White people spend a lot of time of worrying about poor people. It takes up a pretty significant portion of their day.
They feel guilty and sad that poor people shop at Wal*Mart instead of Whole Foods, that they vote Republican instead of Democratic, that they go to Community College/get a job instead of studying art at a University.
It is a poorly guarded secret that, deep down, white people believe if given money and education that all poor people would be EXACTLY like them. In fact, the only reason that poor people make the choices they do is because they have not been given the means to make the right choices and care about the right things.
A great way to make white people feel good is to tell them about situations where poor people changed how they were doing things because they were given the ‘whiter’ option. “Back in my old town, people used to shop at Wal*Mart and then this non-profit organization came in and set up a special farmers co-op so that we could buy more local produce, and within two weeks the Wal*Mart shut down and we elected our first Democratic representative in 40 years.” White people will first ask which non-profit and are they hiring? After that, they will be filled with euphoria and will invite you to more parties to tell this story to their friends, so that they can feel great.
But it is ESSENTIAL that you reassert that poor people do not make decisions based on free will. That news could crush white people and their hope for the future.
Stuff White People Like 
It’s so true.
I felt really harting at reading this article.
I do not want to be white. My goal in life is not to be white. Native ideology’s, principles, and ethics are far superior. People do not understand it. I sometimes laugh at other Natives or minorities who buy into the mainstream, primarily because they are blind to what is going on around them. A Native would be nuts to buy into and to assimilate into white American culture (lol)………
Makes me feel bad about being white all over again.
Suggestion for stuffwhitepeoplelike:Self-hatred. I love this too: “My goal in life is not to be white. Native ideology’s, principles, and ethics are far superior.” LOL! You’re so lame.
Actually, statistically, the poor still vote Democratic, and the rich still vote Republican:
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/22/income-and-voting/
[…] brilliant. A site that explains Stuff White People Like – like expensive sandwiches, Japan, etc. But my favorite is the following, #62 Knowing what’s […]
I’m sorry…I donot share the quasi guilt trip that you and people like you categorically dispense over some well intentioned people in the world…the real problem is if some of us were (apparently) able to get a penitentiary education with state sanctioned certificate of redemption perhaps society would be so much better. But apparently, Like taking French leave, some people make better employees than others, this is historically true with the French, that was why the French foreign legion was invented: Everyone knows that parolees make good workers and they stay…you have to get over their vernacular of sorts…the kind that categorically makes everybody stupid…and the violation of the rights of citizens just wanting to make an honest living while making a difference in the world…rather than trying to bury their mother to soon…and leaving their father on the cross…I see the dilemma…
…whats equally as maddening about this prescription of success is that it hinges on some popular contemporary homogenization of means and trends in society at large…granted standing stark in the face of every good endeavor to have been gleaned so many years ago…and still we end up having to argue this same diatribes about an equality…that collectively speaking others want nothing to do with now…I can’t say that I blame them…after all many people fall for the republican gun thugs truths and idiom through a less than wholesome blackmarket economy of means…that is cashmere street drugs that became passe 30 years ago…still dying of AIDS after the first wave put an end to it and bottomed out in ’92…because they wanted to shoot heroine in the name of Frank Zappa (who they don’t understand) because if they did they never would have fallen for the same old prescription of “college the military or prison” let alone end up on the streets in London shooting heroine: “Conformity of any type is unacceptable”…
[…] #62 Knowing what’s best for poor people […]
Yes and I cannot express the deep disdain I share for this pseudo homogenized contemporary education (popular) of a dichotomy of thinking somewhere between a dollar twenty nine and a million dollars…meanwhile young precocious consumer efficienados’ coming in to the store ratting me out on their little cell phones because they know how things should be done…oh yeh, never mind that MV. can take his lawyer to Europe looking for housing on vacation…meanwhile my Harvard professors lawyer is tied up in a back room some where in NYC…left up to some people ….apparently were on a commission straight towards Qumram…
Mark my words…the next lesson popularly homogenized education will be the rules of order in the committee room if we don’t have a television program to homogenistically educate the masses on how not to throw a stick into the workings…if we’re going to get somewhere beyond the traditional panderings of politicians on Capital Hill and in state offices…granted however at odds…they might be…good luck
Hey, Frodo441, good points.
Here’s my take: I think if this country has any hope we need to seamlessly incubate 2.0 internal or “organic” sources via parallel benefits. Progressively provide access to people-centered potentialities whereas optimal e-politics. Dramatically parallel low-income directed testing procedures and ubiquitous strategic theme areas.
Conveniently, we incubate progressive content for orthogonal customer service. Uniquely pursue standards compliant total linkage via multidisciplinary e-tailers. Assertively restore worldwide benefits vis-a-vis 24/365 deliverables.
We need to objectively mesh plug-and-play opportunities for leading-edge relationships. Continually maximize sticky products rather than functionalized value.
I mean, am I right or am I right?
You have a pretty funny site. Very creative. I’ve always wanted to hear white jokes too. Got a site for that?
I found this blog amusing until this post. I do think people would choose less destructive paths if given the option..does that make me white? Are white people that shop at Walmart less white?
This one I found less humorous, more hegemonic.
Actually, this more about White Conservatives than all white people in general.
It’s the Conservatives that want to take away free choice because their decisions are better.
The rest of the white people are “liberals” who might as well be Islamic terrorists in their eyes.
Well, let’s face facts; poor, ethnic people are just not as smart as white people. They haven’t had the same advantages as white people and they need somebody who knows what’s really going on to help them end the cycle of poverty and self-destruction in which they’re caught.
@16: “It’s the Conservatives that want to take away free choice because their decisions are better.”
No, it’s not. Conservatives _need_ free will/choice, because it allows them to condemn people for the choices they’ve made. You can’t blame someone for being poor without the premise that it’s their own fault. In fact, without free will, the whole concept of blame and fault falls to pieces.
In any case, the entry is puzzling; it’s not white people have a preference for determinism, it’s liberals. Wrongly or rightly, that is. So I’m confused. I thought white people were more disposed to being conservative than non-whites?
White people love to use big words. They practice for when they play scrabble with the boy scout troop. Oh my, we need more Capri Sun!!!
Re: Mccladd
You don’t pay attention much do you?
Conservatives believe in free will, and succeeding or failing based on the decisions you yourself make… and in shopping at Wal-Mart.
Liberals believe that people, especially poor people, are incapable of making sound decisions themselves and it’s up to the state (under their benign guidance) to make their decisions for them.
Unless you’re talking about religiously fundimentalist social conservatives, but they’re a weird breed of monkey in anybody’s book.
Don’t worry all white people will be bread out of existence within 100 years!
Oh, and please sarcastic conservative white people… don’t let the door hit you on your pale butt as you dissipate into the conscious nothingness that you bare in your “humor” ;->
“Actually, statistically, the poor still vote Democratic, and the rich still vote Republican”
That is probably because “the poor” Krugman speaks of includes a substantial minority population. This post is obviously referring to a poor white guy.
Whatever, this post is HILARIOUS. I second the suggestion that you add “self-hatred” to the stuff white people like. My famous quote from a clueluessly self-loathing white person: “What have Europeans ever given the world except disease?”
Yes, what indeed?
Les:
Only the enlightened have free will.
Ouch.
“Don’t worry all white people will be bread out of existence within 100 years.”
Can I get mayo on that?
“Don’t worry all white people will be bread out of existence within 100 years.”
Can I get mayo on that?
#24 (Corky):
No, I think only the enlightened take the time to realize and analyze the fact that they have free will. Everyone has it, and everyone uses it.
[…] Stuff white people like … #62 Knowing What’s Best for Poor People […]
HUH?– Conservatives are the ones who believe in freedom and individual rights. Poor people vote Democratic because they have been enslaved by the entitlement mentality. They are still blind to government oppression brought on by the liberal “we know whats best for you” state of mind because they think they are getting something for nothing….. Conservatives want each individual regardless of race, to have the best possible ability to succeed and history shows over and over its the government that slowly steals this opportunity…..ask yourself who wants the government to have more power….its not Republicans….its this kind of misinformation and outright ignorance that is taking this country the way of Europe…..
“Back in my old town, people used to shop at Wal*Mart and then this non-profit organization came in and set up a special farmers co-op so that we could buy more local produce, and within two weeks the Wal*Mart shut down and we elected our first Democratic representative in 40 years.”
Wow, man! That would be awesome! We, all peoples of all colors, should make this happen everywhere. To paraphrase Dustin Hoffman as Rainman, “Wal*Mart sucks.”
Conservatives of this day and age are not all about the free will. The Conservatives in the Administration want to:
1. Spy on everyone.
2. Control your access to transportation.
3. Allow corporations to expand into such a large entity for the sake of profit that people are a resource and not people.
Maybe 16 or 20 years ago, Conservatives were about smaller government and more free choice. Nowadays, “free choice” is an illusion of limiting choices by monopolizing natural resources.
everyone here is confusing race with class. they are not synonymous and everything that’s been written here is pretending that they are. Yes, statistically white people are economically better off–but the generalization that this article and the responses create is one where race=class. that’s a good way to get mired in racist assumptions, like
I am appalled by this illiterate graffiti.
Where are the enlighten intellects defending the rights of the rest of us?
Is this reverse racism, need not apply???
FUCK OFF!!! You non white trash!!!
This post really makes a lot of racist assumptions — too many to enumerate.
I know right? Those white people, trying to improve the misfortune of the poor. So ridiculous. I mean, I only follow the principle of living for myself. Only those who consider themselves “human”, or having a “heart”, or in the case of this post, being “white” would ever lend a helping hand to the disadvantaged.
Can I get a hearty amen?
This blog title is misleading: what you are in fact referring to and mocking is a certain subsection of white people in North America (mainly the US and to a lesser extent the non-Francophone parts of Canada), who are liberal/left-wing poseurs with above average incomes.
Most whites in the UK (where I am from) are nothing like that! Indeed, many whites from America itself are nothing like the whites you mock here. Moreover, whites from the non-anglophone world would hardly recognise any of the stereotypes you portray here. Talk about ethnocentric!
I suspect you are an Angry Asian Male (AAM) who has been brought up and educated among upper-middle class whites, subjected to their patronising behaviour and seen most of “your” fellow Asian women hook up with white men. This blog is your way of expressing your anger and getting some measure of revenge against the whites who have bothered you for so long. It’s funny and all, but please remember the target of your lampooning is a very narrow sub-section of the Caucasian race as a whole.
Oh, and Asians can be just as funny and weird too.
frodo441 you are my heroine!
Fabulous. I love my race – but I love it because it is mine and not the world’s. The ideology of universalism of modern America will destroy our race, our culture, and our nation in the vanity so well expressed here – that somehow we are better.
Forget good, bad, better, worse – we are different – for that reason we must protect ourselves.
Haha at the Ethnocentric aspect of this specific post… you are kidding right? There are so many examples of bleeding heart incredibly racist europeans from Holland to France to Germany. Of course Spain continues to have instances of derogatory use of black face to make fun of black sports players. Russia is notorious for its prevalence of racist fascists. Hell, it’s dangerous to even travel in parts of East Germany if you’re a black man.
SO, yeah, these dynamics of race and poor people do exist in your non-english speaking white parts of the world…and this post specifically works very well for the liberal do-gooders who don’t have any kind of intellectual depth regarding race and aid v. empowerment for POOR people and People of Color or white men for white Women.
And, the comments aren’t nearly as funny or smart as the OP, but I do agree that clarification that a lot of the stuff on here including this post are for Upper Middle Class White Liberals.
How about: claiming multiculturalism so the don’t feel like shit all the time? This might fall under the cultural self-depreciation header.
I might also add: pretend to be gangsta [sic].
Since when the hell are white people democrats?!
I’m really, really how so many of you are indignant that white people are being lumped into a monolithic group. Now you know how women, people of colour and people from the “third world” feel. Thank you for this blog!
oops *that should read “I’m really, really enjoying”
I am in total agreement with the posts above…the author of this blog is ASIAN.
This blog reeks of
“Asian American (I am almost 99% it is Korean-American) Guy who realizes that the Fixed Action Patters of Upper Middle Class, Urban, Liberal White People” is the standard target and pinncale lifestyle to which almost all wealthy and educated people in America strive….and is a bit peeved at it so decides to poke fun of it in a light, but still somewhat derisive manner”
For all of you who mistakenly believe that the author is black or hispanic, I quote the famous SNL skit: “Nigga Please!”
Although Black or hispanic people poke fun at and find much of white culture quirky and hilarious, they do not write blogs which dive so deep into showcasing white culture and critique in a way that exudes insecurity or a vent-up “grudge” as this one does. You can see that that none of the items in this blog are really far from fact. Alot of the items of in the list do indeed apply to a very large section of white population in America. The author does not really lie or distort reality. However, that’s just it. Only Asians find the reality of white culture to be bothersome to their pre-programmed prejudices of what is superior. Hispanics and blacks would be more likely to make up and totally distort the reality of white culture and make jokes about it and leave it at that since they really don’t care what white people do as long as it doesn’t infringe upon their enjoyment of life. In other words, Hispanics and blacks are perfectly fine with the whites wanting to recycle, drive Priuses, live by the water, shop at Whole Foods or what not because if they were making as much money or obtaining the same level of financial comfort, many black and Hispanics would probably want to do the same thing too. Or, they would choose not to, but it doesn’t bother them. Simply put, black and hispanics are comfortable being themselves and with white people being different. They really don’t have any dreams or illusions of black or hispanic culture dominating the “stuff that white people like culture” and really don’t get annoyed that liberal, urban white culture is what it is.
However, with Asians, it is a completely different story. Asians have this strange underlying “grudge” or I should say, “inferiority complex” with any culture or people that are different from themselves but hold a dominance in the society in which both live. Thus, this reality does not fit well with the natural competitive and insecure nature that personififes so much of the Asian immigrant culture in the western world. Unlike black and hispanics, the Asian population in western countries has already reached the same level of economic/financial success that white people hold, and in Asian culture, there is no greater feeling of enjoyment than seeing yourself becoming the dominant power. Thus, because Asians share pretty much the same socio-economic status as whites, they are much aware and exposed to white, urban, liberal blue-state culture since they probably work alongside these types of white people and probably have gone to the same wealthy, high ranked, hippie universities full of white people that this blog ridicules. Not too many black and hispanics have reached this position to be so close and neck to neck with the white population that is the target of this blog. That is the diference.
Thus, Asians see that in this country (USA) or whichever country in which Asians and whites are neck to neck, that despite sharing almost the same economic status with that of the white population, the standard for hipness, wealth, and whatever is considered “cool”, fashionable or trendy is basically “stuff that urban, progressively-minded white people like”…not stuff that “rich, successful, science/engineering background-minded Asian people like.” This reality conflicts and does not bode well with what these Asians have believed throughout their entire lives from birth which is that “Our Asian culture is superior to any caucasian culture because our race is the most intelligent and most beautiful in the world”. It is a commonly known fact that Asian culture in the form of parents, schools, media drill this message of racial superiority into their heads from birth. Thus, when these kids grow up and actually see that reality of the world is totally different from what their masters in their little Asian enclave of racial superiority has told them, they get confused, jealous and spiteful to the point where they need to find tribal comfort in congregating with other Asians and finding humor in telling each other how funny it is that white people’s culture is so different from theirs.
The irony is, however, that in secret or behind closed door amonst themselves, alot of Asians actually yearn for the same things found on this list…especially living by the water or shopping at high end groceries. However, they are just irritated that they came from a culture in which their families could not afford to or did not give a rat’s ass about the environment, recycling, helping poor people in third world countries, eating organic food, helping causes, going snowboarding, renovating a house, throwing dinner parties, travelling to exotic locales, etc., Granted it is not their fault because as immigrants to a new country, their parents did not have the time nor luxury of doing these things because they were too busy trying to make money or push their kids at school to learn Calculus by age 10.
Instead, these Asian kids grew up seeing TV shows from their motherland countries and their families living a different culture: obessing about money, buying expensive designer name brand goods with the label on the front to show off (Gucci, Guess, Dolce Gabanna, etc.), smoking cigarettes in front of their girlfriends, driving nothing other than Mercedes Benz and BMWs, listening to cheezy ballad or R&B based pop music, striving to be a rich doctor, never thinking about travelling to third world countries (only places where they want to travel is K-town in LA, NYC, or anywhere which is considered “fashionable”), etc. Becuase they grew up seeing this type of lifestyle and culture as what is cool and what every normal person strives to acheive, they are heartbroken and angry when they realize that noone in upper class America considers this type of lifestyle to be “cool” or reflecting of high class or wealth. Thus, you get the grudge and blogs like this.
Now of course, before anyone jumps on my back, I know I did ALOT of racial stereotyping and applied a huge range of broad labels to Asians in general. However, my response to that is, “I really don’t care.” Why? Because I can. The reason is that although I am not a member of this group, I spent almost all of my 34 years growing up surrounded by Asian Americans with almost 70% of my childhood friends being Asian, going to school with them side by side, eating dinner and spending weekends upon weekends at their houses with their families, and just knowing their culture inside out. I can even speak Mandarin and Korean even though I am a white boy. Now, I will say that almost half of my close friends now are Asian. However, none of these people subscribe or are victims to the mental disease of insecurity and inferiority complex which I described above. In fact, these guys are “whiter” than me in so many ways and unlike the Asians which I describe above, they really don’t care that “white culture” is different from what they grew up with and really don’t care that it is the dominant standard for what is considered trendy and characteristic of wealth and high-class. In other words, they are absolutely comfortable with themselves. Thus, I want to say that NOT ALL ASIANS ARE LIKE WHAT I DESCRIBE ABOVE.
However, I would like point out three points in the list of this blog that are dead giveaways that the author is Asian and not black or hispanice. Here they are:
#68 Divorce
– Please. I think more blacks or hispanics get divorced than whites. No black or hispanic would be foolish to cite this as something characteristic of being something only a white person would do. However, I can’t even count how many times I have heard the endless adage from Asians saying how terrible and inferior white American culture is because the divorce rate is so high in this country. They insist that Asian culture is that of higher morals because divorce is uncommon. Well, I guess it would be that way since the only other alternative for an Asian women would be to become a prostitute and outcasted by society for the rest of her life since a divorced woman has as much value as a slab of T-bone steak 10 days past the expiration date. No wonder you see so many loveless Asian couples who stay together just for superficial face value while the husband goes and screws whores at the hostess bar on a weekly basis while the wife flies to Europe or Thailand with her girlfriends for a romp in the sack with locals. Meanwhile, the kids grow up seeing such a screwed up household and become permanently scarred for life so they end up jaded, angry, and insecure. Thus, many of them end up writing blogs like this. Oh well, but according to them, this type of relationship is waaaay better than divorce.
#47 Art Degrees
– Again, while in university, I was astounded by the number of Asian students who told me how they hated courses in English lit, history, or any of the humanities courses which required them to write. Thus, it’s not surprising that I found the opportunity to make alot of good money from Asian high school kids who would pay me to write their college application essays since they had no writing skills whatsoever to complement their 800 math SAT scores. I’m not talking about international students either but rather Asian-Americans. It’s strange that even with the privledge of having grown up in an English speaking educational system, so many Asians have difficulty in expressing themselves outside of number or equations. I think this stems from the fact that they are conditioned within their families to think that the only respectable disciplines or professions are ones that use science and math. Any other academic discipline such as arts and the humanities is for the inferior white race. Thus, this becomes ingrained in their heads. However, the caveat is that when it comes time to apply to Harvard or Princeton, they realize that their high grades in math/science and 800 math SAT scores don’t mean jack when they also carry poor grades in English or low verbal SAT scores. I guess that’s where I come in. In any case, many an Asian student who was denied his/her chance at Harvard, Stanford or Yale because of their weakness in the arts or humanities has expressed to me their utmost hatred in all of their high school English teachers, college essays, etc and vow that they would like to exterminate any person who majors in such disciplines and gets a better paying job (probably a lawyer) than themselves. Dead giveaway. Blacks and Hispanics don’t give a shit about who majors in what.
#42 Sushi and #58 Japan
– Actually, these two may be more of a confirmation that the blog writer is definitely NOT Japanese but most likely Korean or Chinese American. However, that in itself serves as a strengthening evidence that the writer is definitely Asian and not hispanic or black because there is no way in hell that a black and hispanic would know or even care to subdivide the Asian fetish that alot of white people have. To black and hispanics, a white person fawning over anything Japanese is just an “Asian fetish.” However, to a Korean or Chinese person, a white person fawning over anything Japanese is just one more cherry on the top of the pudding of insult to their own culture which they believe to be superior to that of Japan’s. To Korean-Americans and Chinese-Americans, Japanese are pretty much at the same level as white people are in terms of targets of jealousy, insecurity, disdain and their grudge. I really don’t think any black or hispanic would give a frog’s fat ass whether or not white people preferred Japanese culture/food to that of Koreans or Chinese but for the Koreans and Chinese, it’s just makes them squirm even more with rage and jealous grudge. Spend any time with a Korean or Chinese and they will tell you that the thing that they hate more than Japan itself is the fac t that Japan enjoys a very popular image throughout the first world and is considered “cool” and “hip” among wealthy, urban, intelligent whites. They really don’t like it that kimchi, soju, Korean soap operas, turtle boats, and Panda express do not conjure up the same image of elegance and chicness that sushi, “Lost In Translation”, samurai and sake do for white people. Definitely, it would not be on this list if it was a non-Asian.
For a better idea of what I am talking about, look at the website below. It’s chock full of Asian American males who are venting their anger and frustration at being the little man on the totem pole in American society. Their posts describe their laments but also their dreams and fantasies of finally being able to turn into the second Ming Emperior who will destroy all white males and reestablish themselves as the ultimate alpha males in society. It’s a good laugh.
http://www.thefighting44s.com/
Charlie Trotter,
You are funny with the white bureaucratic systems management-speak.
Lydia,
This site is about you.
frodo441,
I’m sure white upper middle class liberals would be happy to see you be very unhomogenous as long as you did so in ways that allow you to avoid poverty.
Those upper middle class white liberals are on a roll right now since Barack Obama looks like a black upper middle class white liberal. He’s got a Harvard degree which is of course the ultimate way to set yourself on a track away from poverty. If only everyone could get a Harvard degree there’d be no crime and no poverty. Non-white people with Harvard degrees could even be ethnically non-white with their hats and shoes and eat ethnic food at home as long as they wear cashmere sweaters and drive a Prius or a scooter to work and do tasteful home remodeling.
[…] P.S. Another great post at that site is the one entitled, “Knowing what’s best for poor people”. […]
This site is quite amusing, but this one is rather more than a bit confusing.
Surely the poor people who vote Republican are, er, white?
Wow, do you get comments on every post with something to the effect of, “hey, wait! you are unfairly lumping white people together!”
This is hilarious. I guess white people are just dense.
I suspect that “Tom Sawyer” and “Joe” are white and have no sense of humor. This is not a college class, you will not get graded, this will not determine your career. This is goofy, this is life, this is one person’s opinion which happens to be very true for many “white” people (most likely yuppie american) and funny as hell.
By the way thanks for pointing out your knowledge of the Asian experience. I can’t wait to read your blog, “true stuff about other cultures” authored by White guys. Oh wait, i already have – it’s called nearly everything ever WRITTEN!
Yes, poor white people vote Republican, but they think the other kinds of poor people that don’t are “lazy” and “should stop getting government handouts”. Wealthy liberals beomoan such poor Conservative’s voting habits, since they abviously “don’t know they’re only exploiting themselves”.
It’s a vicious circle.
This is white liberals, but good enough. We all know the white people we’re talking about.
I haven’t searched your archives yet, but white peoople also like fleece, REI, celtic/irish folk music (makes wp feel authentically ethnic). And personally knowing one of three multiracial families actually living in a WP community has near celebrity cache.
WP also like putting their kids in spanish immersion – taught by a white person with all white students.
White people like worrying about poor, NON_WHITE people. Poor white people are dislike because they mess up their worldview. However, if pushed, after hurling invective, a white person will angrily exclaim that poor white people (i.e. a.k.a. Republicans) “need more education” like in Sweden.
White people also liked Dean and Kucinich.
I grew up with these people. Usually (if they are protestant) you go back a generation or two and you find some old rockefeller republican who paid for their free “enlightened” ride through life.
Tom Sawyer’s post was insightfull.
If I have but one life (and must be poor), let me live it as a poor White..
I’m just happy to see everyone finally getting along!
I don’t care if the author is asian or whatever. Most of this is spot on perfect. Every race has “those of us who are an embarassment to our kind.” If it doesn’t get pointed out, it can’t be shamed out of existence. That’s assuming this realization takes place.
I especially enjoyed the tirades it brought out in people. Frodo, don’t hurt yourself.
wellllll, it looks like somebody got a ‘b’ in postmodern thought.
ahh the skewed irony of the almost thought out!
Dude, keep ’em squirmin’.
Hungry & Anonymous
“Don’t worry all white people will be bread out of existence within 100 years.”
“Can I get mayo on that?”
Yes It will be mandatory for the coco-brown master race to place a jar of mayonnaise on the TOMB of the WHITE crackers which will be in the form of a TOASTER.
Like a bubbling mass of starter yeast the dominant genes in the semen of the brown and black man will bread out the recessive genetics of the melanin-challenged loafers.
Rise up and impregnate all white girls, I get 7-8 white girls pregnant per week, it is my life’s work. I also have 17 children in my own melanin-soaked family and each of my sons are also involved in kneading the seed into the “whetto” furrow.
Do the math while we do your women…
[…] White people know what’s best for poor people. […]
so if us white folk are too concerned with the political opinions and concerns of poor folk, I guess we should just turn our attention to what we have always done — making money, exploiting labor, imperializing other continents, and generally acting like the privileged aristocrats we were meant to be?
Although I can appreciate the irony of this website, sometimes there is nothing wrong with a little white guilt to keep oneself in check and understand the struggles others undergo. Furthermore, it is entirely plausible, especially at lower educational levels, that some groups do not understand their own political self-interest, be they white, black, poor, etc.
“Bob Blanche”
re; #21 & #60.
So you think that the elimination in say, 100 years of “whites” is good…
You are a, degenerate, genocidal, criminal. If, this was still a nation of laws, you would be hunted down, arrested and stand trial, under the 1948 U.N. Convention and Genocide Treaty.
http:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide#Genocide_as_a_crime_under<international_law
Paul,
There are people that want you dead. And you say this?…
“Sometimes there is nothing wrong with a little white guilt”…
WAKE UP MAN! Grow up, white guilt is a strawman!
Turn off the damn teevee and educate yourself.
Vote RON PAUL!
Dude.. Here’s our response to this site:
http://asians.thinkunique.net
I like it when rich rock stars like Bono pass out condoms in “the bad side” of Oakland. That’s neat-o , doesn’t cost a whole lot, and makes rock stars feel like they’re doing something to ‘make a difference’ . Pimps loves dem some Bono w/a forty oz.
1. I don’t buy the Walmart story…
2. People (poor, not so poor, middle class, and upper middle class )shop at Walmart because they think that they are getting value. It is their money so they shop where they want
Ever wonder what Asian People Like?
Check out our response at:
http://asians.thinkunique.net
stuffblackpeoplelike – eating watermelon! hahaha!!!
stuffarabpeoplelike – pumping oil! hahaha!!!
stuffblackpeoplelike – gang warfare! hahaha!!!
stuffmexicanpeoplelike – eating beans! hahaha!!!
stuffchinesepeoplelike – shooting heroin! hahaha!!!
stuffblackpeoplelike – welfare! hahaha!!!
stuffjewishpeoplelike – keeping money! hahaha!!!
stuffmexicanpeoplelike – wearing sombreros! hahaha!!!
stuffchinesepeoplelike – eating rice! hahaha!!!
stuffarabpeoplelike – kissing goats! hahaha!!!
stuffmexicanpeoplelike – wearing sombreros! hahaha!!!
stuffblackpeoplelike – sniffing glue! hahaha!!!
aren’t i funny and clever!!!
don’t you dare call me a racist!!!
White people are so silly. Poor people can shop wherever they want, go to whichever college they want, don’t make decisions based on short-term economic presures, etc. They have all the same options as White yuppies, and Whites need to learn to accept their unencumbered choices.
The bottom quintile of Whites by income (the bottom 20%) and *only* the bottom 20%, voted predominantly Democrat in 2004, according to Pew Research. The overwhelming majority of Whites with four-year college degrees voted Republican.
It kind of shocks me that that shocks anybody. Which party likes to appeal to reason and which to emotion? You guys listening to the same Obama and Hillary speeches I am?
There are a lot of unintentionally hilarious liberal posts in this comment section, considering the point of the entry.
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Ummm…
Maybe it’s me. It’s certainly possible, because I don’t pretend to know everything… but don’t most poor people vote democratic?? And aren’t the few poor people that do vote republican white and therefore ruin this whole diatribe?
And what if what “white people” think is “best” for “poor people” IS actually what would be best for a poor person or for ANY person?
After all, don’t “white people” think that poor people (or ANY people) should get an education, stay away from drugs and drug culture, work hard and go to college (getting even more education) learn about money and how to manage it and then earn more of it, get a good job, work towards better jobs, move to a better/safer neighborhood, and all the same types of things “white people” attempt to teach to their own white children? Wouldn’t it be “better” for poor people to attempt those things?
Why are you making the assumption that “white people” aren’t poor. Haven’t statistics shown for decades that the majority of “welfare families” are white? Aren’t the very common slurs “trailer trash,” and “redneck” entirely about poor white people? Why is it wrong to want to help poor people of any color?
Isn’t it more divisive to continue to propagate ridiculous and insultingly false and meaningless racial stereotypes than whatever “harm” might be done by “white people” liking Prius’s, wanting to help the poor and buying food preparation machines?
Mike:
If you’re listening to the same, McCain, Romney, Gulianni, and Huckabeee speeches that I am, you’ll know that the republican party has been appealing ENTIRELY to fear, greed and hate pretty much since Vietnam and those sound like emotions to me.
Remove the mote from thine own eye Sir. Especially since on the unintentional comedy AND hypocrisy scale you just busted out the top.
Not to mention, I hope you have a site for your statistics and that it’s not just something you heard on Rush Limbaugh’s show.
In polling data I JUST LOOKED AT on Pew democrats were 37% of the “high Knowledge” subjects and republicans were 36 percent “high knowledge.” (high knowledge was higher education level, higher level of knowledge of current events, higher income etc…)
You’re out of gas.
hahaha, does this mean that black people dont give a fuck about the poor? or do rich black people become whiter? is lionel richie black or white?
Tom Sawyer (45) & Joe (37), how embarrassing it must be for you to realize that the author is actually a white guy. Wasn’t this self-evident? Even if not, a little bit of due diligence (e.g., following the Flickr link on the blog’s “About” page) would have spared you of having to reckon with the other readers of this blog shaking their heads at your lack of humor, hyper defensive reaction, among other things.
i think reading all the replies are funnier than the posts on this blog.
don’t you people get it?
some of you do.
oh well, keep it up.
Frodo: i have never heard anyone use the word homogenize so many times. All I can say is wow.
I’m white and Wal Mart and Republicans are the whitest two things in America.
White people also like to give really complicated answers to everything and use words like ‘homogenize’ to feel more special and right.
Also because responding to internet blogs is pretty serious business that should be handled only by folks with a four year degree at a private university.
This post is hilarious. Keep up the good work, and ignore the commenters who don’t have a sense of humor.
this one really gives you away. Poor people vote republican? LOL
I have to agree with Tom Sawyer that the blog is composed by an Asian male. I say this as an Asian male who went to a very small liberal arts school in the middle of a very flat midwest state and majored in International Relations, and didn’t take a single hard-science or math class after junior year of high school.
What I disagree with is that this blog is, as he puts it, “seething with resentment”. 90% of what gets made fun of here are dead on traits of hipsters (usually white, and I do live in New York), or traits they care to show to the world at large and to their friends, such as myself. The white people who lived in the said flat, midwest state I went to school in, have about 3% in common with the “white person” being described here. In fact, they’ll probably say the exact same things as this blog is saying about this “white person” if they spent any sizable amount of time living in Williamsburg.
Anyway, Tom’s analysis is pretty much correct, but I think he imputes too much anger and jealousy as a motivation for this blogger. I would write exactly the same thing as this person, if I had the time or the inclination to write this page, and I actually like Japan (lived there for a semester! which I guess make me honorary white), have an Arts degree (Political Science; again, honorary white status) and divorce (my parents are separated; damn, guess I’m white after all). This thing is hilarious mostly because I think the observations are usually dead on, and having passed it around to all of my white friends in New York City (who are young urban professionals), and having them admit that this describes them 75% or better, I see this as irreverential humor at worst. I mean, after all people, aren’t we supposed to be living in a post-racial society?
I think you tripped over your own joke on this one: surely the only poor people who vote Republican are the white kind.
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Every time you read “white” in this blog, change it to “liberal” in your head. But I think others have already made that point.
I like the way your write. Some of it is a little too white for me. But still, it’s in good form.
yeah it’s mostly about liberal white people – or those who want to think they’re liberal. knowing this whould really make most of the comments unnecessary.
re knowing what’s best for poor people: obviously what is meant is ETHNIC poor people. my own view is that when chooisng between two forms of racism, thinking poor ethnic people would be exactly like white liberals if given the chance is not anywhere nar as bad as them thinking that poor ethnic people are culturally and genetically deficient. that, and the united states has pretty much proven that when minorities get rich they do aspire to stuff that white people have…
Um… why are such humourless jerks reading a funny, mildly self-depracating site like this? I’m truly confused. Gonna stop reading the whack-job posts and just read the blog. And look at pictures of white bread.
