I reckon you should get yourself to a proper good disco (usually in a tent in a field these days) grab yourself a bit of whatever everyone is having, get into the music
You’ll soon realise that the power of love is stronger than the power of hate, even if you’re wearing an ironic t-shirt.
Yeah, I get that, don’t worry. (Been there, done that, got the T-shirt, badum-tischh…)
It’s just that if I saw someone walking down the road wearing a “disco sucks” T-shirt I’d assume they were either overtly anti-gay or had no idea what they were wearing. I’m asking, entirely genuinely, whether that assumption would be wrong, and if so when and how the meaning changed and it “became a brand for hatred against racism, homophobia, bigots and misogyny.”
If it did, great, I just missed out on that bit of its history and I’d like to know about it.
(And yes, I do get irony too, but if it’s just one person doing it with no context whatsoever it’s a bit of a dry hump to make it work when irony isn’t most people’s first assumption of explanation. And when you do end up trying to explain it, it all goes a bit Schrödinger’s Douchebag.)