So I posted a similarly titled “American Apparel Racist?” article a while back, which gets probably more hits than anything else that has been on this blog. The post was… I don’t know… (check it out here)… inflammatory? No. Not really… ummm… The picture was very questionable. That’s all I’ll say. And certainly many people felt strongly about it.
Anyway, so I had been reading through this new Vice photo book and I thought to do some Vice research online. I came across this NYTimes article from 2003… Below are some quotes that I was totally unaware of.
Few of Vice’s fans or customers seem to realize just how deeply hostile Mr. McInnes is to the liberal live-and-let-live ethos of traditional bohemian culture. It is a fair bet that a majority of the downtown population opposed the Iraq war and dislikes the policies of George W. Bush. But in an interview Mr. McInnes advocated changing New York license plates to read ”Liberalism Gone Amok.” Last month, he wrote an article for Patrick Buchanan in The American Conservative boasting of having converted Vice readers to conservatism.
He actually leans much further to the right than the Republican Party. His views are closer to a white supremacist’s. ”I love being white and I think it’s something to be very proud of,” he said. ”I don’t want our culture diluted. We need to close the borders now and let everyone assimilate to a Western, white, English-speaking way of life.”
In an interview in The New York Press last year, Mr. McInnes’s views came through in the coarse ethnic expressions he used in saying how pleased he was that most Williamsburg hipsters are white. As a result, he became the focus of a letter-writing campaign by a black reader. Vice apologized for Mr. McInnes’s comments.
Some people assume that such remarks are posturing, akin to the ethnic and anti-gay slurs that pepper the pages of Vice, establishing its rebel credentials. They argue that for 20-somethings raised in a multicultural society, ethnic slurs — part of contemporary street patois — do not have the sting they do for older generations.
“I don’t want our culture diluted”?!?!
Buh????
What an ass. I never get this vibe from hipsterdom but this is really disappointing. He just seems like this angry white kid that wants to react against a world that has only been in his corner. Fortunately, just last week the guy left Vice (Gawker article here). Lets hope his spirit leaves with him.
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