nipster

{{short description|Neo-Nazis who have embraced aspects of hipster culture}}

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A Nipster is a young neo-Nazi who has embraced aspects of hipster culture. Historically, German neo-Nazis promoted an ultra-masculine and extreme right-wing image, preferring short hair, violent imagery and combat gear—in keeping with the white power skinhead or casual subcultures—while rejecting most modern pop culture. This has changed, with young "{{not a typo|nipsters}}" embracing causes such as animal rights and environmentalism alongside historically far right positions, including ultranationalist views. Nipsters, rather than rejecting modern pop culture, seek instead to appropriate it to promote neo-Nazi ideals.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/heil-hipster-the-young-neo-nazis-trying-to-put-a-stylish-face-on-hate-20140623#ixzz36cCTT9EI|title=Heil Hipster: The Young Neo-Nazis Trying to Put a Stylish Face on Hate|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=2017-09-06|archive-date=2017-09-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170919203238/http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/heil-hipster-the-young-neo-nazis-trying-to-put-a-stylish-face-on-hate-20140623#ixzz36cCTT9EI|url-status=live}} This has also been seen in the New Right and National Anarchism movements.

Rolling Stone magazine profiled Patrick Schroeder, one of the founders of the nipster movement, who said he desires to "give the German National Socialist movement a friendlier, hipper face". Schroeder says that neo-Nazis who can "live within the mainstream", such as nipsters, are "the future of the movement".

Other uses of the term

In 2011, three students founded the German online magazine Nipster,{{Cite web |url=http://www.nipster.net/ |title=Archived copy |access-date=2018-11-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140722132102/http://www.nipster.net/ |archive-date=2014-07-22 |url-status=dead }} using the neologism to depict hipsters in the town of Nuremberg, not neo-Nazi hipsters. The online magazine has since folded.{{cite web|url=http://www.musikexpress.de/style/article616517/von-wegen-phaenomen-was-es-mit-dem-angeblichen-nazi-hipster-nipster-auf-sich-hat.html|title=Von wegen Phänomen: Was es mit dem angeblichen Nazi-Hipster "Nipster" auf sich hat|date=12 August 2014|access-date=12 August 2014|archive-date=12 August 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140812205703/http://www.musikexpress.de/style/article616517/von-wegen-phaenomen-was-es-mit-dem-angeblichen-nazi-hipster-nipster-auf-sich-hat.html|url-status=live}}

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