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From: jack@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin)
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Subject: Re: Skinhead newsgroup
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Date: 22 Jan 90 11:50:24 GMT
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moynihan_r@apollo.hp.com (Robert Moynihan) wrote:
>John de Armond wrote: 
>> I would like to start a newsgroup for and about skinheads.  
> The skinhead movement is a bunch of uneducated, racist juvenile delinquents.

I suspect JdA's posting was a wind-up, and your spring is twanging just
like he intended.  In fact you're wrong.  Most skinheads may be right-wing,
but there is a substantial minority of left/anarchist skins as well (at
least here in the UK).  There was even a Trotskyist Oi! band once.



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