Irony Has Become The New White Power
“The most influential model in the history of irony has been the Platonic Socrates. Neither Socrates nor his contemporaries, however, would have associated the word eironeia with modern conceptions of Socratic irony. When Socrates’ interlocutors were annoyed with him for behaving in this way they called him eiron, a vulgar term of reproach referring generally to any kind of sly deception with overtones of mockery. The fox was the symbol of the eiron.”
Taken from the University of Virginia Library
You have been out foxed America, specifically the free range fine meat loving, New Yorker quoting, Arcade Fire iTunes only EP purchasing assholes who are snubbing Hillary for PROGRESS! I mean Obama.
A white mouth saying “nigger” might make jaws drop and spark law suits but I’m more offended when I hear girls with Master’s Degrees referring to things as “so ghetto” calling each other “crackheads”, and the granddaddy of them all “My Nizzle”.
As stated yesterday, you hear someone drop “nigger”, you know they are a piece of shit. You hear someone say “my nizzle” and you know they are some honk that has no idea they are saying “my nigga” which is what the man wants. The same asshole who has America watching Flavor of Love, getting balding men who hate jungle music to yell FLAVOR FLAVVVVV at their softball buddies over yellow beer.
Back to Socrates, he was white and white people love irony. We love ironic t-shirts, pilfering thrift stores and backpacking around countries with weak economies (Dude, Pad Thai is 48 cents here!). We love stealing without giving credit. I’m staring right at Good Charlotte who, like any great Rock and Roll swindle, steal from black dudes and eclipse them. Their scam was taking rap lyrics and farting on them so that Juicy Couture mini-dog loving bedazzled cunts would make them the soundtrack to Los Angeles.
Black People don’t dig on irony as much. Remember when some streetwear company tried to recolor the Confederate Flag with African colors and make a statement? Yeah no one remembers because it didn’t matter. Fabolous sums it up for us in his Village Voice Profile :
Even when he comes out on the walkway, he comes out in a Mickey Mouse T-shirt—and he’s supposed to be Marc Jacobs.” The idea of being rich, yet not showcasing that wealth in the most ostentatious possible way, seems to baffle Fabolous. “Maybe he’s attracted to the simpler things in life. I think a lot of black people are attracted to the big names and flash because we don’t come from it—we always looked at material things as a status symbol or the object you could never afford. I looked at this car as that. Now if I ever went back to having nothing, I could say, ‘I drove a Bentley.”
White people acting “ghetto” is funny. Wearing second hand clothes is a nice fuck you to mom and dad and the trust fund that’s about to kick in. We can thank Joe Strummer for creating the punk / rap / revolutionary hybrid that has manifested itself into tightly sagged jeans, iced out medallions, New Era Hats, sailor tattoos and faux-retro Misfits shirts.
The piss bum trying to sell his scribbles is just a “nigger” trying to get money for crack but Basquiat is a genius. Jean didn’t have to live in a box but it was a nice selling point and a reason to get hooked on heroin. Addiction is frowned upon unless art is involved, then it’s romantic. With a few great white minds involved, friendly safe negro art was created and viola! High priced scribbles for all! It was also a safe and cutesy blueprint for fake graffiti branding, paving the way for Obey and other streetwear geniuses.
Where does the Big O tie into this? Young voters who don’t remember how rad the Clinton years are sick and tired of things man! It’s time for CHANGE and PROGRESS! We’re one Shepard Fairey poster away from storming the Oval Office and getting free health care for lazy freelancers! FUCK YEAH! Sorry Mr. SUV you’ll be required by by law to drive a hybrid car and we’ll pass out ironic Kaffiyah Scarves to children to remind Republicans of the blood on their hands.
Why vote for the most qualified candidate, the Clintons and the Bushes are the same thing, HELLLLLOOOOOOOOO. We’re swept up in this dashing, Jay-Z listening, Wire watching revolutionary even though we have no clue what the fuck he’s really about.
Bad news, get ready for a democratic loss. At best Young Revolutionaries, we’re ending up with the Black Jimmy Carter. Sweet.
I don’t know Barack but I know that blind support of him is a form of under the radar racism and white guilt that will continue to erode our culture.
OBIZZZLE FOR PRESIDIZZLE MY NIZZLES!
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March 4th, 2008 at 7:43 pm
It’s reverse racism with some Obama supporters, that’s for sure. Branding and Irony have been just as important as Hope and Progress for Obama. But there’s a good chance that Clinton will win both TX and OH today. She’ll be down in delegates, but will have won NJ (8 million), NY (20 mil), MA (6 mil), CA (36 mil), TX (26 mil), and Ohio (10 mil), or the largest and most influential states. How do you hand the nomination to Obama without holding do-over primaries in FL an MI?
March 4th, 2008 at 8:34 pm
I support Obama, I have sense I found out he was running. When he missed an important vote, I almost switched but because of Hillary’s voting record on the war and her ever changing view of globalization and world trade agreements I kept my vote with O. I am moved by him, I WANT to believe in him. Obviously many people feel the same way. The Clinton years were great, yes, but the aftermath of some of Bills Bills, mainly NAFTA and the like have destroyed our ability to function as a nation independently. I blame him, and she bought into it the whole fucking time. She is at heart, in my eyes, and always will be, a Goldwater Baby. It sounds to me, that this is a cool kid backlash. The cool kids don’t want Obama because it’s cool to like Obama and cool kids are above anything mainstream or “cool”. (like hardcore for politics) So fine, don’t vote for him but please don’t think everyone who does can be so easily labeled. I have my reasons and it has nothing to do with race, gender or what’s “hot”. If I went on that shit I’d vote for the woman. Any woman. I wish I could this election believe me. But she fucked up too much and that’s it.
March 4th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
I live in Williamsburg and get grouped in with “Hipsters” all the time. I like things Hipsters like and I don’t fight the pigeon hole because I don’t give a fuck.
All O supporters aren’t racist and uninformed but many are, don’t take it personal. The larger issue is that there are forms of racism that are hip and cool that we all swallow and people profit from.
Right now the US is a failed business and I don’t want someone controlling it that doesn’t have a sense of business. I just think the concept of Prince Obama is marketing and voters need to question it.
Love,
Mike Bloomberg
March 5th, 2008 at 1:28 am
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March 5th, 2008 at 1:40 am
Touche Mr. Bloomberg, Touche.
March 5th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
greatness anthony - thanks. i’m laughing, but also scared for what november will bring us…but in the meantime i’m just going to sit back on bedford ave and count the number of wayfarer / top sider combos.