• UrbonMaximus@feddit.uk
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      3 months ago

      Don’t think I’ve seen a bigger oxymoron before… The definition of punk is being anti-authoritarian.

      • ettyblatant@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        It’s in reference to the Dead Kennedys’ song with that same title. There was a rise in far right “punk music” along with early skinhead (neo-nazi) movement when the song was written. Nazi punks were trying to flood the scene and people were not letting them.

        “Nazi punks” beat the oxymoron by being anti-authoritarian, just depending on who’s authority they reject.

          • xspurnx@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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            2 months ago

            Did you think this through? Seems pretty authoritarian to me (sounds like “nobody should rule but me”)… maybe it’s a quote so I don’t get it.

            I like this bettrr: Und weil der Mensch ein Mensch ist, drum hat er Stiefel im Gesicht nicht gern! Er will unter sich keinen Sklaven seh’n und über sich keinen Herr’n.

            (And because a human is a human, he doesn’t want a boot to the face! He wants no slaves under him, and no masters above!) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einheitsfrontlied