Antiracism, gay rights, feminism, and multiculturalism are all perceived as enemies of the status quo” (Blazak). Racist skinheads mostly focus their displeasure on Jews, African Americans and other persons of color, gay men and lesbians, and feminists (Blee). Skinheads mostly recruit and target white kids who “feel ‘left out’, isolated, unpopular, or on the fringe or margin of things at school” along with those who are “experiencing strain due to the inability to achieve positively valued goals or who are presented with noxious stimuli” (Blazak). One of the reasons why many young white males are drawn to the skinhead group is because they can depend on a group of colleagues with similar ideologies against their minority peers and even have a solution to solve their frustration, even if the outcome is usually violent. The Neo-Nazi organization is also a prominent racist group in the United States. Neo-Nazi groups and skinheads are intertwined; in that usually skinheads who reach adulthood go on to join the Neo-Nazi groups, due to members being exposed to more ideologies of different organizations
Antiracism, gay rights, feminism, and multiculturalism are all perceived as enemies of the status quo” (Blazak). Racist skinheads mostly focus their displeasure on Jews, African Americans and other persons of color, gay men and lesbians, and feminists (Blee). Skinheads mostly recruit and target white kids who “feel ‘left out’, isolated, unpopular, or on the fringe or margin of things at school” along with those who are “experiencing strain due to the inability to achieve positively valued goals or who are presented with noxious stimuli” (Blazak). One of the reasons why many young white males are drawn to the skinhead group is because they can depend on a group of colleagues with similar ideologies against their minority peers and even have a solution to solve their frustration, even if the outcome is usually violent. The Neo-Nazi organization is also a prominent racist group in the United States. Neo-Nazi groups and skinheads are intertwined; in that usually skinheads who reach adulthood go on to join the Neo-Nazi groups, due to members being exposed to more ideologies of different organizations