{"id":5366,"date":"2014-06-29T16:10:21","date_gmt":"2014-06-29T21:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=5366"},"modified":"2014-06-29T16:10:21","modified_gmt":"2014-06-29T21:10:21","slug":"hipster-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2014\/06\/29\/hipster-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"Hipster racism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nIronic racism, <a href=\"http:\/\/timeghost.net\/stuff\/bangs\/white-noise-supremacists.html\">Lester Bangs nailed more than three decades ago<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAnother reason for getting rid of all those little verbal barbs is that no matter how you intend them, you can\u2019t say them without risking misinterpretation by some other bigoted asshole; your irony just might be his cup of hate. Things like the Creem articles and partydown exhibitionism represented a reaction against the hippie counterculture and what a lot of us regarded as its pious pussyfooting around questions of racial and sexual identity, questions we were quite prepared to drive over with bulldozers. We believed nothing could be worse, more pretentious and hypocritical, than the hippies and the liberal masochism in whose sidecar they Coked along, so we embraced an indiscriminate, half-joking and half-hostile mindlessness which seemed to represent, as Mark Jacobson pointed out in his Voice piece on Legs McNeil, a new kind of cool. &#8220;I don\u2019t discriminate,&#8221; I used to laugh, &#8220;I\u2019m prejudiced against everybody!&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ironic racism, Lester Bangs nailed more than three decades ago: Another reason for getting rid of all those little verbal barbs is that no matter how you intend them, you can\u2019t say them without risking misinterpretation by some other bigoted asshole; your irony just might be his cup of hate. Things like the Creem articles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5367,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5366\/revisions\/5367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}