Racialicious’s AJ Plaid talks about “hipster racism”, in the context of the New Yorker Obama cover debacle:
I define hipster racism (I’m borrowing the phrase from Carmen Van Kerckhove) as ideas, speech, and action meant to denigrate another’s person race or ethnicity under the guise of being urbane, witty (meaning “ironic” nowadays), educated, liberal, and/or trendy. [...]





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