Hipster Racism
Posted: January 8th, 2010 | Author: CB | Filed under: politics | Tags: class fisticuffs, food glorious food!, race matters, stuff white people like | No Comments »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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Bee Hive Corn Syrup: “The Great Energy Food”
Posted: January 7th, 2010 | Author: CB | Filed under: commerce | Tags: ephemera, food glorious food! | No Comments »
Ice helps you start the New Year right!
Posted: December 31st, 2009 | Author: CB | Filed under: commerce | Tags: class fisticuffs, ephemera, food glorious food!, sustainability | No Comments »Cheerful depictions of child labor and the privatization of natural resources — what better, more relevant way to ring in the new year?
Circa 1928.