[kj] rebellion?

[Karen Weil]

Remember when colored shoe laces were just worn for fashion? 


k.w.
SoCal
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Matthew Burke 
  To: gathering 
  Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 10:12 AM
  Subject: Re: [kj] rebellion?


  I recall that, in the US, red laces mean you've participated in a physical attack against a minority.  They're "earned", not just something you pick up in a shoe shop for a splash of color.


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  > Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:48:43 +1200 (NZST)
  > From: "Brendan" <bq at soundgardener.co.nz>
  > Subject: Re: [kj] rebellion?
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  > I read a book called F?hrer Ex by Ingo Hasselbach, who was a leading Neo
  > Nazi figure in the 80s or 90s I think, ended up changing his mind about
  > it, wrote a book and went around talking to kids in school about racism /
  > fascism. (I had a mate who was in the anti-fas who reckons he only changed
  > his spots when he got busted, but who knows. Sounds like he had a shit
  > time growing up in East Germany under the Stasi and being a Nazi was the
  > perfect way to rebel against them as fascism is the idealogical opposite
  > to comminism, in theory). Anyway apparently over there red bootlaces meant
  > anarchist, white was fascist, and black was neutral. If I remember
  > correctly.
  > 
  > > That can actually be true, sometimes. Next time you see a video on
  > > YouTube of Neo-Nazis, check out the laces on their boots. A lot of the
  > > times they're white laces. Unfortunately, I have met a few of these
  > > douchebags and they did have white laces indeed. One had a RAHOWA ball
  > > cap.
  > >
  > > Like anything, just seeing someone with white laces is nothing to accost
  > > them about,t hough. They may not know what the hell they are doing, like
  > > all the kids who have "88" after their usernames online because they
  > > thought it was some punk thing.
  > >
  > >
  > >
  > > Alex Smith wrote:
  > >> I seem to remember reading a piece in SPIN magazine about twenty-five
  > >> years ago that said you could tell what type of skinhead someone was
  > >> (i.e. racist or not) by the color of the laces on their Doc Martens.
  > >>
  > >> Yeah, whatever.
  > >>
  > >> Alex in NYC
  > >>
  > >>
  > >>
  > >>
  > >
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