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[Rell]

Yeah, I always knew it as the Hitler youth haircut. Since forever. I've never known it as anything else.

That being said, it's just a haircut. It's a fad that'll come and go. The same guys that have this haircut now probably had an emo haircut back in the mid-2000s.
Who gives a shit.

Everyone I know called it the Nazi haircut as well.

I remember when the haircut was really making a comeback I went to the barber, did the "shorten it up" and they gave me the haircut in question, by default.

The cut really used to be everywhere. Not really seeing it much anymore though.

 

[99Luffy]

The whole neo nazi look is actually rooted in fashion, and its sorta funny that these days alot of companies have taken from it and made the hipster look.
Skinheads popped in 1960s England and was a working class version of the Mod look, slightly classier with longer hair is the suedehead look.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skinhead
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suedehead_(subculture)

It wasnt originally associated with racists.
https://youtu.be/xHDBn7TL4JM

 

[zoukka]

I have been jokingly calling this style the "Nazi Cut" for YEARS. I refused to get it despite my wife thinking it was sooooo sexy...well whose laughing now!

The guys with the cut that you'r wife is oogling.

 

[Lulubop]

The guys with the cut that you'r wife is oogling.

got em

 

[Mr_Moogle]

One of the first times I ever felt old was when I was getting a haircut, I asked the hairdresser why all the kids are sporting Hitler haircuts these days? I'm only 30 and I'm already out of touch with today's youth.

 

[Timbuktu]

It already seem like quite a while ago when this seemed like a thing in London, around Dalston, Shoreditch and places like that. Then the footballers got into it and now I don't notice it much anymore. Definitely felt like a pre-Brexit thing.

 

[Timedog]

The hitler youth cut.

 

[ShiroAmakusa]

Have had this haircut for like 4 years now? The alt right are just low cultured rednecks which is why they are just now jumping onto this very nice and fashionable haircut.

Sorry mate, but when the New York Times wrote about the (re)emergence of this haircut back in 2011, it already had the Hitler Youth label attached to it. As far as I'm concerned, Nazis aren't jumping on it now, it was always associated with them to beginn with.

 

[Chinner]

What hair cuts should we be getting instead guys.

 

[ProfessorLobo]

Ugh I kind of wanted to get this haircut but can't die to the realization that this thread has given me.

 

[SprachBrooks]

I mean if you're the type to judge the political outlook of a person by a haircut, then you'll struggle in life.

 

[HiiiLife]

It's Macklemores fault.

 

[Chumley]

What hair cuts should we be getting instead guys.

Have had this haircut for like 4 years now? The alt right are just low cultured rednecks which is why they are just now jumping onto this very nice and fashionable haircut.

No, it's always been a hitler youth cut.

 

[Chumley]

To clear up confusion, this is a high and tight and still acceptable:

This is not:

 

[Davey Cakes]

My haircut is kind of like an undercut. Parted on the left, but the sides are at "guard number 3" on the wiffle scale. So it starts out like a nazi cut (or a hipster cut, depending on what bullshit label you want to slap on) and grows into being a more traditional left parted look.

I like the style so I probably won't change it. Funny that I'm REALLY liberal, though.

 

[Salacious Crumb]

So is Macklemore a Nazi?

 

[Fudgepuppy]

I've been wearing some version of the undercut since 2010. It's long though at the moment, so my friend started braiding my hair.

It's nice.

 

[Kurita]

I thought that was already associated with these dudes for the past 10 years

 

[Skux]

Luckily I'm Asian so it doesn't carry those connotations if I rock it.

 

[Greedings]

My girlfriend asked me to try this style out. Maybe I should punch her in the face.

 

[Polari]

Have had this haircut for like 4 years now? The alt right are just low cultured rednecks which is why they are just now jumping onto this very nice and fashionable haircut.

I don't think so. It's always been a Hitler Youth cut. All the hipster kids were taking photos of Hitler Youth dudes into barbershops 10-12 years ago, probably longer.

 

[Patrick Bateman]

I think we went full circle with this hair cut.

 

[Adam_Roman]

I've always found the undercut to look kind of silly. My hairstyle for the past 5 years has basically been whatever you'd call Hugh Jackman's haircut. It's relatively short, but the top is longer and pushed up.

 

[Cerity]

Undercuts are super flexible though, it's easy to avoid looking like hitler youth.

 

[DirgeExtinction]

I never even knew this cut was dubbed "Hitler youth".

 

[Muppet of a Man]

If you can sport longer hair, bring back the 90s-esque hairstyles:

The River Phoenix:

The Mads Mikkelsen:

 

[SoundLad]

Pretty appalled that some posters here automatically assume that someone is a "nazi", "douchebag" or "alt-right" based on a haircut. Hell, someone even said on the first page that they would punch a dude with this cut. Would love to see those guys' current haircuts. Sounds like insecurity tbh.

I tried it a few times cos my woman said she finds it nice looking. Now I'm keeping it high n tight mostly. Wear your hair whatever way suits your head/skull shape the best.

 

[Maiden Voyage]

To clear up confusion, this is a high and tight and still acceptable:

This is not:

I'm safe then.

 

[vonStirlitz]

The minute you abandon something, whether a haircut or political discourse, to an extreme, and distance yourself from it due to perceived taint, you lose the fight.

So screw that, I will keep my fash cut. And it isn't a fash cut anyway. Lots of dapper British pilots and street-tough GIs sported the same haircut.

Hair aside, I find it worrying that our way of dealing with political discourse these days is routed through the prism of consumerism - whether it's haircuts or buying pink shirts as a political stance. There are bigger things at play than expressing yourself through a consumable object, and we have all become conduits for capitalism, where we express ourselves and define ourselves, and others, through the prism of what we purchase.

