It’s a Funny Old World 5

Last updated on: July 2, 2014 at 11:06 pm by David Mills

It’s a Funny Old World 5 2014-07-02T23:06:08-04:00 David Mills

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Tired of the unfashionable traditional outfits, which can be “intimidating,” they’ve adopted “the mismatched, sweetly-scruffy look of Bushwickians everywhere (because yes, they live all over the world): the bandanas, the whimsical eyewear, the canvas totebags whose racist slogans are made all the cuter for being written in swirly café French, like something you’d buy from the sale section of Anthropologie,” reports Rachel Shukert in The Tablet. “They” being modern German neo-Nazis.

“[W]hen you think about it,” Shukert concludes,

what is fascism but a sinister form of really discerning consumerism, and hipsters, famously, are the most discerning consumers of all. You need the right kind of the chocolate bar, the right kind of handmade boots, and the right kind of people. What is gentrification but a kinder, gentler form of Lebensraum?

I don’t think that’s particularly fair to hipsters, though lives based on style will look more alike than some would like.

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