Hipster Racism

The very hipster lifestyle is, in some ways, racist, and definitely not very introspective when it comes to race. Hipsters are a driving force behind gentrification, driving out low income people and people of colour. They consistently co-opt and appropriate elements of other cultures, piecemeal, and often without any cultural sensitivity or respect. They regularly draw upon the work and legacy of people of colour, usually without crediting them, and most of their contact with people of colour comes in the form of the service personnel serving them their food, cleaning their wine bars, and picking their organic produce.
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Ice helps you start the New Year right!

Cheerful depictions of child labor and the privatization of natural resources — what better, more relevant way to ring in the new year?

Circa 1928.

March of Democracy

Where has democracy dominated and where has it retreated? This map gives us a visual ballet of democracy’s march across history as the most popular form of government. From the first ancient republics to the rise of self-governing nations, see the history of democracy: 4,000 years in 90 seconds…!

Via MapsOfWar.com.

Hipsters and black people

“They don’t want the hipsters in their neighborhood… It’s like in Howard Beach back in the day when they didn’t want black people in the neighborhood.”

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