this post was submitted on 14 Mar 2024
598 points (97.5% liked)
Technology
58633 readers
3602 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related content.
- Be excellent to each another!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
Approved Bots
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
The fact white supremacists hijacked the Christian religion and is using it to effectively push their ideology is telling. I remember when they tried to take over punk music and were quickly told “ Nazi Punks Fuck Off”. Turns out punks have better morals than Christians. Hilarious.
I don't think that any reasoning person thought otherwise.
Were you around for the satanic panic bullshit in the 70s or 80s? They painted punks (which were lumped in with metalheads and anyone who didn’t dress like yuppies) as dangerous degenerates back then.
Worked as a nice filter to gain more independent thinkers into those genres though I guess, so it worked out in the end.
I wasn't around personally but I'm familiar with the story.
My point is really that any reasoning person sees that the punk mindset is generally pretty morally sound.
I don't think the parents, preachers and politicians involved in the satanic panic were super logical people tbh.
"Hijacked" implies they weren't a welcomed part of it from the beginning.
Yes they’ve always been racist, But this time it’s much different. Nazis and white Supremacists have blended in with them. I believe this a very important nuanced distinction.
No doubt, yet I feel the movement (to expand) has been organized and pushed by white supremacists and not Christians.
Punks have outstanding morals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MkRuV0aCcI
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://www.piped.video/watch?v=-MkRuV0aCcI
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.