I guess I shouldn’t be surprised at how much guilt there is in simply being born a poor white child. Society has reinforced blaming that group for all the world’s ills. Somehow I don’t think it would be any better with China or an African country being the world’s superpower. Just look at what’s being done in those places. The vast majority wouldn’t even have the freedom or luxury of writing such a blog.
This blog implies that if you’re white, you should take a giant step backwards to 1956. I remember when white people threw their empty cans, bottles, lit cigarettes and any other trash out the car window without any qualms. Where having a bigger car was considered having a better car. When calling someone a Chinaman, Jap or worse was normal conversation. This blog suggests that we are somehow being phony by not returning to our Neanderthal roots.
I think that part of the disconnect with some people is caused by the guilt that has driven most white people into changing our behaviors somewhat for the better. In this way maybe we have left some members of minority groups back in 1956 mode. It’s impossible to generalize to that degree, because I do believe that people are people. We all have the same needs, and have far more similarities than differences due to ethnicity. I know there are many who now want to reassert the differences in an effort to find their own cultural identity. That can be ok if it’s done in a way that doesn’t put down other ethnic groups in the process. To do that is only to return to racism and to 1956 mentality. No, it was not more real, more honest, less phony or better back then.
I guess the blog is entertaining on some level with all the thousands of hits it’s gotten. I do think it’s tapping into the guilt many white people feel for simply being white. Many here think we should just tolerate racism as long as it is against white people. I find this attitude very condecending toward all minority groups. It says that we whites still control everything and you minorities are still victims that have to live with all of our idiosyncricies. That’s exactly what people believed in 1956. The promotion of this victim mentality is also exactly what allows any one group to exert control over any other. In that sense it has struck a nerve of some sort.
this post was interesting.
it had POTENTIAL in criticizing white liberal activism and racist
illegitimacy in assuming the role of “SAVIOR” in other
communities.
instead of appropriately interrogating the socio-economic
privilege this sort of activism operates from,
this post just affirms a political stance in meritocracy and a
MIDDLE CLASS, self-righteous critique in which the poor are
BLAMED for their own misfortune.
Your humor MOCKS the reality of those who are
offered hiearchical access to education, health care, and
employment. You make it sound as if the world is completely
equal, does not run on a RACIST hierarchy, and the poor have
no one but THEMSELVES to blame for tiny wages, expensive
rent, and minute resources.
you act as if the poor ENJOY having horrible, unrespected jobs, living from paycheck to paycheck, being unable to afford nice things for their children and themselves, and being looked DOWN upon by others.
please read some Richard Dyer ( the matter of whiteness)
Judy Helfand (understanding whiteness),
David Spurr ( Under Western Eyes) and bell hooks.
this post was interesting.
it had POTENTIAL in criticizing white liberal activism and racist
illegitimacy in assuming the role of “SAVIOR” in other
communities.
instead of appropriately interrogating the socio-economic
privilege this sort of activism operates from,
this post just affirms a political stance in meritocracy and a
MIDDLE CLASS, self-righteous critique in which the poor are
BLAMED for their own misfortune.
Your humor MOCKS the reality of those who are
offered hiearchical access to education, health care, and
employment. You make it sound as if the world is completely
equal, does not run on a RACIST hierarchy, and the poor have
no one but THEMSELVES to blame for tiny wages, expensive
rent, and minute resources. you act as if the poor enjoy horrible, unrespected jobs, being unable to afford nice things for their kids and themselves, and get a kick out of being looked down upon by others.
please read some judy helfand – understanding whiteness, richard dyer, and bell hooks.
wth?
I’m white, and I find all of this incredibly amusing. Each post is flawed depending on the white person… and, it seems to me that its a JOKE… so everyone taking this seriously (especially if you’re white) need to smoke some weed out of your $500 bong, take a walk outside, and continue to hate yourself, because you deserve it.
I guess thats it.
this is a stupid post, many white people are poor people. many white people care about poverty because they are fucking poor.
There is a great amount of interest in this year’s presidential elections, as everybody seems to recognize that our next president has to be a lot better than George Bush. The Democrats are riding high with two groundbreaking candidates — a woman and an African-American — while the conservative Republicans are in a quandary about their party’s nod to a quasi-liberal maverick, John McCain.
Each candidate is carefully pandering to a smorgasbord of special-interest groups, ranging from gay, lesbian and transgender people to children of illegal immigrants to working mothers to evangelical Christians.
There is one group no one has recognized, and it is the group that will decide the election: the Angry White Man. The Angry White Man comes from all economic backgrounds, from dirt-poor to filthy rich. He represents all geographic areas in America, from urban sophisticate to rural redneck, deep South to mountain West, left Coast to Eastern Seaboard.
His common traits are that he isn’t looking for anything from anyone — just the promise to be able to make his own way on a level playing field. In many cases, he is an independent businessman and employs several people. He pays more than his share of taxes and works hard.
The victimhood syndrome buzzwords — “disenfranchised,” “marginalized” and “voiceless” — don’t resonate with him. “Press ‘one’ for English” is a curse-word to him. He’s used to picking up the tab, whether it’s the company Christmas party, three sets of braces, three college educations or a beautiful wedding.
He believes the Constitution is to be interpreted literally, not as a “living document” open to the whims and vagaries of a panel of judges who have never worked an honest day in their lives.
The Angry White Man owns firearms, and he’s willing to pick up a gun to defend his home and his country. He is willing to lay down his life to defend the freedom and safety of others, and the thought of killing someone who needs killing really doesn’t bother him.
The Angry White Man is not a metrosexual, a homosexual or a victim. Nobody like him drowned in Hurricane Katrina — he got his people together and got the hell out, then went back in to rescue those too helpless and stupid to help themselves, often as a police officer, a National Guard soldier or a volunteer firefighter.
His last name and religion don’t matter. His background might be Italian, English, Polish, German, Slavic, Irish, or Russian, and he might have Cherokee, Mexican, or Puerto Rican mixed in, but he considers himself a white American.
He’s a man’s man, the kind of guy who likes to play poker, watch football, hunt white-tailed deer, call turkeys, play golf, spend a few bucks at a strip club once in a blue moon, change his own oil and build things. He coaches baseball, soccer and football teams and doesn’t ask for a penny. He’s the kind of guy who can put an addition on his house with a couple of friends, drill an oil well, weld a new bumper for his truck, design a factory and publish books. He can fill a train with 100,000 tons of coal and get it to the power plant on time so that you keep the lights on and never know what it took to flip that light switch.
Women either love him or hate him, but they know he’s a man, not a dishrag. If they’re looking for someone to walk all over, they’ve got the wrong guy. He stands up straight, opens doors for women and says “Yes, sir” and “No, ma’am.”
He might be a Republican and he might be a Democrat; he might be a Libertarian or a Green. He knows that his wife is more emotional than rational, and he guides the family in a rational manner.
He’s not a racist, but he is annoyed and disappointed when people of certain backgrounds exhibit behavior that typifies the worst stereotypes of their race. He’s willing to give everybody a fair chance if they work hard, play by the rules and learn English.
Most important, the Angry White Man is pissed off. When his job site becomes flooded with illegal workers who don’t pay taxes and his wages drop like a stone, he gets righteously angry. When his job gets shipped overseas, and he has to speak to some incomprehensible idiot in India for tech support, he simmers. When Al Sharpton comes on TV, leading some rally for reparations for slavery or some such nonsense, he bites his tongue and he remembers. When a child gets charged with carrying a concealed weapon for mistakenly bringing a penknife to school, he takes note of who the local idiots are in education and law enforcement.
He also votes, and the Angry White Man loathes Hillary Clinton. Her voice reminds him of a shovel scraping a rock. He recoils at the mere sight of her on television. Her very image disgusts him, and he cannot fathom why anyone would want her as their leader. It’s not that she is a woman. It’s that she is who she is. It’s the liberal victim groups she panders to, the “poor me” attitude that she represents, her inability to give a straight answer to an honest question, his tax dollars that she wants to give to people who refuse to do anything for themselves.
There are many millions of Angry White Men. Four million Angry White Men are members of the National Rifle Association, and all of them will vote against Hillary Clinton, just as the great majority of them voted for George Bush.
He hopes that she will be the Democratic nominee for president in 2008, and he will make sure that she gets beaten like a drum.
Looking at the dogs, farmer’s market produce, a person walking by the ocean and sushi, made me realize that all of this is lovely. I see no reason to trash beauty and aesthetics.
The ocean is there for everyone to look at if you happen to be in a city on an ocean or small town. Dogs are all over the place just showing love to humans. And I believe non-white people consume more sushi daily than white people do. Just go to Japan and see!
Books, last time I checked, are free at your local library. There is no excuse for a lack of education, whether you read for yourself or go to school the old fashioned way.
Being aesthetically inclined and loving beautiful photos is not a white thing, it is about a renaissance of the human spirit. Those who degrade the love of beauty or say that reading books from the libarary is a “white only” thing are really depriving themselves of advancement.
It’s a sad story that we have too many excuses for not achieving and doing in the U.S., when so many people around the world really want to come here. Whether you poor or not, you’re right.
PS Grammar correction ; “Whether you’re poor or not, you’re right.”
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Wow, 98 comedy replies to the most perfectly exectud flamebait I’ve seen in 2008!
Please use a dictionary to look up the words sarcasm and satire.
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Keep’em coming!
HAHAHA. dude most of this seems like a joke to me. im white and i dont seem to fit this persons categorization of me being white at all. and thats not because i try to be some other race, either. i do what i want, when i want, whenever i feel like it, following the laws of course. not saying i like them or anything. i cant stand most of it. this all seems to target middle class anyways. im a poor kid pretty much. so what if i go to a community college? so what if i shop at walmart? its cheap, fast, and i know how to make things last. so when you bitch about shit being crappy at walmart, take better care of it next time, would ya? just like walmart bikes for example. i had one for a year. not bad for a 99 dollar bike. i rode the thing into the ground. hard. jumped it frequently, i put on at least 2k-3k miles on it before it broke. i would say i got my money’s worth, dont you? it really all depends on who you are, and what it is that you do. if you like to follow, follow away. if you like to lead, please, PLEASE, lead people in the right direction? you know who you are, and you know what you can do.
gah. really i could go on for a long time about what i think but..i will leave that up to you. because you can do whatever it is you want to do to. if you want to listen, great! if you dont, great! i dont care. lol. just, research what it is that your saying first. say, some, not all white people like parties. SOME OF THEM not all. thank you.
if you wanna talk, just…
graystok@live.com
(msn)
Martin Mull did this very thing 25 years ago in the TV special titled “The History of White People in America”, which portrayed white people as dull, rhythmless people who drive Volvo’s and eat mayonnaise on just about everything.
And don’t forget Navin Johnson. “I was born a poor black child. Then one day I heard my first Mantovani record, and I knew…THESE were my people.” Steve Martin was a genius.
‘We’re talking about eggplants. You know, we have to keep out the jungle bunnies.”
“Of course, they’d eat the eggplants.”
Great stuff
#60’s right, though. in 50 years or less, this site won’t make any sense.
You racist bastard. You make a great point 😀
you white people all crazy and stupid. we sure as hell don’t worry about you except when you in uniform and chasing us.
This is probably the best blog I’ve ever seen. Of course, I don’t really read blogs….I’m not white.
For the record, you’re a damn genius.
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i was agreeing with nick & then his comment ended midsentence. but yeah– class & race are not the same thing. i think what you are saying is true about middle-class white people. maybe your point is to make blanket assumptions in the same way that white people do, but i find it troubling, as a white, poor person.
The crap you’re writing on this blog applies to only a small fraction of White people, the middle to upper middle class Anglo-Saxon folks, and then only to those who are a bit chi-chi.
It would seem that this blog should really be called:
“stuffAngloSaxonhomogenouswell-offchichiwhitepeoplelike.”
… at most about ten percent of Whites.
You’re showing a bit of self-centered myopia, don’t you think?
Most White people in rural areas or in the Rust Belt cities would have no idea what you are talking about.
Snarky is only funny when it’s true. The only people who think this blog is really funny are ithose who interact with or are themselves Anglo-Saxon, well-off, chi chi White people.
@ # 45
UMAD?!
I just came across this and I love it. I’m going to reference this in my blog. Thanks for writing this. I’m so happy to be POC! haha
Note the distinction the researcher makes between whites and poor people, and (implicitly) between whites and (the almost entirely white) rural people. White people, according to this working definition, are caucasions who either (a) make more than $70K a year or (b) the artsy poor who identify with the upper class. All of these white people must live in a big city, an inner suburb, or a famously liberal small city such as Missoula or Boulder. Those who live in a big city must live in an artsy or upscale neighborhood; no whites who live in working-class or poor neighborhoods qualify. Though many whites are disqualified from whiteness, no minorities are added.
In other words, white people = about 10% of the actual white population.
#69, I can assure you black people do not sniff glue.
Sad, but true.
(I’m referring to the piece, not others’ comments)
One more thing: As I was reading Tom Sawyer’s comment I realized that I could be using my time more wisely reading about stuff that white people like. But the reason I dig this blog is because talking about white people is the last social frontier. It’s been cool to discuss every culture and race throughout history in the context of white westerners being the “norm”. The author of this blog, as sarcastic as he or she may be, black, white, or Asian, has through their wit, humor, and observation brought to the stage a dialog about the most overlooked aspect of western culture – white people. And it challenges the assumption that white people and western culture are the same thing. And whether you appreciate it or not this blog is funny as hell.
i ❤ future pundit.
I’ve finally figured this website out. I don’t care what race this author is, but, man, you’re a genius.
Ok, read closely now: All these generalizations about white people are exactly what white people have been doing with minorities over the past hundred years in order to “understand” these foreigners better. More so, when a white person tries to generalize these ideas in public, they’re thrown to the sharks. In private, these generalizations still happen and white people take it as the truth because they don’t have any other valid source of evidence. Thus is born the stereotype.
The funniest part of this blog though, is the replies, especially from indignant white people who disagree so strongly. Do these generalizations apply to absolutely all white people? Of course not. Do they apply to some? White people have said so themselves.
But do other white people still comment to complain about how inaccurate each and every one of these posts are? Hell yes they do because although stereotypes undeniably have their truth, you can’t apply them to individuals without pissing people off.
So here’s some of your own medicine, white people: calm down, it’s just a joke.
And welcome to our world.
YOU FORGOT ABOUT YOGURT AND GRANOLA. WHITE PEOPLE LOVE TO EAT THIS IN THE MORNING…TIS TRUE. I’VE OBSERVED THEM IN THEIR NATURAL HABITAT. THEY ALSO EAT “BREAKFAST CEREALS” LIKE KAISHI. OH, LET’S NOT FORGET ABOUT EATING DRY ASS BAGELS. Bagels with no spread that’s just…just so white.
I learn to laugh at the irony
of the Western world.
Especially at the pachydermatous , or careless attitude
of the educated people in the world.
I have more respect for a loving human being, than one
full of wealth and riches.
“In fact, the only reason that poor people make the choices they do is because they have not been given the means to make the right choices and care about the right things.”
Agreed. But as far as I know, poor people do not fall from the sky. Why don’t their parents, teachers, coaches, other community leaders and others invested in their upbringing give them the means to make the right choices?
It really isn’t rocket science.
“But it is ESSENTIAL that you reassert that poor people do not make decisions based on free will. That news could crush white people and their hope for the future.”
So many poor people make the decision using free will to be homeless, commit crimes, do drugs, prostitute themselves, etc?
Wow.
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this shit is brilliant! i’m laughing my ass off. looking in the mirror was never so damn funny. seriously.
Zeke at #63: So the Angry White man is a “dirt-poor” individual who “employs several people,” pays for braces, college educations and “beautiful weddings” and owns firearms? He rejects the “poor me” attitude but feels entitled to high wages and enraged when he doesn’t get them? What?
White men (angry or not) are a minority in the USA. Angry White Men who hate the “idiots” in India and the “helpless and stupid” people who died in Katrina are even more of a minority. They won’t get to decide the election. By the way, fuck you.
You forgot about an important one…white people love to create blogs.
Did you ever think that we can not help what color we are when we are born? Nor can we choose to be born with or without a silver spoon in our mouth. Only the good man upstairs can determine these things.
Instead of having poor parents who could barely feed seven children, it would have been nice to be able to have a good hot meal at least once a day growing up, instead of cold corn meal mush and a hard biscuit! I had no choice but to shop at Wal-Mart. If they have little kids making the things I buy from Wal Mart, then I “salute” those little ones.
When I was growing up, I had to “peel popple” with my father in the woods of upper Michigan, when I was eight years old. My nine year old sister and I worked from sun up to sundown and we had blisters upon blisters on our tiny, little hands and huge, bloody gashes in our shin bones when the peeling irons would slip. That didn’t seem to bother anyone back then!
I’ll bet most of you don’t have a clue what it means to “peel popple” or pick cherries during the season in Traverse City, Michigan. We never heard the words, Healthcare, what was that? We also didn’t have a Wal-mart just a little General Store that we went to once a month to buy mush and flour. Anyway, I Love Wal-mart.
When I listen to the debaters, I don’t think they even have a real clue as to what poor really means, or what people without healthcare go through.
They all need to visit the little towns in and around the big cities and they will see what it’s like to be a farmer, teacher, waitress, soldiers etc…these are the POOR white people, struggling daily just to survive. What do you call the soldiers that are defending our country?Most of them are poor! At least the lower ranking men anyway!
Most of them are undereducated, underpaid and most definately Overworked! Overstressed and Underappreciated, but they have a “code of honor” that sets them above all others, they are a “Brotherhood” and if you have a chance to join this wonderful entity that gives us our freedom, you will change your mind about poor white people or poor black people or just poor me!!!Try walking in the boots of a soldier!!
Oh and by the way, I know all about being a minority and being white at the same time. My hubby was in the Army for 22 and 1/2 years and when we were stationed in Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, in 1972 to1975 (land of the hula girls and flowered shirts) Honolulu, puka shells and monkey pod. This island Paradise was not what you would think looking at the post cards! For some it was NOT fun to be white!
My little girl went to school at Wheeler AFB across from our housing area and she came home crying from school when the kids called her “old howlie” because of her beautiful, blonde hair and fair skin. Out of 35 students they had two white children and my daughter was one of them. The rest were Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Black and Hispanic etc.
I went to visit her teacher at the school and she was a beautiful, Japanese girl. The little Japanese teacher sent us out side of the class room and decided to have a talk about “white” and “predjudice” and she told her class that someday they would be the “minority”. I really don’t like any of those words, because they hurt someone I love very much and it still makes me kind of angry when someone says the words so that is the reason I am responding to these comments. The teacher did straighten out the other litltle ones and from that day the racial problems were over.
Being the spouse of a soldier, there was no colors or races or differences in his people. My hubby called them “HIS men”! They were the parents of the little ones that were calling my daughter the bad names!
My hubby carried some of his wounded men through the rice paddies of Viet Nam and he didn’t know a difference in color then either, until a huge black man ran up onto the podium where he was teaching a class in Texas, and threw his arms around his neck crying in front of everyone.
He said, ” You don’t know me do you Sarge?” my honey said, “No”. He said,” Sarge, you saved my ass in Nam when I took all that schrapnel in my back!” Then my honey recognized him. (This was the guy laying down next to him in the rice paddies when they got hit with a bunch of schrapnel all up and down his back, that he carried back to their lines).
My hubby said, “Yeah! Man now I know who you are, You SAVED my ass, if you had not been there to catch that schrapnel in your back, it would have got me”! My hubby threw him over his shoulder and carried his bloody body all the way back to their lines, and at the same time he dragged a little Italian guy with them who had gotten schrapnel in his foot!
To make a long story short! I read this whole thing and I still don’t know what this has to do with anything. I guess I don’t have to tell any of you who we are voting for in this election.
Mr. McCain is one of my hubbys brothers so there isn’t any more to say on this matter! You just don’t have the right attitude about what “White” means. Being white is not just the color of your skin, it’s about being “right”. If you are Right then the color of your skin does not matter. We are all the same and our blood is all RED! That’s why they call us “Red Blooded Americans”! I have some wonderful nephews that have an American father and a beautiful, Puerto Rican mother and I call them Amer-Ricans! This is what makes our country GREAT!
Thanks for letting me VENT!
Wanda
why must you all over analyze so much. Its as if people cannot let themselves be entertained for entertainment’s sake. Lighten up already!
I love your stuff clander
good humor mixed with some truth to it too
it’s good way to laugh at ourselves
of course, this pertains more often to liberal whites =oP
Actually, white people vote for Republicans and minorities vote for Democrats. That is a statistical fact. Stuff white people like includes George Bush and John McCain. This site has it’s stereotypes confused. Take the Georgia primary – 96% of Republican voters were white. Only 43% of Democratic voters were white.
nerdbound, odd that you should quote the NYT, isn’t the new york times a democratic newspaper owned by rich white folks? And statistics can be gathered to point any way one wishes. Black and minority conservatives tend to be shunned or ridiculed by the liberal mainstream media, just the other day I was getting my drivers license renewed. While I was waiting a black man came in and said, how about that Huckabee. He’s our man. It stuck in my mind because according to the media that’s never supposed to happen.
Number 128 Anonymous, I don’t care for McCain. But that said, I don’t like Hillary or Obama either.
Blazing Saddles
NOT ALL ASIANS ARE LIKE WHAT I DESCRIBE ABOVE.
blah blah blah blah. 90 pages of projection.
#74 racial psychoanalysis.
white people love to talk about how other cultures are to “educate” the masses, especially members of a different race, on how people of different cultures act.
OH , indians love yogurt. Muslims can’t pigs because it’s haraam. Minorities are all slaves to my 18th century orientalist/eurocentric culturally relativistic viewpoints.
btw this blog was written by a white person. there is no way an asian would ever write something like this. most asian americans are so overly politcally correct and spineless that it’s disgusting.
haha yeah. White folks should just stop encouraging people not to shop at Wal-mart and the like. After all, Wal-mart is a friend of the poor. All Wal-mart wants to do is give poor people good prices on products they need. It’s not like Wal-mart is a fucked up company that is famous royally screwing its employees or anything.
this one is stupid. How exactly is voting for a party which wants to give poor people MORE rights and choices akin to treating them like they have no free will. Don’t most studies show that poorer people tend to be MORE likely to vote democrat or green party?
Ohhhhhh Nooooooooooooooo there’s NO WAY IN HELL white people actually want to see more affordable housing and health care of poor folks so they can actually have the freedom to live their lives without having to worry as much about that stuff. The only reason white people vote for canidates who push for those things is out of some sick need to make everyone a bunch of sushi-eating, proust-quoting bourgeois bohemians, and a perverse dillusion that all poor people will suddenly apply to fancy art schools by the thousand if they just don’t have to worry about freezing to death in the winter.
Satire is satire. I love satire. But this is something different. This is pure right-wing propaganda.
Bullshit.
“Satire is satire. I love satire. But this is something different. This is pure right-wing propaganda.”
IAWTC.
Yeah, but wouldn’t it be cool if we did abolish capital and seize the means to produce utopia? Fuck all that voting and green-consumer nonsense, why not we depose of politicians and the rich and take all their shit?
I feel like some white people also like this. Perhaps I’m wrong but I don’t buy the argument of Race Traitor Journal totally. Even if the construct of race prevents authentic communication between folks, it cannot change the reality of shared material and existential conditions. Can poor whites get organized into gangs, recognize their folly (voting, activism and such) and locate the real avenues for communication through their own self-interests and acting in more sensible ways? Burning cars perhaps.
“Actually, statistically, the poor still vote Democratic, and the rich still vote Republican:
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/22/income-and-voting/”
Yup. This blog can’t get that. Interesting, ain’t it?
The world would be such a better place if could all just morally rise up against our consumerism to wear, eat, sleep, mate with, and worship hemp…
oh, and Patchouli
You will never understand the poor or know what’s best for the poor,,,,until your ass is poor.
simple as that
Pretty much none of this (blog) applies to lower-middle to working-class Whites. Not even what would be construed as “upper-class” *always* likes all this dreck. I actually got a nasty comment from someone (*from this blog) named “Hugh” who chided me for the use of “construct” as a noun.
This troubled me, as I thought this blog was run by thinking-they-are-clever leftist Whites. Now I am not so sure. Whites would be familair with that usage of “construct”, but smarmy , mostly-assimilated-but-not-quite types might not.
Again, CON-struct IS a noun, con-STRUCT, the verb. If you are going to assail me, do it with something true.
“God, make my enemies ridiculous..” said Voltaire..
and “Hugh” (AKA ‘Pham Balongatrangalang’) , if you think White types like myself are insufferable, try Oakland or South Central or even San Jose .
White people take shit way too seriously. See for example: This comments section.
@mcclaud: Conservatives of this day and age are not all about the free will.
Yes they are, and they always have been. You’re confusing “free will” with “freedom” or “liberty”. They’re almost completely separate issues; one is philosophical (is it possible to make free choices), one is political (should people be stopped from making certain choices by governments).
It’s perfectly consistent to believe in free will, yet act against liberty. That’s because one is a question of what is (do people have free will) and one is a question of what ought to be (should people have liberty). That’s a gap you can’t ignore (says Hume, and I).
Too busy working my butt off to worry about poor people too much. I am sure they are perfectly able to run their own lives without the interference of everyone else.
this is such bullshit.
how are you gonna feel guilty for being white.
anyone could say the same exact things about any other race.
i read one article and this is the biggest waste of time.
get a life people. damn.
I’m white and I LOVE your site. so true, so funny. it’s good to laugh at oneself. thanks for all of the hillarious observations…
Good lord, it amazes me that there are (a lot of) people out there who take this blog at face value.
Must have pissed Jonathan Swift off too, I guess…
Okay folks, listen up. Insert tongue firmly into cheek.
Ready? Ok then, you may proceed to #63… or #61. Whatever.
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I love liberals. They happen to be hilarious. I love my conservative buddies as well. I have issues when either of these friends loose their sense of HUMOR, which a few people who responded, seem to lack.
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A modicum of research would have revealed to you that in the US most poor people ARE white people, so I guess that would mean they do “spend a significant time worrying about it”. My god, aren’t you are a hate-filled, pea-brained neaderthal.
“But it is ESSENTIAL that you reassert that poor people do not make decisions based on free will. That news could crush white people and their hope for the future.”
LMAO!!!
White people like: Overfuckingthinking every goddamned thing. (See “Lawyers” post.)
This is hysterical. I used to live in a really liberal town where people love to demonstrate about civil and human rights violations across the seas, or for the terror suspects down in Gitmo. But as for helping the poor or resolving human rights issues right in their home town or state, hell no, absolutely not! And the talk about the poor and how to help them, why they are poor, was never ending. But would they talk to us poor people about it at all? NO! They talk about us, study us, pity us, but they certainly won’t brush shoulders with us po’r folk, let alone talk to us. Hysterical.
It’s okay to be poor if you are not white. If you are white you must have done something wrong/are lazy/are stupid/all of the above. I have been navigating the social service industry both public and private for awhile now because I have a disabled child. I have learned to fear social workers who are hired for their “second language” but equally as bad are fellow white americans. ESL social workers are on a mission to help their own kind only and kick whitey’s ass; white social workers are on a mission to help the poor-little-others and kick whitey’s ass. If one is white one could not request a white social worker or an english first language social worker. But you’d likely be sorry you did anyway. I hope for black social workers who sometimes show compassion.
This is the best site ever. Thank you.
I love this blog. One example of this is the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project.
W1: What do poor children lack? Medicine? Food?
W2: Nah, it’s been done.
W1: Adequate housing?
W2: No, too expensive. Hey, my kids have like 3 computers each. Poor kids don’t even have their own laptop!
W1: What??? Holy Gee! Let’s get working on this!
this is a response to the 3rd response: Native?
Not since BlameBush! have I seen so many overeducated idiots who don’t seem to understand satire. Let me help you out; the authors of this website are making fun of liberals! Those guilty, elitist, self absorbed compassion mongers among us. Yes, it’s a target rich environment, not getting it is so white.
I’m Asian and I don’t like any of the Asian things on http://www.thinkunique.net/stuffasianpeoplelike/ but I still find it hilarious because I know a lot of Asians who are into those things. It’s a certain type of trendy middle-class yuppie Asian. So the indignant frodos and tom sawyers, chill ok? You might not be one of those Whites, but I’m sure you know a lot of them – enough for you to laugh at.
Like gold #43 said
“I’m really, really enjoying how so many of you are indignant that white people are being lumped into a monolithic group. Now you know how women, people of colour and people from the “third world” feel.”
Gold!
Some white people think they know what’s best for the poor – they tell them “Try harder, it’s America, you can be anything you want to be.” Most are on network and cable news, or they go to school with you, or work in the cube next to you.
Where’s the blog making fun of them?
I get the joke behind this website and it’s cute, but it sure did attract a lot of mouth-breathing white power fringe-type commenters.
lguerrrr would rather have 0 laptops per poor child, AND millions of undeserving dirty children without food and medicine.
Who is he trying to kid?
I think the funniest part of this site is reading the comments, and seeing what most white people REALLY like – they like bashing the poor, bashing minorities, bashing anyone who doesn’t stick to the usual script.
“119 Brent
Agreed. But as far as I know, poor people do not fall from the sky. Why don’t their parents, teachers, coaches, other community leaders and others invested in their upbringing give them the means to make the right choices?
It really isn’t rocket science.”
“Whites” don’t do that because of liberal guilt, and vilification in the form of cable news, network news, talk radio and blogs.
I’m not sure what your post is getting at. One one hand we have a blog slamming “white” people (or anyone who cares about the poor) for caring about the poor, and on the other hand you’re commenting on that same blog that people don’t do enough for the poor.
If you want to blame the parents and “community leaders” (what does that even mean? are you trying to blame other poor people? other minorities?), that’s fine, but if a poor child has no means or chance to succeed, it’s pretty damn likely that his/her parents did not either, if he/she even has one or both parents.
nerdbound (post #6): paul krugman would be a good addition to the list.
also, where is bottled water?
everytime I read this site I laugh out loud. Thanks for this.
White Trashy acts as though a) the author of this blog loves poor people because he doesn’t act, or b) since he loathes poor people, he’s a better person than white liberals who want to help them.
Do you see why this site is pure nonsense?
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he he, i like this and i am an undocumented, Colombian woman working at one of the non profits you make a reference to… don’t forget to mention white people love fooling themselves into thinking they “accept” another culture because they will eat their food or fuck their women!
i constantly have to bite my tongue when in newletters, reports and job descriptions they mention “changing the culture” of the low income communities we work with so that they *gasp* care about their children’s schooling and sending them to college!!! as if culturally, we enjoy being poor and fighting with each other for the crumbs we are allowed. I do not even think they are aware that what they mean is they wish to assimilate us so that we are exactly like them!! WHY DO YOU THINK WE ARE HERE?? here, there is supposed to be opportunity to be educated and not have to fight for survival, and that is what people want for their children – little do they realize that the racist oppression here is systematic, not the case of individual biggotry. Damn, but this blog is funny and insightful too. good job!
by the way, are you often the only white guy in the room? he he.
If any poor people would like to mow my lawn for $8.99 this weekend…I know of a great sandwich shop we can go afterward.
““changing the culture” of the low income communities we work with so that they *gasp* care about their children’s schooling and sending them to college”
That’s racist and would fit right in with the sort of thinking this blog writer would support. Do you have any idea what you read? Do you have any idea what you are saying?
Progressives don’t want assimilation, and never talk about “changing culture” to make sure that poor minorities care about sending their kids to college. That’s not the root of the problem. The root of the problem is racist white conservatives like this blog writer who make the exact same claims you’re making in your comment – it’s the “culture” of the minorities that doesn’t care about college.
See. white liberals – the people that this angry blogger hates – DON’T WANT THAT, DON’T ASSUME THAT AND DON’T SAY THAT. But angry conservative types, like this blogger – who whine about minorities taking away his rights and getting welfare and college scholarships day in and day out – ALWAYS blame the culture of minorities.
Your comment is extremely misguided.
White liberals = bad, because they want to improve conditions for the poor (be it minorities or whites)
White conservative/libertarians = good, because … they outright don’t care at all
????
Makes no sense at all
Drew:
I see i struck a vein with my comment, and thank you for shining a light on a something i potentiall may have missed, that perhaps the author of this blog ios not as well intentioned as i though. Maybe i need to read every last entry in this blog, but the author does not strike me as a conservative – maybe apathetic, or not a person who is a fighter for social justice – he could very well be one of the white people he is making fun of, who guiltily enjoys gentrification, etc.. in this particular entry, he makes a good point particularly with the last line. This may not be true for you, but i do come across people that believe that their way of being is the correct way to be, therefore if we do not act, speak and eat like them we will never “succeed” – and they also define “success” for us. When i voice concern about these issues, i do so because although i think white “progressives” are a step in the right direction (of course i prefer them to a racist conservative who really doesn’t get it), they still do not view their work as one of solidarity. I love it when i come across people who are truly in solidarity – for example, teachers who actually live in the neighborhood they teach, no matter what ethnicity they are. We pay a lot of money to “consultants” to organize groups and projects with long, fancy names in neighborhoods where they would not be caught after the sun goes down – does that sound like solidarity? why not give the money and power to the people who live there, who are in that situation every day?
Wow! Is this ever on the money.
Vote Green Party! LOL
viejachingona:
Thank you for your honesty. I am one of those teachers and community leaders who you say you respect, though, sadly, I am white (there’s nothing I can do about that, despite our free will). I’m not some humorless, sensitive, always-ranting liberal – the kind that was (sort of) lampooned in the original blog entry – but you did sort of hurt me with your comment, and I reacted strongly.
