Gavin McInnes Mouthpiece: ‘Economy All the Hispanics Fault, etc.’

The new unthink vehicle of Gavin McInnes, one of the founders of fashion rag/neo-con front Vice magazine, has released its own so-left-of-field-it’s-right-of-field-and-pretty-much-just-sadly-racist analysis of the economic crisis.

In a post on Street Carnage, cast as a letter from an anonymous “angry Libertarian”, we’re fed the following cocktail of insight:

“I guess you’re a comedy site and have no intention of discussing the immanent financial apocalypse we find ourselves in, but you are also one of the few places in hipsterdom that dares to give another take on things.

Why not discuss what nobody else will say about all this, that it comes from the idea that Hispanics must own homes?… Total mortgage lending dollars to Hispanics (new home purchases and refinancing) septupled or more from 1999 to 2006 and quintupled for blacks. The increase for the more prudent Asians was smaller because they didn’t jump on board the subprime express, and for whites least of all. In 2005-2007, half of all subprime dollars went to minorities. Get it?

This whole thing began when politicians (both Democrats and Republicans) decided Hispanics needed homes…Now, you can’t make public policy “All Mexicans Get Houses” so they just said “Poor People Get Houses” and every other race dove in. This is why so many other people, including whites, have been pulled into this affirmative action mess.

To be clear, I am not mad at the Mexicans… Worse than some irresponsible minorites are the banks who leapt on this legislation and built pyramid schemes with it.”

Way to go guys! Can we please, please ring fence Street Carnage, Vice and this whole worn out, slightly disgusting post-PC shtick? Let’s be honest and out its proponents for what they really are: a bunch of middle-aged frat-boy conservatives trying to play a confidence trick on the under 18’s, by impersonating the sort of petulant suburban teenager and insecure 14 year-old might look up to (and buy the same clothes as)? Good for getting advertising dollars from ideas-poor fashion brands and acolytes like Dov Charney; bad for, like, reasonable debate amongst reasonable people.

And here was me thinking we’d killed this lot off years ago:

Posted by Daniel Stacey in Hot Money | October 17, 2008 2:29PM |