How many hipsters does it take to screw in a lightbulb? It's a really obscure number, you have probably never heard of it before. Why did the hipster burn his tongue? He didn't wait for his Starbucks to be cool enough. How do you know if someone is a true hipster or not? Wait until they tell you they're not, and then you know that they are.
All of these jokes made at the expense of the hipster subculture show how we as a society enjoy deriding this group of people, even hipsters, as the people identified as hipsters hate hipsters. Today, we know hipsters to be Starbucks-drinking, nature-loving, liberal-thinking, elitist individuals who enjoy alienating people because all of their interests are so obscure, you wouldn't have ever heard of them. But did you know that, at one point in time, hipsters were actually pretty cool?
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This term was used to describe Caucasian people who enjoyed the jazz music of the 1920s. Jazz music initially was adjusted to its Caucasian listeners, but as these musicians became more comfortable with their audience, they began to play music for themselves, which included lyrics that were controversial at the time. It was at this time, in the 1940s, that the word 'hipster', derived from the word 'hip', began to be used. At this time, it still meant a Caucasian who listened to jazz, but it took on a new meaning because jazz had become so controversial. This is linked to the civil rights movement because it united African Americans and Caucasians. Note how forward-thinking these people must have been; the ideology of the modern hipster, which includes listening to obscure music and eating kale, pales in comparison to