I thank burntcurtis for the phrase “White Identity” to describe Orange County’s many fucked-up subcultures: goth, skinhead, mod, swing kid, straightedge, rockabilly greaser, emo, “punk,” neo-hippie, club kid, etc. Until he pointed it out I hadn’t seen our collection of permanent teenage culture victims as a consequence of overwhelming whiteness, but it sure makes sense.
I was reminded of that this morning when it was brought to my attention that a skinhead had figured out how to work a computer.
R U TRYING TO SAY ALL WHITE PPL ARE SIKNHEAD???
WELL THEY DONT HAVE THE TOWELS
I can remember exactly when it was important to delineate between skinheads and racist-skinheads: 11th grade. Right after the ceasefire in the great battle of “Rancid sounds like the Clash,” but before the war of “True black metallers are atheist not Satanist.”
And it’s all just dressup. This isn’t England.
Spitting coffee all over my keyboard now.
I also must thank you for the phrase/tag “19forever.” I got a serious chortle out of that one.
Is(are) there a Forever 21 franchise(s) in the OC?