Stuff White People Like

[Varian P]

Stuff White People Like. I'm wincing at the accuracy.

A few choice samples from the list:

The Onion

Promising to Learn a Second Language

Bumper Stickers (okay, I'm not personally guilty of this one, but...)

 

[TE999]

Stuff White People Like. I'm wincing at the accuracy.

A few choice samples from the list:

The Onion

Promising to Learn a Second Language

Bumper Stickers (okay, I'm not personally guilty of this one, but...)

They omitted mayonnaise...white folks bbq sauce.

 

[Guest]

I'm offended.

I have cats, not dogs.

And I do like classical music.

And I found nothing on the list about oral sex.

 

[DeeZire]

17 Hating their parents?

This must be a list for young white people. Old white people are quite fond of their parents, especially after they're dead and it's too late to tell them that.

 

[TE999]

I'm offended.

I have cats, not dogs.

And I do like classical music.

And I found nothing on the list about oral sex.

Or anal sex for that matter...

 

[starrkers]

I'm white and I don't even know what half the stuff on that list is - guess I'm the wrong kind of white

 

[slyc_willie]

I'm white and I don't even know what half the stuff on that list is - guess I'm the wrong kind of white

Or the right kind of individual.

Hmm. Lists. Wonderful things, if you like to codify people and make it easy to analyze them.

Looking through it with just a glance, I can think of half a dozen each of blacks, whites, Hispanics, and Asians I've known who like most of the things on that list.

As for frisbee sports, sweaters, Facebook, bumper stickers, Mos Def, New Balance shoes, modern furniture, threatening to move to Canada, the Toyota Prius, lawyers, Sarah Silverman . . . *sigh*

Can't stand any of that. But I do love soccer, dogs, and microbreweries.

Guess I'm white after all.

 

[Varian P]

They omitted mayonnaise...white folks bbq sauce.

And again, I have to plead guilty.

 

[slyc_willie]

And again, I have to plead guilty.

I didn't see Tabasco on the list . . . .

Wait, does that mean I'm not white?

 

[Varian P]

And I found nothing on the list about oral sex.

Yeah, terrible oversight, there. You, me, and some other white people should get a petition going to have oral sex added to the list.

 

[rgraham666]

Mayonnaise makes me hurl.

And I live in Canada fcs. How can I threaten to move there.

 

[Darkniciad]

Guess I fail at being white *laugh* There's little in that list that applies to me.

 

[R. Richard]

I'm offended by at least one item in the list.

"Promising to learn a second language."

When I was in school I was forced to 'learn' Spanish and German, neither of which I retain more than a few normal words. [I can take paint off the walls in Mexican!] The efforts were not only useless, they were destructive as the time could have been spent learning usefull things. [Who forced me to learn the useless languages? If you live in the US and pay taxes or rent living accomodations, look in the mirror.]

On my own, I leaned to write and read perhaps a dozen very useful languages. This last despite the fact that the powers that be fought against teaching me said languages and all of the learning was on my own time and effort. [The languages are Algol, BASIC, C, C++, C#, CMS-2, FORTRAN (several dialects), Forth, JCL, Jovial, PL1, Pascal, Ultra-16, Ultra-32, VTL and several asembler languages.]

 

[shereads]

Stuff White People Like. I'm wincing at the accuracy.

A few choice samples from the list:

The Onion

Promising to Learn a Second Language

Bumper Stickers (okay, I'm not personally guilty of this one, but...)

Oops.

Put me down for #s 1 and 3. My bumper stickers says OBAMA 08. Is that ironic? Or am I just hoping it is?

I'm not guilty of promising to learn a second language. Just wishing I had the capacity for it and/or weren't too lazy.

 

[shereads]

Mayonnaise makes me hurl.

Me too. Ever since the incident at Burger King.

 

[Safe_Bet]

I'm sorry but I find this web site / blog mildly offensive. It reflects the back-asswards prejudice that I'm seeing more and more often. If there was a web site devoted to Stuff Black People Like (water melon, gangs, unwed mothers) or Stuff Queer People Like (anal sex, flannel shirts, tool belts) there would be ALL kinds of condemnation and rightly so. I guess I just don't like ANY kind of divisiveness at this point. Oh, well. Carry on...

 

[JagFarlane]

And the prejudiced nature of people just goes on. -sigh- Am just tired of it.

