{"id":10324,"date":"2012-01-01T13:13:22","date_gmt":"2012-01-01T18:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/?p=10324"},"modified":"2012-12-26T16:07:46","modified_gmt":"2012-12-26T21:07:46","slug":"the-rise-of-the-conservative-hipster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/article-of-the-day\/01\/01\/the-rise-of-the-conservative-hipster\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rise Of The Conservative Hipster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Article:<\/strong> <em><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/alyssa\/2011\/12\/27\/395231\/yes-conservatives-are-hipsters-too\/\"><\/em>Yes, Conservatives Are Hipsters, Too<\/a> on Think Progress.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Text:<\/strong> There\u2019s something a bit odd about <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.good.is\/post\/new-dominionists-meet-the-christian-couple-behind-the-right-s-most-viral-videos\/\">this GOOD piece<\/a><\/em> about two Christian hipsters who make influential conspiracy-theory oriented viral videos promoting everything from birtherism to Uganda\u2019s anti-gay laws, and have what sounds like a wildly inflammatory anti-abortion movie coming out in February that they\u2019re hoping will catch on because it has a majority-black cast:<\/p>\n<p>Jason \u201cMolotov\u201d Mitchell and his wife, Patricia \u201cDJ Dolce\u201d Mitchell, look like hipsters. She wears a stylish dress and nose stud, her dark hair angled sharply around her face. Jason, who goes by Molotov both socially and professionally, sports a landscaped beard and a tattoo on his forearm that reads \u201czealot.\u201d They are in tip-top physical condition, they say, because they teach krav maga, an Israeli Defense Force-perfected form of martial arts.<\/p>\n<p>They are charismatic and engaging\u2026I struggle to reconcile this information with the pleasant people I just met\u2026Despite the violent rhetoric, the Mitchells are the friendliest\u2014and some of the savviest\u2014people I have ever interviewed. Avid followers of popular culture, they are not Quiverfull-style Christians who isolate themselves from outside influences. They want to emulate the Biblical mandate to \u201cbe in the world but not of it.\u201d So they laugh at The Daily Show and mention that they would enjoy hanging out with Jon Stewart, whom they consider a political foe. Molotov says he wants to emulate Jesus, who, he says, spoke harshly before crowds but showed compassion when people approached him one-on-one.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>After all, Christian hipsters have been getting the anthropological treatment at least since Jeff Sharlet wrote about the \u201cNew Virgin Army\u201d in Rolling Stone in 2005, the same year the New York Times profiled Jay Bakker. Earlier this year, the paper looked at a hipster-tinged Lower East Side evangelical church. In other words, it\u2019s not really news that people who have tattoos, piercings, good haircuts and cool clothes believe that Christ is their savior and adopt hipster aesthetics to reach their target audiences. Thinking like this is one of the reasons I think progressives need not to get lazy about culture: it\u2019s not enough to assume that our aesthetics and narrative power are just going to keep automatically bringing people over to support good policies and progressive worldviews.<\/p>\n<p>And these things that we think are alluring and convincing, like humor, and storytelling, and multiethnic casting, and chunky glasses, and tattoos, or whatever? We are not alone, and we are not the only people who will figure out how to deploy them. It\u2019s time to stop staring in wonder at the possibility that Cool Kids could think that Obama wasn\u2019t born in the United States or that they\u2019re not having sex until marriage and figure out how to make our own viral videos tighter, our own feature films more compelling to audiences who aren\u2019t getting served by mainstream movies, and our novels more convincing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Article: Yes, Conservatives Are Hipsters, Too on Think Progress. The Text: There\u2019s something a bit odd about this GOOD piece about two Christian hipsters who make influential conspiracy-theory oriented viral videos promoting everything from birtherism to Uganda\u2019s anti-gay laws, and have what sounds like a wildly inflammatory anti-abortion movie coming out in February that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[259],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Rise Of The Conservative Hipster - Prose Before Hos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Article: Yes, Conservatives Are Hipsters, Too on Think Progress. The Text: There\u2019s something a bit odd about this GOOD piece about two Christian\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/article-of-the-day\/01\/01\/the-rise-of-the-conservative-hipster\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Rise Of The Conservative Hipster - Prose Before Hos\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Article: Yes, Conservatives Are Hipsters, Too on Think Progress. The Text: There\u2019s something a bit odd about this GOOD