Word: skinheads
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...skinhead's T shirt says SMILE -- IT'S THE APOCALYPSE. And judging from the scene around him, maybe it is. Several hundred young hedonists join him in dancing wild tribal stomps as strobe lights flash and 50,000 watts of techno- house music blast from the speakers of a New York City nightclub called the Shelter. On the fringes, others watch an upside-down projection of Flintstones % cartoons or sidle up to the nonalcoholic "smart bar" for bottled water or vitamin-enriched fruit juice. "It's a good crowd tonight," observes Moby, a techno deejay with a loyal following...
...fringe, one cannot so easily dismiss the forces that drive his crusade or its impact. His updated rhetoric provides a paper-thin layer of respectability to a noxious creed that appeals to alienated white youths like Shawn Slater, whom Robb is grooming as a future Klan leader. An ex-skinhead, Slater now heads the Klan's chapter in Aurora, Colo. Like his mentor, Slater has mastered the art of attracting publicity by staging events that draw the wrath of protesters. In Denver last January, he orchestrated a Klan rally on Martin Luther King Day that turned violent when anti-Klan...
...this self-styled "Underground" group from New York city--beyond its unlikely combination of skinhead veneer and pedestrian "pop" music--fails to offer the chic innovation its style implies...
They range from jackbooted skinhead youths assaulting foreigners in Germany to sedately dressed middle-aged couples dining off lace tablecloths at a banquet outside Amiens -- under a poster urging the eviction of immigrants from France. Their leaders include old nobility, yuppie types, an ex- paratrooper who boasts of being born in a house with a dirt floor, and former communists. But whatever their appearance or origin, the far-right- wingers who are emerging across the European continent share an alarming attitude, if not exactly an ideology: a virulent nationalism expressed mainly as raw hatred of foreigners, particularly immigrants. They also...
...most recent spate of attacks appears to have been prompted by a skinhead victory over the authorities: two weeks ago in the Saxon town of Hoyerswerda, 25 miles from the Polish border, the state government relocated 230 foreigners whose building had been subjected to a six-day barrage of stones and Molotov cocktails. The possibility of similar victories elsewhere has emboldened neo- Nazis and skinheads throughout Germany...