some of you self proclaimed punks seem to forget that the entire basis of punk and the punk ideology is the rights of the working class. the punk fashion of jeans and boots and leather is literally from the workers. because those are clothes you wear To Work when you work blue collar jobs. DIY ethics is from creating and working with what you cannot buy or do. safety pin piercings and patches and duct tape on clothing and making your own clothes and doing your own hair was not exclusively to fuck the man or whatever. these people were POOR. class consciousness is such an integral part of the punk ideology and it's so frustrating to me watching punk come back with nobody feeling any type of urge at all to understand class divisions at all. ive seen one too many posts about how taylor swifts music is actually punk because being punk is about liking whatever you like. no it fucking isn't. what has she ever done to inform or speak on the issues of the working class bro never 😭😭 her ass is in a private jet polluting the planet and is one of the richest artists in the entire world. i can't even begin to tell you how NOT punk that is. respectfully you are not punk. you are posers. we need to bring that word back because that's what it means when you dress a certain way and call yourself a certain subculture without engaging in anything that has to do with it. nobody is "gatekeeping" you're literally just a poser figure it out
