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Yall. I feel like I might have developed a bad/potentially racist habit. I feel like whenever I see a group of black males who are ‘dressed progressively’, I look for the face of Kanye West 2 be proudly looking at me, like ‘hey yall…just dressed nice and fashionable. not really dressed like a traditionally black person.’ Think that this might be some progressive kind of racial profiling. Might be ‘too educated’ for my own good to the point that I have developed a post-racial mindset. Not sure if police officers will ever experience it, since they are usually dealing with the ‘thug aesthetic.’
Still sort of looking 4 Kanye in that pic.
I feel like ‘black people who wear streetwear’ are sort of indistinguishable. the ’streetwear’ look/aesthetic seems to be too mainstream to enable some1 to stand out. With most rappers, I wouldn’t be able to tell if they were ‘famous and relevant artists’ or ‘just another dude walking on the side of the road in a tall tee/wife beater.’ I ‘feel guilty’ for thinking that, but I just want 2 know if I am ‘normal’, or what I could do to have a healthier mindset.
I guess it’s a good thing that Kanye West is shifting paradigms. I think that he could inspire a generation of young black people to ‘dress nice’, but I think it conflicts with the core value of ‘nice shit being expensive, and showing off how much money u have by buying expensive stuff.’ Feel like Puff Daddy/Sean John is a better model for ‘affordable urban wear.’
I feel like 1 day we’ll look back and realize that this was one of the most important minority memes of all time.
http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/2009/01/blipstaz-or-fggts-new-hro-gimmick.html
Please use this post to talk about racial stereotypes, and what we need 2 do 2 ‘correct them’/'fix u.’
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so scared of my mouse accidentally going into the top right corner now…
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//////////Reply by mike tyson
//////////Posted April 22nd, 2009 at 5:50 pm
@nons, u forgot first
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I look for Kanye in pictures of white people too now a days.
2ndddddd
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Do these blipsters shop at Journeys? Remember those Journeys “hand” stickers. miss them
3rd
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5rd
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they dont look as ghey as kanyes blips but they look like cool dads now
there has 2 be a balance in btween blipstarfggt and black cooldad
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fuck you. right? like in the game ‘kings’?
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d00d on the right is ‘trying too hard’
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//////////Reply by Hanna
//////////Posted April 23rd, 2009 at 12:44 am
@wut, hey man, you don’t even KNOW the dude on the right! Maybe that’s ‘just how he is’. Maybe he is so cool u can’t even fathom
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//////////Reply by licoricepirate
//////////Posted April 23rd, 2009 at 2:49 pm
@Hanna, lol for sure!!
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i’m still scared of black ppl.
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While we are on this topic, I’ve noticed that all the black and latino kids here in NYC are now wearing skintight pants and studded belts. What kind of crazy style inversion is this? What was the last time this happened?
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//////////Reply by mr. authentic
//////////Posted April 22nd, 2009 at 7:25 pm
@dax jax, all of them, thats a ridiculous exaggeration. id say it went from 1% up to about 20% (i’m talking strictly high-school looking kids), which is still a huge jump.
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//////////Reply by dreamsgrass
//////////Posted April 23rd, 2009 at 11:46 am
@mr. authentic, wow– thnx for clearin datt up
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//////////Reply by blippin aint easy
//////////Posted April 23rd, 2009 at 10:50 am
@dax jax,
10xs worse in los angeles.
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//////////Reply by Vexster
//////////Posted April 23rd, 2009 at 4:28 pm
@dax jax, Damn. You people make it sound like a plague or something.
As if anything(emphasis on anything) white people where is any better?
Sheeesh. Chillax.
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“I wouldn’t be able to tell if they were ‘famous and relevant artists’ or ‘just another dude walking on the side of the road in a tall tee/wife beater.”
Thtz happened 2 me so much while livin in frisco, 1 of ma broz waz lyke once “dude thats keek da sneek” & i waz lyk i cnt tell whch 1 (of da blk dudez) he iz.
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is the 2nd guy from the right end (top pic) the popular black act0r that white ppl can relate to, will smith?
also
at the progrssive crclJerk i just finished competing in with my azn friend who shares the same first name as me the guy i was directly across from was chatting about his ethnic wife from the mexicos and how she thinks racism is now a bigger deal for other native mexican speakers like her now that obamaBro broke into ‘teh HouseFormerlyKnownAsWhite’. he accidentally got a lil cum on me, but due to his thought provoking dialog/rhetoric, i didnt rly care.
a lil depressed yall. worried blakRcsm might be over b4 i get a chance to try and get rid of it [via lecturing kids/erasing rcsm from my own mind/getting moar degrees].
just dont kno anymoar. plz p0st more MCR carles. rly need to cut/not think bout blacks. :-(
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I saw two gay blacks today. Obviously, those were living memes, not real people, as we all know from the last elecshuns blacks hate fggts and vice versa.
