Being a punk since middle 80's, I NEVER hated hippies, quite the opposite, as I consider them (along with many comrades worldwide) as the seed of the punk movement. I've met some old hippies (now over 60 years old) and they seem amazing people to hang around, I enjoyed every minute of it. Of course hippies and punks are two sides of the same rebel coin. There's nothing more retarded thing to feel, than hate for somebody who doesn't do you harm to say the least. All that hate comes from people who anticipated punks as a twisted form of... boneheads! Truth be told, many "legendary" "punk" bands contributed to this idiocy with their crypto-fascist, macho etc attitude, but that hate was/is just a construction of their retarded little fascist brain in their little bonehead world.
By definition, that hate cannot be expressed in any person taking punk in it's complete and thus political aspect. Punk is libertarian, egalitarian, anarchist -minus nazi punk scum- etc. We have many people and institutions to hate, entities that do us real harm. Hippies are brothers/sisters... Criticism towards hippies is another thing.
Having said that, I do have a problem (basically disgust) with "hippies" and "punks". I talking about people only adopting a consumerist translation of punk (again with the blessing of some "legends"), pretending to be either hippies or punks. In reality, that only extends to what they can buy or what lifestyle they can wear fashion-wise. They never understood anything, they were always like parasites in any movement and currently a portion of the anti-hippie hate comes from them...
ps: IMO, punk's important aspect, or at least what I consider as important, started when political entities and ideas came in and populated the scene making it a movement. That was the time where "iconic" junk punks like Sid Vicious took their place in the garbage bin, where they belong.
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