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substitute ([personal profile] substitute) wrote2006-07-31 02:43 pm

Neotenized homogeneous privilege results in frenetic subculture self-identification. Also retards.

I thank [livejournal.com profile] 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.

[identity profile] threepunchstuff.livejournal.com 2006-07-31 09:47 pm (UTC)(link)
R U TRYING TO SAY ALL WHITE PPL ARE SIKNHEAD???

[identity profile] substitute.livejournal.com 2006-07-31 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
WELL THEY DONT HAVE THE TOWELS

[identity profile] threepunchstuff.livejournal.com 2006-07-31 09:56 pm (UTC)(link)
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."

[identity profile] substitute.livejournal.com 2006-07-31 10:05 pm (UTC)(link)
And it's all just dressup. This isn't England.

[identity profile] handstil.livejournal.com 2006-08-01 12:48 am (UTC)(link)
Spitting coffee all over my keyboard now.

[identity profile] burntcurtis.livejournal.com 2006-07-31 11:44 pm (UTC)(link)
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?