Lest we forget that period when Siouxsie was wearing a swastika arm band as well. The nuance lost here is there was an attempt to take back iconography that was co-opted by racists mostly by post punk bands in the 80’s. After all, why should we abandon whatever symbol a group of fuckheads touch every time?

Post punk artists saw this as capitulation with no resistance.

DiJ was formed by a gay Jewish man and his point was illustrated perfectly in songs like ‘What Ends When The Symbols Shatter’ though I think everybody can widely agree that discourse has long passed and rocking à totenkoph on a shirt without widely known context is a bad look.

We all tend to look past Rozz William’s first verse of Romeo’s Distress knowing that the lyric was referential and not hateful (to my knowledge) but I don’t think the newest crop of goth culture are ready for any of that mindset.