Well... the punk movement represented rebellion, to the core - which the church, our society in general, etc, is very much against. It's in the nature for the followers to band together to squash the rebel. Human instinct... it's how packs survive.
It's especially popular among people with little exposure to the truth of the subcultures. The portrait that cliches and labels paint is of a potentially dangerous rebel, that has no heed for laws or adherence to rules. Humans, on a subconscious level, react to that by trying to prove that the 'rebel' is the weaker, thereby squishin' the rebellion, blah blah blah. This instinctual need to control the 'unruly' then filters into the conscious mind, and humans then act upon it. Rather predatory, in a way...
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It's especially popular among people with little exposure to the truth of the subcultures. The portrait that cliches and labels paint is of a potentially dangerous rebel, that has no heed for laws or adherence to rules. Humans, on a subconscious level, react to that by trying to prove that the 'rebel' is the weaker, thereby squishin' the rebellion, blah blah blah. This instinctual need to control the 'unruly' then filters into the conscious mind, and humans then act upon it. Rather predatory, in a way...
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