White people hate a lot of stuff (white people who vote republican, television, Vin Diesel movies, SUVs, fast food) but every once in a while they turn that hate into sweet irony.
Often times, white people will make a joke about how hard it is to define irony. It’s not that funny, and back in the 1990s people got all upset at Alanis Morrisette for using the term improperly in her song “Isn’t it Ironic?”
But the reason that white people love irony is that it lets them have some fun and feel better about themselves.
The most horrific recent example is Trucker hats, that shockingly went from mainstream in the 80s to Ironic in the early 2000s back to mainstream, at which point they are no longer rare or unique. Once something reaches this stage, irony cannot be restored for 10 years.
Other examples would include white people getting together to have a ‘white trash’ night where they would eat Kentucky Fried Chicken, drink Bud Light and watch Larry the Cable Guy or The Marine. Maybe listen to Kid Rock or P.O.D. These events allow white people to experience things they are supposed to hate, all while feeling better about their own lives, decisions, and cultured tastes.
Occassionally, white people will put an ironic knick knack in their home or apartment such as a “Support our Troops” magnet or a bottle of Mickey’s. 
This can be used to your advantage. If you need to appear cool to white people, you just need to pick something that was popular 10+ years ago and put it in a prominent place at your desk or in your home. A C+C Music Factory Cassette, or a “2 Legit 2 Quit” t-shirt would both be acceptable examples.
Also, you might find yourself in conversation where you mention that you like something and there is an awkward silence indicating that it is not cool. In this situation, uou must say “oh yeah, I also like [insert similar things]” and smile, the white people will laugh and all will be well.
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[...] should possibly add irony, bearing in mind that it was lost on some people on my post for The Punch, which is also on this [...]
I like irony because its the world not agreeing with itself
i always wanted to die an ironic death..
theres no shame in liking things white people like
White people are afraid of death, they never talk about it in polite company, though the media won’t stop talking about Michael Jackson’s death from like 2 months ago. The irony is life’s a b*tch then you die…and one of 2 things certain in life: death…and taxes. +
Why does everyone have their panties up in a knot. This is absolutely hilarious. Everyone that goes to my university is like this, at least everyone I hang out with. And I’m not white. Maybe white people reading this get upset but, you laugh your faces off when you listen to Russell Peters. I cringe a little, being East Indian, but then also laugh my ass off. So why not just chill out.
Dude its not the article that is the problem. I find it hilarious and I even do some of these things myself. My problem was someone responding to a joke about stereotypes, by being a stereotype, and crying Ad Hominem when someone pointed what a douche they were.
just me commenting here is super white. but i am avoiding writing a paper for a course at my ivy league university, on a mac, wearing used $3 pair of shoes, a $5 dress and $30 bra and $12 underwear. Soooo that’s where i’m at.
But I believe, obviously, that colloquial changes in the meaning of language is all part of the natural development. Language is only useful if there is an agreed upon meaning–even if that societal definition differs from the current O.E.D. entry.
There are many forms of Irony. One of which is the most commonly sited, which is what you mentioned earlier—A situation where something occurs that is markedly opposite of what one would expect to occur.
yet the definition or understanding under which wear a D.A.R.E t-shirt falls is in the adverbial form. It is not ironic to do that, but it can be done “ironically”. Ironically is more about the intention of the perpetrator (wearer, artist, person, hipster) than about the actual situation. I suppose in this definition, “ironically” is the antithesis of “earnestly”.
It creates a stronger sense superiority than would doing something actually cool in earnest. It give the impression that one is SO above whatever item or type of person they are ironicizing, that they wear them as if they are cool (meaning they are so CLEARLY not.)
Are you serious?
for people not willing to read the above post in its entirety heres the abridged version:
“I am a massive faggot please rape my face.”
Something else white people like: obnoxious pseudo-intellectual message board comments.
Ad hominem some more please…
you’re like so many other people who insult the person speaking instead of what they are speaking about…
read
” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem ”
if you would be so kind…
copy and pasted btw… not about to reiterate…
Apparently someone wants to show off what an impressive vocabulary they have.
Clearly my earlier post was baseless and childish. It was intended to be. At least it was readable and not written to show off my vocabulary. When you need to link to link to definitions of words you are using you are, in fact, a douche bag.
*not copy and pasted, though this does reiterate my earlier post
Responding to an insult post about being a psuedo-itellectual douche using more psuedo-itellectual douche baggery seems kinda ironic to me, tho i may be wrong my apparently inborn white capacity for detecting irony may be on the fritz from the stupidity shit for brains like you radiate.
Let the hate flow…pick up your weapon.. strike her (sic) down!
Now to quote another movie:”Lighten up, Frances!”
hey isn’t irony marvellous?
I’ve actually come to realize that it’s not; it’s more like the devil’s scourge. As mentioned above but rewritten: one is not allowed to do anything seriously or earnestly without being mocked for it; you have to do it with a ready smile in case your audience doesn’t find your achievement kosher.
It also stuns me a little bit, that you don’t lift your own writing to a level where you could banter with the tendency to make fun of white people’s predilections.
I can sign up to almost all of the items on your list, so maybe I’m not the one to cast a stone.
But as it is now I find one item on your list to be missing:
#124 Distance to and bantering about everything.
Whilst white people want to be unique they have to vilify everybody and everything, to be sure they don’t take anything to seriously.
It is neither okay to go to South East Asia for three months because in that case you are like everybody else; nor is it okay to go to Galapagos Islands for six months; because then you are just trying to be special.
It’s not okay to listen to Leona Lewis or Britney Spears; on the other hand it’s not okay to listen to Andrew Bird or Antony and The Johnsons either; because the your just trying to be difficult.
