I remember when this happened. I was doing time @ Knox. Co. Corrections Complex outside of Knoxville, TN. I had a Blue (well, faded by then) Mohawk, tatts, an obvious punk even in stripes. A guy in my pod came up and said
" Hey, did you see where they ran over one of your Buddies out in TX.?" I'm like what? he says " a Football team was fighting with a Punk Rock Gang when somebody ran down one of the punks."
I watched the national news that night and was like fuck what the hell? I called every single person on my Phone List getting a little more info out of each person.
One of my friends was so moved she was crying (her older brother had died stabbed in a bar, but it was by another punk, an ex-friend. They were fighting over a girl I think) unfortunately that friend is now dead along with another Brother from a diff. Mother as they were hit head on by a drunk driver.
Anyway, I was locked up, had plenty of time to think. I followed it on the news and talked to friends inside and out about this. I'm 35 so I was Punk before it was really excepted. I missed out on the Punk/hardcore days by just a few years catching just the tail end.
I lived on a college campus and the preppies, Jocks, Rednecks and cops hated us. We fought a lot. these assholes here would show up at Local Punk shows just to fuck with us. I have an acquaintance who is an Industrial Punk Gay and very outspoken about it. I only say acquaintance as I have only met him at parties and around. He's never been in our immediate peer group. But he had words with some "Good old Boys" in a bar and walking home he was jumped, thrown into a pick up truck and then thrown off a bridge falling about 30 ft. to the concrete below. That's another reason I say I don't know him, really, he is brain damaged. brain damaged to the severe point that only his closest friends understand him speaking.
I and most my friends have been jumped numerous times, most have scars from it. I've been beat down too many times to count, stabbed twice, and had close to 30 staples put in my head by the police. I'd like to say I was kicking their asses so they had to call in the riot squad to stop me but nope, I was beat in the head while handcuffed just for running my mouth.

So those of us who have been through this should know how it sucks and not wanna inflict that bullshit on anyone. I don't know what it's like where you're at but since the mid late 90's with the commercialization of Punk (Green day, Good Charlott, The Offspring, etc.) The violence has slowly faded.

But then I see shit on Punk's Profiles like Kill an Emo kid day, beat down Goths, it used to be beat on the hippies (I never did that, but my Parents were fucking Hippies so I might have encouraged it) but why beat on anyone? I mean the Emo-Punks, screamo kids have their own little scene here and they rarely venture out to ours. Many come and see our band for some reason, but man I don't care what or who you are if you're going to come out and show us support on stage, you are my friend. Who gives a fuck how they dress or if they wear make up. Iggy wore
Make up and he's a Fuckin' God.

I'm just saying that by hating anyone unless you truly know that person is wrong and dangerous. man, they're are so many fucking assholes i this world I can't see how I can afford to weed out people because of the music they wanna hear, the cloths they wanna wear, the sex they wanna have, or the color they were born, or the God(S) they may or may not worship.

I fucking hate a bunch of Politically Correct Bullshit so I hope I ain't coming across like that. I don't give a Good Goddamn if I'm P.C. or not, actually I would be very disappointed if someone saw me as such. I'm an asshole, Mother Fucking Scumbag. But this seems more like common sense.
Thank You and sorry this is so damn long, I don't wanna come up in here trying to be ole wise one trying to tell anyone what to do or how to think.