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Growth is life, stasis is decay. Hunter Hunt-Hendrix – Part II – The Affirmation of Affirmation

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With this, a very important reminder is brought to the reader’s attention. That which doesn’t adapt may as well be dead. If you can’t change with your environment, you are doomed.

Or as Mobb Deep once said:

Survival of the fit, only the strong survive

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" Racist skinheads [in Europe] use Nazi imagery and motifs to deliberately communicate their racist beliefs," explains Laura Kidd, an associate professor of fashion design and merchandising at Southern Illino... Nazi Chic: The Asian Fashion Craze That Just Won't Die | VICE | United States

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It’s very important to make the distinction. Contrary to unfortunate popular opinion, skinheads aren’t by default racist. The subculture grew out of England’s working class, initially a sort of apolitical, quasi-punk culture. Political affiliations grew within, eventually making every kind of skinhead from each extreme political end.

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..." says Kidd. "Two popular styles of Asian Nazi chic are swastikawaii, or 'cute swastika,' which uses the swastika as the main design motif, and the other is referred to as 'führer chic,' which uses soft, cuddly, and cute caricatures of the image of Adolf Hitler." Nazi Chic: The Asian Fashion Craze That Just Won't Die | VICE | United States

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You may read this sentence and think – this is a joke. This is an elaborate joke. This had to have come from a 4chan board.

Then you see the merch.

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"Hitler looks cool because he seems like an interesting character. Actually, I don't know much about him. In school we only learn Thai history. But I know he was a communist leader." Whoops. Nazi Chic: The Asian Fashion Craze That Just Won't Die | VICE | United States

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Well actually when you think about it… no. No, not at all. Hitler was a National Socialist (aka a Nazi). NS was developed as a combination of nationalist and socialist ideologies, in opposition to both Marxist communism and free market capitalism. He couldn’t have been more removed from communist beliefs if he tried.

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...ogies and recalls. A few years back, then Israeli ambassador to Thailand Itzhak Shoham got so irked by his failure to persuade the designer Hut to stop selling führer chic or at least take down his Adolf Hitler–Ronald McDonald hybrid mannequin (which Shoham often encountered on his way to work) that he confronted Hut and damaged his displays. Rather than apologize, Hut apparently just started taking down Hitler merchandise or closing the s... Nazi Chic: The Asian Fashion Craze That Just Won't Die | VICE | United States

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You may be wondering what that looks like. Wonder no more.

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"[But] Nazi chic as a phenomenon in fashion and in popular culture started with the punk rock movement in Great Britain. Until the 1990s, it appears that the Nazi aesthetic was not a source of inspiration for [non-punk] fashion designers," she says. "However, some fashion designers started showing couture collections t... Nazi Chic: The Asian Fashion Craze That Just Won't Die | VICE | United States

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To which punk legends The Dead Kennedys so famously said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxd8ml-n5NE&ab_channel=Janni2k1

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Varg Vikernes Hunter Hunt-Hendrix – Epilogue

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Search “black metal” & “controversial”, and Varg’s name is first on the list. Vikernes is one of the most critically praised musicians in black metal’s history, invaluable to the second wave of BM (also known as “True Norwegian Black Metal”).

He is, on the other hand, a notorious white nationalist with various links to far-right organizations and convictions of everything from hate crimes to arson.

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1 Million Bottlebags Public Enemy – 1 Million Bottlebags

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PE frontman Chuck D talked about this track in an interview with Melody Maker:

‘One Million Bottle Bags’ is about the malt liquor problem in black America. Malt liquor has twice as much alcohol content and twice as many residues, that’s to say, waste products from regular beer. It’s fucked up beer, with more alcohol. Instead of making people laid back, it makes them hostile. And it leads to a lot of black on black violence in America. They have massive campaigns for this shit that are targeted at the black community. Malt liquors are made by the major brewers in this country. When they put their regular beers through the filters, all the excess bulls–t they push to the black community. And it’s been killing motherfuckers for the longest period.

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...slogans calling for free speech and an end to racism. Ms. Marvel writer G. Willow Wilson didn’t know until someone brought it up on Twitter. “To see a character for whom I had very conservative hopes—I expected the series to run for seven or eight issues, ten tops, if right-wing backlash didn't kill it sooner—become a symbol of hope and renewal, has just been incredible,” she told me. “If nothing else, it shows you how much is changing, not just in the comics industry, but in our culture as a whole.” Kelly Sue DeConnick Is the Future of Women in Comics | Vanity Fair

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Wilson’s expectations have long since been surpassed. At the time of this annotaiton being written, the series is currently approaching it’s 17th issue, with an 18th on the way afterwards.

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...rld of comics—in the so-called “Golden Age,” which lasted from the late 30s to the early 50s, they were read by males and females in almost equal numbers. But until recently, DeConnick and her friend Gail Simone, a legendary writer for Wonder Woman and Batgirl, among others, were some of the few women at comic-book conventions. Both still face staggering amounts of sexist responses to their work. Deconnick b... Kelly Sue DeConnick Is the Future of Women in Comics | Vanity Fair

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One of the biggest names in comics working right now. Gail’s work ranges from The Simpsons to Deadpool to everything in between. She’s also credited with bringing a greater feminist dialogue into comics since the late ‘90s, with coining the “Women In Refrigerators” trope.

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