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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“To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and political, that is to say, written from an exclusive point of view, but a point of view that opens up the widest horizons.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)
“I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)
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—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)