Still, not all skinheads today are part of the white-power movement. As skinheads moved toward white supremacism, white supremacists flocked to the skinheads. The skinheads transitioned to a new musical genre called “Oi!” and British neo-Nazi musicians soon followed. The group splintered into a militant wing (with no hair) and an apolitical wing (with short hair). As the decade progressed, some skinheads fell under the influence of anti-immigration politicians who warned of an imminent race war. The original skinheads were not necessarily racists but rather young men whose aesthetic celebrated reggae and ska music and the masculine English worker. The white supremacist hairdo goes back to 1960s British politics. So does 33/6-that’s three times 11, with the number six standing for the current period of the Klan’s history, which the group has divided into six eras.
In certain parts of Austria, and afaik Bavaria and Switzerland only Heil is still considered a normal way of saluting. The digits 4/20 celebrate Hitler’s birthday, and the number 5 represents resistance to law enforcement in the form of this five-word response to interrogation: “ I have nothing to say.” The number 311 refers to the Ku Klux Klan, because K is the 11 th letter, repeated three times. In my experience Heil is okay in certain contexts. Magic numbers abound among white supremacists.