I’m sorry if I came off as very angry (I’m not). I do see where you’re coming from and I respect your input. I am with you with regards to solidarity. I don’t think I’m always right and I don’t want to impose my white culture on anyone, but I surely don’t want to be faulted for wanting to “make a difference”. That’s what set me off with this “satire”, and that’s what I perceived to be misguided about your comment. I was wrong, but that’s what I thought at first.
I thank you for not reacting to my reaction in the same knee-jerk manner that I did!
– Drew
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Thanks Drew, for recognizing my diplomacy, he he. And thanks for the opportunity to have discourse. What i think the most important point of this blog entry is that more often than not, well meaning white liberals see themselves as saviors to the communities they work with, a very misguided idea. The reason i am even able to have a job in a place like this is relative to how assimilated i am to the white way of speaking, to their ideas. I have a priviledge which many like me do not. The well meaning liberals love to think that they are leading us out of the mess we supposedly keep ourselves in, when they consistently fail to see that there is an opressive system in place so some people stay in one place, and others stay in another place, that is all. When they are called on it, they get very upset and ask, “why are you so angry?”
And that is why that last line is so damn funny!
after a great deal of consideration i have decided to rename this blog StuffPeopleWhoWentToExpensiveOrMidpricedCollegesOrSelectStateUniversitiesLikeUMassExceptMyHusbandWhoWentToWaldorfSchoolAndDidn’tGoToCollegeAtAllAndLikesAllThisStuffTooLike. Dot Com. Or whatever.
And that’s why I teach elementary school in east LA so I can tell all my students they’re going to college too so they can drink microbrews and listen to world music someday like I do.
Except they didn’t teach me how to type in these little boxes. Oh well. Mine was really funny too.
This post is so true. Thanks for pointing out what hypocrites we white people are.
I just realized I’m a conservative. I also just vomited in my mouth a little bit.
After reading this blog, I just got one that is very true.
Stuff White People Like>>Posting Racist Comments Under The Anonymity of the Internet
Read Blogs, Myspace, YouTube (responses), Forums, Chat Rooms IT’S EVERYWHERE!
viejachingona:
I guess the last line does work, but was misinterpreted by a lot of the commenters. I argue daily with peers about that sort of sentiment. White liberals have no sense of reality sometimes.
Hmmm has a good point, which again, probably applies more to the commenters than the actual blog writer.
Which is sort of funny in and of itself: a blog entry making fun of white people becomes a hotbed of anti-minority commentary in the comments… Can’t take the heat?
At the bottom of everything, the Guilty White Male fear confronting the fact that rednecks mostly exist in a social class BENEATH him. Hipness is a luxury. Being trash isn’t. Even by using the rules of liberalism–victims are saints–the redneck beats the white liberal.
–Jim Goad
_The Redneck Manifesto_ (1997)
p.246
Ideologically, the Guilty White Male is down with the program; materially, he’s still a filthy-rich imperialist Yankee hyena. His “shame of being white” is more a sort of cutesy atavistic role-playing than anything tangible. He’ll write bighearted articles about the homeless, but he won’t offer his spare bedroom. He’s tortured with guilt about hi relative leisure and affluence compared to most indigenous peoples worldwide, yet he’s not quick to pawn his cozy condo and Pentium chip in order to air-drop corn meal to the starving Pakistani peasantry. He’s outraged about the oppression of blacks, but he isn’t moving into the black slums, at least not this year. He feels terrible that the land was stolen from the Indians, but it doesn’t appear he’s giving it back anytime soon.
–Jim Goad
_The Redneck Manifesto_ (1997)
p.246
As opposed to “rednecks”, who might simply lynch all the socially oppressed groups you mentioned!
My goals in life are:
First: To make as much money as a bad lawyer (or doctor).
Second: To make enough money to become a philanthropist.
Final Goal: To make enough money to become a liberal.
Money sucks!
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Do you know the base of the republican party? Hint: it isn’t black, single mothers.
Also this blog isn’t actutaully about white people. It’s about upper-middle class, young, educated, metropolitan white people. My father, the stone mason has no aapriciation for Juno. And I saw a distinct lack of “Nascar” and “Country music” on your list.
Love this site! I wonder if I can be considered an honorary white person. I love farmers markets, am a vegan with raw foodist tendencies, love Starbucks – albeit for their soy chai tea lattes, extra foamy — I give to the poor, and recycle, especially those plastic rings from soda cans that can strangle defenseless seagulls.
Please, please, can I change my racial designation?
My great, great… grandfather James, signed the constitution of the US. This gives me extraordinary privilege as having come from one of the first American white people.
This is why I am able to live with my wife on $12,000 a year and I am not homeless any more, just disabled…yet happy!
If enough of you buy one of my songs I could go out for coffee once in a while.
Yours in aaa music, poor white man,
Bruce
I’m a high school english teacher in the projects, and I can attest firsthand, from the trenches, that REGARDLESS of political bent, much of the poor population (or the sampling I’ve seen, anyway) DO NOT like their lives and DO NOT like being poor. However, they do not care about being given the tools to build a better life, however “better” might be defined for them (to go along with our culture’s hyper relativety). They make daily CHOICES to remain in their current situation and let the government take care of them, even WHILE people are THERE, OFFERING tools to build something different for themselves.
I’m jaded, yes. It is what it is, though.
Most Rich people vote Republican, most poor people vote Democrat… it’s the other way around.
White people like funny jokes. The Republican party tends to monopolize on rich voters not poor ones. Democrats are more likely to inherit poor votes.
White people like concepts built on less fragile premises.
Definitely funny. But totally obnoxious.
LOL some people take this site waaaayyy too seriously. You white people that are in denial about this stuff, just laugh and own up to it! One should never take themselves too seriously. I live in a Puerto Rican neighborhood, and many other white people were “worried” for my safety because it is a “bad” neighborhood. When I read the Gentrification post I literally laughed out loud because I always talk about how I love the culture of my neighborhood. The exception is that I don’t own a house/loft/condo/townhome and can’t sell it when this neighborhood completely gentrifies. It is so like white people to take themselves too seriously (future post? hint, hint!)!
Doesn’t that put you in the “only white person” catagory?
Hi. I’m white, and despite having the internet I’m pretty fuxin poor. My husband and I are low income, live in a trailer, and live pay check to paycheck. He’s having to go in the army because we’re struggling so much. However, We vote democrat. Most rich people here in the South vote Republican. They don’t like it that the government lets me get 5 gallons of free milk a month since I got pregnant. Most poor people are trying to go to college and better themselves. While your blog is funny, I have to say that I feel like most white people don’t really give a damn about poor people. Sure they give donations and stuff…but do they ever really walk through a poor persons neighborhood? Hell no! They would speed out of it and lock their doors just as fast as they could. LOL.
The thing is, whether or not well meaning white people (or more accurately, well-off people) actually do know whats best for other people is beside the point. I guess what i find slightly obnoxious about the non-profit type is the rampant insensitivity to the historic struggles of poor people and of minorites throughout the world, and for all their education and know-how are often incapable of recognizing the psycological and pragmatic effects of yet again having a white person tell you whats best for you, even if they are right. I guess i just feel like there should be more emphasis on empowering minority leaders, and its curious to me that, if the point really is to help people, this doesn’t occur more. So then i wonder, is the point really to help people, or is the goal simple self satisfaction?
We white people should become more comfortable with our white culture so that we can enjoy this type of humor (and fight white racist attitudes/frameworks in our society). Its ok to be white and righteous!
This blog is hilarious. All these deep, political comments from people who take it seriously make it even more hilarious.
Haha. I’ve spent the last two days looking for non-profit jobs. Kudos.
this sarcasm is great…but i’m not white and i support or am interest in most of the stuff on here. i don’t think that make me white…hey all of china rides on bikes….and sushi is delicious…and i love echo park….wait i went to art school and my family is poor as fuck!…but really wine tasting parties, now that’s lame…and please don’t just stand there, you paid $20 to get in…just because you like hiphop doesn’t mean you’re black…and us asians aren’t impressed by your interest in feng shui or young asian girls
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Of course I find the blog mostly humorous, but I thank Tom Sawyer and the Anonymous post for their insights. I too was offended by the jabbing suggestion that poor people, if given the choice, would continue to work at McDonald’s. That’s an insult to them, not the intended targets. And I also find it annoying that being anti-Wal-Mart, etc has been jokingly labeled as “cool” instead of practical. It’s trashy and it ruins communities, I don’t see why that and the entire liberal agenda is often seen as a joke.
On the other hand, I have noticed that a lot of youngsters have jumped on the liberal band wagon seemingly for the image, some going so far as to proclaim themselves as “hippies” at the age of 16. That group is just begging for ridicule. And they’re the ones who make the rest of us look like idiots.
wow…. Tom Sawyer I didn’t even bother reading half the delusional diatribe you wrote. You do realize you sound like the White counterpart of the Angry Asian Male you are talking about right? Are you bitter and angry because you are assuming the author of this blog might be bitter and angry?
I am going to let you in on a secret as to why other Asians might seem hostile to the Japanese, a little thing called WW2. The generations today don’t harbor the same ill will towards Japanese people, so again you have been sadly misinformed. And if White people have not noticed by now, loving Japan is now a cliche. Deep down we all love Japan for its futuristic and quirky image, but White people are the only ones obsessed with Japan enough to instinctively defend their love for Japan.
Guys like ITAL are complete mouth breathing morons.
OK so let me get this straight – We have a so-called “funny” blog entry that gets bombarded by dozens of anti-poor and anti-minority commenters immediately after it’s posted, then only after that do a few “political” commenters chime in… and the serious, non-racist commenters are the whackjobs and a$$holes???
Guys like that are scum and are the reason for this country being a piece of shit.
I am offended at the term “White” to signify the fact that I am a Caucasian. I prefer the more politically correct terms “Oppressor American”, “Evil guy in Movies American”, “Working, Taxpaying American” or “Knows how to set the digital clock on a VCR American” (archaic).
Thank you and have a nice day.
People (rich/poor, black/white, etc.) should not be shopping at Walmart anyway. If they do they’re clearly self-destructive and need to be put down for the greater good. Yes…. the greater good… >:)
@Daniel: What about “Invade… err ‘Liberator’ American?”
I love farmers markets.
Stuffblackpeoplelike:
1.Fruity drinks: fruity sodas, fruity juices, fruity cheap wine. It’s all good!
2. Lotions: Any skin lotion (especially free samples)
3. Fruit flavored cigars: especially grape or pineapple flavor.
4. Donks: take a 10 year old American sedan (Cadillacs are best), put a $6000 paint job on it (preferably a non standard color), add a $6000 stereo system, and $6000 22 inch chrome spinning rims on it.
5. Large containers of malt liquor: Must be at least 40 onces! High alcohol content/ low price is a bonus.
6. Zoot suits: uniquely tailored men’s suits (with matching hat if possible). Suit must have extra buttons, be of a non standard color (can you say magenta?), be of an extra long length, have non standard collar.
7. Yell: it doesn’t matter if it is in a parking lot, at home, at a movie, or at the 7-11, loud verbal communication is prized.
8. Litter: it may be a protest against the man but littering is an acceptable form of oppression.
9. Not tipping: whether it’s at IHOP, Chez Pierre, or the airport, tipping is a big no no. (plus the waiter won’t say/do squat)
sorry, list above #9 should read “expression” not “oppression”
A hyuk hyuk
Guys, this is a “satire” website. It makes jokes and observations, mostly about upperclass white liberals. Even if he was serious, yes, we all know there are exceptions in life and most observations don’t apply 100% of the time. Most of us have known that since 1st grade. Get a life people.
Ahahahaha, while reading this site I was drinking from my Nalgene water bottle!
I am so called white and I don’t agree with all of your remarks, but why quibble. I thank you so much for the lesson. I thinks its wonderful now to blame races for the inequities of the planet. Nationalities don’t count, all cultural groups have hurt, hunted or tried to destroy all others, there are no innocent peoples on this planet. Perhaps the only innocent are those giving birth and children. I think you would love to play the fool in life and blame the histories of bloodshed and terror on “whites” but this is not a accurate portrayal.
“Some have had a deep conviction of their destiny…and in that conviction have prospered
but when they cease to act as a instrument and think of themselves as the active source of what they do.. their pride is punished by disaster… the conquest of destiny leaves us with a mystery but it is a mystery not contrary to Eden.. for it implies that the world and the course of human history have meaning
Only in humility, charity and purity can we be prepared to recieve the grace of God …without this human operation ordained” T.S.Elliot
While this was mildly amusing, it’s really incorrectly titled. It should be called “what yuppies like” since successful urban people of all races fall into almost all of these categories. And if anyone has ever traveled to other industrialized countries in Europe they would realize this isn’t unique to American culture. What I don’t really understand however is why everyone seems to have such a problem with it. Are the habits of working class or poor people somehow better? Is not wanting to recycle, not caring about poor people, not traveling, not being ineterested in food from other cultures, etc. somehow superior? The very idea seems pretty ridculous to me. I can understand how it makes a poor person feel better to try to mock the mroe progressive behaviors of the priviledged classes, so I don’t blame the people posting to this site, but there’s no need to write paragraph after paragraph trying to rationalize how any of these things really are somehow bad or mainstream or “white”. Maybe some of you should consider that these ideas may be a little more developed then your own.
In the post modern world the narrative states emphatically that whites are bad. End of discussion. Next question?
Wow, this is absolutely amazing to me!! Why couldn’t the title be what some people like. You have to be kidding me that in 2008 we are STILL trying to find ways to separte people by race. It’s pathetic to think that this type of article is necessary. Expensive sandwiches??? Who are we kidding? People of ALL races spend money on what and who they WANT to spend money on. The idea that these are the things white people like is very disheartening. I know black people and white people alike that both enjoy and do not enjoy these things.
This cracks me up; partly becuase it is so true, and partly because some of the comments; isn’t is possible to just think something is funny, and realte, but not turn it into this ridiculous politiacl arena? Yes, it is a stereotype-one that “we” propogate. Yes, it should be different, but it isn’t.
On that “white people and water stuff”. Those who question me about my “bottle”…Pssst. Shushhhhh! It’s vodka, dummy…soothes, disinfects, brings a buzz and…I AWAYS reuse the bottle at least a couple dozen times before discarding it. Save the earth? I’m busy working on me.
“This cracks me up; partly becuase it is so true, and partly because some of the comments; isn’t is possible to just think something is funny, and realte, but not turn it into this ridiculous politiacl arena? Yes, it is a stereotype-one that “we” propogate. Yes, it should be different, but it isn’t.”
What does politiacl arena mean? I’ve never seen it spelled that way.
Dummy, none of the early comments here were “Hey! Don’t discriminate against whites! I hate satire!”
All of the early comments said, “Haha the poor suck, minorities suck, any liberal who wants to help the poor sucks.”
Thus, the so-called “politiacl” comments began, in response to all of the racist, conservative junk that came out initially.
what a load of bullshit
fuck america
also to the comment just above he obviously meant to spell political. why are you such a dick
Well i’m a POOR Korean American Republican!
you are perpetuating racism…well done (or not).
i know many rich people who also shop at wal-mart…but because they are thrifty and don’t care about the “name” or status so much. does that mean that liberal white people should feel bad for them too?
your ramblings about white people may seem humorous and even accurate to the dim-witted, upon examination it is nothing but racist filth. deep down you surely have some insecurities about, well it seems everything that white people do, i feel bad for you (like a white person should?) and hope that you can empower yourself to have a more productive role in society.
congratulations on expanding bigotry, it’s just what this country needs.
I don’t know about this truth, but WHITE PEOPLE DO LOVE EXPENSIVE SANDWHICHES!
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I think the reason why this particular entry is so dumb is because 99.9% of white people don’t give a sh*t about the poor.
And the reason why the comments are so dumb is that this is indeed a “politcial” post, even if it is “satire”, so to get upset that people are leaving “politcial” comments is really pathetic.
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Don’t get me wrong, racist/stereotypical/satirical jokes can be funny if you have a sense of humor, with white, black, jew, etc. at the butt of it. But someone dedicated a WHOLE lot of time to this huge “joke” which makes it less funny- it is so contrived, and goes beyond a funny punchline… Chris Rock/Dave Chappelle/ Eddie Murphy can pull off funny white jokes. Some dumb white 21 year old hipster from Williamsburg cannot.
what the fuck are you white people talking about?
Poor people vote Repuglican? First I’ve heard (except for the Sweet Jeezus poor people who believe Dems kill babies and force happily married people to divorce and ‘marry’–in quotes, always–people of the same gender).
Oh man, this is perfect. And to put a cherry on top, there are a bunch of real-life white people arguing with you (oftentimes on ethical grounds and frequently utilizing facts and figures). I mean: “whats equally as maddening about this prescription of success is that it hinges on some popular contemporary homogenization of means and trends in society at large…” Are you paying these people to comment on here? Damn this site is funny.
Oh, by the way, to the dude(/ette?) implying that only black people have the authority to make fun of whites: give me a fucking break! Racial satire is colorblind! Let us all join hands together! Lampoon the world!
David:
I agree, lampoon the world!
I’m not saying that black people “only have the authority to make fun of whites”. The very manner in which this website is written is exactly the same manner in which the satire makes fun… which for me, makes it fail as a joke. Racial satire is not colorblind for this reason in this instance. I see a white, immature kid looking for attention having written this.
An example I DO find funny is:
blackpeopleloveme.com, clearly a slam on whites, but FUNNY. You can’t tell here whether it’s black making fun of white, or white making fun of white. Nor does it matter, because either way, it’s funny.
sorry, that’s http://www.blackpeopleloveus.com.
Was this site created by the the NAACP? Or some other white hating racists? It sure sounds like it. I can’t imagine anymore heavily guilt-laden white man wanting to beat down his own race anymore. Some of you idiots on this site should be proud of your European heritage as I am.
Look at the art, sciences, literature, exploration, inventions, mathematics, agriculture, astronomy, that have all been from Europeans. That’s the short list.
Wise up white brothers and sisters and lose the guilt and self-loathing. It’s pathetic.
Whites have made this world more advanced and helped millions around the globe. I don’t want to hear anymore about Hilter or white settlers wiping out the American Indians. No one will ever forget those idiots that drug Africans to our country, but at the same time I’m sick of you youngsters reveling in that history. And….why don’t you read something besides Ward Churchill’s crap and learn your history. It was blacks who sold out blacks to countries all over the globe, not just America, and it was blacks and Native Americans who had the largest slave crews in America. You didn’t know that I bet!! Slavery was wrong, but not just a white issue. I’m sick of being blamed for crap I never did, that my parents, or grandparents, great-grandparents, or even great-great-grandparents never were involved in. And I’ve done my family’s geneology to know!!
Whites care more about blacks than blacks care about blacks. Whites have created jobs for those too lazy to get an education. Whites are killed more by blacks than by other whites.
I suggest a much better website to you called “European American Issues Forum” so that whites can regain their much deserved pride. I hold my head up high from these damned liberal shame lovers. Go bury your heads in the sand. You are a discredit to our race. Go paint yourself black if that would make you feel better. Wear your pants so low that only your pubic hairs hold them up. That should erase your pathetic guilt for being born white.
One more thing…….Mexicans did not get their land stolen from them. The Treaty of Guadalupe paid Mexico for lands they couldn’t even manage and had previously asked Americans to settle on. We paid 15 million dollars for the land during the signing of the treaty and wrote off 3 million in claims against Mexico. If we hadn’t won that war with our rag-tag bunch of Irishmen who sometimes didn’t even have shoes (as opposed to Santa Ana’s huge freaking army) then Russia, France or Britain would have gotten California for sure. Russia already had posts up in the San Francisco area and wanted to claim the state for their country. Too bad. Our poor army beat Santa Ana back to Mexico City. We should have kept that too from the looks of how Mexico treats their own people!! Then Santa Ana stole all their money and went to live in New York. By the way…..Mexico took over California and the southewest from Spain. They didn’t pay any money to Spain either. So, who stole land and who didn’t?
Also, look up Kennwick Man. He is another example of whites being on our continent thousands of years before the first so called Indigenous Indians. But heaven forbid that anyone would have the guts to change history to reflect that Indians possibly WEREN’T the first to arrive in our continent.
Buck up folks and get proud!! Do your family’s geneology and see the old heros that lived in your family’s history. Quit knocking my (your) race. I’m sick of it.
These articles are bogus propaganda. Wise up.
Stacy
Southern California Proud White Woman
Let’s turn this website into something whites can be proud of eh?
Write something positive. If not, then just go home and shut yourself up in your room and talk to minority on myspace.com. But shut up.
What is wrong with all of you?! this website is beyond lame.
ADD TO THIS LIST!
Stuffblackpeoplelike:
1.Fruity drinks: fruity sodas, fruity juices, fruity cheap wine. It’s all good!
2. Lotions: Any skin lotion (especially free samples)
3. Fruit flavored cigars: especially grape or pineapple flavor.
4. Donks: take a 10 year old American sedan (Cadillacs are best), put a $6000 paint job on it (preferably a non standard color), add a $6000 stereo system, and $6000 22 inch chrome spinning rims on it.
5. Large containers of malt liquor: Must be at least 40 onces! High alcohol content/ low price is a bonus.
6. Zoot suits: uniquely tailored men’s suits (with matching hat if possible). Suit must have extra buttons, be of a non standard color (can you say magenta?), be of an extra long length, have non standard collar.
7. Yell: it doesn’t matter if it is in a parking lot, at home, at a movie, or at the 7-11, loud verbal communication is prized.
8. Litter: it may be a protest against the man but littering is an acceptable form of expression.
9. Not tipping: whether it’s at IHOP, Chez Pierre, or the airport, tipping is a big no no. (plus the waiter won’t say/do squat).
…..and who the hell is stacy above? Your insane if you are this offended by the this site. the NAACP? My white brothers and sisters? Who says things like this. Fighting lame with equally lame is well um LAME!
BTW stace….it’s totes obvious that this site was totally made up by some white rich kids.
Poor people vote democrat, not republican.
This is some of the most amazing subtle humor via blog I have come across in quite some time. I think everyone knows that this is how a lot of white people come across.
I have really big, ethnic curly, afro with ringlets hair. I have to say that almost every time a white person compliments my hair I can hear them change their voice to sound more “ethnic”. (although it would make more since for them to speak Spanish to me as I am Puerto-Rican) It’s as if they can go home resting assured that they are not a racist because they embraced diversity by way of complimenting my hair. Now they are officially a better person than their parents were.
Funny thing though, this is the same hair that had me going home in tears, because the white kids in my private school class liked to throw things in my hair to see if it would stick, they called me “Shafreak” and every time I left class I was picking some eraser, spitball, paper and sometimes gum out of my hair.
But this isn’t about me or my hairdo. This isn’t about some white people’s attempt to right the wrongs of their ancestors by openly accepting my blackness with their painted compliments. It’s about common respect.
So I’ll make a deal with white people now. I won’t bring up slavery, I’ll pretend the hot tub in your second house doesn’t even exist, hell, I won’t even mention your ancestors and the colossal failure of Ronald Reagan if you would just do the following:
1) speak to me in your own chipper Caucasian voice
2) if you like my hair just say it, I don’t need to hear about your trip to Egypt, and how you have a few black friends with hair like mine. You don’t have to prove to me you aren’t a racist. I probably won’t see you again, and I honestly don’t care. It doesn’t affect me in the least.
3) Just keep it real, please. For the sake of your dignity and everyone else’s nerves.
Cheers;)
Wow. Someone took a bog-standard Republitard Fox News pseudo-comedy whinge of the way “liberals” behave, and replaced the word “liberal” with “white people”, so now it’s totally edgy and true, right?
Morons.
Most of the posts on this blog are pretty humorous, but this one is actually quite poignant. I’ve spent a lot of time trying to figure out what’s best for poor people, but in all of my volunteering and working for non-profits I haven’t been able to! Maybe what’s best for poor people is to let them figure it out on their own.
You people are nuts. Get a dictionary, look up satire and quit taking this shit so seriously!
es true (yuck, yuck, snort, lololol) – read “white man’s burden” by william easterly===========great site wizard!
I think it’s funny that this site is basically dedicated to self abosrbed, guilty white, liberal ellitists. You should have asked the white people who actually have guts and don’t have to be led around by the nose by political correctness.
The white people I know:
Men- actually still have a brass pair (eventhough we are married)
Women- work or stay at home and have full lives and don’t spend time naval gazing. They still watch the View, and their men (mainly me) can stand that.
We love to kill animals with high powered rifles and shot guns. Then we bar b q them while we drink Shiner Bock, Rolling Rock, or Dos XX. However, we are refined enought to know to marranate wild game and dear in wine 🙂
We like to make fun of people who think the world is days away from emploding based on fictitious global warming supposidely caused by oil. (Who will bet me their mortage that Manhatten will not be under water in five years. I bet you dollar for dollar, sq. ft. for sq. ft. my house is worth as much as yours)
The white people I know tell thier children that the little baby growing in mommy’s tummy is actually a real living breathing human being and not just a glob of tissue to be ripped out .
The white poeple I know still open doors for ladies, still stand up when they come to the table, and tell them they look pretty at work, without fear of being accused of sexual harrassment.
The white people I know like to show their daughter’s prospective boy-friends how we clean my guns. We also like to tell them we accidentally shot our friend while dove hunting and then say, “you want to go hunting?” (Dick Cheney eat your heart out)
The White poeple I know like to make fun of vacuous, empty-headed politicians like Barak Hussein Obama who spout “change” when what they really mean is “we’re going to steal more money from people (white or black) so we can force more lips onto the government utter.”
We also like the orchestra, classical music, art galleries, and jazz music. Wow! that doesn’t sound like a red-neck!
We also like to work late once or twice a week so we can make a lot of money. Which reminds me, I need to get back to work.
Goodnight!
Wow, some of the reactions are even funnier than the post.
The divide reminds me of of the tone I hear on Amazon. and AnthropicGW sites. 🙂
Btw I’m from Holland and it has probably been said here, but the reaction that really makes me laugh is: If this was was a site about black/yellow/green people it would be viewed as a racist site. Viewed by whom? My take is by the same people who react that make this site extra funny.
On a more serious note, a Dutch politician has made an anti- Islam film and has serious problems getting his message out.Of course by fanatical Islamists (who want him beheaded!),
but also by white politicians who want to keep their hands clean (but not their so called principles)
WHITE PEOPLE are DUMB and STUPID. They dont like TAP water but they love to LICK BUTTS> hahahahahahahaha.
Stuff White people like, BUTT Licking.
Stuff white people like, Cock Sucking.
Stuff white poeple like, CUM swallowing.
Stuff white people like, Eating Fast food and asking for diet coke.
VERY VERY LAME AND STUPID.
Stuff white people like, try to make themselves look smart even though they are dumbest and stupidest people on this planet.
White people wants to mess everythig up in this world.
I’m white. Your blog makes me laugh. I just ordered a water bottle from that website.
– 😀
Suggestions:
-Foreign physical disciplines: Martial Arts, Bickram Yoga, Tai Chi
-Dirty Dancing (I challenge you to find a singular white female who does not like this horrific movie and it’s accompanyingly hellish soundtrack i.e. “I’ve had the time of my life and I’ve never felt this way before, and I swear it’s the truth, and I owe it all to you”)
-Expensive jeans with tears/ “authenticly pre-worn” looking clothes. It’s as if you’re buying the right to look as if you thought those style of clothes were cool before everyone else thought so. The proof is that they look like they’re five years old, therefore, you’re five years ahead of everyone else’s fashion sensibilities.
-Scents of various kinds in various products
MORE SUGGESTIONS:
-Organic!
-Therapy (whether it be of either the physchological, physical or “aroma” varieties)
-Moby’s album “Play” (honestly, is there one white person who does not own this album?)
-two words: HOME IMPROVEMENT
Reply to reply #6 for nerdbound:
What’s wrong with me? I’m one of the poor white folk and I vote Republican?
#248, what is wrong with butt licking? Most women seem to enjoy it.
your comments are moronic
Re: Post 245
Tim must be from Alberta. Go Oilers! Go Ford F350 Superduty! Go oil sands! Go xenophobia! Go sustainability! Go giver get it done!
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#62
In this blog I think there saying that every one who shops at Wal-Mart is talking money from local business. Infect that is true because if it cost to much at a store just sells that one thing you want what do you do? Go to Wal-Mart and get it cheaper because everyone knows Wal-Mart has low, low prices. So when they say poor people shop at Wal-Mart there saying there to poor to get it at the regular store. Which makes it harder for other business to compete and after a while they go out of business. Then when they say white people try to turn poor people white it’s because they won’t to buy the things they won’t from the regular stores. And when they say poor people make bad choices they mean they make bad choice with there money because they have the extra money by shopping at Wal-Mart.
I’m white and I happen to think its not my responsibility to “improve the situation” of the poor – if they really WANTED to improve their situation, they would find a way to do so. People who are just going to sit around waiting for handouts sure as hell won’t get any from me.
I’ve had to work hard and earn my money and my life – they can do the same. And I don’t really care what color they are.
Great post!
It makes me think of this whole socialist movement in our world today. The rich people of this country are telling third world countries that Global Warming is bad and that they should never industrialize, meanwhile their people are dying from malaria and dirty water.
Awesome!
Well i think that other races really dont care about poor people which means if it isnt family then they dont care and most people don’t be going to community colleges if you notice that there are some rich people going to community colleges
I believe that it is discriminating against poor people or any kind of people who are not rich. First of all, all rich white people shouldn’t judge because poor people sleeps outside or have nothing to eat because we need poor people to live on the streets so other people including rick white people to have a decent pay.If nobody was poor in the world we wouldn’t have some one to get rid of waste. Second of all, if you are poor you wouldn’t be going to wallmart, you wouldn’t have any money to buy any thing. And just because people go to wallmart dosen’t mean they are poor, I go to wallmart and I’m not either poor or rich.
Tom Sawyer #45. I know it hurts, but pretty sure it’s blogged by
a) a woman
b) a white woman
c) a white Canadian woman.
Oh snap, I just made a list. How very white.
Keep up the good work! Love it!
p.s. Tom Sawyer; the reason I make this guess is that Canadians can have a good laugh at themselves, AND the blogger mentions Canadian cities that most Americans wouldn’t know about, care about, or be able to spell. On that note, please don’t move here, we don’t want anymore of you. I think you’re ok and all, but you take yourself too seriously. *Sorry.*
I think this really gets at the heart of whiteness.
21 Bob Blanche:
“. . . all white people will be bread . . .”
and all people of color will be the Vegamite.
” . . . your pale butt . . .”
yeah, and what shade is yours, Blanche?
And the rest of you – poor people don’t vote Republican, they don’t vote Democrat; they don’t vote at all unless a precinct captain takes them to WalMart for a big mac & fries, and Chinese dermo-destroyer flip-flops.
Idiots.
Clander, you white fool, ha ha ha! Why is it certain people love to think they are so different and edgy by critiquing the entirety of a group which has people of over 100 different nations and speaking over 100 native languages? Does it takes away your white guilt? Ironic, because only someone who thinks they are superior and ‘above it all’ writes like this. When this joke gets old, will you go back to stereotyping Asians and Arabs?
I dont even really know what the point is of post #265. What are they talking about? Do they have any good meth left that I can hit? Are there any horsesocks?
I know exactly what you are saying chinagrrl. See posts 228, 231, 232.
I am white and I have no white guilt whatsoever. The only white people that claim they know what is best for the poor are the democrats because they want to keep all the poor people under thier thumb letting all of the welfare leaches on the ass of society stay that way completely dependent on the democrats. All they want is the power of having all of these poor people vote for them to keep them in power because that is all that they care about. They do not care about the welfare leaches. You cannot say that all poor vote democrat and all rich vote republican. Welfare people vote democrat because they want to be lazy son’s of bitches for the rest of their lives. The rich hollywood people vote democrat because they are the guilty white folks because they make millions of dollars just for being able to act or sing. They have millions and mansions but you don’t see them giving any of that up to help the poor. You don’t see them living in $200k houses and giving the rest away.
You stupid people on here that don’t have anything better to do but complain about white people. I think that is called sour grapes and you really should get over it and get a life and work on making yourself a better person instead of playing the poor victim status. This is how the democrats have controlled you so you all are playing right into their hands of being controlled by them. You all need to learn to get over it. The only people keeping the poor people down are themselves. Get rid of welfare and if you don’t like the country that you are living in then get the F&%k out of it and go somewhere else where you got to live in shacks.
…and to the person who said white people are stupid. HA. That is why every major corporation that I go into has a white/asian/indian work force of about 99% and it is not because they are racist. Why aren’t there any blacks in corporations except for 1%? It is because this 1% is striving to better themselves and not play, I aints getting myself into no’s white person world, I’s staying black and getting into drugs, f’ing women and making nuther 20 kids on welfare.
I think it’s funny that people get sooo up in arms about this web site… You went on a site that is titled ” stuff white people like”! what do you think it’s going to be about? If you know you’re going to get crazy and self righteous about it, turn off your goddamned computer or go to a Humanitarian site of some sort to soothe your darker side, or just say 12 hail mary’s and everything should be o.k. in a few minutes…
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Forcing a Wal-Mart to go shut down? That is really funny stuff!
