reality, it is a small, problematic number in a sea of mostly SHARPS (skinheads against racial prejudice).