"Skinheads are becoming part of our overall movement"
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The subtext is transactional. Skinheads bring youth, visibility, and a capacity for intimidation that plays well in media images and street confrontations; the “movement” offers them ideology, leadership, and a storyline that turns personal rage into political purpose. It’s also a quiet reassurance to insiders: don’t worry about optics, this is the direction we’re going anyway. By framing it as “becoming part,” Metzger implies a natural, almost organic convergence, as if these groups simply discovered shared values rather than being deliberately cultivated.
Contextually, this is the late-20th-century white-power ecosystem professionalizing itself: a shift from solitary cranks and local klans to networks that understood branding, youth subcultures, and the power of televised fear. Calling it an “overall movement” isn’t accidental. It’s an attempt to normalize the merger of ideology and street-level brutality, turning a loose collection of extremists into something that sounds like a legitimate political current.
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