...This is all changing (for the good) as the shaved head is really a main stream style and any concerns of appearing to be a skinhead are groundless as they are conveyed by as dress, attitude and lack of smarts...
Vash, I was surprised when I read that article and saw that they listed the Dropkick Murphys as an American oi band. We saw them in concert in Spokane, WA about a week ago. (As a proper Bostonian in exile, they made me homesick).
Yeah it doesn't happen very often but I still hear the occasional "Nazi" comment when I walk down the street, I just let it roll off my smooth bald head and not worry about it, like its already been said, its THEIR problem, not yours.Although there was this one instance where I actually had a chance to retort to a certain comment. I was walking down a bike path, minding my own business and enjoying the day when a couple of obvious wanna-be hippie type chicks walk by (You know, the kind that rock the look and think they can save the world with their dreadlocks but are otherwise innefectual posers who work at Starbucks) and one of them says "Nazi" and the other one "Racist" with an incredibly smug look on their faces.I admit I was taken aback, I was wearing jeans and a T-shirt, not a swastika, thank you very much. I stopped, turned around and said "Excuse me? I'm quite certain that there is no way you were just talking to me.To which they responded with a tirade of cliche's and insults that would have pissed off anyone else, so what did I do?I very calmly explained to them that not only am I NOT a Nazi Skinhead, but that my father is a Holocaust survivor from Holland whose entire family was exterminated by the Nazis in both Stalag 13 and Treblinka, and who had to spend over a year being hidden in a false closet like Anne Frank, and how deeply hurt I was by their comments and how insulted I was that they would say such a thing about someone simply because they shave their head. I even explained the origins of skinheads and how the white supremists stole and then raped that image for their own twisted purposes.You have never seen a couple of posers backpedal faster in your entire life. By the time I was done they were both in tears, so hopefully that opened their eyes a little bit and they won't be so quick to shoot their mouths off next time.It doesn't happen very often, but man does it feel good to put someone in their place, even if it means dredging up unpleasantness.NEXT!
Quote from: bubbadave3 on November 23, 2009, 01:44:04 AMVash, I was surprised when I read that article and saw that they listed the Dropkick Murphys as an American oi band. We saw them in concert in Spokane, WA about a week ago. (As a proper Bostonian in exile, they made me homesick). An excellent band.
Quote from: Undercover on January 12, 2010, 10:18:20 PM(Snipped for space)Good for you! I'm glad that you told them. I'm 100% Middle Eastern, (Christian), and my wife's family is 100% Jewish. My family lived through the Turkish genocide. My grandfather lost his first wife and two kids in the genocide. There's this loopy woman at our church that told me with all seriousness that she's afraid of me because I look like Saddam. Two weeks ago, I was talking to these people that I'd just met, and she walks up, and proceeds to ask me if I've blown up any planes lately. She also wanted to know where my sheet was. (Please don't blame Christians for stupidity; I'm NOT saying that you're doing that). I just give this woman a 's)wide birth and figure that she's a nut job! (Worse yet, I think that she's in her late 60's, early 70's).BTW, welcome to the group.
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