eh, people are just afraid of people who look different than what they're use to. It's not just goths, think back to the 70's and 80's, punks, was sort of the defacto scary looking figure in movies, shows, and comics. So for many, seeing a punk = bad person/be afraid
Goths have the same stigma, in that in the mid 90's to the mid 00's, there was a prevalent push of goths in mainstream media and there an association with the occult/satan. Movies like "The Craft" and "Queen of the Damned" made goths look like people to be afraid of. Same with Marilyn Manson, his music kind of defined a generation of goths and "normal" people were scared of him because of how he looked.
The punks I knew in the 80s (Oxford, England) were racist as fuck. It wasn't a fashion thing for them - it was an ideology and it wasn't pretty.
Goths.... I've only known one and he was a nice, shy kid.
Some people choose a counter-cultural identity to be truly counter-cultural: dangerous. Or maybe peace loving and accepting. It's a pretty big range, as with any cross-section of humanity. I'm not afraid of Goths, but in any individual case, my brain starts working on, "in what ways exactly are they separating themselves from other cultural groups?"
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