piece about two Christian\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/article-of-the-day\/01\/01\/the-rise-of-the-conservative-hipster\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Prose Before Hos\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-01-01T18:13:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2012-12-26T21:07:46+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Article of the Day\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@pbhnetwork\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@pbhnetwork\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Article of the Day\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/article-of-the-day\/01\/01\/the-rise-of-the-conservative-hipster\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/article-of-the-day\/01\/01\/the-rise-of-the-conservative-hipster\/\",\"name\":\"The Rise Of The Conservative Hipster - Prose Before Hos\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2012-01-01T18:13:22+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2012-12-26T21:07:46+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/#\/schema\/person\/1e19d7cf2b1a9aea1805fd7b4b4b2b4e\"},\"description\":\"The Article: Yes, Conservatives Are Hipsters, Too on Think Progress. The Text: There\u2019s something a bit odd about this GOOD piece about two Christian\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/article-of-the-day\/01\/01\/the-rise-of-the-conservative-hipster\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/article-of-the-day\/01\/01\/the-rise-of-the-conservative-hipster\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/article-of-the-day\/01\/01\/the-rise-of-the-conservative-hipster\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"The Rise Of The Conservative Hipster\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/\",\"name\":\"Prose Before Hos\",\"description\":\"The Far Side Of Politics\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/#\/schema\/person\/1e19d7cf2b1a9aea1805fd7b4b4b2b4e\",\"name\":\"Article of the Day\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pbhnetwork\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/author\/article-of-the-day\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"The Rise Of The Conservative Hipster - Prose Before Hos","description":"The Article: Yes, Conservatives Are Hipsters, Too on Think Progress. The Text: There\u2019s something a bit odd about this GOOD piece about two Christian","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/article-of-the-day\/01\/01\/the-rise-of-the-conservative-hipster\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"The Rise Of The Conservative Hipster - Prose Before Hos","og_description":"The Article: Yes, Conservatives Are Hipsters, Too on Think Progress. The Text: There\u2019s something a bit odd about this GOOD piece about two Christian","og_url":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/article-of-the-day\/01\/01\/the-rise-of-the-conservative-hipster\/","og_site_name":"Prose Before Hos","article_published_time":"2012-01-01T18:13:22+00:00","article_modified_time":"2012-12-26T21:07:46+00:00","author":"Article of the Day","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@pbhnetwork","twitter_site":"@pbhnetwork","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Article of the Day","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/article-of-the-day\/01\/01\/the-rise-of-the-conservative-hipster\/","url":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/article-of-the-day\/01\/01\/the-rise-of-the-conservative-hipster\/","name":"The Rise Of The Conservative Hipster - Prose Before Hos","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/#website"},"datePublished":"2012-01-01T18:13:22+00:00","dateModified":"2012-12-26T21:07:46+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/#\/schema\/person\/1e19d7cf2b1a9aea1805fd7b4b4b2b4e"},"description":"The Article: Yes, Conservatives Are Hipsters, Too on Think Progress. The Text: There\u2019s something a bit odd about this GOOD piece about two Christian","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/article-of-the-day\/01\/01\/the-rise-of-the-conservative-hipster\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/article-of-the-day\/01\/01\/the-rise-of-the-conservative-hipster\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/article-of-the-day\/01\/01\/the-rise-of-the-conservative-hipster\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"The Rise Of The Conservative Hipster"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/","name":"Prose Before Hos","description":"The Far Side Of Politics","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/#\/schema\/person\/1e19d7cf2b1a9aea1805fd7b4b4b2b4e","name":"Article of the Day","sameAs":["https:\/\/twitter.com\/pbhnetwork"],"url":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/author\/article-of-the-day\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10324"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10324"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133722,"href":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10324\/revisions\/133722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}