A Complete Guide to 'Hipster Racism'

There’s been a lot of talk these last couple of weeks about “hipster racism” or “ironic racism”—or, as I like to call it, racism. It’s, you know, introducing your black friend as “my black friend”—as a joke!!!—to show everybody how totally not preoccupied you are with your black friend’s blackness. It’s the gentler, more clueless, and more insidious cousin of a hick in a hood; the domain of educated, middle-class white people (like me—to be clear, I am one of those) who believe that not wanting to be racist makes it okay for them to be totally racist. “But I went to college — I can’t be racist!” Turns out, you can.

One can still be racist even if one went to college or one never went to school altogether. Racism does not depend on education, really. It’s about loving everybody as they are, no matter their religion, race and so on.

(Source: novamatic, via blkgirlblogging)