"Hipster" as pejorative.

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http://meloukhia.net/2009/07/hipster_racism.html

HIPSTER = RACIST ??? woaaaah

i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 15:43 (fourteen years ago)

I've often wondered about hipster racism, mostly because they only seem to hang around black people if they have retro '70s 'fros.

thirdalternative, Monday, 23 January 2012 19:42 (fourteen years ago)

me too, good point

max, Monday, 23 January 2012 19:43 (fourteen years ago)

I just reviewed a new book attacking hipsters and it has the same qualities as that hipster racism blog (not the same writer) and other anti-hipster screeds: complete absence of examples + blaming this vague, even contradictory archetype for basically everything that's wrong with 21st Century western culture. I find it amazing that anyone can still throw "hipster" into a serious argument, without offering any further definition, and think it means anything at all.

This lousy book just reminded me how scattershot most hipster-bashing writing is. I keep coming back to Mark Greif because he's one of the few writers on the subject to realise that the details matter.

Meme Rogers (DL), Monday, 23 January 2012 20:06 (fourteen years ago)

Yeah, the racism described in that blog certainly exists but is not the creation of or confined to "hipsters." Even when I was in high school in the early 90s I noticed people taking that "it's not racist because I'm the one saying it" posture.

MrDasher, Monday, 23 January 2012 20:40 (fourteen years ago)

pretty incredible the author manages to get through the entire piece w/o giving a single example of this phenomenon

flopson, Monday, 23 January 2012 23:19 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUhrSVyu0Kw

thirdalternative, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 16:31 (fourteen years ago)

http://cdn03.cdnwp.thefrisky.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/24/venn_diagram_012412_m-600x450.jpg

thirdalternative, Thursday, 26 January 2012 19:20 (fourteen years ago)

ha

I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Thursday, 26 January 2012 19:22 (fourteen years ago)

http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/imagebuzz/web03/2011/3/2/17/adolf-hipster-25550-1299106788-4.jpg

thirdalternative, Monday, 6 February 2012 20:13 (fourteen years ago)

three months pass...

http://vimeo.com/41264640

love the guy who is asked if he is a hipster and is deeply offended

flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 10 May 2012 03:34 (fourteen years ago)

did i spy a hipster puppy in that video

12plsrU (electricsound), Thursday, 10 May 2012 04:11 (fourteen years ago)

http://notalwaysright.com/we-prefer-hipsters-over-hellcats/19301

Dale, dale, dale (Abbbottt), Thursday, 10 May 2012 04:13 (fourteen years ago)

holy mole

bark ruffalo (latebloomer), Thursday, 10 May 2012 04:16 (fourteen years ago)

there is no way that story is real

diamonddave85, Thursday, 10 May 2012 04:21 (fourteen years ago)

we can always hope it is

the late great, Thursday, 10 May 2012 04:31 (fourteen years ago)

SHUT UP YOU, D*** HIPSTER!

diamonddave85, Thursday, 10 May 2012 04:39 (fourteen years ago)

a eyebrow

Fellini.Kuti, Thursday, 10 May 2012 06:31 (fourteen years ago)

I had my first piece for Vice/Noise published today...does that make me a hipster?

Blue Collar Retail Assistant (Dwight Yorke), Thursday, 10 May 2012 15:57 (fourteen years ago)

*Noisey, even.

Blue Collar Retail Assistant (Dwight Yorke), Thursday, 10 May 2012 15:57 (fourteen years ago)

no but congratulations!

Impetuous hybrid (Matt P), Thursday, 10 May 2012 15:59 (fourteen years ago)

"DID YOU PRETEND TO LIKE MUSIC TO GET GIRLS? I DID"

Jury is out

Cragenham Craig (Craigo Boingo), Thursday, 10 May 2012 16:35 (fourteen years ago)

"Grime - We were kidding ourselves. It’s just shit, right?"

Cragenham Craig (Craigo Boingo), Thursday, 10 May 2012 16:37 (fourteen years ago)

Straight up real talk.

