There are people who didn't know Rage Against the Machine were political until reading a Tom Morello tweet.

Sadly, it has been going on for pretty much as long as punk has been around, and it doesn't really have a single contributing factor.

In the US 80s hardcore was made up mainly of white angry teens and young adults. Most weren't racist but some were. And the low entry of musicianship needed to get into punk made it easy to start a band, so some Nazi bands started forming. The fans of these band thought they would be welcome at other punk shows, but were wrong. That's why the Dead Kennedy's wrote the song "Nazi Punk Fuck Off".

In England skinheads have been around since the 60s but where not the racist skinheads you think of today. It was more of a working class subculture. Oi punk evolved from this subculture, so as fascist started adopting skinhead culture the music came with it. It also doesn't help that some early punks would wear Nazi symbols to be provocative, even if they didn't believe in the ideology.

Even in the 90s, when I was a teen and active in the local punk community Nazi's would show up to a show every now and then. It always ended up with them getting drug outside and getting the shit kicked out of them. Even if they weren't at the show if there was a sighting of Nazi's nearby people would go running to kick the shit out of them. Yet, every few months it's like they expected something else to happen when and would show up again.

My only thought on why this shit is still happening 30-40 years later, is that you have to be a fucking moron to be a Nazi, so it's not like they would have the best judgement when it comes to where they are welcome.

Same reason why MAGA loves to go and ruin Pride festivals, to harass them. They believe that everyone else is sufferring from delusion and are waiting for someone like these MAGA or Nazi scumbags to "save" them.

Those Nazi bitches love walking around with targets on their back. They’re masochistic. I’ve punched more than a handful of them in the late 90’s / early 2000’s in FL.

My teacher was a punk back his day and fondly told us about how him and his friends would beat the crap out of Nazi punks when they would show up at the spots. He was born in Germany and his parents lived through the tiny mustache man period, so I am sure it was an act of German and family pride to address them appropriately. He would get a twinkle in his eye, as if recalling a fond memory that brought him joy.

Best damn teacher anyone could hope for.

“Nazi Punk” exists, the skinhead as a Nazi thing is them co-opting culture

~~Fuck~~ violence Nazis of all flavors

Johnny Ramone was very hard right. Even praised Regan and Bush during the Ramones Rock & Roll Hall in fame speech. The Ramones song "The KKK Took My Baby Away" was Joey Ramone taking a dig at Johnny for stealing Linda Ramone from him.