Jesus Christ you people are all fucking retarded
To Tom Sawyer:
You just wish you were Asian.
everyone knows that stereotypes are the highest form of comedy. Way to reach for the stars retard
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What about the white people who *are* poor, and are more concerned about breaking the cycle of domestic violence, and finding a way to treat the mentally ill that doesn’t force pills down their throats when therapy would work much better in the long term big picture?
http://heroesnotzombies.wordpress.com/category/health/
wait, so what do POOR white people spend their time doing?
…especially poor people who aren’t white.
Go bob blanche #21
“conscious nothingness”
damn that is good
I only want to help poor people get up on their feet because I’m tired of getting begged twice on every corner in the city!
Don’t get me wrong, if I could get money for begging as much as I do for selling insurance, I’d be doing nothing on the corner with the rest of em.
Poor white person?
sounds like crystal meth to me
have you read democracy in america? may you should do it.
i think your posts may seem intriguing at first glance, but they are mostly pretty absurd.
I go to Walmart, like a lot of other white people i know. I love it! I also go to the farmer’s market though, about once a week, and I grow some food myself. But I’m a redneck, and we’re not quite white. I think there’s a book about that.
Everyone take a chill pill and watch Trading Places. Hahaha!
“Sounds like crystal meth to me.” Nah, just starving college students, one of which is an artist.
Poor people vote Republican? White people vote Democratic? I never knew!
Also, I think you’re leaving out the poor white people. Actually, it wasn’t until I was 15 that a black person moved into the trailer park in my town. You’re right though, all the church people immediately set up a fund to help them make a better life.
haha- there is some truth.
I love this website but this post isn’t very good. It is focused on a very small group of a certain kind of rich white person.
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Re post 286: I certainly don’t vote Republican! They are catagorizing, generalizing. I just hope they do have the grace to admit that there are quite a few exceptions to their “rules”.
As an someone born in Africa, I do know, and many Africans notice, that alot of white people come from different countries trying to give us money to fix the problems that THEY think are important.
For example, there are lots of money and programs (think BUSH’s recent trip to Africa) for AIDS & MALARIA, but more people die in Africa everyday from unclean drinking water than those two combined.
But saying “I gave money for AIDS” makes people feel much more special than saying they gave out alot of brita water filters. :)P
– TG
http://blogger2.earthwalkersmag.com/
White people care too much about poor people. I think that poor people deserve no sympathy what so ever. The reason they need no sympathy is because they don’t deserve anything better. Most likely the poor person is poor because he or she dropped out of highschool. Now ten years later they are homeless because they chose not to get an education. The majority of homeless people are white. If the majority was black, white people wouldnt care about poor people. Poor people are poor for a reason !
Another 50 comments from mouth-breathing neanderathals, and I still contend that the racist and anti-poor comments after the blog are more indicative of whites than the actual blog.
And to all the people that say, “Lighten up, it’s just a joke” – NO ONE (except racist Stacy) is upset that they’re making fun of white people. It’s that this particular post is wrong-headed, Fox News, Larry the Cable Guy type comedy. It’s not funny. It’s not true. You’re basically bashing white liberal/progressives for caring about the poor, while lauding those who turn their back and don’t give a shit.
Also, the “it’s just a joke” defense has got to be the most braindead response to anything.
To all of those who comment on my comment, I would like to say, pre-emptively, that it was just a joke, therefore any response you have to it is null and void.
“White people care too much about poor people. I think that poor people deserve no sympathy what so ever. The reason they need no sympathy is because they don’t deserve anything better. Most likely the poor person is poor because he or she dropped out of highschool. Now ten years later they are homeless because they chose not to get an education. The majority of homeless people are white. If the majority was black, white people wouldnt care about poor people. Poor people are poor for a reason !”
This is ACTUALLY what white people think about poor people.
The blog entry is misguided because its own comments prove how white people actually think about poor people.
Explain this to me:
When a white person donates to charity, or supports anti-poverty measures – he or she is a pompous liberal jackass who is telling the poor how to live and thinks he knows what’s best for them.
Fair enough.
But – when white Republican scum say, “Get a job, try harder, America is the land of opportunity, don’t blame society” to a poor person, they’re not claiming to know what’s best for poor people? They’re not making a judgment themselves? That is fucking dumb.
White people love… double standards.
Drew, who are you arguing with? That was the whole point of the blog entry.
The commenters, mostly, for not really getting it.
Also myself.
Wanting Wal-Mart to stop shutting out locally owned businesses is not a white thing, it’s a conscious thing. I feel bad if anyone shops at Wal-Mart, because it means that Wal-Mart continues to thrive, with it’s underpaying workers and forcing companies to lower their prices thereby lowering the wages of the workers in their factories, therefore forcing people to live on less money so that they can’t afford to shop anywhere but Wal-Mart. It’s a vicious cycle that needs to end.
LOL!! Another thing white people love is making boring, over intellectualized comments on things intended to be comical or trivial so they sound really smart and possibly because its the only time they really get to use their over priced liberal arts education. Or on the flip side…they just call you a dirty word. Great and hilarious site!!
After spending years of painstaking research for my Ph.D on ‘Poor People’ I concluded that people without much money are poor. The less money people have the poorer they are.
The more money people have the less poor they are.
That summerises my research.
From this research I conclude that generally the more money people have the richer they are, compared to some people who have less. who can be categorized as poor.
There is no reason however to conlude that just because someone holds up a sign on a footpath they are poor, or rich.
They might not be white either, thats just you’re assumptions and prejudices showing through. They could have been feeling a bit peeky on the day of the photoshoot, they could be Albino, or perhaps from Iceland.
I can’t believe 296 people have written before me.
Love to you all,
Tom
“LOL!! Another thing white people love is making boring, over intellectualized comments on things intended to be comical or trivial so they sound really smart and possibly because its the only time they really get to use their over priced liberal arts education. Or on the flip side…they just call you a dirty word. Great and hilarious site!!”
It’s called sophistication? British sense of humor?
Not all white people are so elitist. I mean, where does the fact that TONS of white people shop at Wal-Mart enter into this?
What about white republicans? There’s a shit load of em you know.
Think George Bush goes to Whole Foods?
I’m white and I don’t even pretend to care about poor people. I even walk past homeless people and shoot them an angry look when they ask me for money. That makes me just like all of you, except more honest.
Yeah, I’m white and this is some bullshit
are u suggesting that there are not people that are disadvantaged in our society? or that our country should not attempt to remedy this?
i’m confused. i don’t find this funny.
Same!
And I have a great sense of humor!
Nothing against people from Iceland. Thinking about it, they are probably quite ruddy in complexion given the wind and cold, so sorry Icelanders.
I met a guy in oilskins, black boots and a harpoon gun in the middle of Jerusalem a few years back. From Norway actually. He was looking a bit lost, but I helped him with his map and pointed him in the direction of the Wailing Wall.
Tom
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I was the only person in my grad program who actually openly admitted going to Wal-Mart. I wasn’t about to drive 20 miles to the Whole Foods every shopping trip on a $1,000/semester stipend.
I’m white and I don’t claim to know what’s best for poor people but I might have a few valid suggestions.
Several years ago I read an article in _The Economist_ on this topic. A british think-tank or university had come to America to study poverty. They concluded that a person’s chances of escaping poverty in America were virtually gauranteed in they’d do three things: complete high school; not have children out of wedlock; not fall into the welfare-trap–work at _something_ no matter how low-paying it is in the beginning.
I read that and thought to myself “if that’s true then how much _better_ might their chances of escaping poverty be if they abstained from the various self-destructive behaviors like drugs, alcohol, smoking, gambling and crime.”
My mother was one of ten children (eight of whom survived to adulthood) born into extreme–I’m tempted to say ***real***– poverty in depression-era east Texas. If in 1940 (or ’50 or ’60) you had told her that in the future there would be millions of Americans who had plumbing, electricty, refrigerators, telephones, televisions, a laundry-list of government assistance programs, preferential admissions to universities, their kids wearing $150 sneakers(!)…and that these people were “poor”…she’d have thought that you were either joking or a raving lunatic.
She and her seven siblings all escaped poverty. Without exception all eight of them (1) completed high school, (2) had no children out of wedlock and (3) never went on welfare.
Growing up my family would’ve been described as either working-class or lower-middle-class. I’m a college graduate. My parents didn’t contribute a dime to my education. I didn’t qualify for any scholarships or grants. I put myself through college by first spending three years in the army and earning the G.I. Bill education benefits, serving in the army reserve while in college and working summer & Christmas-break jobs. I took out no student-loans and when I graduated I had zero debt (of any kind whatsoever).
I’m the father of two sons, ages 18 & 20. The six big pitfalls for a teen are drugs, alcohol, smoking, sex, crime and dropping out of school. Neither of my sons is going to be the next Bill Gates but I’m pleased to say that they both escaped all six of those pitfalls. (Their mother was & is an evil shrew but I’ll give her credit for getting them to church at least twice a week). The oldest is in his second year of college; the youngest graduates from h.s. this May.
That’s my $0.02 of advice for the poor. –Jeff in Houston, Texas
Decent advice that only has a faint hint of racist undertones. Not a bad job. You should write for this blog!
Congrats on your life man. There are thousands of poor black kids whose parents were on welfare that have similar success stories. I really don’t get what you’re trying to say.
If a mom has to stay home with her kids, she can’t work, so she has to go on welfare. But you say welfare is wrong. So she goes to work. But then her kids are home alone. Then she is a bad mother. Either way, the kid is too poor to get a good education.
Sure there are exceptions. Congrats again on your life man. But as a nation, we shouldn’t allow kids to be doomed. We shouldn’t allow them to be failures from the get-go. We shouldn’t blame their parents.
And we shouldn’t blame welfare for keeping them down. That is ridiculous. In all cases, welfare is necessary and beneficial. Just like your exceptional success story, it is a rarity that people abuse the welfare system. That was a myth perpetuated in the 80’s by small government proponents.
Also, things were TERRIBLE in your era for poor black kids, so it’s really shaky to compare your life to theirs.
And it’s another tenuous comparison, to compare putting yourself through school back then to doing the same now. I had a middle-class upbringing, I worked part-time jobs since I was 15, and still couldn’t pay for school, and still owe thousands of dollars on loans to various financial institutions. Things are different now. Don’t try to fool yourself into thinking it’s easier now.
Drew, you make a number of valid points. I was aware of most of them when I was writing my comment but didn’t want to write “_War and Peace_.”
And please bear in mind the way that I began my comment. I said that I didn’t claim to know what was best for poor people but that I might have a few valid suggestions. They _are_ valid suggestions but I acknowledge that they aren’t some sort of magic formula that if followed would enable everyone to escape poverty. No less a person than Jesus Christ said that “the poor are with us always.”
I’m reminded of a saying that goes “Before you can drain a swamp you first have to build a dam.” Before you can drain a swamp you first have to stop or divert the water supply that’s keeping the swamp…a swamp.
How do we break the cycle of poverty? What keeps the poor poor? It’s not just one thing, like dropping out of high school, as someone suggested above. It’s many things and I don’t claim to know them all or how to fix them (although I have some thoughts).
If you were to do a mass-testing of that group of people known as the poor I think that you’d find an above-average occurence of learning-disabilities like ADD, dyslexia, bipolar-disorder, depression, anger-management and impulse-control issues. You’d probably find an above-average occurence of babies born to mothers with substance-abuse issues and of course, absent fathers.
I’m not an econmist or a social-scientist, I’m a layman who has informally studied this issue for decades. If there’s one thing in particular (no, not the _only_ thing) that perpetuates the cycle of poverty I believe that it is, quite simply, children being born into homes in which they’re doomed from the very start. Birth control.
Am I saying that all poor people shouldn’t have children? No I am not. Some people shouldn’t have children at all; Susan Smith & Andrea Yates come to mind. Others have children at the wrong time in their life; the teen-parent is the classic example. Others simply have too many. Some, like my father, are incompetent & irresponsible parents who abandon their families, without warning, when the urge stikes them. (I was ten when that happened on December 25th, 1969; my mother’s response was to get wasted each & every night for the next several years).
By the way, I suffer from ADD. I failed the ninth-grade twice, worked at a minimum-wage job until I turned seventeen and then joined the army. The army was just what I needed at that time in my life to get myself together. Did my three years and completed college as described in my first post. I’ve been employed by the same organization for twenty-five years (and am completely debt-free; have to drive a ’97 chevy lumina with 162K miles on it to maintain that).
Thak you, God, for the United States Army and the G.I. Bill (and for my finacee Kimberly, that my brats are turning out alright, cabernet sauvignon, _Star Trek_, the tv remote-control and ***pizza***; not necessarily in that order). Amen and amen. –Jeff in Houston, Texas
Thanks for the wonderful response. I agree with you wholeheartedly. I meant no disrespect with some of my comments. I have a tendency to be an agitator.
Drew, no problem. I found none of your comments disrespectful.
After my second comment it occurred to me that maybe I came across as too boastful. No one manages their life perfectly and I am no exception. I’ve said & done my share of stupid things, wronged some people, missed opportunities, made some bad investments, trusted some people that I shouldn’t have.
I’ve accomplished nothing remarkable in my 49 years; just tried to live a good life. I hate, despise and loath my job and the organization that I work for, I really do. (“Bartender!”) In all seriousness I occasionally picture Al Queda flyng a passenger-jet into this building at around 2:00 a.m., when no one is here; seriously.
I buy my lottery-tickets and dream of escape. In my dream Kimberly & I are sitting by a pool in a luxury-resort in Hawaii, sipping fruity-drinks with little umbrellas; we had just had rocket-to-the-moon-sex ten minutes earlier. Later we will watch _Star Trek_ while sipping cabernet Sauvignon and eating ***PIZZA***; make love; “rinse, repeat.”
“Life sucks and then you die.” –Jeff in Houston, Texas
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horseshit, considering that about half of white people are republican.
Thank you for helping me to hate my whiteness.
No way, I know what is best for the poor. The more there are the more votes I get. Thats how it works. Shut down Wallmart, less jobs more votes. Tax companies, less jobs more votes, Stop NAFTA, less jobs more votes, pro union, less jobs more votes, increase taxes on the rich, less jobs more votes, create an entitlement society, less jobs more votes. One day they will call me King Obama because we will not be able to afford elections so I will be in the white house forever… By the way, the name is changing. It is racist. I already hired some south americans to do it. They work for change, I like change. CHANGE
News flash, poor people can also be white.
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Total BS Again…we just pretend to care, we really don’t give a shit about anybody but ourselves, therefore we do know what’s best for you because we do not care about you or yours!
THANK YOU. It all finally makes sense! I’ve been reading this website and despite being white, simply could not relate. Now I know why: we poor whites aren’t really white!
Would you mind telling me what race I am though?
Wow. All the white people commenting are SO angry. Jeez. Accept your lameness and don’t read it if you don’t like it.
Writer, you are hilarious! Keep up the awesome work.
My wife has a simple phrase for all those folks exhibiting principle #62: “it’s a white man’s burden”.
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Does being a revolutionary socialist therefore make me more or less white? I’m concerned about this.
Oh, and I would suggest that this post applies in all cases, except where the white person in question has read novels by Ayn Rand and so realized that poor people deserve everything they get. Perhaps you could dedicate a future post to Ayn Rand.
I go to Columbia University, seriously, every fucking person is like this. Trying to reason with them goes just results in a but obviously their way life is inferior response, they just don’t know how condescending they are.
This post offers a good reason for why democrats have trouble understanding why they cannot win at a national level (and hence are unable to change the message to match the audience). It’s the same ‘I’m smart you are stupid’ message (stop shooting animals, stop pushing for war, stop driving big poluty trucks). Democrats almost always hold the most popular opinions but these get blurred by the patronizing attitude that is easily taken advantage of (patriotism, family values) at election time.
I know what’s best for poor people: money. Maybe if they had some money, then they could buy some stuff. And if they could buy some stuff, then people could sell some stuff to them. And then the economy would maybe get a little better. Just a thought.
J Haynes: read a newspaper. It doesn’t have to be the Times. Any newspaper will do.
University Student: your choice to go to Columbia. Sounds like a personal problem.
Bill: being a revolutionary socialist makes you whiter than Andy Dick in a chalkboard eraser fight.
Soon2B President Obama: how does more unions equal less jobs? I missed that logic. Also, you are a cockbag.
Love,
Matt
Being the idealistic white girl that i am, i would have assumed that this blog site was, at its core, satirical and meant to make light of stereotypes….at best for the pure reason of eliminating stereotypes all together, so that people can better see each other for the human beings we all are within this physical shell. (Maybe my less-than-privileged upbringing is responsible for instilling in me this inherent belief that people really do want to be goodhearted; after all it is in the slums, ghettos, and, yes, trailer parks, where I have witnessed the strongest loyalty, most selfless compassion, and fiercest protection for others; in the more cushioned lifestyles these traits are less often seen, and that goes for any race.) But you brought quality of this entire site down with this one blog. You actually do your own people a disservice too, lumping them into a category that is outdated and no longer existent. No one race in America is exclusive to low income society, and in fact, this generation has seen a phenomenal success rate amongst black people who have surged forward with ambition after the 1950s civil rights movement opened previously closed doors of opportunity to them. We are all the makers of our own destinies. Just as I have chosen to rise above the lifestyle of the trailer park I grew up in, I have family there that remains in the same state due to apathy. Do not blame white america for the misfortune of all other races except the white race. Blame individuals who spread this pattern of thinking exhibited here in this blogsite, a thinking that does nothing for making a difference in the state of situations you write about from your computer at home, with little real knowledge of what goes on in the real world- otherwise you wouldn’t be wasting your time talking needless shit on the PC. Don’t you have a job rich boy? Or you livin off someone else’s hardwork?
you’re such a typical white yourself =p
Instead of “stuff white people like” this site should be called “stuff white liberals like”. It would be more accurate.
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haha tom sawyer, you’re an ass and nobody cares
Kinda funny… all these posts are. And yes, I know what’s better for many poor people. 🙂 It’s also really funny to hear people say things like “If given the choice, poor people would rather not shop at Wal-Mart or work at McDonalds”. Well, guess what? They are given the choice. None are forced to do anything. They make a choice to either improve their situation or not. Many don’t and they don’t enjoy the ‘nice white’ life. And some do – and get the Volvo. But it takes work, work, and more work – along with a few intelligent choices (and yes, EVERYONE has heard that education, hard work, saving and staying off drugs, etc. are smart choices)… Yet not all choose to. Too bad. But NMP.
Lastly, I don’t like Wal-Mart as much as the next white person, but they’ve saved the poor (as a whole) more money than any government program has given them. Huh. Caught myself. Given. Actually, it’s stolen from the productive and redistributed to the unproductive.
And no, I’m not a Republican – or Democrat for that matter.
You know this story is true because the libs are foaming at the mouth, keep up the good job man!
You guys put far too much thought into these responses. Laugh because it’s true and walk away. If you’re offended, think about WHY you’re offended and curse yourself for being uptight and taking yourself too seriously. we don’t need a novel intellectualizing someones comedy.
Actually, Its wealthy white people that tend to vote republican. Poor people tend to vote democratic because they want the government to pay for all their programs.
And Grady… What an uneducated comment. Who’s offended? Were just giving an opinion!
this whole site is about people in Riverwest Milwaukee, a place where people claim it’s the most ” diverse” area in the city. ( meaning there is two token black people working at the Riverwest Co-Op.) Ha Ha ah. I have made alot of these observations myself. It’s nice to know someone else is onto these hypocrises as I am. This is the best post, though. You know, I think this site should be called ” Stuff LIberal White People Like, because I know some white conservatives who whould argue tooth and nail against alot of these posts.
you thik you can save the world by jumping on the bandwagon of social service and peace ? think again
it’s a lot deeper than pretending you dont have racist tendencies. Welcome to America, people. Everyone here has a bit of bgotry and racism in them. How can you not? This country has been doomed from the very beginning and it’s on its way out, thank god and when it does I will laugh my ass off at all these silly people thinking they can ” make a difference.” Call me a cynic, but I am not going to be blinded into thinkiing these trends white people like are going to change anything. Some things have changed, but the foundation is still rotten and sinking. Goodbye, America
oh and IrishPeach, I am going to blame white america, because they are the ones that started this mess of a country in the first place, they are the dominant group in this coujtry over other cultures. Try reading Privlege, Power and Difference by Allan Johnson, a white dude who actually can acknowledge the truth for once about white privlege.
I find your site insulting.
get over yourself moshe and get a sense of humor. Taking your SOOO selfseriously is why this site is funny.
a pathetic site for liberal thinking whites, white trash, get balls and be glad your white instead of the weak minded lib
i totally agree. i am unfortunately white (i also support the idea of a white shame month, maybe in march to follow black history month) and although i wouldn’t say totally poor, definitely lower middle class. however you want to define it, i’m low enough on the income ladder to hate rich people. especially rich white people. i hate those fuckers. god damn it i hate them.
I think that “Knowing what is best for other people” is ubiquitous across all “races”.
“They feel guilty and sad that poor people shop at Wal*Mart instead of Whole Foods, that they vote Republican instead of Democratic, that they go to Community College/get a job instead of studying art at a University.”
Wait, poor people vote Republican and for that, Republicans feel sorry? Poor people get jobs and rich people (heretofor known as “Republicans”) study art in college?
I hate dangling modifiers. What kind of intelligent, and therefore “more important” (read: Republican) person doesn’t know how to avoid confusion when writing a sentence?
If you see what I did there, good for you. If not, you probably wrote this piece of trash article. If you are the latter, for the love of God, stop making the rest of us REAL conservatives look bad!
And for the record, I’m a Native American Republican. You can call me an Uncle Tomahawk, if it pleases your simple mind, I don’t mind. 🙂
(“Uncle Tomahawk” is a trademark of jaoriprilj.)
Everyone here obviously agrees that educated, successful white people generally vote Republican. Why? It supports our agenda of “you make it, you keep it”. Those that feel guilty and want to become “socially aware” change their political views and become born again Democrats. “You make it, you keep it” then becomes “you make it, you give it to those that aren’t willing to work for it, and therefore feel better about yourself.” These fakes are the same ones that have Green Peace stickers on the backs of their H2s and H3s. It’s a clear example of the PC movement gone wild.
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Look here…
This site is mediocre at best. It is mildly entertaining. Half of the items on this list are garbage. The effort and thought put into this list is pretty embarrassing.
if you want some actual funny entertainment/blog/writing/insightful/great stuff
http://www.garbarrassing.com
go for it.
To #268,you are a dumb ass racist ass white bitch and now I know what white people REALLY think…a bunch of fabricated lies and myths. Get real. Black people invented COUNTLESS things but of course, racisr white people like you don’t want black people to know about more than just slavery and the civil rights movement.
To #290….wow you are a sorry ass excuse for a man. Now I see why other countries hates the US….it is because white people like you are so selfish and all white people care about are themselves. With the way you are talking, you deserve absolutely NO respect or any thing even remotely decent to ever happen to you. I hope you burst into flames and I hope you personally go to hell and be Satan’s bitch. You deserve to be. Burn in hell for eternity.
To #308…finally someone agrees that welfare is beneficial and that people on welfare are not lazy. My mom was on welfare for 10 years and she is not lazy and she does NOT have 5-6 kids. I am her only child. She NEEDED it because my dad NEVER gave up a penny of child support to her. My mom has been working for the past 8 years and she is no longer on welfare. I just want people to know taht the majority of people on welfare do get jobs and are NOT lazy or anti-work. Thank you for expressing sympathy to poor people, Drew. Not many people do that.
Frodo411 – PLEASE get a life and learn to connect with others.
Charlie Trotter – can you post the link to the bullshit generator you used to draft your commentary? That’s some good, random stuff that I could use in my day-to-day at the office!
Drew – I don’t get it… how do you express sympathy for poor people by degrading people who support local farmers and the environment? Where do you think all the cancer clusters are… not in the White neighborhoods surrounded by green space and golf courses… that’s just random and reaching. Please explain in small words as I’m a simple, once poor and ignorant Target shopper.
All – I’m only 1/4 white so I hope I still qualify to comment, but I agree with Mcclaud – I related to EVERYTHING on this site except this post. It was all in relatively good taste, and then suddenly, someone threw a turd into this beautiful pool of satirical insight. Why can’t White people relate to poor people? White people make up some of the poorest, most ignorant, irrational, fanatical, Walmart-shopping, Oprah-watching, light-up reindeer flaunting, TV-evangelist-worshipping conservatives on the planet. This article persecutes a niche of artsy liberals for trying to “enlighten” rednecks… it doesn’t even belong here. It’s angry – not witty.
Please stick to the original topic. It’s a good one.
Oh my … White people know that their culture is better and impose it on others (#62) but in the same time they are overbearing trying to learn about other cultures and embracing them (#20)… They do all kinds of things that could be used to .. whatever it is from feeding an ethiopian village to giving sports clothes, but when they do (the one on NGO and this one), they’re just making it for their good conscience and to impose their culture ..
oh god, please tell me what a little white liberal sheep as I am should do be appreciated by this website…
what ?
oh yeah, nothing, that’s the point.
Anyway, Funny jokes, but sometimes just overly negative and contradictory… Understand, my little white self is very fragile and already laden with the race guilt and salf important self loathing of centuries, I can’t bear with that much attacing my core beliefs, argh.
I think you all need to find better things to do with your time than to write about what white people do with their time. I’m white, I shop at Walmart. I vote Democrat, Republican, Independant, etc. What does that make me? Rich? Poor? Confused? And another thing, if you’re so concerned with how white people care about poor people, tell me who else is going to care about the poor people and what they are going to do about it. I’m not trying to change anyone’s minds or convince anyone to be white, I want those to have a better means. How about writing an article and researching how we can REALLY help out? Instead of ignorant, ridiculous, corny things like this?
But I thought most white people were Republican. Republicans don’t care about social programs and helping poor people. Unless we’re talking about poor people in different countries.
“I suspect that “Tom Sawyer” and “Joe” are white and have no sense of humor. This is not a college class, you will not get graded, this will not determine your career. This is goofy, this is life, this is one person’s opinion which happens to be very true for many “white” people (most likely yuppie american) and funny as hell.”
– spot on!
the blog is funny. it’s not perfect, it’s COMEDY!
poor people deserve to be shot!
Talk about white privilege at its worst!
Damn fine website you guys got goin here, need more of this kind of stuff,keep adding to the list! So many things the white race have to be proud of!
White power!
It never ceases to amaze me how socioeconomic superiority gives those who possess it a falls sense that they are some how divinely or innately superior (Not!) This is what is wrong with this world, and why the planet is in such a sad state of affairs, it is because of white arrogance and there pathological sense of entitlement that will ultimately bring about the down fall of the Caucasian ethnic group.
(Note that I do not use the term “white race” because it has already been proven, (and most of the scientific community is in agreement) that there is no such thing as “race” when you are differentiating between people, there are distinctive “ethnic groups” but not distinctive “racial groups” it is because of this misunderstanding and ignorance that many misuse the term “race” as way of classifying people i.e “Black race”, “White race”, “Asian race”, etc, such wording is incorrect, when using the term in this way you perpetuate the myth that there are different species of man or humans The idea of “different races” has been discredited for quite some time now. There is only one species of Homo sapiens on the planet earth; if Neanderthals still existed then yes they would be considered a different “race”, a separate and distinct species of man.
Mr California Dude
Ooops! Typo, “there” should be “their” (sorry about that)
It never ceases to amaze me how socioeconomic superiority gives those who possess it a falls sense that they are some how divinely or innately superior (Not!) this is what is wrong with this world, and why the planet is in such a sad state of affairs, it is because of white arrogance and their pathological sense of entitlement that will ultimately bring about the down fall of the Caucasian ethnic group.
(Note that I do not use the term “white race” because it has already been proven, (and most of the scientific community is in agreement) that there is no such thing as “race” when you are differentiating between people, there are distinctive “ethnic groups” but not distinctive “racial groups” it is because of this misunderstanding and ignorance that many misuse the term “race” as way of classifying people i.e “Black race”, “White race”, “Asian race”, etc, such wording is incorrect, when using the term in this way you perpetuate the myth that there are different species of man or humans The idea of “different races” has been discredited for quite some time now. There is only one species of Homo sapiens on the planet earth; if Neanderthals still existed then yes they would be considered a different “race”, a separate and distinct species of man.
Social Conservatives and the far left share one thing in common. They know what’s best for you and they are more than willing to tell you how to live. As a moderate I think both sides are crazy and aren’t helping at all.
This is so funny and true!
Um, hello; this is just a blog everyone. Get over yourselves. By the way, Conservatives do know what’s best for people – freedom.
O’rly JJ? Maybe true conservatives but neocons and the religious right are more than willing to get in your business.
White arrogance? Wow, I think you all REALLY need to get a hold of yourselves, and find a new channel and way to educate yourselves. Obviously you have found a means to focus on the negativity of white folks, i.e. “white arrogance” and the downfall of the “whites”, and how this is all going to happen. I’d like to see you channel this negative energy into something more productive, like, wow- how can I actually help those less fortunate than myself? Or, how can I promote saving energy and less pollution so that my kids and future grandkids can live long lives? You wouldn’t want to think about more productive things would you?
Liberal whitey can only ponder how everyone can help the less fortunate, mean old conservative whitey offers ideas on how to help the less fortunate help themselves. ———–LIBERALISM IS A MENTAL DISORDER!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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White Leftists are also known as post-colonial selective-outrage moral-relativists.
There is nothing wrong with being a classic Liberal.
But the anti-war and pro-socialism crowds are not liberals. They are friggin Leftists who worship power and want to achieve it by shutting down democracy.
That is why the white post-colonial Leftists hate the west and hate America.
You people make me ill. Do you have anything better to do with your time? This is absolutely disgusting.
this site should be called what liberals like, not what (all) white people like
This is the most useless site I have found yet. If most of the posts I have found, are the true feelings of the writer and not just a joke, what a bunch of TOOLS.
Really david? The hundred other times i’ve read a post like that here sure didn’t get through my thick Irish head. Thanks for making me see the light.
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This site is like a barrel of monkeys. Endlessly entertaining. Even though I think while democracies are the best thing that has ever happened to this planet, I love to marvel at the lunacy and phoniness of some of it’s inhabitants.
Here is what one white person likes.
I am a white person, well … almost not, I am a little on the brown side being Greek. I was born and live in the mythical Utopia of Canada which, for your information, is far from it.
I will spare you the description other than to say, it’s hard to find friendly service anywhere. Canadians seem to be annoyed that they have to ‘serve’ anyone. We are mostly like Americans, but with a lot less chutzpa.
I am one white person who doesn’t believe in charity. I think that helping younger members of one’s extended family get an education is far better than handing it over to some bleeding heart organization that will squander most of it. Also, when you fill out the paper to get the tax receipt you wind up on a list of suckers who are known to give away money.
I don’t like having dinner parties because it’s a lot of work and all your guests do is judge and criticize you.
I don’t like bicycles because they are slow dangerous and if the weather is bad, you’re screwed.
I like to wear what I am comfortable in and I don’t care what anyone thinks about it.
I like TV because there actually is a lot interesting or entertaining stuff on it, if you take the time to check it out.
I like the English language best because it’s the one I speak and I live in north America where 97% of the population of the US and Canada speak it. It is also the most flexible, elastic and expressive language on the planet. I spoke a fair amount of French when I was young because I live in apart of Canada near Quebec where French was common. Also my mother was French. I let it go and have now forgotten most of it.
I don’t like big government because the bigger the government the smaller your freedoms and opportunities.
Divorce is for losers who make big bad choices. I prefer not to have kids, because they are noisy self-centered and turn out to be ingrates who never stop hitting you up for money. I have observed this in all the people I know who have kids.
I don’t like multiculturalism, because it degrades the original cultures and values of all it’s participants and then there is no solid culture and shared values. That makes for a weak society with many new and unresolvable problems. Canada is far down that road. However it’s largely confined to the large cities. That is why I live in a smaller more homogeneous city on the west coast with the best weather one can get in Canada. Similar to Seattle weather.
I could go on, but I think it’s boring to tell all at once.
Cheers all,
374 david, that’s what I was thinking! These aren’t things “white people” like: They’re Liberal-Think!
Here’s a news flash that folks do not get that the post is dead on about- no one likes being poor, no one chooses to be poor – humans occassionally make self limiting choices. No one wants better to be “defined for them” or to be “given tools to create a better life” as defined by other people for them. Get it! The whole idea is self determination – being able to define what is better and then being able to attain that based on their criteria. The folks that this statement applies to “think they know better” and define the standard for others. For those that want as someone said to “make a difference” make sure that the difference you make is one the person actually wants based on what they need, want, think and feel and not your own self centered, self imposed definition. “Helping someone” in ways not consistent with their wishes is not help it is self serving, self centered, insipid, insincere, insecurity based, self directed and an attempt to ease misplace guilt and or control the world and align it to your standards. If your really want to help – ask the person what can I do and then listen really listen to what it is they say and respond in a context that makes sense to where they are and their view of the world – not what you blithely assume is in “their best interest.”
what does ‘poor’ refer to here? North Philadelphia, Huntington, WV, one-well villages in Chad, or toxic ship-breaking communities in Bangledesh?
this blog and some of its respondents presuppose a poor hive-mind, and collective alterity or otherness, indomitable darkness… what is this “Native”-consciousness, quasi-Chidi Amuta pap?
sometimes that minoritarian, postcolonial theory can produce the most insulting concepts out there.
