Goth Culture: The Scapegoat of the 90’s

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  @crustbag · 2 years ago · pinned

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  @HairMetalKaren · 2 years ago

  Sophie Lancaster was murdered for dressing goth. I went to school with people who were jumped and beaten bloody for looking emo.<br>The treatment of alternative culture in the media caused casualties.

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  @dunkyfisco · 2 years ago

  Thanks to the Satanic Panic of the 90&apos;s, things like being Goth and liking metal were (and still now are to some extent) considered a cultural taboo even though both are just harmless hobbies/likings

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  @Anonymous-wb3nz · 2 years ago

  Goth music is so soft and melancholic, so i don&apos;t understand how Goths are associated with violence.

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  @ayyydrianna · 2 years ago

  this is so crazy because all of my goth friends are like the nicest people on earth and would never hurt a fly 😭

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  @altusshow7574 · 2 years ago

  I wasn&apos;t a Goth in the 90s, I was too self conscious to dress like that. I switched schools over 10 times as a kid, and moved to the Bay area when I entered Junior High. I didn&apos;t know how to make friends, I was a nerdy, scrawny kid, and everyone picked on me. I found the Goth kids intimidating at first, until they invited me to sit with them because they noticed I was sitting alone. &nbsp;<br><br>People always saw them as these cynical and mean or violent kids, but I&apos;ll never forget that they were the only ones that offered any compassion. <br><br>I&apos;m older now, but it taught me to never judge a person by appearances. Throughout my life the outcasts, goths, punks and weirdos were some of the nicest, welcoming, community-driven people I&apos;ve known.

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  @venusinfurs671 · 2 years ago

  AYO WHO UP CRUSTING THEY BAG

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  @dylanclermont3583 · 2 years ago

  It always did bug me that the media made goths this horrific thing. Football hooliganism was way more rampant within the UK, but no it’s people who enjoy listening to sisters of mercy or the cure as you mentioned, it’s mental

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  @ontheinternett · 2 years ago

  It’s genuinely so saddening and terrifying how easily some people blindly believe things

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  @EchoPhoxx · 1 year ago (edited)

  I was both gay, goth, a furry, into D&amp;D, AND living in Colorado when Columbine happened. I was in a grocery store a week later and an employee called the cops on me. I was told it was because I &quot;looked like a danger to others&quot;. I was wearing a Sisters of Mercy shirt and cargo shorts.<br><br>Edit: Even better, there was a guy open carrying in the same isle.

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  @MadMax-el2el · 2 years ago

  You have no idea, just how f*cked up things got and I was in Canada.<br><br>I was in High-school in the late 90s, four of my friends were arrested because walking while goth, and smoking in a graveyard. Charged with attempted arson. The picnic basket and parasols screamed active pyros.<br><br>I got off the bus at a train station, I was detained, they broke my headphones, discman (cd player), took my CD book and never gave it back. Ripped my clothes, took my sewing and leatger working tools. They never compensated, returned or even apologized for stealing and breaking my stuff. Oh sorry the police call, it confiscation not blatant theft.<br><br>I got introduced to how police use phone books because walking while goth, oh right I had a skateboard at tge time as well, I can&apos;t skate. I was holding it for a friend that had run into the train station for cigarettes.<br><br>I had a cop follow me from the train station to the club one night, that one was funny.<br><br>The school threatened to expel us if we wore makeup to school... we asked would they only be targeting us or did that apply to every chick in the joint as well. <br>My locker was raided so often I just started carrying all my books all the time. I left a go F yourself note in the locker.<br><br>A friend got jumped by 3 jocks after class one day because he used a Manson song for an English assignment. Our police liason did nothing, so they kept bullying him. Eventually the pig did something, &nbsp;only after the 4tb or 5th time, only because they happened to break his arm and his parents got involved.<br><br>I was stabbed because walking while goth.<br><br>I can keep going. I have been a goth since 86. The 96 till about 05 window was just brutal. Then they went after the emo kids and mall goths. Ugh.

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  @owenhines9185 · 2 years ago

  My first day at work after the olympic opening ceremony I mentioned how excited I was that Gojira performed and the guy I was talking to looked me dead and the eyes and said, &quot;but the whole thing was Satannic!?&quot;. These people are so stupid I didn&apos;t even know how to respond.

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