Of course you’re not allowed to read Dan Brown and maybe not even Paulo Coelho; but if you read Proust and Joyce you are bit too much.
Obviously one is not even allowed to think about the animals and environment because then one is a hypocrite. Of course it’s natural that people who can afford being a vegetarian and buying organic food does it to greater extent than the not so rich; but does this make it a less charitable action?
I don’t really know what I tried to say with this except that it’s pretty Ironic that Irony is a #post when the lack of distance in the blog is pretty flagrant.
I knew a ton of White people whom listen (and then quit) to Vanessa Carlton, Natasha Bedingfeld, the White Stripes, FOB boy, Jon Mayer and Franz Fernandid…after I announce who they were FIRST. I’m not as white as they are, don’t earn over 100k a year and whose parents broke up or divorced. I see the irony in my lifes with theirs. +
Correct me if im wrong but your arguement is basically that there is a “damned if you do damned if you don’t” context that exists in everything that “white people” do. This is true, but its not exclusive to “white people”, black people have the same damn problem, as do asians, as do any visable ethnicity.
What the hell are you trying to say exactly? That i can’t make fun of or laugh at someone just because i can? That I have to have a reason for calling someone a shit fucking douche licker? I rain down my misanthropy on anyone or anything that happens to strike my fancy. But for some reason I have to pull my punches because someone somewhere might have a good reason for what they do? If you feel like listening to Britney Spears or The Johnsons then fucking do it, stop looking for approval from society for the things that you like. Also, don’t expect everyone to like what you like. It’s only a problem because fart-knockers like you make it a problem.
The point of this blog is that everyone and everything deserves to have a little fun poked at them once in while. The point of comedy is to point out the inconsistencies in life in such way to make people laugh. For one the implication that white people have a monopoly on the misuse or indeed the over use of stupid ironies is not neccessarily true accross the board. Doesn’t mean that i won’t or shouldn’t laugh at it.
I believe you mean “cited” not sited. I’d mock you further but your Ivy League degree clearly did not impart to you any assistance in the grammar or spelling department and jumping on your misspelling of such a simple word is enough to make me feel warm and fuzzy.
Ad hominem some more please…
you’re like so many other people who insult the person speaking instead of what they are speaking about…
read
” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem ”
if you would be so kind…
Ad hominem applies when someone is trying to refute your argument. He is mocking you and calling you a pretentious douche quite unworthy of any college position especially one with any reputation, not trying to refute your argument. I, myself, am being pedantic, another thing white people love.
hey man,
I never said i wasn’t a shitty speller or grammarian. I don’t see why going to an ivy league school automatically makes you a douche bag (sp??). I was just as happy and shocked to get in here as anyone else would have been. I hate to even tell people where i go to school because they automatically think i assume i’m better than everyone else, when, in fact, attending such an institution is every humbling because you are constantly surrounded by people whose level of succes is nearly impossible to match. so yeah, sorry i fucked up my spelling, but maybe respond to the point i proposed rather than attacking me, unprovoked.
hc
That’s why the blog post on Ivy League Universities was so genius. Everyone else thinks that because you go to a great school, everything you say is bound to be tainted with a sense of intellectual superiority or entitlement – that you’re presumptuous enough to think you have the last word on any matter of intellectual debate because of the prestigious name above your degree. I can see, just like anyone who isn’t nursing a chip on his/her shoulder, that you’re just participating harmlessly in a discussion. So, “my 3 cents” I empathize.
Mr. ‘cited’-not-’sited’ (aka I’m white and love grammar…so sue me) enjoy your meaningless triumph. You crossed intellectual swords with the greatest wit of the Ivy League and emerged the victor! … Or you could just realize that you corrected the spelling of some kid’s post on a blog. We’re all just a bunch of decent, hardworking kids who busted our butts in High School to get here and are frankly tired of people trying to find something to tear down every time we open our mouths.
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Scruton, Roger (2009). “Forgiveness and Irony: What makes the West strong.” City Journal, vol 19, no. 1.
Haha, just found this site – I’d been looking for a “ban the bomb” sticker for the prius…..
Love the site, keep up the good work guys.
embrace the bomb..
It is your friend and protector.
got this sticker on my humungous original Hummer.
ha ha ha.
F.U.C.K you
OK, irony is freakin’ hilarious, but most people who try too hard end up looking lame.
I was at a bar a few years ago which looked OK, so I suppressed an reflexive eye-roll when a bearded bartender wearing an outdated hipster uniform asked for my drink order. Feeling adventurous but holding no hope for success, I ordered the drink I really wanted. The Paul Frank clad-trucker hat wearing-flannel shirt bartender made me the most perfect Sapphire martini, extra cold and dirty. NOW I saw the irony. Funny and tasty!
White folks’ drive to be “hipper than thou” is painfully well-known to anyone who made it through any four-year college, and has had to work with their fellow graduates. The bottom line here is that over-educated people can be extremely insufferable in their pretentiousness, preachiness, and their know-it-all-ness. The irony is that whenever such people run into anyone with actual knowledge of the topic on which they intended to hold forth, they all slink off whispering under their breaths about the knowledgeable person being such a rude and obtuse grind. It is my belief that if these people had to actually pass their knowledge to other human beings as a measure of their humaneness, then these very same hipsters would end up acting a lot more humbly.
Finally, someone with a brain! Christ I was beginning to lose all hope. I figured everyone commenting on this blog was a fucking moron! I think Lander is brilliant, irreverent and hilarious. Can’t anyone laugh at themselves anymore? Especially white folks, and I’m on of them.
You got to admit the White trash wannabee thing caught on…and hopefully to be discarded into the pop culture attic or should I say trash bin. Classism never felt so wrong but it feels so right…and does elitism feel so good? +
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