Why do people say that hippies are mean if they’re actually really nice?

[Burgundydog21]

Hippies are the nicest people I’ve ever met

[CupcakeTheDestroyer]

For the same reason people say metalheads are thugs and drug addicts when they’re some of the kindest people you’ll ever meet: they’re deviants from the norm, and what the norm doesn’t understand, they say is bad. A lot of “bad” people are usually just people living their lives in a way different from how most folks are taught is the way to do so. The people in power don’t like when people don’t conform to the status quo, and when shame doesn’t work at getting them to change then they dismiss them or make something about their lives insidious to the public eye. Nixon had a whole campaign about the terrors of drugs, knowing weed was relatively harmless compared to coke and heroin but he didn’t remove its status as a harmful, illegal drug because it was the easiest way to arrest black panthers and hippies who smoked and get them out of the picture so he could maintain a specific, heroic public image.

[HollyK21]

This really depends on personal experience and what someone’s idea of a hippie is. When I think of a hippie Woodstock comes to mind, yet if you ask my friends grandpa he’d call transients on the street “hippie dippie fools”. 😭

[BetaBucks]

The hippies of the old days aren't really around anymore though. The "modern hippies" aren't exactly the live and let live, respect everyone, always treat everyone equally and promote peace, kind of people.

[Alex-Snow]

Same here... some of the hippy girls are hot and most do not wear bras!!!

[kylee2437]

Because you have rich people that pick up the hippie aesthetic, but don’t pick up the hippie personality.

[In_Trance]

Who says that?