By: Mastadon

Mastadon — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:30:25 +0000

The author is having trouble distinguishing between hipsters and their icons. The good people at Vice may indeed embody many things hipster, but few people despise Vice. They despise the people who read Vice, who themselves like to pontificate about issues from sex tourism to fashion, but who contribute nothing meaningful despite their positions of privilege, resources, and relative power. That last bit, by the way, is what truly separates ethnic bigotry from anti-hipster sentiment. Hipsters generally have money, connections, well-to-do families (read safety net), etc. Immigrants are at the mercy of the public majority and are easily harmed by wrathful employers, arrogant members of the police force, and others.

On a lighter note, I just want to be on record saying that people will regret skinny jeans. Today the young and hip people of the 80s regret their poor fashion choices, and hipsters will, too.

By: Marked

Marked — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 03:25:24 +0000

“people draw a line between who they consider insiders and who they consider outsiders”

This is just people being people. I’m not supporting the idea of prejudice or anything, but I find the idea of man being able to look beyond superficial traits and ‘getting along’ pretty unrealistic, and, frankly, more dangerous. People will always gravitate towards who we feel comfortable with, whether that’s based on race or culture or whatever, and the very nature of this means someone will always be an insider and outsider. Again, it’s far easier to recognize this and work with it than believe we can transcend it.

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