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DoomsdaysCWWhat motivated #skinhead attacks in the 70s?
The late 1970s saw a wave of attacks on LGBT people and ethnic minorities by young #thugs of identifying as skinhead so what was the motive? Tony McMahon investigates.
The 70s 80s 90s Blog
January 24, 2021
"In this series of blog posts I’m looking at the problem of the extreme Right in the 1970s and the misery it created for ethnic minorities and LGBT people in particular. The streets could be a dangerous place forty plus years ago. So what motivated thugs to launch unprovoked attacks that in a small number of cases resulted in death. I’ve been trawling through newspapers, research papers and other publications from the time to hear from those on all sides.
"WARNING: There is language in this following blog post that some may find offensive – but was very common at the time. This is no way endorses these kind of terms.
"As a 12-year-old in 1976, I biked with friends to the M25 motorway underpass ten minutes from where I lived. Chopper bikes, flared jeans, a Harlem Globe Trotters T-shirt and a brown corduroy jacket. That was my mid-70s uniform. We gazed down at the congealed, dust covered globules of blood on the pavement. This had been the very spot where two students, Dinesh Choudhri aged 19 and Riphi Alhadidi aged 22, had been stabbed to death.[1] [2]
"They lived at the Queen Mary College halls of residence, three unmissable 1960s tower blocks near my old junior school in South Woodford. After the M25 motorway was built in the early 1970s, the students got to experience a constant roar of traffic and the attendant carbon monoxide fumes from their high-rise rooms.
"Each day, Choudhri and Alhadidi would have caught the Central Line tube from this east London suburb to the college in Mile End. On the evening of their death, they were reportedly on their way or coming back from a local Chinese takeaway, the Ping Onn, opposite the ABC cinema. I went to that junior school with a girl who worked there helping her family at the counter from a young age.
"In a completely unprovoked attack, Choudhri and Alhadidi were killed. Their assailants were described as a 'gang of white youths'. Nothing about this incident surprised us as kids at the time. We were all aware of the horribly termed 'Paki bashing' of young British Asians in the 1970s and that these crimes appeared to be consequence-free for the perpetrators.
"On the 14 July in the middle of the riots, The Sun tabloid newspaper interviewed a 17-year-old skinhead from Battersea in south London called #SteveViney. His chilling words are a very accurate summation of what we assumed was the mental process of the average skinhead.
"He began by professing his hatred of 'blacks and queers'. He then rattled off a victimhood narrative where at 13 he had been mugged by a black guy while when he had long hair, he was 'approached by queers'. There’s no suggestion that he had ever committed a very serious crime, but he openly described his relationship with British Asian youth:
"'I hate Asians – Pakis and Indians. Don’t know why. We chase them and bash them up. It just gives you a bit of a kick when you’re drunk. You don’t touch West Indians because they can get violent, they carry knives and that. But Pakis, they just cower a bit.'
"He wasn’t a member of the #NationalFront or #BritishMovement but supported them..."
Read more:
https://the70s80s90s.com/2022/01/24/lgbt-ethnic-skinhead/
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