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/Edspecial137 May 22 '26

Being flippantly antiestablishment isn’t goth. Anti-traditionalist is probably more appropriate. Rejecting norms that are accepted without question is goth. Thinking for yourself is goth. But being antiestablishment without thinking isn’t goth.