hey, dinguses and dingdongs
lace code is very much alive and you need to learn what it actually is
if it was truly dead, no one would fuckin talk about it
lace code is using colored laces, ladder laced on work boots, to signify political stances and punk status
there is very little debate about which color means what and it's basically exclusively online
here are the colors, to my knowledge ;; black - baby punk/new boots ; white - KKK ; red - nazi/fascist ; orange - n/a ; yellow - antifacist ; green - ecological activist ; blue - cop fighter/killer ; purple - queer/activist ; pink - feminist
these are the colors and meanings i've seen most often, that are offered in shops (aside from white and red, for obvi reasons), and/or are talked about the most in different punk spaces (online and offline)
while i have seen people try to reclaim red and white, please don't. while people can use context clues to tell that's what you're doing, it just muddies the waters so that actual nazis can wiggle their way into our spaces more than they already have. make them stand out like the sore thumbs they look like.
