- Joined
- Dec 25, 2019
Your list of exceptions could stand lengthening. Guys like Ian MacKaye and even the folks from Husker Du could hardly be called lefty, not to even mention MOD/SOD, Agnostic Front, or Suicidal Tendencies and Circle Jerks and all that other Cali sk8punk shit. As for the skinhead reference, almost everything was pretty Righty, and WAY before nazi shitcunt boneheads got involved. My experience of punk /hardcore in the 80s and 90s was a mix of edgelording and libertarian/conservative backlash to the abject gutter-leftist idealism of our parents' generationI always figured "folx" probably originated in punk culture or more likely, an SJW affectation of it.
A lot of SJW's have this weird cargo cult fascination with the goth and punk subcultures and often actively try to emulate it in the most tryhard ways.
I always figured it has to do with punk's anti-authoritarian image, especially during the previous culture war's peak years in the 1980's and early 1990's, and the fact that punk always had a strong anarchist bent and was usually very left-leaning to boot, with the only real exceptions being the Neo-Nazi skinheads, The Ramones (Johnny Ramone was a conservative libertarian), GG Allin and Seth Putnam (both were really just edgy trolls with no real political agenda beyond offensive humor and chaos)
There's also the fact that Antifa in the United States emerged out of the hardcore punk scene in the 1980's (in Europe, it started with the labor movements of the 70's) and the Religious Right's moral hysterics over the goth subculture in the 90's around the same time most Millennial SJW's were in elementary and middle school helped cement an underdog image for them to imitate.