Before this leads to reprisal attacks (the torching of industrial clubs, assaults on Goths, punks, hessians, Hassidim, ninjas, or random chromatically-challenged individuals by clueless rednecks), an important distinction must be made. The enemy are not Goths but Gothists. Goth is a subculture of peace, and explicitly prohibits violence against the innocent. Gothism, however, is a militant, intolerant ideology committed to the annihilation or subjugation of all jocks, preppies, "normals" and "mundanes" across the world, and the ushering in of a global reign of darkness. The vast majority of Goths do not subscribe to the extremist beliefs of Gothism, and indeed consider it to be a false ideology, a sick perversion of the tenets of their subculture. It is clear that peaceful coexistence with Gothism is impossible, and this ideology must be uprooted and neutralised before it causes any more damage; this is something which we will need the cooperation of moderate/liberal Goth leaders in achieving.
Having said that, Goth community leaders should be more outspoken in condemning atrocities carried out in the name of their culture, and the Goth community needs to take action to prevent its marginalised youth from being radicalised by the agents of Gothism.
I was unaware being a "goth" or a "gothist" was so complicated! Back in my day it just involved wearing black and listening to The Mission...
Well I thought that was funny and clever, even if no-one else got it...
Hint: it's not actually about Goths.
Have you changed your surname to something beginning with 'S'?
No; why?
Sorry, that was a rather obtuse reference to a modest proposal.
Ah; well, perhaps I should wax Swiftean more often (or at least Brookerian, or perhaps Brookmyrean?). I've gotten a little bored with just posting links to things, especially if I don't have a great deal original to say about them; which is why this blog has been somewhat sparser of late than it used to be.
Satire like this rarely catches me, and this one totally had me fooled for 5 full seconds. I think that it has something to do with the fact that I'm getting older, and so much of what the 'kids' take seriously nowadays seems equally absurd.
From the interweb:"Gothist - a racist against goths"
Whatever the case may be, to hell with the lot of them, Goths and Gothists!