On a side note, I heard an interesting little speech a radio dj was going on about the night before the election. He was African-American, and whilst he was going on about it being a proud moment in black history, he took the time to pause and to remind people of other things. He reminded everyone that it was a combination of "Asians, Hispanics, Native Americans, and white people...millions of white people who not only voted, but gave their time and their money to Obama." Then went on to reflect how he always hears everything thats wrong is white peoples faults, then proceeded to reflect that perhaps the country has changed, and that the racist people truly were less white people now, but more prejudiced black people.
Interesting stuff, and I admire his courage to step out and be one of the first that I've heard preach this. Then maybe I wouldn't have had racial slurs slung at me, while wearing a Navy ballcap on the 4th of July, just because I happened to pass by an apartment complex party full of black people.

 

[Liar]

#67 Standing Still at Concerts

Baloney. White people know how to MOSH. If you don't break something or at least bleed a little, it was not a concert.


#71 Being the only white person around

Hey, noone does that better than us. Try being the only white person around, when you're black.


#100 Bumper Stickers

...makes we want to key peoples' cars.


#105 Unpaid Internships

Is totally ok, as long as I'm not the intern.

 

[cloudy]

I'm sorry but I find this web site / blog mildly offensive. It reflects the back-asswards prejudice that I'm seeing more and more often. If there was a web site devoted to Stuff Black People Like (water melon, gangs, unwed mothers) or Stuff Queer People Like (anal sex, flannel shirts, tool belts) there would be ALL kinds of condemnation and rightly so. I guess I just don't like ANY kind of divisiveness at this point. Oh, well. Carry on...

ahem...

Stuff Black People Like

Stuff Indians Like

Stuff Gay People Like (it says "coming soon" on the page)

Y'all, for fuck's sake...it's funny! None of it is outright bigoted or mean-spirited, and most of it seems to be written by white folks, or black folks, indians, etc.

 

[neonlyte]

I'm offended.

...

And I found nothing on the list about oral sex.

I thought it was there... but it was humuus

It's my latin bent

 

[Varian P]

I'm offended.

I'm offended by at least one item in the list.

I'm sorry but I find this web site / blog mildly offensive.

Please see #101 on the list: Being Offended

The humor, for me, isn't in the list, per se, or in categorizing members of specific racial groups, but in seeing myself so clearly in some of the particulars under specific list points. The second language one mocked the hell out of me*, as did the bit on The Onion.

I'll admit, or maybe offer the critique, that the site's not so much about white people, as it is about a certain slice of liberal, crunchy, (wanna-be) intellectual, (wanna-be) socially-conscious (predominantly white?) U.S. culture. But I'm guessing the title, "Stuff a certain slice of liberal, crunchy, (wanna-be) intellectual, (wanna-be) socially-conscious (predominantly white?) U.S. culture Like" didn't sound as snappy, so the author went with "White People."



*Throughout history, white people have a pretty poor record when it comes to promises (see Americans, Native for examples). Thankfully, modern white people are trying to erase the shame of the past by making promises to themselves that they will never keep. Writing a novel, going vegan, or sending their future kid to public school are just a few of these great breakable promises. But by far the most common self improvement promise is to learn a new language.

When [the immersion] technique is unavailable or fails, white people will immediately to turn to books and computer software as a last ditch effort to make good on their promise. After about a week, most white people will give up and blame someone for their failure (”this software is terrible,” “there aren’t enough people in Portland who speak Farsi!”). But rather than discarding the books and software packaging, white people will simply put them in the most visible part of their book shelf. This allows white people to believe that they have not failed since they can resume their studies at any time until their death.

 

[Shwenn]

Please see #101 on the list: Being Offended

I got the feeling that, at least with sweetsubsarah, the 'offended' comment was intentionally ironic.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

God! It's a fucking joke!

Years ago, when National Lampoon was still a funny magazine, they came out with a parody of Ebony called Ivory, a magazine for white soul. Instead of saying "Right On!", white people say, "Right you are!" Instead of pork chops, white people eat Canadian bacon. The magazine had articles on Our Proud White Roots about European Civilization that gave us such things as the Barouche, the spork, and differential calculus.

Recipes for a white soul food meal included iceberg lettuce salad with thousand island dressing and haggis.

 

[Varian P]

I got the feeling that, at least with sweetsubsarah, the 'offended' comment was intentionally ironic.

Yep, yep, me too. But the out of context quote was too useful to pass up. I'm a natural-born exploiter like that.

 

[Varian P]

Years ago, when National Lampoon was still a funny magazine, they came out with a parody of Ebony called Ivory, a magazine for white soul. Instead of saying "Right On!", white people say, "Right you are!"

Crushing. When my friends and I recently started saying, "Oh my goodness, no, you did not do that" instead of "Oh no you di'n't" I thought we were being so clever and original. Another illusion shattered.