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Originally Posted by knox
it isn't uncommon to see the media use the word hipsters to refer to an entire generation.
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That seems far more benign and passable. Makes sense even. Because I think it's an important/ inevitable thing that the younger generation will fail to make sense to the older one. If 'hipster' designated nothing more than 'something many in the older generation don't get/ consider degenerate [note: -genera- morpheme]' that's fine - and has clear links back to hepcat [etc] (its etymological forbear, from what I can gather). It's this use where it designates people who are somehow deficient in appreciation of stuff that really isn't important. It's all a bit grotesque.