Yes, Silicon Valley, You Are as Exactly as Vain as They Say | Gawker →
Sam Biddle spits bars, agreeing with George Packer’s New Yorker piece about rampant inequality in Silicon Valley.
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The soundtrack to Racer: A Chrome Experiment (http://g.co/racer). Original music produced and composed by Giorgio Moroder.
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What’s been going on in Woolwich today needs some real insight at a policy-making level, but we’re not going to get it - at least, not any time soon. Sometimes I think apathy is the worst thing to afflict my generation, but that’s ignorant of me - there are huge numbers of young, angry (mostly) men who are unable to sublimate their anger into disaffection. No one’s born angry.
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SENSITIVE THUG: WHO WILL SURVIVE IN AMERICA? WHO WILL SURVIVE IN AMERICA? WHO WILL SURVIVE IN AMERICA? WHO WILL SURVIVE IN AMERICA? →
Here is where Kanye’s most misunderstood quality is of great significance: for all the talk of his inflated ego (a good deal of which is accurate), Kanye hates himself more than he loves himself, and his self-loathing has only grown as he has accumulated wealth—the very thing he’d once been deluded into believing would be the answer to everything.
I said this before but the timing makes it worth repeating: Kanye is the 21st Century Gatsby.
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Racial Identity in the New America | FORA.tv →
Eddie Huang and Ta-Nehisi Coates shoot the shit.
Some real talk from Eddie:
To me the definition of a community is people who have shared problems. Your answers may not be the same, your methods not be the same, but you’re facing similar problems.
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(Source: timidpimpin)
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Why Cultural Appropriation Matters | The Aerogram →
It is a problem when religious symbols become widespread and therefore lose their religious significance. But the fear of dilution isn’t really an issue here — the bindi has lost whatever religious significance it once had to Hindus some time ago, and is now used mostly for decoration. Madonna and Gwen Stefani didn’t turn the bindi into a fashion statement when they adopted it in the 90s — we desi women already did so years before that.
What makes the non-South Asian person’s use of the bindi problematic is the fact that a pop star like Selena Gomez wearing one is guaranteed to be better received than I would if I were to step out of the house rocking a dot on my forehead. On her, it’s a bold new look; on me, it’s a symbol of my failure to assimilate. On her, it’s unquestionably cool; on me, it’s yet another marker of my Otherness, another thing that makes me different from other American girls. If the use of the bindi by mainstream pop stars made it easier for South Asian women to wear it, I’d be all for its proliferation — but it doesn’t. They lend the bindi an aura of cool that a desi woman simply can’t compete with, often with the privilege of automatic acceptance in a society when many non-white women must fight for it.
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Tottenham v. Sunderland
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13 Years of Williamsburg in the New York Times | Gawker →
The rise and fall of a locus of cool.
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