It's a lot easier to do that when they're stealing the look of a familiar hipster style.'īasically it's a warning to us all then: The next time a good-looking guy in a high-and-tight offers to sell you a craft beer, make sure he isn't trying to also sell you a dose of unabridged hate.This ones to all the assistants out there 👏👏👏. 'It's really important for them to make inroads into young people's culture, in order to expand their base. 'We call them 'nipsters'-neo-Nazi hipsters,' says Nguyen. In this instance, what's ironic is that the dudes in white nationalism circles are sporting a hairstyle that's already been repurposed in the 21st century by young people whose ethos is radical safe-space inclusiveness, not ethnophobic separatism with eugenic undertones.Īs Long Nguyen, co-founder of Flaunt magazine tells the newspaper, however, it's likely not a coincidence. Given the demographic that has most commonly worn the 'do over the last half decade, this is not without its irony.

A photo posted on Twitter from a recent conference of The National Policy Institute, an alt-right, white supremacist 'think tank' (yes, those are to be read as sarcastic air quotes) showcased a whole cadre of high-and-tights.

Sadly, though, the haircut's fascists origins have come back to haunt us. According to the Post article, it's now even being referred to as a 'fashy,' short for 'fascist.' (Supes cute, you racist fucks.) Needless to say, for hipsters who have long sported the 'do, it's a troubling turn of events.ġ3 Short Haircuts That Will Never Go Out of StyleĪnd of course, once male celebrities embraced the 'do, it spawned 'a generation of imitators and an obligatory trend piece from The New York Times, which noted in 2011 that it had become the preferred cut for the well-coiffed, well-clad, crunchy cosmopolitan.' Promoters of white nationalism have recently made an effort to reclaim the haircut, in part due to its historical connection to Hitler's Germany. The haircut that is has been colloquially referred to, as a recent article in The Washington Post pointed out, as the 'Hitler Youth.' Sadly, though, the colloquial moniker-once used jokingly-is starting to ring a little too true lately. Statistically speaking, there's a good chance you're even wearing it. The original post, from 11/30/16, is below. But now that it's been co-opted by a bunch of racist idiots, maybe it's time to try something a little different.

For a while there, it was actually pretty great. Listen, the haircut itself isn't terrible. Got rid of it over a year ago- Macklemore August 15, 2017

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