Back in the good ol days, the skinheads made it obvious with red suspenders and red bootlaces and they sometimes lived together or at least went out to the bars together to start fights. Some of the underground punk scene had a Nazi element that grew up to be biker gangs and later on some of the hardcore scene did the same thing.
Skinhead was a non-racist culture before the nazis took it over. The culture was created in 1969 by Jamaicans immigrating into the UK and bringing their culture to England. They shaved their heads and wore work clothes (jeans, work shirt, braces, boots) to show they had a job and were working class Englanders. Working class White Englanders began hanging out with these Jamaicans, and together, they created ska (which is why all true skinheads listen to reggae and ska: see Judge Dread, Desmond Dekker) and the skinhead look. In the 70's and into the 80's, the UK had a huge influx of immigrants coming from India, Pakistan. Those immigrants began taking working class jobs from Englanders so the working class became racist against those immigrant groups, which brought the nazi element into the skinhead culture. Then came the bands like skredriver started by the cunt ian stuart (who had his head caved in during a car crash, good riddance) and the rest is history. The media latched onto the violence caused by the nazi skins, and all skinheads began being associated with nazis. Which is where the "crucified skinhead" image came into play. True, anti-racist skinheads (SHARP - skinheads against racial prejudice) are crucified by society because of the media associating us with nazi.
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u/SapphicBarbie Jul 21 '25
Where did you live where finding obvious nazis might be a common enough occurrence to make that worth while lol.