http://jezebel.com/5905291/a-complete-guide-to-hipster-racism
Things I didn't know were racist: acoustic covers of hip hop songs, saying "thug life" if you are white, going to an IHOP if you are white, making fun of white people if you are white. This article really bothers me because it basically categorizes certain behaviors, cultural objects, and places as being "white" or "black," and then reprimands white people from transgressing the prescribed realm of their race. What do you think? Does "hipster racism" exist?
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Defected to the U.S.S.R.: 24 Jun 2011, 08:37 Party Bureaucrat
I didn't think anyone BUT white people went to IHOP ?
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Defected to the U.S.S.R.: 12 Jun 2006, 02:14 Ideology: Marxism-Leninism Politburo
What is IHOP??
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Defected to the U.S.S.R.: 24 Jun 2011, 08:37 Party Bureaucrat
international house of pancakes. It's a diner sort of deal. Might be just a US thing
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This article is in itself racist.
Quote: This implies that only non-whites are thugs, only non-whites write hip hop songs (or cover them on guitar), and only non-whites are in criminal gangs. Quote: Or when people just go on holiday to another country? If I go to Chinatown am I suddenly a racist? This article seems to want to enforce racial segregation by saying it's "racist" to go to a part of town with a large number of ethnic minorities. Quote: Offense is subjective. Nothing is inherently offensive and everything has the potential to be offensive. This article implies that all black people are automatically offended by the word "nigger" no matter what context it is being used in (provided a non-black person is saying it). Quote: Seems like the author is telling people not to wear clothes that "belong" to a different ethnicity. Apparently every time I wear an anorak when it rains I am being racist towards Inuit people.
Hell yeah. Hipsters are some of the most racist people I've ever met. They're just more polite about it. If you're not white, that is.
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This article is a classic example of hipsters bitching about other hispters for things they do themselves. I also agree with indigo that racism is pervasive among hipsters, and I'd say Americans in general.
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