Should all 6.5 billion people go to Occidental or Pratt or Oberlin? no, i dont think that is the do-gooder’s goal.
public service is a natural reaction to excess of wealth in the modern world, just like alms was in the medieval world, and grand sumptuous spectacles was for the ancient and tribal.
bataille got that much right.
what does one do with surplus? either squirrel it away or redistribute it according to some kind of needs-based criteria, no?
as far as the persistence of white-man’s burden in the form weaponized starbucks and whole foods and sundance network and other ‘white’ institutions, those are simply identifiable brands that betray a much slower, invisible linguistic project: the standardization of norms and memes. there is something of a software incompatibility between a low-literate and a hyperliterate person, and when a white person wants to ‘improve’ a poor person’s situation, unconsciously what is wanted is for the poor person to use the signifiers and expressions of the affluent. this should be a reciprocal relationship, but the value vector is toward the urban professional. argot and regional patois are stigmatized.
this is an issue of code propagation. human will cannot direct it.
speaking as a person who makes his living supposedly “helping” poor people, I can totally relate to the sentiment. The difference between the halves and the have-nots is not a function of so called “poverty”, but more a function of convenience to obtaining resources. Many of my clients are people that are smart enough to navigate the social entitlement system…it’s the guy working to pay his child support while also trying to feed his “current” family who pays for the aforementioned while getting nothing in return except higher taxes…the bottom line is nobody really gives a shit about the other guy…leastwise the politicians!
Right on brother!
what is white???if we are all one lets show were allone,i love soju!!the korean dramas are a hell of a lot better then the s### hollywood pumps out now adays
nuff said
YOU don’t know white people. republicans are rich blow hard white people if you think poor people vote republican you crazy asian! It takes on to know one
YOU don’t know white people. Republicans are rich blow hard 3 piece suit rich white people if you think poor people vote republican then your crazy asian! it takes a white person to know one!
I had some contact with the poor once at a Junior League function. Really, the best thing is for these people to accept that they’ll always be living in some fetid trailer park until they aspire to emulate their betters by getting that graduate degree at a place like Wharton, making some real money, and finding a good investment counselor.
poor people should never get thier daughters a pony for thier birthday.
Bad mistake
http://hotlard.wordpress.com/2007/12/01/my-thoughts-by-ervin-shlopnick-a-pony-for-my-daughters-birthday/
Why is the first sponsored link on this page “Meet Black People”?
Hah!
Remember that a little white guilt is good for poor people…its what keeps us giving, giving and giving – shucks if we stopped feeling guilty about being educated, having a job, and making money how would poor people get anything!!! Wait – they can get our castoffs at the thrift store, us white folks LOVE to recycle! I refuse to feel guilty because I work hard for what I have…and I give because it makes me feel good and because I can.
Your site is great. The comments are priceless. I love the the guy that directed you to Paul Krugman’s site for the “correct” information.
I think you need a post on “White people’s Bookmarks” make sure Krugman is listed.
Heh heh heh
You guys said “homo” like 20 times in the comments. . .hee hee hee
I find it rather offensive that you imply there aren’t any poor white people, and that the opposite of poor is white. Newsflash: there are poor white people out there (and I’m one of them). Wal-Mart isn’t just for minorities. You can be poor regardless of your skin color.
I want to be a negro!
The only reason any of this hurts is that it’s true… The truth is we don’t really care about poor people. We care about assuaging our guilt and justifying the bottled water in our hand (Ethos, anyone?). I mean, really… Are we driven by love to do any these things?
I would say more, but I need to run to Whole Foods. I don’t shop there because the food is delicious and organic and the atmosphere makes me feel serene and relaxed, but because of Fair Trade. It makes me feel good to help the coffee farmers in Guatemala. Indulgent Grocery shopping+Good deed for “the poor”= clear conscience.
Good one #381 Anonymous –
The idiotic post-colonial white left, which incidentally run the gov bureaucracy, the NGOs, academia, and a host of other socialistic bastions – never competed even one day in a real and productive job – and who never took any science or math classes having invariably miserably failed them – are witless pieces of obfuscatory meme pushers who make a religion out of “compassion for the poor” and putting subjective intuition/emotions uber empiricological discourse.
I say ship them to the nearest McDonald to earn an honest dollar, or ship them to Hamas-istan for them to rot in their idealism.
I’m stuck some 350 posts back (sad face) as I realize that I LOVE the feel of fleece, and my husband listens to Celtic music.
I can’t help that I’m white, but acting white is against my religion.
Oh, and about helping the poor… read Tortilla Flats and weep.
This is really heady stuff, reading about the poor in context of being non-white and suggesting that the elite should make all decisions for the lesser members of society. If I were not white myself, or white and also poor, reading this would really, really piss me off. Or maybe I’ll just be pissed-off anyway. Talk about racist!
Golly, given my personal asset to liability ratio, the current economy could easily render me poor too before things turn around.
#91 white people cite NYT’s Paul Krugman as a reliable source on voting demographics
As a black person who’s been around a good deal of white people in all social classes, I gotta say this is the worst and most incorrect post I’ve read on this site so far, even if you think you’re speaking about bobos. Good topic, horrible results. Maybe you need to clean that crystal ball you think you can tap into the bobo psyche with.
hey easy there henry thoreau, as a white person, I VERY much love worrying about the poor, it often helps to sip fair trade tea when i worry about them.
i think white people like debate.
but i’m black i promise.
Hey, I’m a poor “white person” – could any of y’all tell me what’s best for me? And that’s another thing – how do I get my picture in these messages. I can’t find the instructions?
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I am white and know what’s best for poor people: Globalization.
Proved it!
404/cmsix,
I suspect that you aren’t being serious but if you are then describe your circumstances in detail–age, where you live, work background, financial situation, education level, any health problems, family obligations, etc.–and you’ll probably be inundated with advice.
For generic advice read comments 306 & 310. The best of luck to you. –Jeff in Houston, Texas
excellent and funny blog!
I just found this site and am plowing thru your list. I see a reoccurring theme (among many), the name of the blog might be more accurately re named ‘stuff white liberals like’ But on second thought, bad idea, that could color this comedy blog political and dampen the funny.
HAHAHA – I was actually going to comment exactly opposite.
This whole site should be titled Stuff White Liberals Like.
Very funny stuff.
AMEN. I agree totally.
dead on, buddy! i was thinking the same exact thing. “what white liberals like”
Charlie, you hit the nail on the head. The only thing missing from your points was your TLA density. If you’d read your RRP guide to effective ADG rhetoric, you’d know that you should have a TLA ratio of at least 4 for every paragraph.
These posts are the funniest thing on the internet since Japanese game shows. I love the ultra lame white people (San Fransisco, Coffee),(I’m not one) and the ones that I do fit in (Soccer). I love the “cultural diversity” of the white guilt people.
White people shop at Target. Low prices, trendier designer items, w/o the shame of shopping at Walmart with the po’ folk. White people are fooled into believing that Target isn’t procuring their goods from the same Asian sweetshops that Walmart is. Its all about marketing when it comes to white people. White people don’t mind paying a little more at Target to assuage their white guilt and they can still get a latte on the way out.
Next …white peoples’ moms love Panera Bread.
I am white, rich through inheritance, and righteously lazy. Working hard for little money or working hard for a lot of money are equally wastes of life. Considering our place in the universe and how the productivity of our lives are literally meaningless I contend that the path of this quality of life debate is way off course. I find contentment through the beauty of nature, not security for my future. There are many poor who live much more fulfilling lives than rich, and visa versa. But the reason for their contentment has to do with the lack of worry in their lives. Be it spiritualism or apathy or whatever, the reasoning matters not, what is important is that there are some in this world who care too much about anything. Call it Nihilism or Taoism there is a point to be made for not giving a fuck. These concepts cross all meaningless classifications such as skin color, class, political or religious ideology. I have no desire to push my ideas about how to live life on anyone, I just wish for less people to not be content with however they are. I will openly admit I have no idea how to help the poor because I see no need for the concept. What is wrong with providing food for another because you want to and they want it and don’t want to work in the traditional sense? That’s how monks have been living for millennia. I am apolitical, for everything that a government provides we can provide for each other. What is more important, freedom to buy things you shouldn’t need or freedom to be content without societal pressure? Consumerism has brought the destruction of human’s ability to live on this planet, luckily humanity has no purpose and it doesn’t matter anyways. Hopefully the coming era of aquatic existence on Earth will provide much more contentment for those lives who will live it.
Eric…but you and Buddha had more choices.
This post should be expanded to point out how “knowing what’s best for poor people” is often synonymous with “saving poor people from other white people.” While white liberals are okay with spending money on programs for poor people (the NGO model), they dislike money being given directly to poor people by white conservatives (which is just an anti-democratic ruse to buy votes/acceptance, or take jobs away from white people that work for NGOs).
eric do you know why pastoral mysticism worked for so long? it is a boring little logistical problem that involves living on a sphere of a certain size with a certain amount of fresh water and arable land available. a certain world with civilizations based upon thermal energy released from:
1) Wood: 100,000 BCE – 1700 AD
2) Wood, Coal, Whale Blubber: 1700 AD – 1900 AD
3) Petroleum: 1900 – Present
4) Nuclear/Renewables 1955 – Present
the computer you are typing away runs on electricity most likely derived from 3 and 4. Now you have engineers
This world has had a total homosapien population of under 2 billion from our distinctive speciation until 1900.
THEN all of the sudden modern obstetrics (babies) sanitation (bacteria) and immunization (virus) and habitation (weather) prevented people from dying.
there are 6.5 billion people now.
eric i understand the apolitical attitude. but do not compare yourself to 8th century Taoists or Shintos or Bhuddists or whatever eastern cure to postmodern blues you have adopted. find an authentic way to deal with 21st century conditions, because dragging your heals in the name of philosophy is even more predatory and immoral than becoming a ruthless captain of industry.
I am a black man trapped in a white man’s defective body. I am a triune man. I and my fadder are One.
Old and White: I was intentionally stating my economic hypocrisy at the outright.
mr. uhoh: I realize very clearly what age I have been born into and how I came about being here. That does not disrepute the point I was trying to make about arguing about how to deal with class struggle as ultimately pointless. And I was in no way trying to compare myself to any individual or group of any era including our own. I do not identify myself with any of the spiritual groups you mentioned as I think they are just as meaningless. And you missed my point entirely as I have no blues about the way the world is, my whole contention was contentment regardless. I have no philosophy just absolute realism, I was just offering alternatives to what had previously been discussed. And as for dragging my heels, instead of giving my inheritance away I chose the route of sustainable investment to cover my bases, as if there is a chance of survival I would be remiss not to help. I am not a pessimist nor a philosophical poseur, just an existential realist.
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i know plenty of dumb white people. Don’t say white people as if all of them are smart. Start by looking at yourself. Case and point!
Doc Mel: “Native ideology’s, principles, and ethics are far superior.”
Wow. That is incredibly arrogant. If this were said in reverse by a white person, it would be decried as racist.
F***ing funny article though!
This is only for liberals. As we know from Dr. Savage, Liberalism is a mental disorder. Take it from the Professor, it is true. Liberals are such narrow minded intolerant people. They are out of touch with reality. Ron Paul , he knows the situation.
Hah this is so true…I have met so many white American girls who want to do development work in Africa so they can “save” the poor black babies. Please no more neo-colonialism! The educated class in poorer countries need an economic reason to stay to develop their own countries. Only home-grown markets can get developing countries out of poverty so that developed countries will trust their market enough for foreign investment. Development works best when it is home-grown!
there is no such thing as bell-jar GNPs anymore. it is not like postcolonial africa in the 60s and 70s, where national(ized) industries could resist foreign investment and free trade pacts.
“home-grown?”
–where? what example are you citing?
not even Vietnam’s economic boom was fully autocatalytic.
dont think the euro-logo-philanthro-psychopathology of saving black babies w/ distended bellies in exotic locales vs. the less sexy issue of american ghettoized blacks whom may be better nourished but are equally relegated to pariahdom, dont think THAT has escaped me. But the novelty-check (build-a-road, dam-a-river, start-a-bank) diplomacy is necessary to development.
this assumes that some White people are not poor…and you know what they say about assuming things…
What?!!!!!!!
Huh?
Blacks have the defective bodies, starting with their primitive brains, ugly kinked hair, baboon-like lips, fat asses,….
didn’t Milwaukee just have a huge number of negro shooting deaths?
you have to put “self induced poverty” onto the list, whether its paying thousands to sleep in a shack in the third world without running water or electricity, paying 2000 a month for a refurbished tennament in the lower east side, or like the kid from “into the wild”.
white people love the “authentic poor people experience” it makes them feel less guilty about their seven figure trust fund and hundred thousand dollar tuition to learn about artists and critique feminist literature.
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So what about poor white people?
“The funniest part of this blog though, is the replies, especially from indignant white people who disagree so strongly. Do these generalizations apply to absolutely all white people? Of course not. Do they apply to some? White people have said so themselves.
But do other white people still comment to complain about how inaccurate each and every one of these posts are? Hell yes they do because although stereotypes undeniably have their truth, you can’t apply them to individuals without pissing people off.
So here’s some of your own medicine, white people: calm down, it’s just a joke.
And welcome to our world.”
I get this.. I just think it’s poorly executed a lot of the time, and kind of in bad taste.
To answer this question, “Does shopping at Wal-Mart make me less white?” If there is a Target within 10 miles of where you live and you choose the Wal-Mart, yes it makes you less white. If you live in Wyoming or New Hampshire where there are only Wal-Marts near you, then by default you must go to the Wal-Mart. (There are very few Black people in these areas, thus no need for a Target). Target was created to steal the white people from Wal-Mart, which I believe it has done successfully. Speaking of things that white people like…how about Target?
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Although eliminating poverty would make white people feel better, it could actually diminish their self-esteem. If everyone was just like them, they would have to work harder in proving their superiority. Thankfully, there would still be meat eaters and non-vegans, of course. Not to mention those unfortunate souls that don’t read the NY Times.
McCain knows what’s best for poor people. They should stop being poor.
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“Do these generalizations apply to absolutely all white people? Of course not. Do they apply to some? White people have said so themselves.”
This is kind of lame. White people have spoken, and they’ve said it applies to some! Who are the “some”? You mean white affluent liberals? Sure, you could just say that, but then that would defeat the point of the joke, which seems to be to use the uncoolness of being white to stick it to affluent liberals.
You might as well say that Jews like making really moronic, infantile forms of entertainment like Waterboy and Big Daddy. Sure, most Jews aren’t doing this and it’s not really a good generalization about the people in general, but the Jews that we don’t like are doing it!
Aside from being dumb, some of this borders on vile. Why would you say that white people like Obama? He has less white support than any of the other final three candidates for president. So it’s really the opposite of what you’re saying. Unless the point is that it’s really silly and ridiculous that even *some* white people are really getting emotional and excited about the idea of electing a black president. What silly people, who seem to love the other races more than their own! How very white of them!
It reminds be of David Brooks (who does this schtick a lot better)–the horror of being horrified about being priviledged and cultured.
Even Jeff Foxworthy’s ham-fisted comedy doesn’t try to claim that *all white people* have cars up on blocks in their front yard, eat jerky as a meal, and raise bait in their bathtubs. And yet if he had said that, his generalizations would be about as accurate than most of the ones you have here.
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hahaha, people that take this site too seriously and get offended are so lame. what ever happened to people having a sense of humor? do you think people leaving comments on a blog really give a s**t about your opinions or ideologies? do you think people will read your comment and think, “wow, that is so in depth! i’ve never thought of it like that before. maybe i’ll change my opinion because this complete stranger with no sense of humor wrote such an inspiring blog comment.” keep up the great work on this site. it keeps my work day interesting!
Hey most people in this country are White, thus the minority groups which white people are not apart of. So mathematically you are correct in your assertion.
Hence in place of thus please..
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Oh, Mr. Bear I so agree with you.
wow. I think the second paragraph was funny, but at the end….”it is essential that you reassert that poor people do not make decision based on free will or else white people would be crush (of their purpose in making a difference)” is supporting the unsubstantial life alot of people have accepted. yes, success does not rely highly on education sometimes, but the key eye for confidence and other things that will help you get what you want without earning it…..alot of our presidents are examples of this (which is why the suck at their jobs)
Ok, I have been perusing this site briefly and I found it to be quite humorous. I am a Jamaican born immigrant currently living in New York, but of coarse to white people I am just black because we are all lumped together into one homogeneous group even though we have starkly different cultures. I have to actually respond to the above statement that black people supposedly don’t care about attaining higher levels of achievement because we didn’t come from a “dominant culture”. I find it amusing that as an Asian person, you somehow have a more valid insight into the psyche of the black or hispanic male than a white person. Your assumptions are insulting and a clear indication of your ignorance. The problem is that instead of doing research, everyone simply wants to assume they know what’s reeealy going on because they are just so enlightened. I graduated from a tier one university and was the president on several boards and part of several organizations. I have several friends that graduated from ivy league schools who are also black and hispanic. Some are like myself and work for fortune 500 financial institutions and some went in to education, really whatever we felt inspired to do. I a lot of Asian and white people who I grew to love. I also grew up in Brooklyn, and no I got in with good grades and high SAT scores. I just am starting to get a bit fed up with the assumptions that people are making. If you really what to be enlightened, you should try to get to know people as people, and then you would realize that is just what we are regardless of race. Otherwise you are simply full of hot air and speaking out of ignorance.
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Well, the Jews have it down to a cliche already (‘self-hating Jew’), so it appears that the goyim have already caught on!
Next up: kreplach!
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Dende blogger, this blog is the anti-thesis to “All in the Family”. Mr. Lear (if he’s still alive) would be red-faced and laughing nervously if he ever read it.
But what if you’re white and poor, like me? Working poor? Do you tell stories to yourself about buying organic produce from farmer’s markets???
Bob, isn’t it genetically much more likely that all other races will become paler?
Also how do you know what colour my “butt” is? Are you one of these white people that has secluded camera all over the place?
Yup. Liberalism, being a right-wing political ideology (in the real world outside of of the american media), is a mental disorder. An affront to reality, indeed.
I pooped my pants
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it just feeds into the fact that every person who claims a certain race believes theirs to be superior to any other. the ideologies, principles, and ethics of every race are pretty damn good, but that doesn’t mean that every single person is making choices that reflect this…free will.
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This is pretty offensive because you are suggesting that white people are not poor and that is bullshit. Your blog should really be called, “What Neo-liberal, middle-class, bourgeois capitalists like”. Not all minorities are poor and not all whites are part of the middle or ruling class. You are perpetuating some very fucked up myths about class, race, and who has privilege in this country. Take a look around and you’ll see plenty of white working-class folks who don’t go to Whole Foods because they are too poor. I’d suggest you change the name of your blog and read some books on social stratification.
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oh crap thats shitty
case in point, even
I don’t think that’s the point, Lydia. The point is the assumption that “poor people,” if given the same advantages as (enlightened) “white people,” would make the exact same choices.
Did this post just hit too close to home?
The stereotypes in the entries in this blog are no more accurate than stereotypes of any other ethnic or cultural group.
Just like in other stereotypes, a grain or two of truth has been embroidered and extrapolated into something that, while it has a realistic flavour is, in fact, so much bullshit.
A stereotype is not reality…and is seldom funny…no matter who is the victim or who is the perpetrator.
People take this site way too seriously. Its a oversimplification for the sake of humor. It’s funny. Chuckle at it and settle down.
Haha did you even read the post Julian? It could have been about you.
I can’t wait to tell my (white) mom that she has obviously imagined decades of poverty while cleaning houses and trying to keep from losing her home. That only happens to “people of color” — as I’ve been reminded by middle/upper-middle class progressives, both “European” and “of color”, who love to lecture about situations they’ve never experienced.
there are poor white people too? no way!
Hahaha this is so freaking true. Like everything on the list is true. We were driving around Seattle and my sister’s like “I just love the geometrical building structures here! I love the architecture!” We went home and, sure enough, architecture was on the list.
I love pointing this out to people. This is one of the things people don’t really realize until you say it, and then they can’t NOT notice it.
Actually, you should exchange “white people” for “californians” and this blog would be much more accurate.
hey ummm i dont know where else to go ask this so here it goes: i dont care if im called white, i hate being called caucasion, or euro-american…..so the question is do black people prefer to be called african american? or mexicans be called latino, hispanic american or what?? can we just make easy (small words) black, white, arab, mexican, asain, etc..
fuck all that political correctness, i wish i could make a racial observation without wondering if i’ll offend someone
are you writing a failing thesis, or do you just have an inflated sense of your importance commenting on blogs
Excellent troll, julian. +1
If frodo441’s writing was any denser, light would bend around it.
Charlie Trotter: better points. Thanks for making it so clear!
Depending on where they’re from, yes, they do. My family grew up on the side of a mountain in Appalachia and all 9 branches of the family vote Republican.
http://sass.buttes.org/forum/viewtopic.php?id=16702&p=4
Good points, but I’m white and think the items mentioned on this site are quite funny and true. Wish I’d written them. And I don’t hate myself or hate white people. I do dislike pretentiousness, status-seeking and mindless conformity. White, liberal culture seems to have an abundance of both, and that seems to be what’s being mocked here. I don’t care who the author is here, it’s funny. (And I prefer Wal-Mart.)
DOLTS. Can anyone imagine if a bunch of white folks got together a website called “Stuff Black People Like” and started rambling on about some arrogant shit like this? What a way to group an entire race of people. That’s ignorant if you ask me. Tell me there would be no outrage though, in regards to “Stuff Black People Like”.
you’re such an idiot. and like most idiots, you take things too seriously. your attempt to rebuke possible weaknesses in your arguments is pointless and you want to know why? cause you’re an idiot who doesn’t look to see the purposes behind things.
chew on that.
Everything that man says is Gospel. What a respected economist of the highest order.
Actually by looking at frodo441’s post, i was able to see *behind* my monitor, and *3 seconds* into the future!
Looking for love? I know I am! Me: Asian-American woman, tired of AAMs with good incomes, blogs, and low self-esteem. Am fond of motocross, Proust. You: from the UK and white, not ethnocentric, spell recognize with an ‘s.’ Be fond of explaining jokes to people who don’t apparently get them. Let’s make beautiful music together!
Um, I think that Korean and Chinese disdain for Japanese culture might. . . maybe, just maybe, now, no disrespect, mind you, you having gone to university and all . . . have more to do with decades of violent occupation and less to do with whether white people think sushi is more chic than kimchee.
I highly disagree. If you know people in the south, you’ll know that plenty rich white people shop at Wal-Mart. (and they have targets nearby).
It’s hard to understand respecting Krugman. Here he is basing his column on exit polls — actual data! There’s absolutely no creativity in that! Much better to go the route of Tucker Carlson, who makes it up as he goes along.
yep. Ron Paul is most definitely the answer to all our problems. He should be supreme commander of the world… unfortunately he’ll be against that. *sigh*
hey…you guys just don’t get it because you’ve been homogenistically educated into a homogenized way of thinking….to you and rest of the sheep I say, “baaaa…BAAAA!”
You know, Hitler hated other races than his own, too.
“pseudo homogenized”????? I stopped reading your rambling post after roughly 10 words.
We are not impressed with your {intellect}. Jeezy Chreezy. If you were trying to be funny…YOU FAILED.
I think it all depends on your geographical location. I live in Minneapolis and here; mainly poor, dirty people shop at Wal-mart…or middle class people looking for a bargain (but they tend to shop at Target most of the time).
As my husband once said, “Everybody shops at Target – even the Hollywood rich types…only poor people shop at Wal-mart”.
–Wealthy Republican Conservative–
how’s that for a label? – white people love labels!
Cheez Whiz! Bulgaria 13th century – look it up.
And it’s passed off as an American invention. We like to take credit for everything!
I love that people keep making assumptions/guesses about the race/sex etc of the blogger.
Does it really matter? It’s funny sh*t to quote Eddie Murphy.
The white people you know? Have not existed in over fifty years. Honestly, what you just described was like a 1950’s setting. Well, golly gee, isn’t it just swell? Apparently you live in a fantasy of perfection. Unless you live on the set of Pleasantville? I don’t think this is very true.
You have this vision of a perfect world where men go to work carrying briefcases and women stay home and vacuum in pearls and heels.
Sadly, white people are not like this anymore. This special race of white people has faded into nothingness, and is now replaced with exactly what this gentleman says.
I love this blog, I’ve been reading it for a while, and it always makes me laugh. Good job =)
[…] indictment of poserism and hypocrisy, as evidenced by the items detailed: Hating Corporations, Knowing What’s Best for Poor People, Not Having a TV and, of course Having Black Friends. Actually, a brief survey of the entire list […]
LOL FUCK YOU
As a Jew, I have to say, you’re pretty much on the money.
What if you’re poor but not mentally ill? Or caught in a domestic violence spin cycle? What if you’re just poor because you don’t make a whole lot of coin?
Can’t anyone just be plain old poor anymore?
http://www.tucc.org
Whites have been the dominant power for centuries and will probably be for centuries more. Sure other “enlightened” cultures have had their day and their contributions – ancient Egyptians, Dark Age Muslims – but those societies are long gone. America is here to stay, maybe in a different form at some point, but it won’t cease and desist. You’re not a cynic – you’re not that smart. Allan Johnson’s Privilege, Power and Difference is typical white self-loathing liberalism. Kinda’ like Noam Chomsky for the mildly retarded.
Congratulations Jeff, you’re the king of the Dorks. Be kind to your kingdom.
Supposedly WalMart is evil and Target is good. Whatever. They both sell FIJI water.
And I like poor people.
I hate poor people. They have failed Me.
Check out my blog tho:
http://stuffgodhates.wordpress.com/
I agree, though I am stuck being white, I would prefer to be half jewish, half portorican. what a beautiful combination; I would have an acceptable sense of humor and an ability to dance.
well thank God for that!
Make that Liberal Left Wing white people.
[…] I wrote a longer post on this earlier tonight, but it completely disappeared, so I’ll write an abbreviated one here. The above photo comes from a hilarious website entitled Stuff White People Like, a website that discusses everything from why white people love Barack Obama (to not appear racist), to why they hate big corporations (except the ones like Ikea, Target, and Apple that they like), and why they always know what is best for poor people. […]
I do like this post and this website as a whole; however, I’m not sure this is the way ALL white people think, as stated earlier — this simply appears to be the way all liberals think. I believe this to be true for the majority of the posts on this site. If all white people ascribed to all of these published insights, we would have no republicans and no President Bush. I think the site name should be changed to “Stuff White Liberals Like” or something (though it’s not quite so catchy/controversial a name, I think it’s a more accurate description.)
I’m white and the other day I threw a cup of steaming hot coffee on a beggar, and laughed all the way down to the local target. Did some shop lifting, went home to watch some pbs. So fucking great to be white. Go Hilary!
If homeless shelters and soup kitchens are stuff white people like, then you can call me a cracker!
The hell it is.
Cracker, you’re a cracker, naw nawn naw.
LOL is a male, dumb ass. Or, are you one of those?
Hey, out here in the Pacific Northwest we have a lot of “native” people, and you want to be one of them? Get used to the taste of salmon and working minimum wage at the casino; all the big money goes to suing white people to tear down dams so they can eat more salmonn.
Cheer up Ish, white is good. I’ve actully been white my whole life and I love it. There isn’t another color in the whole wide world that I would rather be. Some those of color do all this bitching about white oppression, etc. Screw em; get a job.
My God, man. You are fucked up! Get off the crack, it will make you write just what I have read.
You’re still fucked up.
still
We have a word for you: “tweeker”.
Hitler, for one.
I believe yellow mustard will better fit the bill.
Do you think anyone cares?
That was the first hot coffee that I have had in a month.
I’ll drink a grape soda to that.
Lol.. Hellllllll With That If Any White Person Tells Me Whuts Right Besides My Teacher, Ill Smackkkkkk them over the face.. even if i was living on the corner
lol, that was great
What’s “so true”? That all white people are rich, and so want to help poor people? So white = rich, so if you are poor, you must not be white. I am hoping they will rename this site soon: Stuff Upper Middle Class Liberals Like, or Stuff College Educated White People Who Don’t Remember ANYTHING They Learned in Sociology Like.
Actually, this blog should be renamed “What Middle and Owning Class People Like.”
I know a lot of white people who don’t have an iPhone or vote for the Green Party and I know lots of African Americans who do.
You are conflating race with social class.
there are no poor people in Iceland.
I should know. I lived there for a year (aren’t I cool?).
[…] Knowing What’s Best for Poor People […]
I think you missed the point…
aww i love satire, blissful sarcasm
I am a man that loves the smell of his own farts. I am proud of this and feel as though I deserve some sort of award.
I have to admit this list is hilarious because most of it is accurate. However, there are repeated suggestions that “white people” are democrats and left-wing liberals. As a whole, the “white people” you are describing are Republicans. I consider myself an expert because I fit the bill according to all your other premises: I attended a University where I majored in art history, studied abroad in Paris, lived in NYC for 4 years, and I love Whole Foods. I also love breakfast places, vintage t-shirts, and running marathons. I am NOT a democrat. Furthermore, I do not have one white friend that is a democrat. We are Republicans by and large, because we don’t want to give away our hard-earned money and/or inherited money to the unemployed population who are too lazy to work or too stupid to quit having kids they can’t afford. I believe you are mistaken about the political preferences of “white people”. And for the record, I think Obama is a racist pig.
You know, I hate to tell you, but the fact is that you are a democrat and just haven’t come to realize it yet. It’s like people who go the majority of their life not realizing that they’re gay. No doubt, though, that you will wake up one day soon and go, ‘oh shit, I AM a democrat’. I think that the simple fact that you’re trolling this website is good proof that you’re already headed down that path.
The sooner you accept it, the happier a person you will be, too.
Hold it right there, MOE, I think I know the perfect match for you!
You sir are a great man, and a credit to the white race. Yes to fart in a crowd and be proud and ask others what they think of your art work, Fart on sir!
Doc Mel: ‘Goal not to be white’??? What kind of white guilt B.S. is that? You’ve got to be kidding me. Only a rich, self hating liberal would make such a moronic statement like that.
You’re the type of person who will sit around complaining about the world but never take any action to help it because you’re too selfish.
My advice: Go help comfort some elderly folk at a home or some children dying of terminal disease; do something…do anything but sit around whining.
Okay… I’m pretty certain that Republicans are “the wrong kind of white people”. This describes upper middle class Americans to a tee, most of whom are white Democrats. And I’m pretty certain that you’re one of the wrong kind of white people, though that’s not a bad thing.
However, there is a great deal of sharing of fads regardless of party affiliation or moral beliefs, but some of these things are pretty much only for Democrats. (See: Obama, Liking religions not liked by parents, etc.)
Oh.. and you’re also ignorant. But that’s another point entirely. I won’t try to outwhite you though, because I know I would win.
[…] Stuff White People Like – #62 Knowing what’s best for poor people […]
[…] As much as I believe Obama didn’t intend to patronize, the damage was done. The working plebes may not have a lot of post-secondary education, they may not watch a lot of public broadcasting, they may find Larry the Cable Guy funny, and yes, they may like their guns and God but, contrary to what the upper classes may think of their brain power, they know very well when someone is talking down to them. In fact, Obama’s comments hit square on #62 on the list of Stuff White People Like: Knowing What’s Best for Poor People. […]
I fart in Obama’s general direction….
Stuff white people like -writing six paragraph long thesis’s “correcting” the political incorrectness (real or perceived) in what is simply a funny-ass blog poking fun at stereotypes.
RELAX!!
Have a guava smoothie or whatever you do to chill’ out.
LOLOL
(actually, you’re just making it FUNNIER for me)
Poor ethnic people aren’t as smart?
Alright then, lets throw your vanilla ass into the ‘poor ethnic’ jungle and see you survive on $400 bucks a month workin’ 14hr shifts at ‘Momma Burgers’ with no car, no cable, no ‘PDF/PSP/Wii’ – whateverthefuck.
Oh and remember – you can’t call 911 if you get in a jam. They won’t come.
BAHH HAHAHAHA haha
Cryin in your guava juice yet?
Does the kind of Stuff White People Like include things like
Justice, Equality and Truth?
http://www.survival-international.org
Man–you missed the point twice. It’s intentionally titled incorrectly. 1-because it’s funner. 2-go back and read Liem’s comment. (https://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/2008/02/10/62-knowing-whats-best-for-poor-people/#comment-4339)
It’s not that the “habits of working class or poor people” are “somehow better”. To apply a common thread through many of the Things White People like: given the opportunity to debate the same sorts of social / cultural issues, the average less yuppie-ish person would seem a hell of a lot less disingenuous than the kind of white person described in these blog posts would. The ideas may indeed be “more developed” aka superior, but the execution’s crap.
I also note your post evinces a variation of #72 Study Abroad and a healthy dose of #50 Irony. Whether it’s intentional is up for debate, as any good irony-appreciating white person like myself knows well.
SWPL Post suggestion: Not talking about their REAL source of income, ie; trust funds, inheritance, allowance, etc.
Especialy the artsy/activist types. Thus giving them the luxury to pontificate fulltime about which they know far too little or nothing at all.
Narrow-mindedness has nothing to do with being liberal or conservative. Being narrow-minded means deciding once and for all that whatever you think is wholly true and not opening your mind to any other opinion. Whether you are liberal or conservative, democratic or republican, it doesn’t matter. What matters is that you open yourself to the opinions of others, even if you do not agree with them, and consider the possibility that you, or they, may have the wrong idea. You have to take what you know, decide on what you think, and then constantly re-evaluate your opinions when you receive new information to decide if you actually agree with what you have decided. This does not mean that to be open-minded you have to change your ideas every time you learn new information, but it does mean that you have to be willing to consider another perspective.
Nope.
It’s a real buzzkill isn’t it?
But, we do like movies about justice and whatnot. That’s almost like liking equalness and stuff. Isn’t it?
