People Who Use Politics As a Way of Being Hip
People Who Use Politics As a Way of Being Hip
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#0People Who Use Politics As a Way of Being Hip
Posted: 8/4/05 at 2:02pmEver run into these people? That don't ACTUALLY care about world issues but mainly are concerned with staying hip?
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#1re: People Who Use Politics As a Way of Being Hip
Posted: 8/4/05 at 2:04pmActually, the worst are the ones who think they're apolitical and "bored" because they think THAT'S hip. (They're never really apolitical, they're conservatives who support the status quo.)
brdlwyr
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/14/05
#4re: People Who Use Politics As a Way of Being Hip
Posted: 8/4/05 at 2:25pmI hate people like that. How can you not care about politics?? And besides, if you don't vote, you have no right to complain about the state of things.
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#5re: People Who Use Politics As a Way of Being Hip
Posted: 8/4/05 at 2:29pmOh, you mean the ones who wear "Che" T-shirts without actually knowing who the heck he is? Yeah, I love those people.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#6re: People Who Use Politics As a Way of Being Hip
Posted: 8/4/05 at 2:33pm
I ADORE the shirts that have a picture of Che and the words "I have no idea who this is" beneath.
Oh so pomo.
#7re: People Who Use Politics As a Way of Being Hip
Posted: 8/4/05 at 2:38pmIt happens with libs too...you get the hippies who will tell you how they're all about peace and then you try to talk to them about the war in Iraq and they don't know anything about it. Except it's a war. And they're against it. Oy.
brdlwyr
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/14/05
#10re: People Who Use Politics As a Way of Being Hip
Posted: 8/4/05 at 3:21pm
i prefer mad libs:
George Bush is ______________ our country into a ___________!
*********** verb ending ing ******************noun
#11re: People Who Use Politics As a Way of Being Hip
Posted: 8/4/05 at 3:25pmGeorge Bush is pooing our country into a gumball machine.
#12re: People Who Use Politics As a Way of Being Hip
Posted: 8/4/05 at 3:35pmThe most disturbing product of this is the new Chairman Mao iconography that's suddenly become hip. People don't seem to know that he was a ruthless dictator who suppressed hundreds of millions of people, tortured intellectuals and destroyed centuries of culture. Yet suddenly his image appears on T-shirts because he's Communist and exotic. As a Chinese person with parents who survived China's Cultural Revolution, I find it a bit sickening.
#13re: People Who Use Politics As a Way of Being Hip
Posted: 8/4/05 at 3:52pmre-Mao: i wonder if these people mistake it for '70's nostalgia? i read a great book over my vacation, "The Man Who Stayed Behind" the autobiography of Sidney Rittenberg ..he was the highest ranking westerner in the chinese communist party, mao's translator, and spent 16 years in solitary confinement in a chinese prison. you can see the revolutions idealistic beginnings and the descent into mania, paranoia and complete disfunction.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#14re: People Who Use Politics As a Way of Being Hip
Posted: 8/4/05 at 3:55pmIsn't it eerie how those last adjectives fit our current presidential administration perfectly?
#15re: People Who Use Politics As a Way of Being Hip
Posted: 8/4/05 at 4:00pm
I totally agree with you, Blue Wizard. People don't understand what they're supporting when they tout that Mao t-shirts; but isn't communism cool?
Oy again.
#16re: People Who Use Politics As a Way of Being Hip
Posted: 8/4/05 at 4:10pm
Like people who criticize people's t-shirts when they don't realize their own country is being run by a man who lies, who is is drunk with power, who condones outing CIA operatives, and who is incompetent at battling terrorists?
Ever run over people like that?
#17re: People Who Use Politics As a Way of Being Hip
Posted: 8/4/05 at 4:11pm
Namo Namah!
oh well hush my mouth---would you help george in taking away my first amendment rights as well?
i didn't put his monkey ass in the whitehouse.
#18re: People Who Use Politics As a Way of Being Hip
Posted: 8/4/05 at 4:15pmSupporting atrocities abroad is certainly not going to help things here, PJ.
#19re: People Who Use Politics As a Way of Being Hip
Posted: 8/4/05 at 8:05pm
"Don't you hate those people?"
Yeah, it's called COLLEGE. A good majority of the loudly political voices are either liberal because it's cool or conservative because they want to be different and anti-liberal. It's amazing, you get into a debate with these people, and they don't really know what they stand for, just that it's hip to support being pro-choice and anti-war; or that they stand out if they say they support the current administration and thus declare themselves conservatives just to draw attention to themselves.
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#20re: People Who Use Politics As a Way of Being Hip
Posted: 8/4/05 at 8:13pm
Or you'll meet those middle schoolers and high schoolers who hate Bush because it's "hip" to hate him. For example, the kids who rely on juvenile insults rather than making a cohesive arguement against this divisive and controversial figure, saying things like "OMG! BU$H IS A fag0rZ! He STUPID!"
#21re: People Who Use Politics As a Way of Being Hip
Posted: 8/4/05 at 8:23pmWell, kids usually believe what their parents believe. There were just as many kids who were ignant about Kerry. Or who blindly support Shrubya.
#22re: People Who Use Politics As a Way of Being Hip
Posted: 8/4/05 at 8:36pm
"A good majority of the loudly political voices are either liberal because it's cool or conservative because they want to be different and anti-liberal. It's amazing, you get into a debate with these people, and they don't really know what they stand for, just that it's hip to support being pro-choice and anti-war; or that they stand out if they say they support the current administration and thus declare themselves conservatives just to draw attention to themselves."
I know lots of people like that, CM. And I try my damndest to know what I'm talking about when I talk to them. I think I'm one of the few people on my campus who actually reads the news...
#23re: People Who Use Politics As a Way of Being Hip
Posted: 8/5/05 at 3:12pm
Like people who criticize people's t-shirts when they don't realize their own country is being run by a man who lies, who is is drunk with power, who condones outing CIA operatives, and who is incompetent at battling terrorists?
I'm Canadian.
#24re: People Who Use Politics As a Way of Being Hip
Posted: 8/5/05 at 3:55pmHAHA, you win BlueWizard :0)
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