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g’morn

i know this is an opportunity to pile on Apartheid techbro, but am not even exaggerating when i say that, as a historian and “culture critic”, #Boomers embrace of the OG #Nazi car ―the VW Beetle― is one of those research things that keeps me up at night.

hand-waving it away as a feat of marketing doesn’t explain how one of Adolf Hitler’s prized cars, for the tech developed with it, became a symbol of white American youth radicalism, aka #hippies

h/t mindly.social/@DamonCrowley/11

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@TheConversationUS @blackmastodon My thesis topic runs close to here. EDM is black music.

Which makes a white boy like me mad at seeing someone wear a shirt sporting neo-nazi insignia to a forest party.

This has started happening during the past years. And you can’t imagine the amount of ”hippies” defending their ”freedom” to do so.

I thought it was ridiculous at first, but these days it all makes sense. #libertarianism
#neonazis #hippies #foresparties #psytrance