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unaguerrasinfondo:

white punks kids wanna live in black and brown neighborhoods for the cheap rent and then they get on facebook and complain about black folks wearing leather jackets with a patch on it - because ‘they are stealing our culture’. aint that some shit? 

…from reading this shit you’d almost think that someone kidnapped them, enslaved them for 500 years, stole their land, and forced them into boarding schools or something. 

I was literally just thinking about this and how it relates to punk and indie culture. I think a lot of it stems from the fact that punk (and indie, which sprang from punk) is one of the few parts of popular culture that white people didn’t completely swipe from people of color and appropriate for themselves. (But if you take the idea that punk is essentially an outgrowth of rock ‘n roll, which was invented by people of color, then I guess it was.) In turn, it makes some white people really territorial and kind of dogmatic about it, even though it has been a multicultural movement more or less from the start.

The thing about punk and indie culture that closely resembles conservative America— one of the very parts of history punk was invented to disrupt— is how anybody who is not a straight white male of a certain economic background is pretty much treated like a second-class citizen.

(Source: biencafre, via modernistwitch-deactivated20120)

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  1. mujer-encabronada reblogged this from readnfight
  2. readnfight reblogged this from karnythia and added:
    I lol forever at white punks who think their culture is being appropriated when other people have mohawks or combat...
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  4. xyrophile reblogged this from acekwright and added:
    because punk, which had a long...illustrious history of abhorring, tearing down
  5. donotpressrepeat reblogged this from acekwright and added:
    Did I ever tell you how fucking much I hate people?
  6. undercoverterrorist reblogged this from acekwright and added:
    culture belong to white people? uh, fuck that.
  7. acekwright reblogged this from provocatoria and added:
    Did someone actually fucking say this? ughhhh. I sometimes feel like I am shitty and gentrifying my neighborhood but god...
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    real thing how do you actually????...for everyone except for white douchecore bros, this...
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