Blue Collar Retail Assistant (Dwight Yorke), Thursday, 10 May 2012 17:44 (fourteen years ago)

two months pass...

http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4391685/Adam-Stelzner--NASA-s-hipster-rocket-engineer

"Adam Steltzner, NASA's hipster rocket engineer"

http://www.eetimes.com/ContentEETimes/Images/steltzner_406.JPG

Steltzner comes across as a bit of a hipster (two pierced ears), media savvy and relentlessly honest about the risks of the mission to land the nearly 1-ton rover Curiosity in a predetermined spot on Mars, Gale Crater. The low-lying site is believed to be among the best places to find evidence that Mars once harbored the ingredients for life.

real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Monday, 6 August 2012 13:56 (thirteen years ago)

Steltzner also represents a new breed of engineer. The Bay Area native is a rocker, as the Elvis haircut attests ... Putting his doctorate to good use, Steltzner said he needed “a little bit of sexy.”

the mandy moorhols (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 6 August 2012 14:31 (thirteen years ago)

aging rockabilly dudes are hipsters now

real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Monday, 6 August 2012 14:36 (thirteen years ago)

hipstabilly

real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Monday, 6 August 2012 14:36 (thirteen years ago)

hipster is an umbrella term at this point that encompasses almost any group of fashion-conscious music fans.

one dis leads to another (ian), Monday, 6 August 2012 14:40 (thirteen years ago)

hipster is a 50s word though right?

caek, Monday, 6 August 2012 14:41 (thirteen years ago)

yea but iirc those hipsters were more like proto-beatniks right

real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Monday, 6 August 2012 14:43 (thirteen years ago)

DO WE HAVE TO GO OVER THIS AGAIN?

one dis leads to another (ian), Monday, 6 August 2012 14:43 (thirteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ5_SyvxDXE

one dis leads to another (ian), Monday, 6 August 2012 14:43 (thirteen years ago)

personally i make a point of knowing nothing about hipsters

caek, Monday, 6 August 2012 14:44 (thirteen years ago)

a difficult task for an ilxor

one dis leads to another (ian), Monday, 6 August 2012 14:47 (thirteen years ago)

one of our favorite topics iirc, just after food and film.

one dis leads to another (ian), Monday, 6 August 2012 14:48 (thirteen years ago)

http://www.supermegamonkey.net/chronocomic/entries/scans/MTLG3_Hipster.jpg

Godzilla vs. Rodan Rodannadanna (The Yellow Kid), Monday, 6 August 2012 18:31 (thirteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

http://laughingsquid.com/wp-content/uploads/hipsterdoofus.jpg

carne asada, Thursday, 30 August 2012 18:00 (thirteen years ago)

I've often wondered about hipster racism, mostly because they only seem to hang around black people if they have retro '70s 'fros.

― thirdalternative, Monday, January 23, 2012 2:42 PM (7 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

max, Thursday, 30 August 2012 18:05 (thirteen years ago)

but... as bad as hipster culture is, one positive thing i can say is that it seems to be more racially diverse than a lot of other music/fashion movements of the last 20 years. tho i could be imagining that

― the barkeep from the hilarious 'my girls' pub sing-a-long (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, May 19, 2009 2:55 PM (3 years ago)

carne asada, Thursday, 30 August 2012 18:12 (thirteen years ago)

this guys knows of hipster iirc

carne asada, Thursday, 30 August 2012 18:13 (thirteen years ago)

hipsters dont wear fedoras

diamonddave85, Thursday, 30 August 2012 18:20 (thirteen years ago)

didnt some senator accuse Obama of wearing a hipster fedora ?

carne asada, Thursday, 30 August 2012 18:27 (thirteen years ago)

lol
About 444,000 results (0.17 seconds) for "hipster fedora"

first hit is a Gawker post by Max

carne asada, Thursday, 30 August 2012 18:31 (thirteen years ago)

I realized that the big hipster argument I got myself into upthread as over a misunderstanding of the definition of a hipster. To me a hipster is merely a poseur in an indie/artsy setting rather than the classic goth/punk setting.

Evan, Thursday, 30 August 2012 18:47 (thirteen years ago)

was*

Evan, Thursday, 30 August 2012 18:47 (thirteen years ago)

I can't quite read it clearly did someone print the burt stanton meltdown on a giant sign?

look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Thursday, 30 August 2012 20:10 (thirteen years ago)

two months pass...

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/17/how-to-live-without-irony/?hp

乒乓, Sunday, 18 November 2012 16:33 (thirteen years ago)

the writing of David Foster Wallace, the films of Wes Anderson and the music of Cat Power

j., Sunday, 18 November 2012 16:52 (thirteen years ago)

a couple of thousand words to say little more than

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Pje34fUgLQ

fun facts about human waste (Merdeyeux), Sunday, 18 November 2012 17:19 (thirteen years ago)


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