MsYiY - Yasmin Choudhury

Part II "#Hipster Racism" is not new.  It is as old as time. It is just that in the ancient days - they were presented as intellectuals, fashionable doyennes of the day.  Take BlackAdder (who I love watching) is a classic brilliant loveable scary but thankfully spoof examples of how intelligent people do love to stereotype and hold positions of utter power and be in contempt of others who do not fit their agenda and narrative. We can all laugh but we stop laughing when we realise some modern day Blackadders do exist and are not even intelligent but hold positions of power - because the fall out of such conduct in real life does have impact.   "Hipster racists"  or Liberal Racists  as I have been calling them,  ("10 Ways White Liberals Perpetuate Racism" Huffpost article is very good)  are EVERYWHERE. I n different guises.   There is a reason the film Get Out  written by Jordan Peel, who talks in the video below,...

PART 1 (Credit goes to Zinzi Clemmons bravery, as without her take down of Lena Dunham, unsure I could have written this).   I need to share my own experience of "Hipster Racism". Because y'alll - it really is a thing.  This "Hipster" labels also manifests across other societal ills, all good people hate to see flourish.