Savage says "the white boys" wearing their pants low are "aping the jailbirds"

Just as blue jeans in the 50s were worn by rock & roll singers and other rebels, taken from the denim work clothes issued to most prisoners of the era. Plus ca change, plus la meme chose. Along the same idea, those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. In summer school!

Eh, I wouldn't call Savage's brilliant. This is how fashion has worked for the better part of the last century. More incisive, I think, is how Sasha Baron Cohen's "Bruno" summed up the fashion industry during an interview with a designer at a fashion show with the theme, "trashy fashion". I'm paraphrasing from memory, but I'm pretty sure he said something close to this:

(To be read in a heavy fake Austrian accent): "So you take the clothes from the poor people and you put them on the models in the shows and then you sell the clothes in the big shops and now the poor people can't afford their own clothes! Ha ha ha! I love it! That is the beauty of fashion!"

If Savage wanted to talk about how the fashion industry perpetually borrows from the styles of lower classes in order to maximize profit, that might be a worthwhile conversation. If he wanted to talk about particular types of malnutrition and why they're common, fine. But this rant is just about his disappointment in white kids who he apparently thinks should know better inherently: he doesn't like their clothes, he doesn't like their music, he doesn't like their food, he doesn't like how they perform gender distinctions, and he doesn't like their bodies. Savage, call yourself a wahmbulance, ya' old timer.

That is like saying take the 6 milion jews he killed away and Hitler had a brilliant point.You are obviously intellectually challenged.

We'll get off your lawn, too.

me? i'm just stoked they wear underwear. i mean, it could be way worse. plumber's butt could come roaring into fashion.

Oh, I agree . . . I laugh at these kids when they're walking along and their pants start falling down . . . the funniest is when the kid's pants fell so low, he almost tripped. They're kids trying to look cool. They don't bother me one way or the other.