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dude…. i hate u. like it or not…. u are a racist and a biggot. ur complete ignorance upsets me. and the fact that ur not scared to check urself and admit how u feel… yet ignore any kind of criticism or response that doesn’t praise u pisses me the fack off.
racist, ignorant, sheltered hipster elitists like u make me hate white people even more.
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//////////Reply by bro
//////////Posted April 22nd, 2009 at 6:44 pm
@defiance_agenda,
that’s the joke
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//////////Reply by aw,fukk
//////////Posted April 22nd, 2009 at 7:00 pm
@bro,
:-/
u think defiance_agenda was just being p0st-sarcastic or was he 4realz?
dont know due to this hip sentance: “pisses me the fack off”
if he rly was that upset, wud he have made up a word ‘fack’?
and did he make up that word, or replace his vowels in a self aware way, or jsut type incorrectly?
so confused
facking altSkanks. big in 2k__9?
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//////////Reply by skankkk
//////////Posted April 22nd, 2009 at 10:00 pm
@aw,fukk,
facking altSkanks. big in 2k__9?
hahahaha yes for sure, 100%
andrew 300 did it first didn’t he. and we all know ‘doin it first’ makes u s0 much more important. luv black ppl with an edge.
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//////////Reply by dax jax
//////////Posted April 22nd, 2009 at 6:45 pm
@perezhilton, Some edge. Imitating white people? Please. Once upon a time, black people started all the damn trends. The very word “hipster” dates back to about 1930 and means “a white guy imitating black people”.
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//////////Reply by Menthol University
//////////Posted April 23rd, 2009 at 2:34 pm
@dax jax,
so tru. seems 2 be ‘really relevant’ or something
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//////////Reply by fortune
//////////Posted April 22nd, 2009 at 8:29 pm
@perezhilton,
The Outkasts are/were ahead of their times… this has been talked about already
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this happens for all races… think it is safest to just consider all streetwearers 2 b ‘rappers/rap-singers’ and all AmApwearers 2 b ‘band ppl/p4k employees’
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blkbr0 in the middle killed it. The one to his left is a joke though
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my friend and I do this too… I recall seeing this nice black gentleman with some kind of ‘fohawk’ and nice dress clothes and was like IS THAT KANYE??? its not racist just a testament to kanye’s authentic personal style
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is it a joke? i dunno anymore. im pretty n00b 2 this blog but every time i read it i get pissed off over something… ESPECIALLY th AZN shit since im azn.
is it supposed 2 be like a “Colbert Report” deal where the blogger’s gotta uber ignorance character? if so… plz make it funnier.
or mayb im just taking it 2 serious cuz i gotta thing against white people…
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//////////Reply by blipOFFurRADAR
//////////Posted April 22nd, 2009 at 10:37 pm
@defiance_agenda,
if it’s any consolation, crlz is latino/azn/aboriginal as well as autistic, so he has no concept of ‘race’/'jokes’/'good’ music.
this is mostly just ‘culturally relevant’ fodder for tweens that also happens to be somewhat entertaining.
i mean…i lol’d @ this post personally. and then it kind of teetered off into a lqtm kind of thing.
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//////////Reply by DiscoDirk
//////////Posted April 23rd, 2009 at 8:47 am
@defiance_agenda,
Carles is asian…but he is trying to shed his identity roots by ‘being comfortable’ with making racist remarks.
Personally I think it can be embarassing but he is talented so I keep reading HRO for the posts that are funny/insightful.
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//////////Reply by defiance_agenda
//////////Posted April 23rd, 2009 at 12:44 pm
@blipOFFurRADAR & @DiscoDirk, I dunno man…. i’m supposed 2 buy that? even if he is azn doesn’t really account 4 how alotta content is just really offensive. I mean… there’s plenty of ways u can handle offensive topics like race in a non-offensive way…. i.e. Chappelle, Colbert, etc.
and as 4 being autistic…. cry me a river. A retarded kid screams “kike” in a synagogue… you don’t excuse him 4 that.
or maybe i’m jus not alt enough 4 this humor. I read HRO as a guilty pleasure for when i’ bored in class.
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//////////Reply by bwllmb
//////////Posted April 23rd, 2009 at 7:07 pm
@defiance_agenda, I think ur problem is that you just don’t ‘get’ Carl’s. He is very progressive and meaningful. Probably the most progressive and meaningful of all webloggers in the blogosphere/memesphere/w0rld. Half the things he says, I myself wouldn’t ‘get’ if I weren’t ’s0 tooned in2 culturally revelevent’ blogs/music/meme’s/thoughts.
I like 2 think of Carlses as a spiritual leader/guru and I am his padawan. When he says things that don’t ’seem right’ or don’t ’seem like something that some1 who is progressive would say’, it doesn’t mean that Carls is ‘off the mark’, it means I am.
Just want 2 ‘die to the flesh’ and ‘be reborn in Carlesr’s image’, yall.
