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[Imperial Bishop]

LOL wow

 

[Sobriquet]

She was the one that brought up the hipstery thing. When I asked where her and her boyfriend are from, she said, "What just because we look different, we're not from around here?"

I said, "You're dressed a little hipstery, but no it's not that. I work here from time to time and don't recognize you guys."

What did they look like?

 

[esms]

She was the one that brought up the hipstery thing. When I asked where her and her boyfriend are from, she said, "What just because we look different, we're not from around here?"

I said, "You're dressed a little hipstery, but no it's not that. I work here from time to time and don't recognize you guys."

Seems like she was looking for a reason to be offended.

 

[HylianTom]

One of the first parades of the Mardi Gras season - Krewe du Vieux - is a rather risqué parade that's diry-minded while also making fun of politicians and current events. New Orleans is gentrifying pretty significantly right now, so this topic is bubbling right under the surface.

Anyway, among the private parts and politicians and goofy costumes, here's one of the signs carried in the parade..

 

[Sobriquet]

One of the first parades of the Mardi Gras season - Krewe du Vieux - is a rather risqué parade that's diry-minded while also making fun of politicians and current events. New Orleans is gentrifying pretty significantly right now, so this topic is bubbling right under the surface.

Anyway, among the private parts and politicians and goofy costumes, here's one of the signs carried in the parade..

What does it mean in this context? Yuppies? Trust-fund "artists"?

 

[Forceatowulf]

edit- wrong thread

 

[Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew]

Can the world be any more insensitive? Fuck! Hipsters have feeling too!!1!

 

[Valhelm]

Saying that hipster is a racial slur against white people is actually kind of racist. That suggests that there are no brown, Asian, or black hipsters, while they are absolutely are.

 

[Violet_0]

as a person of mixed race (mom is caucasian, dad is hipster) I can definitely identify with this

 

[HylianTom]

What does it mean in this context? Yuppies? Trust-fund "artists"?

I'm not sure. Your theory would make sense. Over the last decade, the city has seen a noticeable influx of well-off youngsters. I'd call them "young professionals," but a lot of them don't seem to work very much, hehe..

And now I'm imagining the horror of a "Go Home {*race*}" sign. Yikes.

 

[Windam]

One of the first parades of the Mardi Gras season - Krewe du Vieux - is a rather risqué parade that's diry-minded while also making fun of politicians and current events. New Orleans is gentrifying pretty significantly right now, so this topic is bubbling right under the surface.

Anyway, among the private parts and politicians and goofy costumes, here's one of the signs carried in the parade..

and take Obama with you!

 

[Sobriquet]

I'm not sure. Your theory would make sense. Over the last decade, the city has seen a noticeable influx of well-off youngsters. I'd call them "young professionals," but a lot of them don't seem to work very much, hehe..

And now I'm imagining the horror of a "Go Home {*race*}" sign. Yikes.

Yeah, I edited in the trust-fund part after realizing that Los Angeles is full of people buying $500,000 shacks in the rapidly-gentrifying ghetto with no apparent source of income. And putting in those stupid fences with horizontal slats.

I considered moving to New Orleans but man it's getting expensive to buy.

 

[HylianTom]

Yeah, I edited in the trust-fund part after realizing that Los Angeles is full of people buying $500,000 shacks in the rapidly-gentrifying ghetto with no apparent source of income. And putting in those stupid fences with horizontal slats.

I considered moving to New Orleans but man it's getting expensive to buy.

You aren't kidding. Prices - especially in areas that don't flood (which are the areas along the river, by the streetcar & parade routes) - are absolutely insane. If you had told me 20 years ago that this would happen to the area, I would've thought you were a loon.

 

[eyeball_kid]

Hipster doesn't even mean anything anymore. It's just a lazy term used to stoke the flames of social tribalism, i.e. "this person doesn't conform to mainstream culture so I'll call them out as different/weird/laughable". Basically no different than how mainstream Americans used "hippie" derogatorily in the '60s.

 

[neojubei]

She's an idiot.

Pretty much

 

[Lazyslob]

damn proud wall scroll owners coming out in full force now

 

[Novocaine]

Just because America has hypersensitivity to black racial slurs it doesn't mean calling someone a hipster is okay. They are both derogatory terms, just on different parts of the spectrum.

