Comments on: #44 Public Radio

By: Roller Derby for outsiders | High Gloss and Sauce

Roller Derby for outsiders | High Gloss and Sauce — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:20:39 +0000

[...] 6. Not sure if this is cool to say, but it's certainly true . . . shit is white. I mean white-white. I did not see one brown face anywhere at any time except outside in the parking lot directing traffic. This is Chicago, people. And roller derby is such an interesting experience I can't imagine why it doesn't have a more diverse appeal. It's like Whole Foods and the Gap got married while driving fixie bikes and listening to NPR. [...]

By: i miss high school « spooks

i miss high school « spooks — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 19:45:31 +0000

[...] 15) Public radio: “White people love stations like NPR (which is equivalent to listening to cardboard), and they love shows like This American Life and Democracy Now. This confuses immigrants from the third world. The see the need for radio as a source for sports, top 40 radio and traffic reports but they don’t quite understand why people who can afford TVs and have access to Youtube, would spend hours listening to the opinions of overeducated arts majors.” [...]

By: Why you don’t have to listen to Far East Movement « The Plaid Bag Connection

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:04:04 +0000

[...] am eagerly awaiting Albert Chiang’s first album, but other than that, my tastes lean towards National Public Radio’s middle class American whiteness, with a healthy dose of music and films from Latin America. And I don’t think that’s a [...]

By: abril

abril — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 20:37:32 +0000

My progressive asian roomate loves NPR, recycles, does not flush until she goes to the bathroom 20 times because it saves water, and looks down on me because I like preservatives in my food and love my cable tv.

SHe’s an automatic white person…the right kind of white hipster white person even though she is 100% Chinese.

I on the other hand am half filipino/half the wrong kind of white person. So even though I am part white. I am the wrong kind of white.

And I HATE NPR.

She’s listening to it right now.

I wish she would put on some dance music or something.

By: dabeed

dabeed — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:39:15 +0000

You american white people would love the BBC, its the whitest thing known to man and desperatly tries not to be white(very white I know)and constantly trying to ‘diversify’.

By: OVERAMBITIOUS UNDERACHIEVER SUPPORT SOCIETY » the ‘obsession with glory’

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 14:40:20 +0000

[...] case it wasn’t terribly obvious already), approximately 92.6% of O.U.S.S.’s membership consists of white people. [...]

By: Molly

Molly — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 01:56:45 +0000

The part where he says, “stupid, old, dry REPUBLICAN paint!” And he’s gay! HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHA *clap* *clap*.

By: dan

dan — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 23:26:52 +0000

Cabbies wouldn’t count as white people…they work hard and pollute the environment daily. You would have to go with the peddling bike cabbies to find white people as I understand this blogs definition.

By: DaveinLA

DaveinLA — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 21:06:20 +0000

Umm, that’s because cabbies know that white people like NPR. It’s all about the tips, man.

By: Stories about story night « Just some things

Stories about story night « Just some things — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 04:21:49 +0000

[...] the people who read this blog are white, university-educated, and in their mid-20s, so it therefore stands to reason that you definitely all are tuning in) then you’ve heard this kind of thing before – [...]