So relieved.
So relieved.
I'm so glad someone at least sort of saw it. I don't think the intolerance is *that* bad, in that people have to deal with friends and family who disagree with them all the time.
E.Buzz Miller: Is your inclination that the concept is useless, or that I'm simply unqualified to use the term? If the latter holds, perhaps you could tell me more about it.
Lupin Addams, definitions of words are useful, yet words come along with
clouds of connotation and nuance and often attempt to summarize,
sometimes very unsuccessfully, much larger discussions. This is part of
why Wikipedia's entry on "hipster" is more useful in capturing the
notion than dictionary.com's, even if I…
TheBelgianWaffle, okay, after thinking about this for a minute, I'm going to have to agree with your A).
Lupin Addams, I had the terrible, sinking feeling I would get a response like that.
Mr. McPickleshitter, my problem with it is that "preference" is an inadequate way of describing deeply held beliefs.
E.Buzz Miller, if anything, I said relatively little about pop culture.
Yeah, and it's always troubled me a little bit to wonder what I might believe if I were brought up, e.g., in the antebellum South, but I still can't sustain a "different strokes for different folks" view about politics.
olivececile, my understanding (admittedly only gotten from reading Maya Angelou) was that the term originated as "po' white trash" with black Southerners.
Then, so far as tastes are concerned, food can be compared to art and art to politics, but not food to politics? Huh. I would have assumed the notion of comparability was transitive.
A) What does it matter how you define it, if you can define it? It's a loose collection of characteristics, not a club with a membership. Is it offensive to you? I picked the word that most obviously seemed to me to pertain to the people SWPL describes. Find a better one if you like.
Stuff White People Like is almost entirely about hipsters, not white people in general.
Mr. Vanzetti, let me quote from the Metapedia homepage: "Did you know that words like Nazi, anti-semite and conspiracy theory were all created by Jews as a means of thought control?"
Angry Comedian, I can't tell whether this is just an unamusing "ironic racist" persona you put on for kicks or you're a terrible human being. You should clarify.
I watched all three shows in a row yesterday with my mother. Really.
Fine, the managerial class.
Class warfare is being waged whether you like it or not. You say it like "Oh no! Someone is criticizing yuppies!"
I can't quite get behind Katya forgiving Barry for having murdered her. I try to accept it, but it doesn't work.
I agree with your last two sentences. I find it disturbing that my reaction above made me seem like a right-winger, however.