Originally posted by
[email protected] 8 2004, 10:14 PM
Skins can be as racist or as communist as anyone else. Being a skin is NOT a political statement, I wish people would get that in their head. I am tired of getting jumped when I go to anti-fascist demonstrations.
These people are idiots for attacking you based on your appearance. I don't think you should have to, but perhaps you could try 'taming' your appearance? After all many less enlightened people than yourself still have difficulty seeing past stereotypes.
In otherwords they see skinhead, brain says nazi. Given time they might figure out this isn't necessarily the case, but considering some people can go through their entire lives without cracking that nut, I wouldn't hold your breath.
Haha, it haven't gotten as far to attacks. But I have been verbally confronted and I do get some funny looks (probably because a couple of skins got caught with a handgrenade in their bag during a leftist meeting a couple of years ago :rolleyes: ).
But I know pretty much everyone who is anyone in the antifascist movement now, and I have seen an dramatic increase in SHARP-skins (SkinHeads Against Racial Prejudice). And you know whats funny, the nazis have adopted the Black block-style of the left... now the skins are the good guys and the black block are the bad guys! But still, those boneheads still haven't figured out what the point of the BB-style is, to be faceless, they forget to cover their faces... :lol: :rolleyes:
A Swashtika tatoo on the forhead is a give-a-way as well!
Yeah. Sometime I make an effort to put on an "red" t-shirt (like Classwar, a picture of che or something) just to show what I stand for.
But then is the problem, if you go to an Oi!-concert with that you will surely be attacked, and I kind of like my teeth. :lol:
I would say that most skins are nazis in sweden, but not all nazis are skins either...
But as I said, there are more and more redskins out there. Yesterday we (meaning a collection of people from the area around gotheburg) went out to clean up nazi posters, and likely, confront those who put them there (Torslanda Skins, associated with the nationalist democrats, a fascist party). We were atleast 3 fully equipped skins (boots, jackets, shaved heads etc.) and many who had a very skin-like style.
Then there is Red Action in England! I don't know if they still exist, but from what I read on their website they seemed to be skins, most of them.