actual straight edge nazis

I think it's a natural progression from the loyalism, although I think it's a sad step that a desire to defend the church of England from papish plots ends so often in Nazism. It's fenians we hate, not jews!

I thought that loyalists would tend to stick with the Church of England, what with the Queen being the head of it and all.

Not according to you.

Do you feel better now?

Thanks for being so nice about it revol, next time I say anything about Ireland I'll be sure to pm you beforehand to make sure I haven't made a terrible mistake.

That's putting it very mildly. It's grotesque racism. I can assure you that if those fliers were put up in this neighborhood they would be torn down within hours, not by drug dealers, by anarchists.

To be honest, a subculture that spawned out of punk is likely to receive a comment such as the above as praise. As much as it may chafe with our earnest political stances, being offensive is really fun. Plus I don't see anything wrong per se with the subversion of racist iconography. I mean, what does the poster really call for? Vigilanteism. It allows the poster's makers and its proponents to accuse its detractors of racism - since it's you who's introducing race by inducing (whether correctly or incorrectly - it's deliberately ambiguous) that the drug dealers it refers to aren't white.

I gotta say though, most straight edgers post-1991 are skinny, self-centred brats with superiority complexes who would far rather bask in their own purity than commit acts of violence. Time was, dear reader, that yours truly received a barrage of internet (and third hand via various mutual acquaintances) threats over a few unchecked comments I once made on a personal blog. At the next hardcore gig, the individuals concerned shouted a bit of abuse and threw a couple of punches within the context of the mosh (where you're expecting to get punched anyway) and left it at that. In the tally of weird subcultures who have vocalised a desire to physically injure me in relation to the completion of said act, they only rank just above the WOMBLES.

One of these days someone needs to write a history of the anti-fascist punk wars of the 1980s and early 90s. It went largely unreported in the media with the exception of the occasional depoliticized mention of "gang fights". I suppose it's ongoing in some scenes but that was the period of my closest involvement as a supporter and advisor to younger comrades.

As to the ambiquity of the figure in the cartoon, it may come from being a native of deep south and having stood face to face against the ku klux klan in the streets, but when I see a figure in a white hood and what appears to be a robe engaged in an act of violence I think klan, and i don't think thats iconography that can be subverted or detourned or whatever other term might be used.