The HRO’s… Bigger than Jesus in 2k13/2k14/2k54????
feel like my opinions on this might be deemed ‘irrelevant’ or, more likely, glazed over with slightly condescending ‘respect’ for my ‘experiential understanding’ of this issue.
not sure if i have an opinion actually. not sure if i consider blipsters who ‘go all out’ really progressive or just ‘attention whores’ [via uncle thomas]
kind of wish we could go back. go back to the old days when blck people weren’t the punchline of a joke/jock/j/k and could sell their souls [via satan] to play ‘this here’ guitar.
wondering what the post-post-racist era holds y’all [via the popular 'what would black jesus do?' meme].
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i lol’d the first paragraph, cos we all know thats what Kanye thinks bout himself. but ur mode of thought on the sable race is srsly flawed. u feel guilty cos u already know its not ‘normal’ to view blk ppl as a homogeneous body. i hear its now scientifically proven we got souls. all individual-like.
solution: stop hangin’ out with so much white hipsters. i hear they come in all colors now.
and stop bein so afraid of black ppl. we can smell ur fear, and it really don’t smell all that good. prolly why we make faces like this —> :(
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//////////Reply by Vexster
//////////Posted April 23rd, 2009 at 4:33 pm
@prettiyardi,
Hi five!
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Now lo five!
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Now in the middle!
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Haha! Too slow. :P
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//////////Reply by prettiyardi
//////////Posted April 24th, 2009 at 5:43 pm
@Vexster, mmm, rite! sorry! totes forgot hipsters r way ‘too educated’, so they rilly cant b racist. ignt blk folk, guess i’ll never ‘get’ it.
btw, wats that on ur shirt?
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ooh, gotchur noes!
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come on, admit that its way cooler for black tweens to see these types of guys as their culture-style role models than the thug life bullshit
im all for it
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Kanye West is a douche of epic proportion. Not because of the way he dresses, because of the way he behaves. He’s really not that great.
These guys look better/are dressed better than Kanye.
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//////////Reply by DiscoDirk
//////////Posted April 23rd, 2009 at 8:49 am
@adamson,
Kanye is the most authentic bro eva.
Adamson is is douchey and his opinions are silly/uninformed.
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//////////Reply by adamson
//////////Posted April 23rd, 2009 at 12:12 pm
@DiscoDirk, Kanye = wannabe authentic mainstream.
adamson = girl
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wonderin when kanye’s gonna come out of the closet yall?
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QUIT ENGAGING IN YOUR RACIST HOMOPHOBIC BADINAGE
U PROVINCIAL DB
BY THE WAY, YOU MENTION “CHILI’S” WAY TOO OFTEN TO BE EITHER ‘ALT’ OR ‘HIP’
REAL HIPSTERS, COMME MOI, DON’T EVEN KNOW WTF “CHILI’S” IS…
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//////////Reply by aw,fukk
//////////Posted April 24th, 2009 at 12:10 am
@JACK, damn bro
pro tip: ur capsLock is on
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//////////Reply by Jack
//////////Posted April 24th, 2009 at 11:17 am
@aw,fukk,
sorry–let me rephrase that
Dr Mr Hipster:
Please halt the racist homophobic banter. Your attempts at snark only reveal you to be a provincial, berr-bellied frat boy who’s wayyy to familiar with something called “Chili’s”….
Respectfully,
savagenyc@msn.com
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top pic 3rd blipster from left boots are bitten by sarah jessica parker for steve & barry’s. oh, the lols.
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also think kanye is capable of being epic, mainstream, gay, a douchebag and authentic as these are not contradictory terms. bob dylan is allegedly a douche bag and still totally mainstream, epic and authentic all though not gay as far as i can tell
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h8 this post, crls. sad abt ‘race.’ kinda feel like you dont ‘get’ me anymore. kinda seems like something Bill Bro’reily would meme/blog/’talk’ abt. need more conceptual alt peenz. less ‘black jokes’
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//////////Reply by defiance_agenda
//////////Posted April 27th, 2009 at 12:04 am
@JACK & annony….. good shiet. my thoughts xactly.
@bwllmb….. ur riding carle’s joc like seabiscuit.
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Kanye and his crew look gay as shit. They look fucking ridiculous, and not in a good way. That cat in the green leather and the leopard pants looks beyond foolish. And you think that dressing like that is cool?! But everyone should have their own style. Switching up your style and tastes in music every five minutes to follow what is cool at the moment is corny. But what you were saying was very fucking racist. Who ever wrote this blog has absolutely no real contact with black people. Not everyone is a whiny little trust fund baby, like you, who can dedicate their entire lives to following every stupid little hipster fashion trend. But the whole thug uniform is played out because things move in cycles. Dressing like a complete queer, like one of Kanye’s entourage, will become outdated in a few years as well. The “thug” uniform was strictly utilitarian because that style was created by disenfranchised colored people in the ghettos of america. The “thug” uniform was authentic. It’s what poor black kids used to wear in the ghetto. What’s funny is that this blog constantly talks about “authenticity” but completely lacks it. I miss the 90’s when not everyone was a quasi-homosexual, metrosexualized walking storefront manequin and it was okay to be yourself.
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