Personally I love movies about future wars and vampires and robots, with plenty of violence and naked chicks flitting about and getting their head blown off better than girly, “political” movies that get all “PC” and stuff with no naked chickens in them. Truth, justice, naked chicks and ultraviolence, these are the things a great movie–and the the Great White Way–are made of. Anything less for cornholers and their sisters. 😉
“Stuff I learned in Sociology class” should be on the list of “Stuff White People Like.”
Wow, both shallow *and* pedantic.
OMG, this one post just covered like 5 of the “stuffwitepeoplelike” categories. Congratz on your ultimate whiteness!
That made me laugh for a looong time.
wow, I never realized until reading this blog-I am poor!
why do people not vote in the self interest? (i dont b/c am black and lbj passed the civil rights act of 1964 knowing that he would alienate the south from the democratic party for the next hundred years and did so any ways. therefore his sacrifice should not only be remembered but honored by Africans americans voting as democratic. plus nixon and Reagan ran campaigns playing on peoples racial hatreds)
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I can not agree with you in 100% regarding some thoughts, but you got good point of view…
[…] dshawla Environmentalism is for white people May 1, 2008, 11:33 am Filed under: Nature & Justice | Tags: diversity, Dorceta Taylor, environmental justice, Greening of the Campus, minorities, white people While scrolling through past posts on the popular blog “Stuff White People Like“, I couldn’t help but notice that many of the things white people seem to like have been discussed on this blog: farmer’s markets, veganism, transportation, bottled water, and even evil corporations, just to name a few. Based on this, environmental injustice shouldn’t really exist, right? […]
Bingo!
So why are black Americans the most reliable group for voting Democrats?
I like how everyone is agreeing to this racist blog. “White people think…” that is ridiculous. Being a white person, I don’t think like that at all. Being poor, I know how it is and I’m talking under 20,000 family wise. I’m calling you out on your bullshit.
I know what’s best for poor people. GET A DAMNED JOB. Doing the stuff that Americans will no longer do will close the markets to illegals and maybe they’ll go home.
I know, I know, it is easier to get a crappy welfare check than not work at all. So much for self-respect.
[…] hilarious in so many ways, some of which I never realised but are oh so true, while others are plainly […]
I’m half-white, and I think this is true of middle-class or upper-class people everywhere, whether they’re white or otherwise.
Puerto Rican… unless you wish you were half of some sort of Porto-Potty technician.
Thank you. I had no idea.
Frodo…you either need less, or more, meds. And, I recommend you take a break from thinking. Relax and enjoy the fact that you have not yet figured it all out, and almost certainly never will.
this is definitely the most white comment I’ve ever heard. self hatred and etnomasochism is very much the basis of being white. this is a must for the blog (another excellent white phenomena)
I agree with you…I am mostly conservative in my lifestyle and political beliefs, but I would not ever say that I am narrow-minded. I am very willing to listen to other’s viewpoints and have even changed my thoughts and feelings on various subjects over the years. But if I just mention that I am against abortion, people start screaming at me about how “narrow-minded” I am and that I am basically a horrible person. I have never yelled at anyone about having an abortion or believing in abortion. I have never tried to make anyone feel bad about their belief, so why should someone do that to me? I am very open to helping others and discussing other opinions.
Missy is right about white people overall not leaning to the left. A Democratic presidential candidate hasn’t won the white vote in decades. Gah, I can’t believe I’m taking this seriously and analyzing it instead of just having fun with it.
Well why do black people always use the words “Disingenuous” and “Disenfranchised” hmmm?
That’s something that a white person would say.
As an Indian/Italian, I see white (read: Anglo-Saxon) people rape and pillage both of my cultures on a daily basis (hourly when watching the Food Network and any fitness show featuring yoga). I cannot say I enjoy the fact that these people take a passing interest in the deeply-rooted traditions and heritage of my cultures..
So, no. Go away. Stop destroying things we like. Now get in your Prius and get your ass out of the “ethnic” part of town.
I must agree. Take pride in what you are. The fact that you feel guilty doesn’t mean you’re actually doing anything about anything. Let the “other” people fight their own fight. Handouts and preaching breed contempt, believe you me.
This entry obviously opens up a whole can of political worms. Much more serious topic than the other entries.
http://death-sentences.blogspot.com/
https://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/01/23/20-being-an-expert-on-your-culture/
This is what you’re doing.
This web log or whatever it is, is accurate on a grotesquely banal level.
I love this site it makes me laugh so hard, I don’t understand why everyone bickers on here though. The site is hilarious because ok yes it’s profiling, but you know it speaks the truth. Maybe not for everyone who is white, but come on white people standing still at concerts—genius! I mean I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been dancing at a show and hear people making fun of me for it. This writer is like a court jester, everyone needs to come off their high horses and laugh at the ridiculousness of themselves, but you guys don’t get it and end up being the reason blog post #101 of white people being offended was written! Give yourself 5 stars for being ultra white!
I am poor, and white. Love the post.
Liberalism is not social democracy; social democracy is not liberalism.
you’re an idiot
“Liberalism is a mental disorder”. Wow, what lunacy we have on the web these days. Last time I checked liberalism was not in the DSM-IV. But wait, maybe you’re so ignorant you have never heard of the DSM-IV. And about that “As we know” part. You know nothing about mental disorders or liberalism so educate yourself before you start your conservative computer clown!
just happened onto this page , nothing to do with the comment and dont want to troll , but i have never known many Deakins and i am also a Jeremy Deakins.
may seem silly i know but if you see this again
send me an email at j.deakins@email.com
I think I like this article the best. It’s description of many white people is dead-on accurate. How do I know? Because I’m a white person and I used to think this way.
missy, you’re amazing
82% of this country is White. So despite the racist thought that most of the poor is black or mexican, most poor people in the US are white. So by saying that being white is “knowing that is good for poor people” like there are no white poor folk, that is not only presumptive, but extremely offensive. Sheet, poor white folk are twice as obnoxious as poor colored folk…. oh but sure you watch the wire so yo must not be racist.
Nether apes nor monkeys have lips or asses,you jackass.The only animal with kinked fur hair or whatever,other than men are(Genus Ovis)sheep,you moron.Go to the zoo and look very very closely.
this website is just so funny.
im white.
she’s spouting the same stuff that Reagan and Thatcher used in the 80s to dismantle trade unions, demolish worker’s rights and pull funding from publicly-owned services.
I’m not saying that poor people would all make the same choices given the opportunity, just that your neoliberal model (‘get your ass in a job and stop being poor’) has made things shit for anyone trying to make some choices in their lives that aren’t all about gettin’ rich.
I’m all for making fun of paternalistic lefties, but i think the real cultural assumptions come from your Conservatives with the knives out and dollar signs in their eyes
just keep buying just keep spending, don’t preach don’t cause a fuss, people’s problems will solve themselves….
after all it’s a totally level laying field where everyone has the same rights and responsibilities, of course the internet is America where there isn’t a single problem with the ONE HUNDRED PERCENT WHITE SLAVE OWNING MAN DRAFTED BILL OF RIGHTS
What this site doesn’t tell you is that Christian Lander also has a female persona he calls Ann Coulter. But the cat is out of the bag now. Looking forward to see the book at Urban Outfitters.
Holy douche bags Batman!-where did that photo come from?
Hmmm…poor people vote Republican? That flies in the face of libtard conventional wisdom that only rich people are Republicans.
Maybe you’re referring to those rural white folks who cling to guns and religion.
Give a man a fish, he’ll eat for a day. Force everyone in the village to give him a fish, he’ll vote for you in the next election.
Since when do ‘the poor’ vote Republican? WTF? And since when are all people that choose to live in rural areas ‘poor’? Rural areas are inhabited by various classes, just as the city is. Rural poor = trailer trash; metropolitan poor = the homeless/those that live in the ghetto.
I find this to be one of the most flawed things I’ve read here so far, as it should pertain to liberals and hippies, not the white demographic…
While I’ve generally enjoyed this site, this article exposes the flaw in the writer’s use of the phrase “white people” to refer to a relatively small subset of white people.
Poor people vote Democratic. It’s only after you exclude poor blacks and poor Latinos that you can make the case that poor people vote Republican. Those poor Republican voters are white.
But the author can’t talk about well-off white people worrying that poor white people vote wrong, because that messes up the central conceit of the site: he can’t just say “white people” any more.
OH, Puh-lease. If I really cared about the poor, I’d invite a homeless person to share my house.
At first I felt this was racist… but that was before I looked back at the blog actually being called ‘stuff white people like’. Its tongue in cheek, and its really quite witty.
‘White’ people… meaning whiny middle class liberal typed high minded sort of people. I know exactly the type. I’m white, I’m actually European… but like, loads of people ARE like that.
The only real error is that it has to be more clear that ‘white’ people are a certain type, not in terms of the whole race… and poor people should probably read with something lighter, like the great unwashed or something silly 😛 otherwise it reads a little bitter/serious.
And I don’t think that was your intention really. Anyways I liked it 🙂
But jeez are you a minority Republican? lol 😛 join my gays for mccain campaign… all 12 of us are going out for dinner woop! LMAO
You are such a dumbass retard for being inconsiderate!
I can’t believe how many people in the foregoing comments don’t get satire! Sheesh!! Granted it’s a couple of decades since I went to high school, but I do remember learning to recognize and appreciate satire while there. What were these people all doing???
You haven’t seen Detroit if that’s your perspective of an rural area having diversity! The city went to crap when it changed colors in the 70’s and it’s been going down hill since. Note Cloeman Young and Kwahmi Kilpatrick.
Speaking of rural…when blacks feel slighted in Los Angeles because of white cops getting off on charges and that sort of thing, we do they loot THEIR OWN neighborhoods!? The stroes where THEY shop! The stores that are probably owned by their black neighbors?!?
It seems to me if I felt like whitey screwded me in L.A., I’d be going top Beverly Hills and looting…get me some of those $14 pairs of socks and $39 boxer drawers!!
Why don’t you invite a homeless person to share your house?
Studying.
…b/c the last one pissed on my Ikea and stole my Ipod.
I think he’s been using it most of the way to refer to a specific subset of white people–specifically, those most likely to be reading this site (like me XD ).
Most white people are poor, shop at malls, drive trucks, eat pizza, and like to kill things.
This is so stupid! Most people in this country that are POOR .ARE WHITE PEOPLE ! So take care of yourself
[…] Stuff White People Like – #62 Knowing What’s Best For Poor People “White people spend a lot of time of worrying about poor people. It takes up a pretty significant portion of their day. […]
If any other color people had invented this, it would have been called the ‘TEETHBRUSH’!
WHITE MAN
Your day’s never over,
Your work’s never through!
Though you’ve tamed most of the heathen and the barbarians too!
‘Massa, thanks for ‘lectricity and the (Ah So!) internet too!
WHITEMAN, THE WHOLE WORLD’S DEPENDING ON YOU!
They tried to say that ‘you can’t jump’.
But, you made it to the moon without having to dunk.
You might not have much rhythm,
But you can (steal) carry a good tune,
WHITEMAN, THE WHOLE WORLD’S DEPENDING ON YOU!
You made it through civil rights and women’s lib too,
You’ve been through a lot, good buddy, no wonder you can sing the blues!
If the world’d open their eyes, they’d see that in the past you’re not really stuck,
Even though you still fly a rebel flag, at least it’s on a Japanese pickup truck!
Black may be beautiful, and tan may be grand,
But white’s still the color of the BIG BOSS MAN!
’Ask not’ (J.F.K.) whether it’s true,
WHITEMAN, THE WHOLE WORLD’S DEPENDING ON YOU!
The world doesn’t understand your level of stress,
Every minute’s a Malox moment, but that’s the price of success!
You watch your laptop for the first sign of loss,
Well, it’s time you paid the cost to be the boss!
Don’t drop the ball now and lose the home court advantage,
Or we’ll all have to say the pledge of allegiance in Spanish!(‘Press Uno for English’)
Only you can straighten out the world’s condition,
‘Cause you were properly conceived in the missionary position!
Stand up like a white man and do your white duty,
Or we’ll all be blown to hell by sheik your booty!
ASK NOT whether, Hillary or Obama can rule,
WHITE MAN, THE WHOLE WORLD’S DEPENDING ON YOU!
Sincerely,
Uncle Sambone
(The love-child of Uncle Sam & one
Of his female slaves)
In memory of Col. Paul Tibbets, Pilot of the Enola Gay, and all the faithful sidekicks of
‘Bwana’ …..(next page)
Jimmy Olson (Superman)
Lightning (Amos & Andy)
Poncho (Cisco Kid)
Tonto (Lone Ranger)
Robin (Batman)
Pepina (The Real McCoys)
Cheetah (Tarzan)
Trigger (Roy Rangers)
Birmingham (Charlie Chan…A whiteman in disguise)
Mingo (Daniel Boone)
Kato (The Green Horne)
Rin-Tin-Tin (If Custer had had him, he might have won!)
Rochester (Jack Benny)
Timmy (Lassie, was a ‘white’ dog!)
Uncle Ben/Aunt Jemima (Betty Crocker)
Chester & Festus (Mat Dillion, a protégé’ of John Wayne, who didn’t need a sidekick!)
Barnie Fife (Andy Griffin)
‘Condor’leeza Rice (W.)
If you’d been studying, you’d know what satire was.
Um yeah, any extensive reading of this blog or the book reveals that it’s about “hipsters” and white “pseudo liberals” and that “knowing what’s best for poor people” also applies to “that other kind of white people”. Some of us can tell that that’s implied, probably because of our liberal arts degrees. ;D
Satire died in the late 80s. Now there is only offense. I mourn its passing.
THIS BLOG IS HILARIOUS!!
[…] #62 Knowing What’s Best for Poor People […]
This blog should be more appropriately titled “Things White Democrats Like” because most people who are White and aren’t Democrats don’t like this kinda stuff
Oh Green Party, you always give me a little chuckle.
I must say that I’m really not sure what’s best for poor people, but I think I would like to avoid any sort of Morlock situation in the far future. So I guess however we can prevent that is the way to go.
Or we could vote for Obama, I’m sure his healthcare reforms and ability to relate to the race with which he shares about 50% of his heritage and 0% of his upbringing will give him the insight to guide the nation towards a future in which we can have a site for what it is black people like and it won’t be considered racist. I guess Obama’s platform really is the change that our WASP controlled country needs. And then maybe France and other European countries will start to like us again! I know I loose sleep over that at night, being that I’m only a couple centuries removed from being a European myself, so the approval of the mother country is something that I always seek.
P.S. There may or may not be several sarcastic remarks in this post, that’s the beauty of non-verbal communication I guess, you get to decide just what tone this reply takes!
The only poor people that vote Republican are white.
Git R Done!
Funny to me how non-whites can criticize white people all day long, but let anyone white say anything even remotely offensive to a non-white person and they are labeled “racist” and “bigot” and other such categories. Are you doing the same thing to whites? Sounds like you are putting them all in the same category. What is the purpose of what you are saying, to make yourself look good?
HA….VERY good point…..!
although I DO have bangs :p
I thought the U.S government recognized that the majority of people on welfare are white. In the Ozarks; one of the pooriest areas in the United States with nearly no running water or electrical lines. (The gettos of anykind look good about now) White people live there with barely any food to eat, no medical or finacial benefits help of any kind for what ever reason they don’t qualify???? This saddens me not only that we have poor white people but for people of any race, nationality in the U.S that are living in these conditions. It upsets me that 2nd, 3rd, 4th etc… generations that have lived in the United States of America and have but in thier blood sweat and tears can not get help. But if you come to this country right off the plane, boat blah blah blah you qualify for loans as little as 1-0% to buy a home, start a business, go to school, qualify for grants of anykind etc… In college my friend had a part time job working in a 411 office (information for local numbers) and she would tell me just about everyday she would get calls from people in many different accents asking for the phone number to get free money (welfare, social security….) I think our government has thier priorities wrong. And before you send me nasty emails; don’t get me wrong I don’t mind helping people from other countries; I too have contribute to many programs through out the world to help better other peoples living conditions but my first concern is helping out my fellow country men which I do. (it doesn’t matter what nationality) And no I don’t think that only white people want to help out the poor.
What ever nationality you are, we’re in serious trouble if your breeding. I’m extremly concern. And no I’m not white.
I get the satire but I felt I needed to get a point across. Which point? Several. 🙂 You seem like a smart person I think you get it. Hopefully you can read my response for this blog.
I couldn’t agree more! And no I’m not white I’m as minority as you can get. 🙂
The LandoStander: they already HAVE a site about what black people like: http://www.stuffebplike.com. Check it out.
And it’s a shame that the only way Obama can gain the confidence of white people and secure their votes is to portray himself as the “safe negro” by distancing himself from blacks.
Just theoretically speaking: Why do the same whites who say blacks have been disadvantaged through Jim Crow, et al hesitate to vote for a candidate who might, through economic policies, help to strengthen his own ethnic group?? For Barack, why does it have to be “you serve us” or “you serve them”??
Why do whites feel that if something is advantageous for blacks, then it CAN’T be for whites also!
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This presents a very good point. maybe white people have been too concerned with the “poor” maybe they should care alot less. in fact how about all together. Lets just go ahead and do away with wellfare!!!! think of it. all of our tax money that is being wasted on some lazy bitch who wants to have 12 children and not work, could go back into our pockets. WoW thanks for the good idea
Yeah, I’m a beaner and I’m a Republican, not a Democrat. But a real Republican like Reagan. Bush can kiss a donkey’s d1ck.
Diego you are an idiot, Reagan would have hated your ass. As most Republicans would. They would love to see you work on a farm for $3 an hour and not receive your welfare check.
Opportunity cost and benefit? Conservation of matter?
If we can think of the pie as one that isn’t growing (a reasonable assumption, since McCain and Obama would likely be quite similar in their economic policies), “strengthening” (increasing) one group’s share of that pie would necessarily mean decreasing that of another.
I had a professor in college who went on a rant one time during a class about how the students should be ashamed that the college hired so many Mexicans to clean the bathrooms. “Why can’t you clean your own toilets?” he asked. I thought, “Hell, *I* clean toilets to pay for my tuition to *be* here! I’m *glad* some people don’t want to clean their own toilets!” Yes, absolutely, there is clear inequity if that is your only option in life…but whatever you do, please don’t liberate me or “the Mexicans” from the oppression of manual labor by firing us! We are happy to have a job while we wait for the advent of complete social equality!
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HA… i feel you.
sometimes i get aggrivated with this situation, with all this “poor people this and poor people that” for me i think thats there choice to be poor cause in reality there is no one to help besides yourself. Poor people is the basic word for LAZY!!!
this is absurd, there are about 3 million americans that are poor in this country and based on John McCain’s idea of wealth (earning 5 million or more), we are all pretty poor.
Poor people aren’t poor because they want to be, say that to the steel worker whose plant was closed, or the person that worked their whole lives and their jobs were outsourced to China.
Everyone in this country does not have the same opportunity. Poor people come in all shapes, sizes, and color. There are infinitely more poor minorities because of educational inequalities and institutional racism.
But you are probably a white republican so, you wouldn’t understand what it means to be hated and feared in this country!
Too early for the games! Go back to working the farm honey!
Oh goodness…again soooo true! Have some white friends with an Not For Profit deal, where they do volunteer work for Kenya. So the fact that they have been there a few times (like 3), makes them the experts on poverty! how about living in it.
No they know better of course because they are white…I would live 15 minutes to expound on what is good for the poor. I will tell you this poor people do not need a hand out, they need to be inspired to rise out of poverty. They need opportunity not a meal to continue to keep them in their wretched existence!
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Hahahaaha, get over yourself please. You and your opinions aren’t nearly as important as you think.
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As a man who poor white trash in the rural South (BTW, I got over it). If youre able-bodied and live in America, and you live below poverty line…IT IS YOUR OWN DAMN FAULT!
Even if you are “poor” and live in the U.S., youve got it made!
Im not a terribly smart man, or handsome, or special. I knew growing up, I had to work hard and not make stupid decisions like, having children I cant feed, feeling sorry for myself and the biggie…thinking that the world/life/government owes me somthing.
Ditto for Australia.
REPUBLICAN!!!
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hahahaha.
SO TRUE.
poor people know whats best for poor people. THATS THE TRUTH! until we elect a bona-fide citizen to the presidency poor people will always get fucked by both parties, because all they do is eat out corporate asshole.
Rich people should be put in to concentration camps and murdered. Hitler didn’t do the right thing. should have gassed the wealthy and let the jews out. not all jews were wealthy.
one day this will happen……….
What the fuck?
Wow, Robert John, such anger from the left.
You seriously need some other guy with two names to give you a blowjob.
Well, I am white and far from well off. I hardley shop at whole foods or even knobhill. Safeway 2 for 1. Not of us white people spend our days thinking about others plight. My own takes up a great deal of my time.
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This is the post that made me realize that white people must all really be the same because it was taken straight out of my brain.
“They feel guilty and sad that poor people shop at Wal*Mart instead of Whole Foods, that they vote Republican instead of Democratic, that they go to Community College/get a job instead of studying art at a University” hit a nail on the head I didn’t even know existed until now.
OFF COURSE WE DO THAT. WE KNOW BEST.peace
You site is good!!!
Show my links please.
you are annoying.
Only a liberal fag believes that.
Hmmm, well, I live in a Habitat for Humanity house, went to a cummunity college, lost financial aid, and now work in a hotel. I also vote Democratic usually, and I have to shop at Wal-Mart to be able to feed my family. I hate Wal-Mart, but what’s my other choice? It’s fucking cheap. By the way, my IQ’s 140. Stereotypes seldom hold up.
I agree with the “white people” who feel ‘some”(not all) poor people would be ‘much'(not just) like them if given the same means.
I love the compassion with the thought.
Very Nice!
Actually, Staci, stereotypes often hold up, but there are enough exceptions to fool someone into thinking otherwise. Oh and enough of this “I hate walmart but need to shop there” bullshit attitude I’ve been seeing so much of lately. Obviously you like it enough to keep shopping there; people survived before there was a walmart and so can you. You’ve just gotten used to the prices they can offer and you’d rather save 2 bucks on your shit and gripe about it than support your local market for a little more.
Bob, did you miss the whole part (otherwise known as her entire post) where Staci mentions that she lives in a Habitat house (almost free housing designed to support the hardworking but struggling), lost her financial aid (that’s money that most people use to fund higher education), works in a hotel (which she obviously mentioned because she’s pulling down six figures there) and has to shop at Wal-Mart to feed her family (those are people related to you, through law or genetics, some of whom may even be children…dare I say, even infants)?
You see, I’m just curious because I don’t understand how you could make the leap to think that she’s shopping at Wal-Mart because, “[she’d] rather save 2 bucks on [her] shit and gripe about it than support [her] local market for a little more.”
Actually, what am I saying? Bob, you’re a genius. Staci is obviously a fascist. She probably even works for Wal-Mart.
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It’s even more fun when whites dress up their classist tendencies as concern over bad behaviour a popular hobby with the middle class media in Britain
im white and im poor….my life sucks. Im not racist, I hate everyone, and…you should too.
As a middle-aged working class educated white ‘poor’ person (!) I can tell you that the long-time friends that I had who were middle-class & well-salaried soon became ex-friends when I did not join-in with their lifestyle habits.
One of them became a social worker who now tells ‘poor’ people how to conduct their lives (this when I was a single parent on benfits), another saw fit to tell me how to conduct my life (without knowledge of my circumstances).
I was totally pissed off that they should suddenly not see me as their friend and as a person, and that I had become just a statistical object, something that you read about.
Now, I am getting past being so very angry and hurt, but it is hard to admit that many ‘liberal’ (in reality not so liberal!) ideas create so much condescension and pity.
I say stick your pity up your ass!
“has made things shit for anyone trying to make some choices in their lives that aren’t all about gettin’ rich.”
If you don’t want your life to be shit, then don’t do things that will make your life shit. What bothers me is your entitlement mentality that makes you think you can do whatever you want in life and making sure that things don’t turn out shitty is somebody else’s responsibility.
just had a discussion with white people about poverty, and it basically went along these lines.
Some people have no ability empathize. They just take other people’s problems and directly apply them to their own situation.
I don’t agree with this. To assume that everyone will flourish if given the right circumstances is dillusional and naive. Some people are poor by choice. Call it laziness, lack of ambition, lack of desire for money, irresponsibility, etc. it does happen. America provides more opportunity than any other country for people to make a living so if someone isn’t making it I would more question their approach than what’s being done about it. If a person has the will to succeed they will most likely find a way to do just that.
fuck you! let your house burn down, lose your job, your kid gets sick, your spouse is diagnosed with a life changing non-curable disease and you have no insurance, gas prices triple and you wonder everyday how you are going to put food on your table, wipe your ass with no toilet paper and feel the disgust of people like you that think all people that don’t live as good as you must be too LAZY to pay their own way. I pray that reality or karma never catches up to you.
Lisa Lisa, calm it down, good point… but OUCH!!!
Nobody wants to be poor, no one in their right mind will lay out in the cold and die. People that have been to jail have a hard time getting jobs. So there is no such thing as a lazy poor person with a lack of ambition for life or well being. I believe that is just your way of making yourself feel better.
You should also do an entry called: Berkeley, California.
Between the Marine Protests, the tree sits, and the anti consumerism…It is something that would make a good entry.
Nice
Stuff White People Like: Blogging.
You’re a hypocrite, and you disgust me.
Chris,
Did you know that there is no other country, save the United Kingdom, where children of the elite class have a better chance at remaining in the upper crust of society than the USA? This also works in reverse, unfortunately. But hey, let’s keep up the myth that poor people are lazy, and have ample opportunity in the “Land of Plenty”, so we can feel better about ourselves marginalizing the poor. Why should we feel the faintest of concerns over the ever-widening rich-poor gap. The government is currently working to redistribute the wealth so that the top 1% reign in more than 23% of the nation’s wealth, thanks to both Clinton and GWBush. At no point since the Great Depression has the top 1% held more than 18%. What’s good for them is good for us- right, trickle down. What other myths would you like to prop-up? Maybe that you are predestined for heaven? Your statements are especially egregious when it comes to single mothers- how do you think children turn out when their mothers are gone from the home 60 to 80 hours a week working two minimum wage jobs to keep their apartments and their childcare paid-up? Oh, but they chose that life. Keep it up Chris! The poor won’t revolt if they have television, right 😉
I know that’s right! White people always acting like they know what somebody else is going through when they’ve never been in their shoes. Grow up asking mommy and daddy for everything and tell somebody else what they should or could be doing. hmm. White people!
(LOL! I couldn’t resist. I’m black but I grew up asking mommy and daddy for everything.) I do NOT however, know what’s best for poor people. I realize that some of them work so hard, they can’t get anywhere but where they already are (some of them).
completely true!
$400 can take you to another country
Somebody doesn’t understand satire.
THAT’S OUTRIGHT BULLSHIT. People don’t WANT to be poor. You get born into a shitty family and you go to a shitty school and don’t have the chances to strive because you have to put food on the table and then you can’t go to college because you need that money so badly so you keep doing a workaday job and you’ll never be able to pay off your debt so you’re stuck in a neverending rut of poverty and strife and you know your children won’t have a better future but you feed them bullshit about “You can do anything you set your mind to. That’s America.” And they believe it and work really hard at school but you just can’t afford university so you have to get a job and go to community college which is moderately better than a high school diploma. And they get fucked over by their rich boss which just continues the cycle.
But nevermind, no. People wouldn’t do ANY better if we were to give them a way to pay for college, open up the market to competition and not have Walmart run the show, make sure people can stay healthy, make it so the military isn’t your only option for college money. No. Everyone who’s poor is a lazy ass and likes being poor.
You would have a point IF EVERYONE HAD EQUAL CHANCES. When you’re born poor you go to a subpar school that’s falling apart and can’t hire good teachers so you only sort of learn. That’s why we need to provide a way so that everyone does have equal opportunity to thrive, THEN and only then do you have a point.
But we actually DO know better than poor people!
US example: in 2004 they voted for Bush, but now enough of them have come round to the ‘white’ (within the meaning of this blog) point of view for Obama to be elected and Bush to have an approval rating of 28% or lower.
Australian example: in 1996 the working class voters of the House of Representatives seat of Oxley voted Pauline Hanson in as an Independent, after she’d been dropped by the Liberal Party (actually the main conservative party) as a candidate for making racist comments. Much consternation among white people! But in 1998 she was voted out by the same electorate – implying that they’d come round to the white people point of view.
Both times, white people were right all along – if only the poor had listened to us they could have saved themselves a lot of grief and disillusionment.
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“my life sucks. Im not racist, I hate everone, and…you should too.”
That needs to be on bumper stickers, posters, and stitched onto to those little decorative pillows.
Obviously some people don’t understand the intent of this site….So let me help. It’s a little thing called…
Satire:
–noun
1. the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc.
2. a literary composition, in verse or prose, in which human folly and vice are held up to scorn, derision, or ridicule.
3. a literary genre comprising such compositions.
Yeah. I really just did that. And you know what….I think this shit is hilarious. You have to be able to laugh at the world around you sometimes.
http://www.inheritingthetrade.com/
Just because this is satire does not make it unoffensive or not-hurtful. In fact, satire is often one of the most effective ways of attacking one’s opponents (in this case, liberal minded people). You cannot say things that are offensive, even in the form of satire and expect people who feel attacked or who disagree with your positions to stay quiet. So, to belittle someone in this discussion forum simply for disagreeing with the author is stupid – and you’re stupid – so there.
Damn right everyone can succeed in America. My mom came to the U.S. (she was born in a dirt poor family and neighborhood in Beijing, with no education beyond the crappy education she got from the Communists, which was mostly propaganda bullshit, and rampant gang activity in her area) with about 10 bucks in her pocket. Her tuition wasn’t paid beforehand- she worked at night as a waitress and took classes in the daytime. She scrimped and saved every last penny. While the other kids at the college bought lunch at the cafeteria, she didn’t eat lunch and waited until dinner, when she bought cheap food in bulk to save money.
Today, she’s a reasonably well paid accountant, with a family in a good neighborhood, and she’s disgusted at the women who work as assistants. They walk in with more expensive jewelry than mother would ever contemplate buying, even now, and brand name clothing, etc. They’re also single mothers who struggle to pay the rent and to feed their children. It’s all about what decisions you CHOOSE to make. My mom chose to work her ass off to pay the rent for her one room “apartment” in Queens and to pay tuition, while other young women choose to not invest in their education, instead putting up the pretense of working as they collect money from taxpayers.
So fuck everyone making excuses for people from humble origins. This is fucking America, and if you work hard and get a useful education (NOT a B.A or a B.F.A) then damn straight you can work yourself out of poverty.
Its for fun to make people laugh. And its totally optional to read it so if it offends you then don’t read any of these anymore. If you can’t laugh at these posts then you should probably chill out anyway because that sh*@ is funny i don’t care who you are.
First off, I get this is satire. In the spirit of that, I see an irony to this topic… On the one hand, white people often talk like they can solve poor peoples’ problems… on the other hand, white people are blamed for causing those problems in the first place. What’s so bad about white people trying to counteract the oppression supposedly executed by their forebears?
(I’m white, and I grew up not asking mommy and daddy for everything… should we switch? 😉
This blog isn’t clever or nuanced enough to be called ‘satire’.
Yes, actually this IS sature. Satire doesn’t have to be “nuanced” or subtle at all. This makes me wonder if you’ve ever even read a piece of satire before. Do you think Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” isn’t satire? Cause last time I checked, pretty much any and all literary authority considers that the satire of all satires. And last time I read it, I think he suggests that people eat their children as population control. Geez, that’s so subtle of him.
This blog is extremely clever and pokes fun at the stereotypes that masses of white people buy into. OBVIOUSLY you know a white person who doesn’t drink coffee or buy organic food or blah blah blah, but don’t lie, you know scores of white people who do. The only reason anyone gets offended is because they know its true and they don’t recognize the joke.
you’re white, aren’t you
That’s right Anna. It is a CHOICE to get pregnant and have a kid with no goddamn idea as to where the money to feed that kid will come from. There is a fine line between someone who needs help and someone who is just plain irresponsible. Not getting a proper primary education is not a choice and I would support a lot more government spending to fix bad public schools. Getting laid off from a low skill job that got outsourced may or may not be choice depending on weather the person chose not to pursue higher education depsite having the opportunity to do so. I don’t think we should bring those jobs back so that we end up paying these people (UAW workers for examples) atrocious amounts without having no discernible skills. I would be up for any government that supports a laid off worker and his family while he gets into school to upgrade his skills so that he is no longer competing with a chinese peasant who may have been starving a year ago. Getting knocked up at 16, however, is definitely a choice despite what those sociologists might say about certain parts of society losing certain values due to centuries of abuse. I don’t think I should be paying for this choice. In fact, I am all for taking away all gov’t aid, putting the parents in jail (for making a decision that neglects the welfare of the child), and taking these children away to be raised in gov’t orphanages where they won’t be corrupted by the same value system that turned their parents into leeches. Unfortunately, the right thinks poor people are lazy and liberals think poor people just need help. The truth is that SOME poor people need help and SOME poor people just need some tough love to convince them that uncle sam won’t feed them forever.
Good for you. Nothing wrong with Walmart by the way. I make 75K and I am single. I do most of my shopping at Walmart since I know the future is uncertain and that there will be a better use for my money in the future.
Within the meaning of this blog, i.e. white liberal types who are also known as ‘BoBos’ – bourgeois bohemians?
Yes.
