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worldoftoday:
This is Rick, the NYPD “Hipster Cop.”
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What if all cops looked like this? What if pepper-spray cop Anthony Bologna looked like this? What if, during the 2008 NYC Republican Convention, CNN broadcast live footage of dozens of hipster cops charging through the tear gas behind riot shields with Pavement bumper stickers on them, beating protesters with vintage 1920s nightsticks they picked up at the thrift store, precisely-clipped ties fluttering behind them?
What if Anthony Bologna looked like this? I dunno! Maybe we would have dealt with him as a fellow member of our community who acted in an unacceptable way rather than as an exemplar of a stereotype of a culture we don’t consider ourselves part of thus reinforcing the perceived but unreal divisions between ‘us’ and ‘them’!
Haha, just kidding, we would have called him a “fucking hipster.”
this is the most amazing newspaper story. look at how those glasses have gone 180 since norman mailer wrote of them in “a fire on the moon.”](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lt1dikmUtu1qb1idlo1_500.jpg)
This is Rick, the NYPD “Hipster Cop.”
[snip]
What if all cops looked like this? What if pepper-spray cop Anthony Bologna looked like this? What if, during the 2008 NYC Republican Convention, CNN broadcast live footage of dozens of hipster cops charging through the tear gas behind riot shields with Pavement bumper stickers on them, beating protesters with vintage 1920s nightsticks they picked up at the thrift store, precisely-clipped ties fluttering behind them?
What if Anthony Bologna looked like this? I dunno! Maybe we would have dealt with him as a fellow member of our community who acted in an unacceptable way rather than as an exemplar of a stereotype of a culture we don’t consider ourselves part of thus reinforcing the perceived but unreal divisions between ‘us’ and ‘them’!
Haha, just kidding, we would have called him a “fucking hipster.”
this is the most amazing newspaper story. look at how those glasses have gone 180 since norman mailer wrote of them in “a fire on the moon.”