Sad.

 

[Mendrox]

The minute you abandon something, whether a haircut or political discourse, to an extreme, and distance yourself from it due to perceived taint, you lose the fight.

So screw that, I will keep my fash cut. And it isn't a fash cut anyway. Lots of dapper British pilots and street-tough GIs sported the same haircut.

Hair aside, I find it worrying that our way of dealing with political discourse these days is routed through the prism of consumerism - whether it's haircuts or buying pink shirts as a political stance. There are bigger things at play than expressing yourself through a consumable object, and we have all become conduits for capitalism, where we express ourselves and define ourselves, and others, through the prism of what we purchase.

Sad.

Yes let us all still use Pepe too.

 

[Weckum]

If you can sport longer hair, bring back the 90s-esque hairstyles:

The River Phoenix:

So majestic.

 

[thestopsign]

Eh. I use a less extreme version of the undercut. I will still use it, it's the best look I can go with how my hair behaves.

 

[freenudemacusers]

To clear up confusion, this is a high and tight and still acceptable:

This is not:

Happily living in the danger zone 🇺🇸👌🏻

 

[Mr. Giggles]

It was a stupid hair cut to begin with.

You fucking kids today with your weird haircuts. In my day when you buzzed your hair you buzzed the whole head

 

[Maiden Voyage]

There's nothing to be safe from. This opinion has zero social media traction. This random article with literally 2 favorites on twitter is the only article I can find that expresses this bizarre viewpoint. I don't even know how the OP found this article.

You're right! I live in a red state--I'm just blending in so they don't know I'm not down with fascism.

 

[the_batman]

It was a stupid hair cut to begin with.

You fucking kids today with your weird haircuts. In my day when you buzzed your hair you buzzed the whole head

you know the undercut is a style older than you?

 

[Lkr]

I don't even know if I'm rocking an undercut after this last trip to the barber. I had it grown out on top long enough for the high 0 fade on the sides/back would look badass but then he went and took half off the length of the top of my hair off when I asked him to "clean it up"

No shit it's a hitler youth cut, people have been making this joke for 10 years at least. The only thing I don't understand is what makes it hitler youth cut when other western societies had similar hair styles at the same time?

 

[Mendrox]

There's nothing to be safe from. This opinion has zero social media traction. This random article with literally 2 favorites on twitter is the only article I can find that expresses this bizarre viewpoint. I don't even know how the OP found this article.



Right, because that's totally the same thing. Can you show me one alt-right person besides Spencer with this haircut?

You know the alt right has taken your precious anime from you already, right big guy?

*sigh* Really? Disqualified.

Yeah you are right it's totally not the same. Pepe was comic and a meme after this and now nobody should use him anymore. The undercut was always the Hitler Youth haircut. Hmm?

Edit: I am also small!!!

 

[Carpe Libertatem]

*sigh* Really? Disqualified.

Yeah you are right it's totally not the same. Pepe was comic and a meme after this and now nobody should use him anymore. The undercut was always the Hitler Youth haircut. Hmm?

The undercut started out as a haircut for working class people around the turn of the century.

A haircut is also not the same as a meme. When coopted by Nazis, memes being clearly problematic because of the nature of what memes are supposed to do. The entire point of memes is to spread an idea within a culture (in Pepe's case, Nazi/white supremacist culture).

 

[Hitman]

Sorry mate, but when the New York Times wrote about the (re)emergence of this haircut back in 2011, it already had the Hitler Youth label attached to it. As far as I'm concerned, Nazis aren't jumping on it now, it was always associated with them to beginn with.

Always been? Or did the Hitler Youth steal it from 30s France?

Mr. Schuman has even worn the hairstyle himself, though he was unaware of the Hitler association. “You pick up a Doisneau book, or any photography book of Paris in the ’30s, and almost all the guys had that cut,” he said.

 

[How About No]

Actual Nazis ruined it 75+ years ago already. Sorry.

That said if you want to rock it and you're not a cunt then I have no problem

 

[Lkr]

Will we ever reach a point where you can go to the barber and get a hitler mustache? For the rest of us mere mortals, not counting Michael Jordan

 

[ShiroAmakusa]

Always been? Or did the Hitler Youth steal it from 30s France?

Well, always been since the Nazis. It was obviously a fashionable haircut around the (western) world back then.

 

[the_batman]

Will we ever reach a point where you can go to the barber and get a hitler mustache? For the rest of us mere mortals, not counting Michael Jordan

eventually, but why would you want to? it looks stupid as hell.

 

[FunkyPajamas]

Skinheads ruined baldness for me.

 

[Particle Physicist]

I'm confused, the haircut was originally a nazi/neo-nazi haircut. They aren't ruining anything. They are just 'taking it back'

 

[Shadynasty]

Am I the only one who thinks associating a haircut exclusively with a hate group is ridiculous? Not a fan of the cut in general, but individuals should be able to have a benign hipster haircut without being called a nazi. It's like assuming everyone white dude with a shaved head is a skinhead.

 

[freenudemacusers]

In my day when you buzzed your hair you buzzed the whole head

I like having sex tho

 

[WedgeX]

Am I the only one who thinks associating a haircut exclusively with a hate group is ridiculous? Not a fan of the cut in general, but individuals should be able to have a benign hipster haircut without being called a nazi. It's like assuming everyone white dude with a shaved head is a skinhead.

This is common throughout human history. Perhaps most so with Nazis.

I have never seen anyone rock a Charlie Chaplin, for instance.

 

[God Dayumm]

Gaf hates any man who showers regularly and maintains good hygiene.

Next month we are going to read that Neo-Nazis have ruined showering, grooming, working out, and wearing fitting clothes.

Actually i now remember seeing one of those mentioned in this forum