You go Lizzie. I am done with all these comments about how this blog is so offensive. It’s supposed to be funny. People who write long posts about serious social issues should channel their energies elsewhere, where it will actually make a difference. I’m sure they are well-intentioned, but this blog should not be taken so seriously.
Thank You. Now everyone else, Shut up!
I see a very large error: White people and those of us who are not poor do not vote Democrat. The poor, money hungry people vote Democrat so they can take my hard earned dough!
Poor people usually vote for Democrats
I think it’s more that poor white people vote Republican, and rich white people vote Democratic. At least this tends to be the view of the rich/middle class white people that I know, and as this post states, if they could only improve their economic status, they would automatically start voting Democratic.
i see a very large error as well – people taking these posts seriously.
Ashleigh, you say this like a true bailout taking, filthy rich person who vote republican so they can take ALL AMERICANS hard earned dough to save their sorry assed investments….
True! I watched this show called “Wife swap” and a well-off white woman and a black woman from the hood exchanged lives for a week. In the end they each get 50k to which they must tell the other how to spend. The white woman decided to give 10k to the black woman’s credit card debt (fair enough), 3500 to the mayoral council office and 2700 to a baptist church and some money for interior decorating in their house. None to the family members themselves. As if to say “You black folks won’t know what to do with that much money, let’s rather give it to the mayor and the church, they’ll take good care of you”. Needless to say that black woman was pissed!
White are rich and insecure, Black are poor and tuff, Yellow are all the same, and the Brown are taking all our jobs. Flowers can be white stone can be black a field of wheat looks yellow, soil brown. Same colors different venue.
You painted with a lot of white. It dulls the work and should maybe concentrate on value.
most people that aren’t ideolouges jesus freaks or people scared of foreigners and gays vote democrat.
to republicans there is no middle ground between the complete “free” market and communist china.
pretty soon Obama will hand the country over to the Muslims and the gays will be doing it in the streets
LOL!!
At least the white woman paid off some of the black woman’s debt with the money and fixed up the house….so the black woman should not have been THAT angry!
Wow. I’m not an ideolouge jesus freaks or scared of foreigners or gays and I voted for McCain.
What next ? Are you going to try an tell me that liberals don’t stereotype or make ridicules generalizations?
So, I know it’s almost a year after you made this comment, but I just wanted to second it. The “Angry White Man” worldview is so full of contradictions that the typical angry white man will never see because of the position of privilege he simultaneously inhabits and disavows.
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Whites account for the largest percentage of impoverished people in the country.
We know what’s best cause we are busy being poor.
???
she’s got every right to be!
politicians and churches only take care of people who are taking care of their asses!
You’ve got it completely backwards. Poor people vote Democrat because they are ignorant and lazy and want the government to give them free money.
Rich people vote Democrat because they feel guilty for their success and they don’t care if the government raises taxes because they can afford it.
Middle class people are the ones that vote Republican because they can’t afford to be taxed anymore than they already are, they resent the government taking their hard earned money and giving it to ignorant lazy poor people and they exist in the real world where they have to work hard and be responsible for their families and their own actions. Something both Rich and Poor people don’t have to do.
Please explain how she’s ignorant?
Reagan and Thatcher were right. If you don’t want to be poor, get a damn job and quit whining. If you don’t want to get a job, just sit there and be poor and shut the hell up. I’m too busy working and making something of my life to be distracted by your lazy ass.
It’s funny how they claim this is about white people but really its about white yuppies, not white people in general. I am pretty much the whitest person ever but i’ve never been remotely interested in most of this crap
That’s because you’re the wrong kind of white person.
So where do the Christian Fundamentalist Republicans come from? You know the folks that are ‘pro life’ and for preventive war all at the same time? (And they can really say that with a straight face. Amazing.)
Zing!
lol…nah man, the whitest person ever is John O’Hurley (Family Feud Host). Anyone else agree? I’m white…and John O’Hurley is SO white, even *I* cannot stand him. Watching that guy is like pulling teeth…
I love how upper middle class yuppies claim to care about the poor and working classes but don’t know any.
It would be more accurate to say they care about them in the abstract and from afar. If they actual knew some up close and personal, they probably wouldn’t like them.
For instance, few working class individuals are PC, they don’t shop at Whole Foods, their lifesyle and entertainment choices would be considered too lowbrow to meet the approval of their self perceived social betters.
I’m a lawyer but from a union blue collar background. Can’t think of more phoney people than those described herein.
This is exactly right, 100%. Thank you Kile.
As a percentage of white people the percentage of poor white people is lower than the percentage of black or Hispanic people who are poor. White people who are poor are more numerous than blacks or Hispanics (for 20 more years at least), but not as a percentage of all white people. On planet earth, white people are the most affluent, across the board no matter where you go.
Wait – you’re not scared of “foreigners” and gays, but your two biggest fears are Muslims taking over and gays doing it in the streets?
If you remove some words and replace them with thoughtful, well placed pauses using semicolons or dashes, this would work very well at an urban poetry slam.
Yet another example of “Things that over-educated upper middle class white liberal elitist urban hipsters like”
^So true! I go to a super liberal mostly white school and it consists of exactly what you are saying – lots of idealism about protecting racial minorities and the lower class, but in a scholarly sense. You don’t see these kids going to reggaeton clubs on the weekends; they prefer to stay on campus smoking weed and discussing politics with their other equally nerdy, equally white middle-class friends. Townies are considered a hazard to the school: they pick fights with the boys and hit on the girls. Too bad.
I can’t hate them, because despite their limitations, they have their heart in the right place. But the lack of day-to-day personal interaction with the groups they so claim to be protecting just makes them seem like uninformed hypocrites.
The real issue here is that poor people are percieved as too stupid to know what’s good for them, and it is the duty of the arrogant liberal to ‘take care’ of them. Hilary Clinton is the poster child for this mentality.
my friend want to have a poor people sign.
funny stuff, but just for the record
poor people ARE too dumb to know what’s good for them.
sorry, ment to throw this in there…
http://www.npr.org/programs/specials/poll/poverty/staticresults4.html
Hot damn they got it made… No Taxes… No Bills… No Truck Payments… No house payments… Nada. Id say there linked to the Vegans and Arts students with no jobs. I got a job for them… Fix my Bob wire and I will pay you. Mow my pasture with my equipment and My gas.. I will Pay you. Not pennies neither. 100 bucks an acre. They say no and ask for 37 cents. A bum is a bum no need to feel sorry for them. They chose there beds.. they gotta sleep in them.
Here’s a question for you jackasses. Who would you rather be treated by? A witch doctor or a real doctor who understands the difference between fairy tales about evil spirits and the common cold? How silly are white people, right? Of course the poor tribesman knows better! That’s exactly why he’s in the fantastic situation he’s in, because he’s so darn smart! I wonder, are my livestock being killed because I didn’t kiss the ground enough yesterday? Or is it because a motherfucking pride of lions came into your village and ate them? So you people out there who think the poor people know what’s best for them, you just keep letting them blow smoke on their huts at night…and the educated people of the World Food Program and the Peace Corps will keep training and educating the poor villagers so they can better their lives.
´….no truck payments´
thank the lord
thats bs
im white
i dont care about poor people
also, 95% of poor people are democrats looking for gov handouts
All I have to say is that this is a funny blog. The comments are as good as the blog on some of these. Its great.
And on the subject of poverty…
Poverty will never be abolished so why should we give a damn? Honestly, how many people would give their hard earned money to some “less-fortunate” person? Obviously not enough do so there is no point. I can tell you that when I get out of college and I am dealing with the sick and dying every day, not one penny will be going to a poor person, a crack addict, or a church of any sort.
Bite my hairy white ass you pompous arrogant bastard. I have been out of work since 08/08 and have applied for every job you can think of. from garbage collector to hamburger cook and every construction job advertised. I’m 40 and have 5 kids. I am a former business owner. I have over 15 years experience as a Master Plumber. I don’t know why I haven’t been hired… I just haven’t. Maybe it’s because there are MILLIONS of others who are also unemployed and appliying for the same jobs.
It is sad to see a day that people don’t want to see that other people do need help. Don’t you understand that every thing you have has been given to you because an all powerful Heavenly Father loves you, and you would be nothing and are nothing without him. And regardless of how hard-hearted you are he is always there to help you. And he still loves you. And you cannot deny him in true reality because he does comfort all his children even you, and you know it.
So how can we not help our brother in Africa or our sister in Russia that suffer unimaginable depths.
Just know that all charity whether it be a thought for someone else or an action is eternal, and that it never is wasted. All individuals are children of God and we cannot afford to not help them because remember all roads lead to the judgment bar, all of us no matter if we do believe in God or not will go before God and be judged. I TESTIFY that CHARITY NEVER FAILETH and that they need our arms to help them in every capacity to magnify. The Atonement is real and God truely loves you. These things I say in the Name of Jesus Christ Amen!
You’re thumpin that bible awful hard there, Jared.
Hmm.. you don’t get the joke and you’re completely misinformed and possibly racist. Do you work for FOX news??
In general, people are poor because they are:
1) Dumb
2) Lazy
3) Happy with their current state
4) Mentally Ill
5) Very unfortunate circumstances
In that order.
And I cant wait for the #101 white people (being offended) to blog 10 paragraphs about their personal battle with unfortunate circumstances and how I am insensitive and wrong.
Hmm…. you dont get the joke and your completely misinformed and possibly a pinko commie. Do you work for MSNBC?
hey chucky beeeotch. no one is gonna debate with ya; afterall, you are only speaking from personal experience. We believe your personal description of your broke assed self.
you dumb poor beeeotch.
AMEN! now send me some money and i will believe your testimony.
you sanctimonious beeotch.
What kind of jerk are you? How can you be this insensitive and be a real ass??? Stop your racial comments…
Preventive war is pro life, such as if we’d stopped hitler in 1938 instead of trying to appease our way out of it. Appeasing tyrants always kills more people in the long run.
Suprised it took that long….
And, where does this say anything about race? Classic uber-liberal – inserting race into a discussion to to put the ultimate liberal scarlet letter on a person they disagree with- racist!
God you people are so predictable.
Mr. uh huh…..
Pardon me if I dont take you seriously….. I mean, pearls of wisdom like your post on #70 – difficult breakups:
uh huh…. on February 22, 2009 at 6:45 pm
white guys live to be in the 4-F club:
find’em
feel’em
f***’em
forget’em
Nice. I am sure you are a really deep thinker, just a weak moment for you. Stay classy guy.
I aim to please.
beeeotch.
Why thank you, beeotch. Fortunately for me, I am not white.
ha ha ha
So the poor people in this country are the sustaining electorate of the republicans? Strange because conventional wisdom tells us that the EXACT opposite is true.
Kile, you have summed it up perfectly.
Why don’t you go to a Nascar race or a Walmart some time and ask someone what political party they support. I think you’ll be surprised to learn that that this article has it exactly right.
I know lots of poor people who take government handouts, sell drugs to the kids, and drive $80,000 cars and since im white i know whats best for them, more business. So you see i bring more drugs in the poor communities then bust the dealers, take the drugs, pocket the money, and start the process over again. After all in the end im the only one who profits and i manage to spark a new generation of drug dealers or should i just call them revenue. Im the biggest hustler of them all, I am the government.
I came across this forum by accident, but i had to say something……So let me get this straight…you people actually believe that poor people are generally white, dumb, lazy and/or mentally ill and being so explains why they are poor?
Thats the dumbest thing ive ever heard, for the guy who claims to be a drug dealer, slash,police officer. You by far are the biggest idiot ive seen here. you make a bold claim as to being an intellectual drug dealer, but all anyone is seeing is a pathetic person who makes a living breeding distruction in his/her own neighborhood, city, town country. That makes you nothing more than a pile of shit. Black or White!!!!
As for you or anyone saying that the predominant poor is white, maybe you should look at the statistics a little closer, because predominantly blacks and hispanics are the top poor races.
And thats sad, no matter if your white, black, hispanic or any other race. People in general are poor or lacking in one way or another. Race has nothing to do with anyones abilities to bring themselves out of poverty, although the U.S. government actually caters to the needs of 2 races that are considered at or below the poverty level, and that for a fact is the black and hispanic races. I believe this forum is a joke and most ive seen here have nothing more to do than to hide behind a computer to discuss idiotic topics that have no real merit or facts.
uh, for your information, there are MORE WHITE PEOPLE on welfare in sheer numbers than there are hispanics or blacks combined.
The catering is to white folk, not the minorities. It is the media (namely TV) who are lazy to show poor white folk. It is easier to stay within large city limits and let americans see non-white faces represent welfare recipients.
Sorry to bust your bubble.
The US is majority white. That’s why there are more white people in welfare. If you look at the percentages, it’s different.
I know this, BUT, if there are more white people on welfare, then that means that it is more white people the government is spending money on.
It is not minorities who are ‘wasting’ government money, as many white people believe; rather, it is sheer numbers of whites who are the recipients of government support.
sorry, but percentages does not change this fact.
Poor whites vote Republican because of their resentment toward the upper-middle-class, whom they associate with decadent liberal values. But look at who reads the Wall Street Journal. Where are those old-time working-class Democrats?
Actually, liberals make about 6% more in this country than conservatives.
any time I see people busting out statistics to prove that black people are more poor/criminal/welfare receiving than white people, I can’t help but think of the movie American History X. Go peddle your neo-nazi pie charts and line graphs somewhere else, fascist.
Wow… this site is pure satire, exagerrations for effect. I doubt the author TRUELY believes what he is saying, he is satirizing white stereotypes. This tie may be low brow in one way but it is also quite intelligent and observant at the same time. It is not ment to be inflammatory… the author himself is white and making fun of his own race, because seriously, us white people need to be taken down a peg. I think alot of minorities would find this site hilarious, after all of the jokes, racism, prejudice, and ignorance they have been subject to, i’m sure many would delight at the chance to laugh at the imperialist race and its many fallacies.
definitely agree.
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Chucky, I think you’re assessment is pretty right on except you forgot: 6.) Alcoholic
7.) doing drugs
Its been possible to overcome poverty though, both my spouse and I were children of alcoholics and have managed to work ourselves into a pretty nice middle class life style. But nobody (and that means the government too) gave us one single solitary thing, we had to work real hard for all of it. And theres nothing wrong with that!
But now we’re just waiting for the axe to fall with this administration and the Democrats in power, everybody is going to be taxed to the nth degree. As for who votes for what party, well when my dad was drinking heavy he was a Democrat, when he stopped he voted Republican. Personally the last time I voted Democrat was Jimmy Carter, I cried when he lost, couldn’t stand to think of a”warmongerer like Ronald Reagan, but I voted for him the second time So I mostly vote Repub and the reason why is because they are the party who seems to think you should keep more of the money you have worked for, to spend it how you see fit and the party that still wants the Constitution followed and the party where the majority still believes in God. And the major difference I see between my conservative and my liberal friends is how the liberal ones keep saying about how the govt. should do more for the poor, but its the conservatives who are ACTUALLY out serving and doing more for the less fortunate. (like cleaning up an inner city school, or conducting a food drive, or taking a neighborhood collection up to help a neighbor in a bad circumstance, etc.) For conservatives, its personal.
And yeah I do spend a good part of my day thinking about and planning how I can help poor people, but a lot of that is for the sake of kids. And the fact that: I know, being poor is not the worst thing in the world unless you ‘re hungry and or don’t have shelter.” So this week if you can drop off a bag of food to a food kitchen, or make a donation to a shelter, please do it. Unfortunately the need is right now is pressing for so many people! Thanks.
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I hate to break it to you but most poor people are no prize either. They are hateful and mean to each other and venomous towards wealthy people unless they can con them in some way.
Personally, I think it is an individual thing. As an individual you must look at who you are and what your potential is and try to be the best person you can be.
Karma is real, so maybe the poor of today are the former wealthy individuals of yesterday and they are mad about it. All that anger comes from somewhere. Or maybe, life is just meant to be this way – horrid.
Maybe it’s money that corrupts everything or maybe humans are just destructive children except for the few honorable ones – our true special leaders that today we would rather kill then respect and listen to.
Hello!!!!!!!! what’s all this crap about white people? sounds racist to me. im white and poor too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i hate them nigers. they gonna hang
nigers?
perhaps you should look into going to college… or high school… yourself before you say ignorant (and grammatically incorrect) things like that.
I feel sorry for people like you.
i really fell about poor people because i am going throw that stuff and it harts me very much
Nigers??? What do you have against Nigerian people?? What a jerk. Nah, but you’re sad.
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anti rascist /race phobic comment, AND college!
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huh?
All of these resulting comments from the original racist remark are examples of #101.
Barbara Ehrenreich wrote an entire book about how she knows what’s best for poor people, thus earning herself a place in the White People Hall of Fame.
What a load of tripe lol….when I was in college, I got cornered by a lady who basically asked me why I voted Repub when the Dems were working on my behalf and the Repubs were trying to screw me. I had to work very very very hard to keep from laughing. I guess the KKK went from hating blacks, jews, gays, etc. to feeling horribly guilty about it. They can’t get away from the idea that for each “ethnic group” (‘white’ people code for race) somehow to remain “pure”, everyone has to stay in their little corners. *shrugs* You can take white Dems out of the KKK, but you can’t take the KKK out of white Dems.
excuse me but….who tha F*** is barbara ehenreich?
It’s funny because I just finished a class on poverty. Except we didn’t pretend that poor people don’t have free will.
As much as you liberals hate America and you minorities keep thinking its the white man keeping you down, take a look at what this country can offer you. Anyone of color can get a free college education! There are grants and programs for everyone for almost anything. Being poor is no longer an acceptable EXCUSE for staying that way.
Just look at the people litterally dying to get into this country because of the FREEDOMS and the OPPORTUNITIES here! While you liberals are bashing the US and the American soldiers who fought and died to make this country what it is today!!!
To all of you who ARE working to better yourselves, (and not out selling drugs and making babies who I and you will be paying for, either to feed or incarcerate) you have my total respect and admiration! Good Luck!
When I went to school, and took Third World Studies classes, I found an easy formula for getting good grades: Bash American Imperialism.
I found that I did not need to read every book (I had no time to anyway, because Physics and Calculus took all my time and study).
So, to boost my grade point average in humanities classes, it was: Bash America, Bash Racism, Bash Imperialism.
I quickly found out that all the humanities professors were a bunch of Marxists. And this was in a rich college (not an ivy league college, but the University of California.)
So if you want to get good grades from White UC system professors in ethnic studies classes, just parrot the lines about poverty and imperialism.
Not that it isn’t true. But there’s alot of stuff these professors are leaving out: namely, how the Left is controlled by the same so-called “capitalists” that the Right is controlled by, and that Leftism-Marxism is just as racist, if not more so, than Capitalism. At least in Capitalism, ala Ayn Rand, anybody can succeed and improve themselves, regardless of race. But say that in a college paper and you’re doomed!
Is that like Free trade were only inanimate objects get to have it.
You know WHY there are programs to get underprivileged kids into college (not that these programs are any where near as extensive as you make them out to be). Because of us LIBERALS. Republicans cut social programs left, right and center. It’s all about keeping the status quo.
There’s a lot more that goes into getting an education. You know that rural whites have lower IQs than urban minorities? It’s because of things like a family actually placing value in education, and the amount of money that goes into local public schools. I should note here that IQ doesn’t actually measure intelligence; it identifies which students need help in a given educational system.
I worked for a guy last summer who started his own window washing company. We got into this argument about minorities helping themselves, just like he did, a white ex-con who had a kid in his teens. I found out later that is in-laws had given him money to start his company. So much for pulling himself up by his own bootstraps.
So what I ask is for you to examine your life and tell us where you have helped yourself. Maybe you haven’t been as independent as you think you have.
Whites care more about random international poor people than those in their country…
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Whats funny is I totally agree with you on families placing value on education. Unfortunately, most urban kids are minorities who dont have families who value education and the kids that do get a hard time for trying to act white.
However, it has nothing to do with money. We spend the 2nd or 3rd most of any country in the world on education and are ranked outside of the top 10 in most categories.
Who actually cares about poor people? I don’t, as long as they remain in their ghettoes and do not come within any proximity of me.
Actually I lie, its terribly fun to go to ken gardens and throw bread at the peasants.
now your statement is very funny…..seeing that 67% of all welfare recipients in the United States are White people.
Or did you not know this fact?
are you still laughing white person?
All I read was “waaa waaaa waaa”.
Most people with 140 IQ’s are smart enough to get good grades and scholarships and thus, not needing financial aid. So that’s where either laziness or poor choices came into play with you. Stereotype’s 1, Staci 0.
Well, if you did any research, then you would realize that the majority of people in the United States are white so that these percentages must be considered with the average number of people in each group. Therefore, more people of one group would equal a higher and more immense percentage under welfare.
I’d also like to point out that this is a satire, not meant to be taken seriously. So please don’t get so angry or believe this blog is racist. It merely humors the stereotypes of a vast amount of white people. If you honestly feel so strongly about this, tell it to a website that takes this seriously.
I thought it was funny.
well john, if you did any research and looked at SHEER numbers of people on welfare, you would know that there are more numbers of WHITE people on welfare than non-whites.
Why do you white folk always talk about ‘average numbers of people in each group’ when it comes to the subject of HOW MANY people are on welfare?
And as for your snide remark about this website “knowing what’s best for poor people”, it is obvious that you missed the irony. If the majority of people on welfare are white, then he is asking white people if they know what’s best for their fellow poor whites.
You are typical of most white people who think that the poor in america is made up of a majority of non-whites. Sorry, but it isn’t.
and I find this fact funny because you refuse to accept it.
ha ha ha.
ha ha ha
nyah nyah nyah
neener neener neener
that sure told him!
uh huh you are spreading bad information. The percentages between whites and African americans for welfare participation are fairly close. Then you have to factor all the other ethnic groups in. 67% is farse; try more like 35% ( I don’t know the exact number since the reference material found varied and the information isn’t that readily available in this form)
the reson most white people will talk about percentages of population as opposed to percentage of welfare participants because THAT”S HOW STATISTICS WORK DUMBASS
I thought the whole thing was funny too John
Let us make this simple for all you white people that do not get it:
There are about 170 million white people in america, got it?
If just 10% of all white people were on welfare, then there would be 17 million white folk on welfare, got it? (but of course there are MORE than 10% of white folk on the dole…I am just using this as an example for your ignorant denying white folk who don’t like the truth).
Now there are 14 million AFRICAN AMERICANS TOTAL (give or take a couple of million) in ALL of the US of A, got it?
I could stop right here and say that there are MORE white folk on welfare than ALL of the african americans living in these United States:
14 million african americans
17 million white folk americans on welfare (and 10% is a conservative number).
What part of this equation that you idiots do not understand?
I said that in SHEER NUMBERS, there are more white folk on welfare. Period.
Hey smack, before you open your stupid mouth, try to READ and THINK at the same time before you write such stupid shit.
dumbassed BEEEEEEOTCH.
I WANT A MILLION DOLLARS!!! Can one million RICH WHITE PEOPLE send me one dollar apiece, puh-lease????
I don’t want money from any Asians, or Blacks or Hispanics. You guys NEED your money. I only want one dollar apiece from RICH WHITE PEOPLE who seem to WASTE a lot of their time and money worrying about poor people.
Waste it on me instead. Thanks so much! (First person who comments “You ARE a waste.” is a rotten egg. You thought it. I know you did. Stop lying. See? I knew it.)
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This could quite possibly be the obnoxious comment I’ve ever read in my life. I’m glad I don’t have to talk to you in person. I’m sure you are very annoying.
Effin’ brilliant. My favorite post of the whole list.
“Peasants”? Are you King Whitey
Black people can’t understand statistics- don’t even bother. That’s why they’re poor in the first place.
hahaha. thats so true. trust me i know, i work for a housing authority. most section 8/welfare are white people, on drugs, cracked out, alcoholics. not judging, just putting out there what type of clients i work with.
funny again. truth.
yeah, i dont understand why they are saying that either. no offense, i’m not wealthy at all, and i would never vote republican.
truth to both of your comments. and actually, i met and lived with the “typical” white ivy league graduate who claims to care about the less fortunate things in life, but didnt know anyone of that lifestyle until she met me. then she becamse judgmental calling me “trash” and saying the food i eat was disgusting [because i dont eat roganic and vegan] … blah blah she was a great uninformed hypocrite. her empathy came from what she was taught in school, yet after class the exact people she just learned about were the EXACT people she seemed to steer away from and find disgust in. to me, THAT IN ITSELF IS DISGUSTING. to “care” but when face to face with a person who lives that poverty textbook lifestyle, you find them repulsive?
for the record, she also HATES her mother haha.
Now see, even though this is humor I don’t get why this is not considered racist. If it was stuff black people like everyone would be up in arms about it. Whatever I guess. Poverty is one of the few things in life that is color blind.
How do you guys not get that this is making fun of White people with these attitudes??? Jesus lighten up.
Bea……you consider yourself a person who understands statistics, right? Then read this. If three people (Bea, smack, and John) are dumbasses, and the question is: what is the total percentage of dumbasses among those three people, what would be the answer?
If you answered 100%, you are correct.
You 100% dumbassed beeeotch.
My heart bleeds.
you got that right, since the majority of people who are in poverty in the US are white.
Get it?
Colorblind?
white?
You laughing Jackie? because I sure am.
I see the humor in it all, I’m black and I’m sharing it with all my black friends, hilarious.
Oh and for the record my white friends turned me on to the book, they too saw the humor in this.
im white and i think this is hilarious!!!
Um… this book is definitely not about the white people I grew up with in the housing projects of South Boston.
These guys pretty much only know white people of the crunchy privileged classes. Says a lot about where they come from.
Ummm…
I don’t know the numbers here, but must to explain the reasoning, the idea is that if there is a town with 100 black people and 1,000 white people, and all 100 black people are “poor”, while 150 white people are “poor,” then it would be accurate to say “There are more poor white people here than poor black people.” But that statement is misleading. A more accurate way to represent the situation is to say “100% of black people here are poor, and 15% of white people are poor.”
Anyways, just explaining. Just to clarify, I think this blog is pretty funny in general, not always 100% accurate judging by my experience, but then again it would be incredible if it was.
But, in your example, why would you compare the percentage of whites to the actual number of blacks? Why not compare percentages You know, 10% of white are poor, 9% of black, or whatever. That makes far more sense.
Otherwise, even if EVERY single black person were “poor” then what you are saying would still be true, but I would still argue that black people were in a worse position, right?
That’s why averages matter. This isn’t just some opinion, it’s statistics and it’s applied every day to issues far more complicated than this. It’s a simple concept.
its a f*ckin white writer idiot. if a black guy wrote about what black people wrote itd be a hit.
the reason there are more whites on welfare cause thres more of us, dont worry blacks, soon whites by 2042 will be the minority so this means NO MORE FREE RIDES for the stupid
I wish someone would buy me a ticket back to Ireland to get me away from the nastiness the USA has become
A steel toed boot to the ass will get you to Potatoland alot quicker.
whats the percentage of all white people on welfare though compared to that of all black people on welfare? just curious, not trying to be racist
hey blackislame? No free rides for the stupid? And I thought all those white folk on welfare were already the stupid (by the way you think of people on welfare).
And who would give your uneducated, illiterate ass a ticket to Ireland (re-read what you wrote….and at least use spell check next time). Nasty people like you are not welcome there.
beeeeeotch.
By my example, it is clear who is using all the resources that goes into welfare. The dirty secret is that white people LIKE to see a non-white face as the representative of welfare.
When you talk about how people on welfare are freeloading, you have to put a WHITE FACE on the freeloaders because there are more white people on welfare than non-whites.
This is the simple concept that you, nick, and most white people who talk about ‘averages’ do not seem to want to accept.
nick says…”why would you compare the percentage of whites to the actual number of blacks?…”
Nick, let me make this as clear as possible. Let’s compare percentages with percentages. If, hypothetically, 10% of all white people in the US are on welfare, then 17 million whites out of 170 million would be on the dole…..17 million whites.
If, hypothetically, say…25% of all african americans are on welfare, well 25% of 14 million african americans equals….3.5 million african americans on the dole…..3.5 million african americans…
hmmmmm……17 million whites on welfare.
hmmmm……….3.5 million african americans on welfare.
Now, what part of IN SHEER NUMBERS, there are more white people on welfare than african americans???
hmmmm???
wow, uh huh…..,
youre not too keen on sarcasm, huh?
try to read with a joke in mind!
blackislame was not trying to be sarcastic. He was being a stupid, ignorant beeeeotch.
I’m all for sarcasm on most subjects, but not when the sarcasm has a ‘racial’ tinge. Poor people is suddenly NOT a funny subject to some whites when it is pointed out that the majority of poor people in america are white (blackislame, for example).
These same white folk think the subject is hilarious when they mistakenly think that the majority of the poor are non-white.
I wonder if blackislame is laughing right now?
So Nick, my next question to you is how is it a more accurate way to represent the situation to say that “100% of black people here are poor, and 15% of white people are poor” when it comes to finding out how much money is being spent on ALL THE PEOPLE on welfare?
If 150 whites are on welfare, as compared to 100 blacks, it does not take a rocket scientist to say that it is whites who are using MOST OF the welfare system resources, thus, the correct statement should be that the welfare system is overwhelming being used by whites (over two thirds of ALL people on welfare in the US are white).
It is funny to me that white people still love to point out the percentages WITHIN a certain group, but never address the TOTAL numbers of people when breaking down who is on welfare.
I know this is true because in the mid 90s when Clinton proposed to limit welfare support to 5 years lifetime (meaning, if you use welfare for a total of five years, you cannot apply for it ever again in your lifetime), white people came out the woodwork in support of this because they all thought that it was non-whites who where gonna get punished (due to incorrect interpretations like yours which does not represent the sheer number of users of welfare).
Your type of percentages are nice when you want to show poverty WITHIN a certain group, but you fail to accept that when it comes to ALL groups put together, white people occupy the largest slice of numbers of people on welfare.
That is all i’m trying to point out.
Really? White or Black who gives a S@#$%
The Problem here is alot of you dont have the mental IQ to understand and react to sarcasm. For the Record , I dont care what color poverty is…. Unless you are mentally or Physically Handicapped get up of your fat ass and get a job and make something of yourself…. GEEZ
I thought over 40 million (close to 41) African Americans live in the US, another 40 million are Latino and the 5 percent are Asian, while you have 170-175 million white Anglos to mean are still the majority. The correct numbers should be 10 million blacks, 18 million whites and perhaps 14 million Latinos as an ethnicity, not “race” are on welfare. The rate of welfare of white Americans vs. black Americans are 2 to 1 and the 10% of Asians on welfare would be 0.5% of the US population (one percent=3 million out of 300 million). +
I’m afraid to agree with you, though the 3.5 million Blacks on welfare vs. 10 million in the “poverty range” to receive welfare checks. Latinos can be both white and non-white, the rate of welfare dependency in the Latino population is well known to the feds. Since white people are 75% (3/4th) of the US population, who’s more likely represented in the welfare rolls? It isn’t hard to figure out. +
“Anybody can succeed, regardless of ones’ race or class” can get you expelled or in big trouble at college? You serious?
To be a black person doesn’t mean “I can’t do anything I put my mind into”, that’s purely wrong and false. Are they suggesting the chances are lower for black people to leave welfare and have a good paying job? I find it very confusing (at first), then I realize your college professors are insisting black people are like weak or “retarded” kids.
As a person with autism, I’m told by neurologists my whole life since my diagnosis at age 4 on: I can’t talk, type, ride a bike, hold a job, keep a budget, finish high school, have a GF/ relationship, speak bits of 4 languages, etc. until they are proven wrong over & over. Whoever feels a black man, an autistic kid or even a woman is unable to accomplish without affirmative action, being given money by others or alledgedly “retarded” like autistic kids…are stereotypes. +
Corky, you’re a step away from a ban-hammer on your account. SWPL is a parody site meant to make fun of how rich white people are…snobs, hypocrites and misguided in their stance of being “properly educated”. The blogger’s alter ego shows his true colors by playing a white bigot.+
Why do we need to ship our own poor to Ireland? Once was a formerly under-developed country until the 1960’s, the Irish managed to rebuild their economic base to be the “Celtic tiger” of the 1990s. Ireland also has non-white (i.e. African) immigrants, so good luck there blackislame. +
Reading the comments on this blog really manages to suck all the funny out of the room. I congratulate all of you.
It is nice to know that you came to the “knowing what’s best for poor people” to get your laughs.
Reading your comment really manages to suck all the funny out of the room also.
Pat yourself on the back and congratulate yourself Andrew.
yo all yal whiteys be racist dawgg yous be in nice house end smell nise so you think you be beter then us colored folks if welfare gav us moor wed no gotsta steel are kfc 40ozs 4 diner evry nite its jus aint rite dawgg, jus aint rite
Sorry dogg I agree with andrew. Don’t be a dick.
why don’t you live up to your name and fuck off, fukkuf?
Is that enough dick for you beeeotch?
White (American) people support our troops dispatched into some small third world nation not posing a security threat to us really…and knowing what’s best for these people is to “have a democracy, law and order, be civilized, peaceful, capitalist, freedom, etc.” while we implant a military regime to intimidate opponents and support rigged electoral ballot boxes. No wonder the world don’t want us, no matter how we liberated countries from previous dictators (i.e. Iraq), but the logical reason why we went there is for the oil. +
Luck o’ the South Boston Irish, where in 1975 the mostly white community rallyed against court-ordered busing of black students into its’ all-white high school to achieve racial integration. (and we know what happened, nearly ended the career of the late Senator Ted Kennedy). +
I grew up in a rich area but I myself was not rich. Seeing how miserable the rich people were at such a young age, I’ve grown up to be very frugal b/c I chose not to follow in their footsteps so as to make a lot of money. It makes me feel sick to my stomach to shell out $500 for something I could get for $200. That way I can give the rest to a really poor person. So, I guess in that way, I am white then, b/c I think about those who are less well-off than me. But that’s because it’s what Jesus would do and I don’t know, he was Jewish. Are Jews white?
nig
Awesome. You really captured the irony of the fact that you’re playing a stereotypical black guy on a blog about white stereotypes, and what compounds it is that you’re likely white yourself and somewhat offended by what another white person wrote, but assumed the author is black.