 

[Acorn]

Hipster doesn't even mean anything anymore. It's just a lazy term used to stoke the flames of social tribalism, i.e. "this person doesn't conform to mainstream culture so I'll call them out as different/weird/laughable". Basically no different than how mainstream Americans used "hippie" derogatorily in the '60s.

It pretty much means yuppie now.

 

[faridmon]

I agree

so stop calling me a hipster

*flips a scarf*

 

[Massive Duck. C.M.]

Just because America has hypersensitivity to black racial slurs it doesn't mean calling someone a hipster is okay. They are both derogatory terms, just on different parts of the spectrum.

you're not

trying to defend this, right?

 

[Lazyslob]

I agree

so stop calling me a hipster

*flips a scarf*

100% wall scroll enthusiast

 

[Lionel Richie]

Just because America has hypersensitivity to black racial slurs it doesn't mean calling someone a hipster is okay. They are both derogatory terms, just on different parts of the spectrum.

Oh boy, tell me you regret posting this as soon as you hit the "Submit Reply".

 

[RustyNails]

I always wondered, why do hipsters hate the label hipster instead of embracing it?

 

[Novocaine]

you're not

trying to defend this, right?

Defend what? All I said was they are both derogatory terms, just because one is less hurtful than the other it doesn't mean it's okay to use it. They are both wrong.

 

[radios shipping overview]

The girl described in the OP is dumb, but man, that word says a lot more about the person using it than who they're using it on.

 

[Sobriquet]

What is this wall scroll thing? I don't get the reference.

 

[esms]

Defend what? All I said was they are both derogatory terms, just because one is less hurtful than the other it doesn't mean it's okay to use it. They are both wrong.

Since when is hipster derogatory?

 

[IsntChrisL]

You fucking monster.

 

[akira28]

What is this wall scroll thing? I don't get the reference.

??

 

[Sobriquet]

*wall scroll pic*??

I know what a wall scroll is, I just don't get how it relates to, uh... anti-hipsters.

edit: Just noticed all of those posts are from the same dude:

99% of people who call other people hipsters own wall scrolls

damn proud wall scroll owners coming out in full force now

100% wall scroll enthusiast

wtf is this

 

[Lazyslob]

because dorks with absolutely no kind of sense of style are the people who say hipster the most. that was my point

 

[Gordon Shumway]

Well..she's a fucking idiot. Think I'll ends it there..

 

[Davey Cakes]

Hipster isn't a fucking insult and you're crazy if you think so.

Yeah but it sure is a good way to blindly write off a person's taste in things.

 

[Foggy]

Lady is stupid.

On a tangent, there's always a lot of "thou doth protest too much" going on when hipster threads pop up.

 

[nintendork666]

I love GAF with all my heart.

 

[Novocaine]

Since when is hipster derogatory?

How is it not? It doesn't any any positive connotations to it.

 

[Violet_0]

I love GAF with all my heart.

I liked GAF before it was popular

 

[Massive Duck. C.M.]

Since when is hipster derogatory?

Well it's definitely not complimentary, but trying to compare it with "nigger" shows how out of touch the girl in the OP (and some people in here) are

 

[RBK]

Hipster is like the equivalent of calling someone a lame.

Nigger and all racial slurs are in a completely different category.

 

[Imm0rt4l]

The is the dumbest false equivalency I've heard in a while.

 

[……forgetit]

That is one of the most stupid things I've heard this week.

.

 

[esms]

How is it not? It doesn't any any positive connotations to it.

It's a group label. It's not a slur.

Well it's definitely not complimentary, but trying to compare it with "nigger" shows how out of touch the girl in the OP (and some people in here) are

Totally agree.

 

[Gordon Shumway]

Yes. Now let's add neck beard and fedora wearer to the list of EXACTLY like saying nigger..fuck off.

 

[Mully]

I really don't have any problem with the term. I love hipster music, beer, living. I view the term pretty positively.

 

[Monochrome_F3ar]

Top kek. That is suck a hipster thing to say. Hope you laughed and walked away.

 

[NYR]

She said that hipster is like saying nigger to a black person.

 

[Memory]

Everybody wants to be a hipster but nobody wants to be a hipster.

LMAO, i read this in Paul Mooneys voice.

 

[NastyBook]

How rich is hipster rich?

 

[commedieu]

Go home hipster.

 

[GlenChivas]

The girl got pretty upset. She said that hipster is like saying nigger to a black person.

She's a fucking idiot. Like most hipsters.