Why "Girls" Can't Overcome Its Racial Problem

I haven't heard an intelligent thing said about race in America in 15 years and I don't expect it to develop from a discussion about Girls.

But they bring up a point about "hipster racism" and then link to an article about the history of the term since it appeared on the internet.  Not interesting, but I think there is something to this idea of hipster racism or hipster asshole-ness, or hipster drunkeness -- a broader point about hipsterism in general.  Having "irony" or "self-awareness" does not make any set of behaviors or expressions of beliefs more valuable or more acceptable.  In fact, if anything, it strikes me to make such behavior less acceptable -- if you are ironically racist, isn't that in some ways worse than actually just being racist?  Same goes for being a shithead or a selfish little brat -- being "aware" you are these things and continuing to behave that way doesn't make it more endearing to me, but rather, less.

Anyhow, I wish someone would write a theory of hipsterism as a reaction of diminishing economic opportunities for white, college educated, 20-somethings in America, because I think it's painfully obvious this explains the explosion.  Yuppies were surely an economic development from the rah-rah 80s and huge economic growth under Reagan.  Hipsters - as a community have grown as a result of several trends - non-STEM college academic practices, lack of economic opportunities, and the internet allowing a forum for everyone to voice their opinion.