Criticism
The hardliners' elitist, strict, ascetic, often violent and controlling stance has often put them at odds with hardcore's "think for yourself, do what you choose" attitude. Ian MacKaye, in the second recording of Out Of Step by Minor Threat, stressed that straight edge "is not a set of rules". Hardliners have been harshly criticized for their stance on sexuality, i.e. their belief that homosexuality and bisexuality (and even masturbation, according to some hardline literature) are unnatural and therefore wrong, and their opposition to abortion.
In their song "Indie Sux, Hardline Sux, Emo Sux, You Suck!", American punk rock band Anti-Flag criticizes the subculture, specifically their anti-abortion stance and intolerance of individuals with different beliefs.
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“I hold with the old-fashioned criticism that Browning is not really a poet, that he has all the gifts but the one needful and the pearls without the string; rather one should say raw nuggets and rough diamonds.”
—Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)
“The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.”
—Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)
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—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)