tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-528074983146803930.post5632640788423108724..comments2024-03-06T08:29:13.333-08:00Comments on stuff white people do: white weekend linksmacon dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07795547197817128339noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-528074983146803930.post-56091106200493967412009-03-20T04:39:00.000-07:002009-03-20T04:39:00.000-07:00i live in Seattle and I read the Stranger, and I p...i live in Seattle and I read the Stranger, and I picked up a couple of issues of the 'Black Kids in White Houses' issue to give to friends. I am glad to see the article has wider recognition than just Seattlites, even.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-528074983146803930.post-68347739734783028152008-12-01T21:27:00.000-08:002008-12-01T21:27:00.000-08:00I overstated: It changed the character of a few n...I overstated: It changed the character of a few neighbourhoods in San Francisco.redcatbikerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08645491470348404443noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-528074983146803930.post-2636530314081659192008-12-01T20:40:00.000-08:002008-12-01T20:40:00.000-08:00If you think about it, the hipsters are the modern...If you think about it, the hipsters are the modern-day Pilgrims.<BR/><BR/>The Pilgrims are to the Indians as the Hipsters are to the "old neighbourhood." It goes beyond colour, too. You've got these young, white, middle-class, suburbanites, and often times white male homosexual couples bringing with them the two incomes that white men earn in this society...I've seen it happen in San Francisco, during the dot-com boom, especially. Those "hipsters" displaced a lot of whites who just were not able to afford to stay in their apartments, because the landlords raised the rents so high, so as to get some of the money of those hipsters. It really changed the character of a lot of neighbourhoods in this city.redcatbikerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08645491470348404443noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-528074983146803930.post-72926280345119675582008-12-01T18:46:00.000-08:002008-12-01T18:46:00.000-08:00Macon, I've been thinking a lot about the whitenes...Macon, I've been thinking a lot about the whiteness of hipsters too. I live in a newly gentrified neighborhood full of them! <BR/><BR/>My family and I went to a dia de los muertos (Mexican day of the dead)procession the night before Halloween in this neighborhood. We were expecting to see Mexican people participating in the procession, but everyone there was white. I was particularly annoyed by the white people dressed in Afro-Brazilian/Candomble attire who were dancing through the procession. I know the hipsters were thinking they were being cool, worldly and alternative and it made me sick to my stomach. They seemed so proud of themselves. Their procession was the perfect demonstration of how they colonized the neighborhood, which before was mostly inhabited by black and Latino folks. The hipsters have taken over the homes, the stores and the streets and have appropriated parts of the cultures they have driven out. Before we left the procession I muttered, "This is a minstrel act." I hope some of the hipsters heard me say it.oterhoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16215291777825785455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-528074983146803930.post-74937357746540550792008-12-01T18:24:00.000-08:002008-12-01T18:24:00.000-08:00Hi oterhog. I don't especially enjoy their music e...Hi oterhog. I don't especially enjoy their music either--yeah, more boring hipster crap. Or maybe, some people TRYING to be like hipsters, in order to sell their crap to hipsters. <BR/><BR/>As for what's particularly white about them, I don't know--that's why I asked. I've been thinking lately about the whiteness of hipsters, and I'd like to write a post about that, but I find it hard to put a finger on just WHAT is white about them, aside from the overwhelming numerical preponderance of white folks who seem to fit that label. So far, I think they're often gentrifiers, which is generally a white movement, a kind of reverse "white flight." I also suspect that if you asked the members of Bishop Allen if they themselves are hipsters, they'd say no. And so would most of their fans. I think that in itself reflects a common or especially white tendency, and if I do get a post together on the whiteness of hipsters, I'll try to explain why.macon dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07795547197817128339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-528074983146803930.post-76001847523406906382008-12-01T18:09:00.000-08:002008-12-01T18:09:00.000-08:00Regarding the Bishop Allen music...I've never hear...Regarding the Bishop Allen music...I've never heard of this band. I watched the video and didn't find the music very intersting or inspiring. I just thought, "Meh...more boring hipster crap." Macon, I'm curious about your question regarding this band. What do you think is white about them and their music?<BR/><BR/>Also, although Jamie Peck's description of this group's fans made me chuckle a bit..."guys clutched their brittle girlfriends in anticipation of the passionate night of missionary sex they’d earned with dinner at Sea", it did strike me as a bit, well, mysogynistic. I mean, clearly Jamie doesn't like "brittle girlfriends", whatever that means.oterhoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16215291777825785455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-528074983146803930.post-74479865346569478042008-12-01T05:55:00.000-08:002008-12-01T05:55:00.000-08:00The internet is a pretty big place.The Shinerama i...The internet is a pretty big place.<BR/><BR/>The Shinerama issue is quite complex. However, the argument of those who support keeping Shinerama is basically an Appeal to Tradition, which is invalid. If Carleton University was to start fresh and think of which charities are the most important, those who think cystic fibrosis is more important than other diseases would have to make an argument for it.<BR/><BR/>I don't think the cancellation is racist. I guess it may be anti-racist, but actually part of a larger striving towards fairness. Heart disease, infectious diseases and cancer are the world's top killer diseases, so to help the most people, there isn't much of a reason to concentrate on cystic fibrosis specifically.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-528074983146803930.post-45712525940297682092008-11-30T18:39:00.000-08:002008-11-30T18:39:00.000-08:00You are welcome, Restructure. I found the article,...You are welcome, Restructure. <BR/><BR/>I found the article, perhaps unsurprisingly, on the Internet.<BR/><BR/>I'm wondering what <I>you</I> think of the cancellation--racist or anti-racist?macon dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07795547197817128339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-528074983146803930.post-69405204675473526632008-11-30T17:53:00.000-08:002008-11-30T17:53:00.000-08:00Thanks for the Carleton University/Shinerama link;...Thanks for the Carleton University/Shinerama link; it is quite interesting. Where did you find it?<BR/><BR/>What do you think of the cancellation? Is it racist? Is it anti-racist?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com