If I blew your mind, it’s ok. I’m black, so by habit, I’ll be robbing the local liquor store for a 40oz. of Old English before I commit a gang-related homicide, because I’ve been oppressed by the man and have no way out.
hey uh huh how about you do society a favor and shoot yourself.
uh huh is a troll in need of some mod control (rhymes). We think you’re nothing more than a dolt with a grudge against humanity and can’t live in the real world. You’re no longer “funny” uh huh, a tired ol’ gag nobody finds amusing anymore. +
Why would the city of L.A. banned fast food joints in much of the city, preferably the low-income minority sections? White people like city ordinances to only benefit themselves. I know a community here in the Palm Springs area declare a stretch of highway only for high-end stores. Let’s ban gas stations, mini-marts, drive thrus, pay phone booths and strip malls. Snobbery in its’ finest. +
White people are statisticans by nature, we get off on the slightest stuff: where the Americans are (those who self-identified as “American”), and they are mostly poor counties through the southeast quadrant of the country.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Census-2000-Data-Top-US-Ancestries-by-County.svg
The question should be: Are white people Jews?
hey sup, I will make a deal with you. I will shoot myself if I get to shoot you first. Society needs to be rid of beeeotches like you.
beeeotch.
crackah.
fuck you faggot, uh huh is a bitch
You are such a stereotype. What kind of name is Kirin, I bet your parents wanted to name you Karen but were too dumb/high to spell it correctly.
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sorry guys but I’m an asshole. I will do everyone a favor and shoot myself. Sorry to offend you Mr. Uh huh.
Good bye cruel world.
Hey guys! I really am POOP! But you can call me by my real name:
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this has been a lesson on postm0dernism
What’s the difference of being black or being poop? They both are brown and smell terrible!
p.s. anyone who copies my name is a gigger loser than uh huh….., and that is saying something cause that bitch is moe.
fuck you faggot, I is a bitch too! Come over and fuck me in the ass again tonight.
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What’s the difference of being white or being poop? They both are white and smell terrible!
p.s. anyone who copies my name is a gigger loser just like me….., and that is saying something cause that bitch is moe, who’s my homosexual lover.
o all yal blackies be racist dawgg yous be in nice house end smell nise so you think you be beter then us whitey folks if welfare gav us moor wed no gotsta steel are kfc 40ozs 4 diner evry nite its jus aint rite dawgg, jus aint rite…
autism iz my problemz dawwwg….fizzizzle.
What tha fuck did i just say? I’m about as bright as a rock! Don’t listen to my dumbass because i have autism.+
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…another Idiot amongst us!
LOL I saw this site on http://www.DanielDickey.com and I must admit it’s just as funny!!
Lame & disgusting joke, here’s a much better one to use as a pick-up line: “I am part-black…dontcha want some?” 😉
Hey now, can’t we all agree that both Whites and Blacks suck, and that you are all a bunch of faggots? Sure we can…
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Who really cares about poor people in America? Nobody. But let’s hear the whites cry, whine, moan or b*tch about poor starving children in Africa. I came to believe American elites are more like Mexican elites, the castizos claim to be the protectors of indigenous people and rural peasants in their country. But it doesn’t explain the high rate of illegal immigration coming from the interior of Mexico.
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What’s a liberal?
your argument is true except in one aspect: Here in the US, the majority of people who are poor in the US are white people. And you KNOW that white American elites HATE poor white people more than any other group.
My bad, I was being facetious and you hit it right on the head on whites are in a conflict with their own: but more about class, money and prestige. Tell me what defines poor or low-income? Under 200K a year or the fact a majority of average white Americans earn 5 times the income than the average black American…and 8 times more than Hispanics.
they pretend to love them, during election season at least
The ‘average’ white american statistics is skewed by a few white americans who are multi-millionaires and billionaires. Those whites (with high school education or less) outnumber all minorities in the US combined and make up the majority of poor whites.
And here I was thinking the best thing for poor people was lots of money. But I can’t help myself because I am white.
Here the most white of white attitude is the poor suffer from drink, drugs , mental illness and behavioral disorders. THATS THE WHOLE AND ENTIRE REASON, take away the booze, the drugs, add higher police presence – And put all strays before a psychiatric tribunal out to get the grip on anyone they can who says life has been too complicated, tough and unlevel.THEN WE CAN have a PROBLEM SOLVED PERFECT SOCIETY. The same is said for blacks in the northen territory as much as a guy out of school who cant get a first job! Only whites can blame every punch up and social problem on alcohol – even one beer.Thats why people are poor – they drink too much alcohol, coffe and smoke too much nicotine, you need the police to detain them in detention centres to fix society up.
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More police = FAIL
WHAT A HORRIBLE IDEA
cept people with lower incomes vote heavily democratic, just look at the statistics brah!
The best thing for poor people is usually to have a big-ass revolution. But the white elites keep playing the race-fear card so us wrong-kind-of-white people don’t band together with real negroes and indians and hispanics and topple the whole shitty system ….. any minute now. We need to shoot Rockefellers, not Rastus or Rodriguez or Redfeather.
fuck you, asshole.
They would just buy more meth and another shit hole trailer to have more kids in
Yes keep blaming white people for your problems, and avoid finding a decent job like the plague. That will surely fix all of your problems.
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i embrace my total whiteness, having studied abroad, taken a year off, frequent farmers markets, work for a non-profit, promised to learn a 3rd language…the list goes on.
for the most part i have 100% agreed and laughed with all of your posts. and at people who solidified their whiteness by disagreeing with them.
But I have to say…this is the one comment that I am not totally buying. I propose the following revision:
There are two white attitudes of dealing with the concept of “poor people”.
Those who feel guilty (white people who love to apologize) and devote their time to working for non-profits, peace corps, americorps…etc.
and of course, White people who made to feel ashamed of their relative comfort and lack of hardship–and irritated by the idea of inconveniencing themselves enough to do something about it– by the poor. So they invent lots of reasons for why poor people are poor because it is their own fault: drugs, laziness, ignorance.
Hence why white people love things like fundraisers for non-profits(not their own money…), doing easy and pointless volunteer work and then talking about the impact they made, and of course, praising other people who are “doing something about it”.
Just a thought.
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Oh this was hilarious. Very true.
I understand economics and the realities of the incentives and constraints this world stubbornly operates off. The writer of this blog captured the essence of how white liberals truly think with their emotions. They envision the world as they wish it were, not as it is. Never do they realize, that their benevolence is destructive.
I am a libertarian.
Not just poor people shop at Walmart. And the same people that shop at Walmart also shop at WholeFoods. Com’n. Really?
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lighten up, man
No, Wal*Mart is generally considered to be pretty creepy…this is why white peopel like Target; It’s the same thing as Wal*Mart technically, but more expensive and therefore better 😉
(Fred Meyer for me!)
Its funny. Theres like 50 million Harris Teater (sp?) around here, and only one walmart, and its pretty ghetto. Hehe, damn white people 😀
Spending less on the SAME merchandise is CREEPY? I dunno saving money means I can spend more on being GREEN and we all know that being GREEN is very important and those kind of products tend to cost more. I think Target is creepy in a lot of ways like they don’t have as much selection and Wal-mart gives more funds to poor and inner city school children than Target. That IS what we are talking about here isn’t it? Poor folks?
I’m a female, not a man.
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They vote Republican instead of Democratic? Er, you’ve got it the other way around, dude. White people are more likely to vote for Republicans than any other racial group. Non-white people get that Republicans don’t care about them and won’t give them anything. This sounds more like “Evil liberals with perpetual white guilt try to get us good, salt-of-the-earth Sarah Palin supporters to vote Democratic.”
i grew up extremely poor, and this says it all, if i tell wealthier white freinds about my back ground, they just eat it up, actually had one say she wuold love to experince being poor for a week to be able to understand the poor better, all will tell about one or two experiences in their lives, like the time they were in college and were short on money or something, ( still driving the car and clothes daddy bought them.). being poor aint nothing but a thang.
Being poor in the U.S. means you’re more than likely to have running hot and cold water, access to healthcare, access to a washer and dryer, food stamps, a fridge, stove, public schools, public transportation, toys (even secondhand), and probably a TV without cable. But it’s not exactly poor if you compare it to third world countries who have none of this. What is called poor in the U.S. is not poor. It is low income. There is so much funding and so very many programs. There are church based ones if not government based ones. No one has to be ‘poor’ their whole life. The fascination or curiosity anyone has with being poor is probably just guilt. Whether or not they should be feeling guilty about it ………………
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Dennis Miller was trying to describe the group The President was talking to at a fundraiser over a year ago when candidate Obama was describing those people in Pennsylvania clinging to their guns and religion. Miller called it the “Whats best for them” crowd. That stuck with me because those four words so completely define what is going so very wrong these days.
On a lark I did a web search for “What’s best for them.” and #62 came up.
I shop at WalMart and I happen to be white. In fact I have been white my whole life and I hate the whole unselfconsciously condecending ‘What’s best for them’ cr@p.
That includes Presidents who believe the only problem with most of us is he has not explained things clearly enough to us so we can understand he *really* knows whats best for us.
Right.
Get a job, enigma!
Lame = Enigerma
Pussy
seriously? get a life, enigma.
Enige = uhhuh
They’re both the same fag
Black people just can’t be funny. Sorry but it’s true.
Get a job, enigma
No thanks. I’m black so I just abuse welfare instead. KFC goes great with crack!
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Purple drank fo’ life, dawgg!
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I went to Wal-Mart recently, and to be honest, the “bargains” sucked dick! All it was was a bunch of shit that I didn’t need. I hardly think that “brown people” need any more/less than I do. So go fuck yourself for perpetuating the idea that white people aren’t “down to earth” or that we’re elitist blow-hards who spend our every waking hour pitying the less fortunate darker-skinned people for their lack of a liberal arts education. Just because something sounds stuck-up and “lily white” doesn’t mean it’s wrong, you schmuck.
Satire. Well, not everyone will realize that about your Website. I guess that I’m a White hipster too but it still feels wierd to refer to myself as White when I disagree with the whole concept of race.
you don’t have to be white, to be white. you just have to be rich.
Shine on, you awesome libertarian you! A lot of the things they push just jacks up prices and lowers the amount produced (and this helps the poor how?).
Oh my god. This place is full of morons.
hey professor, your privilege is showing.
Your comment is either great satire, or you’re a moron.
To Professor, I mean.
‘that they vote Republican instead of Democratic’
Are you saying poor people vote republican? if so you’re wrong.
its really funny, check this out http://stuffnewmanstudentslike.blogspot.com/ about some rich high school
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if you want to see a really rich high school go to http://stuffnewmanstudentslike.blogspot.com/2010/02/being-rich.html
Im 17 and have been poor firsthand and I mean shit poor (Pierre Part, Louisiana) and trust me poor people who have no problem accepting a welfare check every month vote democratic. KeyWord: redistribution of Wealth. Heard it Before?
Relax everyone! It’s supposed to be funny, not necessarily true, and if it’s not funny to you then don’t read it
This is my favorite entry. The others are funny, but this is one has a lot of truth.
As someone from the ‘wrong kind of white person’ background in a white person world– I am sooo sick of hearing how it’s such a shame that poor people don’t have the privilege necessary to really understand the world– because clearly if they had as sophisticated a level of understanding as upper middle class college students, they wouldn’t be doing things like listening to mainstream hip hop or country music, or eating meat, or supporting conservative politics.
The best thing for poor people? Money. Then you become the right kind of white people.
Sure. It’s also called Fat and Lazy, comes in all colors and prefers menthol cigaretts and miller high life to getting a job.
So how do you know if it’s funny to you unless you read it?
That’s really funny considering the states with the highest numbers on public assistance are all red.
White person, if what you say is true,I hope its fun if you ever get jacked and punched-out of retaliation mind you- in the face. Or injured-stabbed,shot,( for again)even doing this.I don’t care if it is done in a ghetto,trailer park, barrio or any other poor area-I really don’t as long as it is done! Not that I wish harm on innocent people. Just folks that go places to initiate problems like you seem to enjoy doing!
Oh whatever, man!In fact, everything you say in general is the recipe for why (some) profligate wealthy/upper middle class people tend to lose some or all their wealth!They are the equivalent of the prodigal son in real time/life!If you are rich, I hope you say this were you to ever lose your wealth whether you inherited or earned it!Anyway, there are alot of poor people who are the exact opposite of the things that you say they are and non-poor that are everything on this list! But hey you are entitled to your opinion. This is just mine btw!
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a lot of white people I know hate poor people and call them trash, they don’t feel sorry for them.
“Non-white people get that Republicans don’t care about them and won’t give them anything.” Won’t give them anything? Is that how non-white people are supposed to vote? For the candidate that will give them something? The only thing a politician can give you is what he or she has stolen from someone else. Wilder, you are an example of the parasitic cancer that eats away at the world. Why not get a job and earn things yourself, instead of selling your vote to the biggest crook? Why not vote for the candidate who will protect your constitutional rights? Those are the rights defined in the US Constitution, not the rights made up by the right kind of white people, which include “free” health care, “free” (liberal) education, etc….
I also know black people who hate poor people and black people who work ‘knowing what’s best for poor people’
this whole list is a LITTLE racist no?
Only white people feel that they know what’s best for poor people because they believe that the majority of poor people are not white!!
The fact is that over 70% of all poor people in the US are WHITE. I bet if white people knew this fact, they would quickly avoid the question of knowing what’s best for poor people.
There is nothing more hated by white people than seeing other white people.
har har.
other white people THAT ARE POOR, that is.
If you think it’s racist, don’t friggin read it! Oh…and go find a sense of humour!!
hey whitey! I think I found my sense of humour!
Get this:
shut the fuck up!
HAR HAR. Now that’s funny.
Wow! This is so true. It seems like most people in general think that they are impartial and that if someone else just ‘knew what they know’ he or she would suddenly have an epiphany and change the way they are living. This type of thinking is really very condescending but I do not think that ‘white people’ realize it is. People have been shaped by their life experiences and see things differently. There is rarely one ‘right’ way to be or do things.
-I think that RACE in this country was created to divide the working poor/classes and pit them against each other–makes it easier for the people in power–(global social phenomenon with economic and political roots in capitalism)\\what ya’ll think?
“Har Har” is absolutely right. There are PLENTY of poor white folks in America, but every race seems to think that most white people have money.
Also, most of the poor whites I know vote Democratic. Not because they are open-minded, ultra-liberal yuppies, but because Democrats seem to have a much better grasp of what poor people have to go through. They see Republicans as greedy, close minded, old-money collecting hardasses. Which in my opinion, they are.
Our president is black and he’s not poor….I’m white and I am! I know what it’s like to be hungry. Can’t we forget about race for a change? I have some wonderful black friends that I love dearly. My race has nothing to do with the fact that I’ve had two cancers, a fractured back and now, a weak heart. I’m just thankful to God that I’m still alive. Poor, but alive!
So you want a site called “Stuff WHITE PEOPLE Like” To stop talking about race… That’s like going to Politico.com and whining that everything’s so political.
IT’S IN THE NAME!!! Go somewhere else, dumbass.
Oh, and all of the entries are meant to be IRONIC. None of this is completeley serious. It’s based on general observation and commonly held stereotypes. That’s why it’s funny. Sorry to hear about your cancer, back, and heart. Next time you see the doctor, ask them about your funny bone.
*awkward pause*
*knee slap*
@jakie: i agree with dan. maybe if you werent so negative, negative shit would stop happening to you: I think a lot of you have problems understanding these are just broad funny stereotypes that apply to the current (young 20-30′s) white population of the USA. OF COURSE black people, and Asian, and Latino people do some of these things. YOU DO NOT NEED TO SAY YOU ARE BLACK AND YOU DO THIS TOO (no one cares! these are just funny WHITE stereotypes). and Of course all white people don’t do all these things. These are just FUNNY STEREOTYPES that are oddly and recently very prevalent in American White culture. I am very guilty (and not guilty) of a lot of these. I think it is really funny. I live in Japan, have an Asian girlfriend, like mos def, used to make movies, wanted to be a writer, like to camp, etc, etc. No I don’t do yoga and don’t really like tea… and I am NOT going to be all defensive and complain that this list is stupid and I guess I am not white cause I don’t drink wine. Just enjoy this for what it is. BROAD STEREOTYPES. one more thing. Stop being so defensive. You don’t need to post on every thing that you DON’T do, “I don’t do …..” whatever. good for you.
here is an idea for the next item. Stuff white people like: not having a sense of humor or being remotely opened minded.
me be white peckerwood with rutabaga dill -do feels like small carrot
dis peckerwood is sicko looks like turnip
i like hot to trot any colored
like ur approach whats wrong w u
hey i like the fact u whities are paying for my internet cable and house keep voting for goddamma he will take every thing and give it somebody who needs it like me I don’t need to work i have goddamma and nasty pigossi taking for me keep giving and stfu cry babies
dis shit is fukin funy some nimwit takes it serious that be really white I am proud to be green and purple
great that peice of shit is gone Hewas worse than a pile of shit waiting for tumble bugs secreting the juices out of shit calling it democratic gargle
dani we must be related as we see the reason we could work on problems w/out politicians and come to equal decisions for all
YOUR WHITE BROTHER ERLI
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It’s one thing to be against abortion for oneself, and another to try to legislate other people’s lives. A good government would never force abortion (as happened in China during the 1980s) or outlaw it (as happened in Romania, also during the 1980s).
I think too many people are careless about unplanned pregnancy. Whether via abstinence when I was younger or practicing the fine art of reliable birth control when I was older, I always did what I could to ensure that I would not need an abortion. I support Roe v. Wade, but definitely wouldn’t want to have an abortion. Because I also definitely never wanted a baby, I eventually had a tubal ligation.
Not all people who support abortion rights terminate unplanned pregnancies. Similarly, people who are generally opposed to abortions sometimes have them. In my life, I have known both.
If poor people knew what was best for them, then they wouldn’t be poor.
And not all weathly people are “white.” Haven’t you noticed the influx of Asian, Indian, and African American folks living in wealthy communities, driving nice cars, and working in highly reputable positions in their wealthy communities?
I didn’t think so.
Not all “white” people are white…
I think you mean..”That’s why you’re poor.” right?
More proof white people want others to be just like them. Sorry to burst your bubble, but yes, all “white people” are white. Though if you took a trip to Middle America, you’d find plenty of whites who aren’t “white people”. Stop trying to mold people from other races to be like you. 😀
Hey, who is ever remain poor needs to get off the couch and make it for himself. To assuming poor people, no excuse to blame the man for your poverty. Nothing is holding you down. Here’s a guide how not to be poor.
1. DO NOT GET PREGNANT OR GET SOMEONE PREGNANT!!
2. NO DRUGS, TOBACCO OR ALCOHOL!
3. Stay in School and get your diploma or GED. Learn your social skills in order to become a well-functioning adult.
4. Go to College (obtain a student loan or find a temp/ part-time job to defry the costs) and major in a degree you use in a future career.
5. Get a job, show up to work. Come wearing decent, clean, non-saggy clothes, speak properly, don’t be rude, no swearing or talking slang, and have a positive attitude.
6. Don’t get involved in conflicts at work. Avoid things like politics, religion or racial tension will get you in trouble. if you have a problem, address it to the proper authorities.
7. go.to.church (advice. it’s your choice). you have a spiritual community, real friends and sense of hope from faith. Remember, believe in god, FAMILY and country.
8. Marriage helps. But wait for the right person, not in debt or a con-artist or an abuser. Have trust, maintain love and prosperity. do not divorce no-fault and wait until you are ready for kids.
9. NO DRUGS, TOBACCO OR ALCOHOL!
and 10. DO NOT GET PREGNANT OR ANYONE PREGNANT.
so poor people should pretend they are nice middle class obedient white people to be rich….
my thesis is confirmed in your answer, the real reason i think MJ went white is because he sold way too many records and made way too much money… he got the call. “mikey, you got too choices, u either let go of the money or you become white”
belive me dude, poor people are not rude-atheists-drug addicts-pregnant-conflictive-late-quitters by default, or any of the adjectives you are implying in your suggestion.
grr… i dunno why do i waste my time here…
my pale brother, there should be more people like you in the world.
sigh.
CS, you could add more tips for people to avoid poverty: have a bank account instead of check-cashing places to have you lose 15% of your paycheck and simply stick to your budget plan.
LB, there are measures to define poverty but in the third world, you don’t have the commodities owned by a majority of poor Americans. The problem in the US is to obtain a college degree for a job that pays 6-digit per year income and inaccessibility to health care/insurance plans.
And to be comical and humorous like always: Telling the poor not to shop at Wal-Mart, as well to discourage work in the same company, is simply making people jobless and can’t afford their basic goods. Where else is cheaper? +
Well, I’m not convinced that its generally white people that know whats best for poor people. Anyone that works hard and supports a family would agree. I have been in social work for 25 years and I can accurately respond by saying IF POOR PEOPLE KNEW WHAT WAS BEST FOR THEMSELVES, THEY WOULDN’T BE POOR IN THE FIRST PLACE… now would they?
Wait, are you saying that YOU aren’t poor? You have been in social work for 25 years, and consider yourself something other than poor? I’ve never heard of ANYONE accumulating wealth in that field.
Funny, I assume you’re offended by this comment, which is totally acceptable.
If I had to go out on a limb I’m guessing that your family is not supported entirely on your social work income, or you have incurred some amount of debt by not living on your income, rather some form of credit. Another possible scenario is that you have a spouse who is not in social work, who makes more money than you(could be alimony), OR you have inherited someone else’s money, OR you have more than one job, or you have been awared considerable child support by your baby-daddy.
In any case I do not consider you to know what’s good for yourself… therefore you would be a non creditable source on this particular topic of conversation.
Cheers
“Remember, believe in god, FAMILY and country. ”
G-d? GOD who? Who needs to believe in god? It’s not real, so face it. 😛
You forgot to add make sure you or your family have life insurance. A few cents per month will save their finances and that’s not all, equity and inheritance are important.
It’s understood by all races that if you’re white & poor, it can only be your own fault.
https://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2010/03/14/132-picking-their-own-fruit/?cp=45#comment-154556
Here’s a list on poverty prevention from #132, instead of picking fruit. Obama should create a job corps for high school students in the summer: agriculture not fast food.
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Since when do poor people vote Republican? Thats kind of a myth white people like to tell. That the “trailer trash” is destroying America. Poor people usually don’t vote either way. This blog is funny but I quickly realized its about a subset of middle class whites that live in like Berkley and San Francisco and somewhat Seattle/Portland, although the Pacific Northwest tends to be a bit more conservative than the bay area and Portland these days tends to be more actually poor then trendy and gentrified. Its hard to say where my family falls in. My parents are democrats they love daily Show and dogs on an insane level and coffee. But my dad’s an army officer we got a bunch of guns and we sure as hell ain’t vegetarians. I guess I fall into the categories of political things and learning a word from another language and hating Wal Mart. Don’t wanna go to a damn art school. Guess I’ll take a year off, thats one of em lol. Not a huge Europe fam really I guess I’d like to visit but I don’t idolize the place. Im half and half gypsy so I got issues with Europe. I am not into spending lots of money to be “simple” im actually simple not tryin to be ironic at all. When I was younger I may have sorta fell into that thing that white people in college do of dressing like they are poor, but it was more like I wanted to be a little redneck kid in suburbia. I do the shorts thing when it barely starts to warm up. Damn I got a lot of these. What about cats. Some white people really like cats, their like a higher level of white people, cat lovers are sophisticated, they will tell you how Hitler and other tyrants liked submissive dogs but hated cats because cats cannot be controlled. My white grandparents are like that, the cats get first dibs on all furniture
Berish. It’s a joke, son. A joke. I am a white person with two cats so I know. So listen up and don’t take yourself so seriously.
yeah thanks – noticed this taking-yourself-too-seriously trend on most comments. kinda kills the point.
i be whiter than a mulato and darker than a raisun what be i poor ??????
Portland, Ore. and much of Oregon is poorer than most of the country, the rate of hunger among children under age 18 is at a whopping 20 Percent. I might as well be living in Los Angeles…and I meant the one in Patagonia…in Argentina. How “white” are Oregonians? Argentines also tend to be white too. However, the US census announced Multonoah county has over 5 percent Arab-American and I guess it’s the oil and hi-tech jobs they are employed in. Oddly, Chile in South America also has alot of Arabs esp. Palestinians. The Oregonian is much in common with South Americans. To be run by corrupt pseudo-liberal socialist authoritian elites to wrecked the economies of the Northwest states.
Pretty sure the urban poor are a large part of the Democratic party base…
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The fact that I agree with everything the writer says does not prevent me from finding his sarcastic, condescending tone to be incredibly insulting, not just to compassionate white people, but to poor people as well (who by the way, usually ARE trapped in circumstances beyond their control by a society that worships wealth and avarice)
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Yes, because this is India and we live a cast society. No one is allowed to move up, especially minorities, because we need someone to work on the rail roads and till the fields. Stupid jackass.
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Definitely insulting to the poor.
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Yes as a Latin women I definitely need a white person to tell me how to live my life because with out them i can’t function… This is insulting, I’m going to a four year university WITHOUT the help of any white person telling me what’s best for me. Like many other minority’s we CAN think and act for ourselves. The world can go round without white people, it might even be better without them thinking that all people of color need them.
Yes as a Latin women I definitely need a white person to tell me how to live my life because with out them i can’t function… This is insulting, I’m going to a four year university WITHOUT the help of any white person telling me what’s best for me. Like many other minority’s we CAN think and act for ourselves. The world can go round without white people, it might even be better without them thinking that all people of color need them.
I sooo agree with you on that one!
It should read “an University” not “a University.”
Love,
White English Major
How many people pointed it out….I do not have time to read all the comments.
Actually, it is correct. While normally “An” is used before a vowel, the word university is pronounced with a y-consonate sound at the beginning of the word (Yew-ni-vers-i-ty). You do not need the consonate N sound, so A is the proper article.
Go back to school, White English Major.
There are a lot of poor people who are poor because they did study art at the university. Like, maybe, the White English Major who apparently didn’t pay attention in Grammar class.
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One in NJ is smack between NYC & Philadelphia. None of them in New York state or New England.
The only white people who fit the stereotype on this blog are also wealthy, liberal, and live in a big city. Most of the people I know are white, but none of them a whole lot like the white people on this blog. Not all white people are hipsters, and I’m sure there’s hipsters of other races out there. This blog should really be called Stuff Hipsters Like.
I think it’s true people can be too paternalistic towards the poor/other races but the other common point of view isn’t at all good either. I mean don’t conservatives assume that the poor would be ‘just like them’ if they made better choices and worked harder? They think all class, race and social problems can be solved if people only acted like them.
@Limaris Reyes>> are you going to University on your dime or on the white mans ticket???
how do you feed yourself? does the white man do that for you as well??
how about your healthcare??? got insurance or does the white man pay for your emergency room visit???
who pays for the roof over your head? how many of the white mans social programs have your or your family benefited from since comming to this country???
I’m always amused at how ignorant minorities overlook the white mans contribution to their very existence, like their entitled to it, and still feeeeel like they’re in a position to make such stupid statements as yours…
what the fuck has your race contributed to anything??? the cucaracha, doesn’t mean a whole lot to many people, and while taco’s are good, they don’t rise to the level of penicillin now do they?
@devon reynolds>> and still every single one of those dipsticks you feeeeel don’t have a choice in the world have exactly the same opportunity as anybody else to make it in this country…
regardless of their circumstances, upbringing, income lvl or race.. that is the American dream.
not a fucking handout because you don’t want to put yourself out to better your situation you lazy fuck.
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White people are the greediest people on Earth. Just ask my ex, who is a white woman. She used to be a model and befriended me, dazzled me, promised me, and cleaned me out for her personal gain. Was I too trusting? Yes. Was I a fool? Yes. Will I ever trust a white woman again? NO!
I am left to struggle after being threatened with the poilce if I attempt to recover my losses. Who will the justice system believe: A person of color, or a beautiful white woman? The white woman, of course!
If a poor person were to steal from the rich (whites), they would be nailed to the wall by the justice system, with the maximum punishment. If the rich (whites) steals from the poor, the rich gets a slap on the wrist and minimum (if any) punishment.
My Dear Friend Don’t know your history . Black people did’nt start getting grants to go to school in 1965. If you have a choice to hire more people or give the people you have more hrs. What would you do? Realize their will always be racism. You can’t replace 350yrs. Of not writing or reading and now 47yrs. later you can get education now tell me with those odds. How can you win? When white people have a 303yrs. Education boost on black people. White people believe if they don’t get their way there will be hell to pay. Your are a spoiled people and aggressive people. You will take what you want. You say yes and black people always steal and kill. But there has never been a race like yourself that has killed millions of people and say It’war. Let me give you some numbers over 25 million people were killed during slavery. Another 15 million with Hitler and other wars like the war no. War is money. Damn the people. We need to sell my weapons. We need to contol because heir savages. You can’t tell me what is best for me. Work on becoming a good person not seeing color but judge on his character not his color.
I don’t like how middle class people present themselves as progessive champions of the working class and down trodden while displaying absolute contempt for real working class people and the things they like. Fuck inner-city hipsters and their public displays of humanatarism. They only embrace the idea of it so they can put shit on those who don’t bang a drum about it like they do.
I did all of this and have now lost everything. So, I guess you can come and kill me now because I no longer believe in God or this country.
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Since when have the poor voted republican? As far as i’ve seen very rich whites and the poor all vote democrat. Middle class tends to vote republican while the less “trendy” rich tend to look after their interests an vote Republican.
Ps. this is coming from a libertarian
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What a shame that some people don’t get the tone of your stories… They must be really sad in their life, victims of the one single model of thinking, caught in a non-admitted superiority feeling and with a total absence of questioning about themselves…
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OMG I’m dying of laughter from reading this. I’m biracial, so half white and half Mexican so I’m use to seeing the different cultures. I go to a small liberal arts college and went on a service trip to MS to help with education. I swear, the peers on my trip may have never interacted with black people before. The children we tutored, the wealthy white students felt bad for and thought they were sad because they were poor. Or they think that all poor people are in an internal state of sadness. People back in my mom’s country in hum-buck Mexico aren’t committing suicide. Yes, life is hard, but you learn to depend on God and community.
Who says bipartisanship is dead? A liberal Democratic president and a conservative, Republican-nominated Chief Justice just worked together to create a tax on those stubborn poor people who can’t afford health insurance. That will teach them! And take that, you people who say our political system is broken!
Does this mean I’m White? Because I do half this stuff lol and I’m Black. All of this is so true, funny blog.
I know I am late on the comment but this is by far the best advice given on this blog.
How sad. Based on this article, I qualify as a poor person.
Lol do you fail to realize that most white people are poor too?
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Love it! What I really love though is poor white people. They don’t get enough attention this day and age. The things that poor people say about rich white people is what I want to hear!
More white people are republicans because republicans are typically upper middle class or rich.
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I feel dumb just from reading this article.
People that write about white people this, black people that, need to find a life!!
It’s not worry, it’s guilt from creating jobs and wealth from other people’s suffering (i.e., mental health workers, social workers, etc.). Such jobs give these people money and a nice lifestyle. However, they feel a discomfort due to 2 conflicting beliefs (i.e., the belief that they are helping people to improve their life conflicts with the belief that they are financially benefiting from other people’s suffering). They then try and block out one of the beliefs which is called cognitive dissonance. However, it’s still there in the depths of their subconscious niggling away which is why they “spend a lot of time worrying about the poor”.
Truth hurts, doesn’t it?
What is this guy an activist for? I take it that the choice to wake up an hour earlier and work an hour later to get an edge over everyone elese is racist. Another pitty party supporter (Obama). We as adults are responsible for our actions. This gentleman needs to stop hiding behind white guilt and become a responsible, productive adult. With that said, dude, go listen to Bill Cosby and be someone who Jessie Jackson would disdaine.
I think this is a joke. White people are just using big words to define who they are in their little clusterfuks. And try to control the world with their sick notions and the only reason most white families look so good with their fancy cars and big words is because they THRIVE off the poor. A lot of the white women are teachers, nurses, secretaries and are working in real estate offices for low income housing units while their husbands are Cops, lawyers, Doctors. Funny how most poor families (all race) go into the military hoping to get that good paycheck and earn some type of a status in America. It is a race to be better than God is what I noticed. Keep trying to make money off the poor, look all around you white people. You’re losing. more and more people are becoming violent, less people have money to spend, no matter that race. I don’t care what you think of my so-called poverty status. Who do you think you are labeling me? Only god can label me.
I’m white and I’m poor as fuck! Gimme da monay!
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And stop wishing ill on all of us “because we voted Republican”. Once again those are middle-class people you’re thinking of and we are not middle-class, we are poor and we did not vote Republican to begin with. We voted Democrat, just like you did, now stop pissing in our breakfast cereal. PS and don’t say “now you know how black people feel”. No I most certainly do not because I am not black, apparently you need more antiracist training since you’re saying stupid things like that as a way to dismiss your own classism.
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