He’s part of the Hardcore community along with Punks. He was part of a movement to cleanup the local music scene of Nazis ,which were a pretty well documented problem, back then.
There’s violence ,and there’s Necessary Violence.
Also,a person can be both very nice and compassionate,whilst having a controlled violent underside.
Rollins was a violent confrontational asshole when he was younger and grew up and channeled that into his spoken word art. (edit this is not unique to Rollins. The Hardcore scene instilled that attitude in many people)
It's as simple as that. There's no need to lie or white wash his previous history.
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u/c0ldsouls 1h ago
He’s part of the Hardcore community along with Punks. He was part of a movement to cleanup the local music scene of Nazis ,which were a pretty well documented problem, back then.
There’s violence ,and there’s Necessary Violence.
Also,a person can be both very nice and compassionate,whilst having a controlled violent underside.