Via my Brazilian correspondent Andre: ITunes undermines social security:
On college campuses, for example, a new form of bigotry called "playlistism" is emerging.
The invention of students at Wesleyan University, playlistism was first reported by Stephen Aubrey, a 20-year-old student and columnist for The Wesleyan Argus.
Playlistism, Aubrey explained, is discrimination based not on race, sex or religion, but on someone's terrible taste in music, as revealed by their iTunes music library.
This is so Wesleyan I can hardly believe it.
What I literally can't believe is this anecdote:
"This one playlist had a lot of German techno," Aubrey said. "We predicted this was a kid wearing a mesh shirt who wanted to be a Nazi." At a party shortly afterward, Aubrey recognized the playlist and asked whose music it was. "They pointed to this kid in a mesh shirt with a swastika on his arm.
a) Displaying a visible swastika is probably one of the top ten ways to die on campus, along with, as the school newspaper joked one time while I was there, "walking into Womanist House and saying 'Which one of you bitches wants to make me a chicken pot pie?'" I will bet my diploma that the second, punch-line part of that anecdote is fake.
b) I love how even the most politically correct wankers on the planet, who think only half-ironically that judging people by their musical taste is a form of discrimination, still assume that German = Nazi. Go Wes.
On college campuses, for example, a new form of bigotry called "playlistism" is emerging.
The invention of students at Wesleyan University, playlistism was first reported by Stephen Aubrey, a 20-year-old student and columnist for The Wesleyan Argus.
Playlistism, Aubrey explained, is discrimination based not on race, sex or religion, but on someone's terrible taste in music, as revealed by their iTunes music library.
This is so Wesleyan I can hardly believe it.
What I literally can't believe is this anecdote:
"This one playlist had a lot of German techno," Aubrey said. "We predicted this was a kid wearing a mesh shirt who wanted to be a Nazi." At a party shortly afterward, Aubrey recognized the playlist and asked whose music it was. "They pointed to this kid in a mesh shirt with a swastika on his arm.
a) Displaying a visible swastika is probably one of the top ten ways to die on campus, along with, as the school newspaper joked one time while I was there, "walking into Womanist House and saying 'Which one of you bitches wants to make me a chicken pot pie?'" I will bet my diploma that the second, punch-line part of that anecdote is fake.
b) I love how even the most politically correct wankers on the planet, who think only half-ironically that judging people by their musical taste is a form of discrimination, still assume that German = Nazi. Go Wes.
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