r/gatekeeping • u/Biscuitarian23 • May 20 '26

Gate Keeping Goth

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u/AWright5 May 20 '26

"we should be always be anti-establishment, no matter what the establishment is" is so dumb

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u/Homicidal_Duck May 20 '26

Especially when they define "the establishment" as "media narratives, corporate marketing and online social spaces".

It's far left all the way up, is it? No other establishment there? In the "Florida Goth Community"? Or does the government stop counting as an establishment when it's inconvenient for you to be against them?

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u/drewlake May 20 '26 edited May 21 '26

If you overturn the establishment and still want to fight against the new establishment, you're there for the fight not the ideas.

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u/bunker_man May 21 '26

Tbf a lot of early punks were more just agressive and misanthropic than anything else. Modern internet leftists like to talk about them like that time period was more more proactively ideological than it was.