One of the more popular white person activities of the past fifteen years is attempting to educate others on the evils of multi-national corporations. White people love nothing more than explaining to you how Wal*Mart, McDonalds, Microsoft, Halliburton are destroying the Earth’s culture and resources.
While the growth of multi-national corporations can be attributed to a number of complex social, economic and political factors, many white people prefer to take the word of two trusted sources: No Logo and AdBusters.
Published in 2000, No Logo has been responsible for more white person “enlightenment” than any book since the burning of the library at Alexandria. By reading this one magic book, white people are able to get a full grasp on the evils of multi-national corporations and then regurgitate it to friends and family.
Advanced white people will supplement No Logo with a subscription to AdBusters, where they will learn how to subvert corporate culture and return it to the masses. Specifically, this means taking ads and redoing them to give a negative message about a product. Apparently the belief is that when other people see this ad, they will be hit with an epiphany that their entire existence has been a Matrix-style manufactured universe.
If you plan to engage in lengthy conversations or get high with white people it is recommended that you read No Logo or one issue of AdBusters. Failing that, it is acceptable to buy a copy to leave on your coffee table. When white people see it, they will recognize you as someone who can see through the advertising and has a proper perspective on life.
When engaging in a conversation about corporate evils it is important to NEVER, EVER mention Apple Computers, Target or Ikea in the same breath as the companies mentioned earlier. White people prefer to hate corporations that don’t make stuff that they like.
Following these simple steps can help you gain the trust and respect of white people in a relatively short period of time.
Stuff White People Like 
Awesome.
White people like to shop in small, little individual stores (when it’s convenient) giving business to “the independent” — another way to be free from the corporate monster.
http://www.jonesview.wordpress.com
It’s genius… pure genius…
Also, rampant use of the term “Big Box Store” must be employed.
Love the blog, keep it up!
Every post describes the majority of people in my hometown.
This one is no exception!
This is hilarious. Totally true! Everyone hates corporations, unless that corporation has some sort of trendy following behind it.
Corporations themselves might not be so bad… but the corporate worklife leaves MUCH to be desired. *shudder* I have lost my soul.
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I’ve decided that this blog is so accurate that I will now begin to just accept it and actively use it as a guidebook to my life.
I’m going to adopt whatever practices and beliefs explained here that I haven’t already.
Just go with it.
This blog makes my day. All are great posts but this one is so real here in Redmond, WA where White People who work for the Software Giant will talk and kick dirt on their Employer all day, all they can BUT interestingly enough, they stay to cash a huge paycheck. These are the same folks that suggest they will move to Canada any day now… They love to call their Employer “They”. White People are funny. No loyalty, no soul.
>If you plan to engage in lengthy conversations or get high >with white people it is recommended that you read No Logo >or one issue of AdBusters.
Being an Arab, this is great to know!
Ibrahim
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http://www.IGotUGGs.com
I love the satire, but I hate feeling like a poster child. I think the tension is “gorgeous!”
So true. WP are hilarious. Corporations employ them and their parents, yet they treat them as a supreme evil, as if making a profit was wrong.
The part about Apple Computer is the best part. People act like buying computers from the corporation that sold most of the computers to our schools in the 80s is an act of utter revolution. Keep it up.
What about Exxon and Shillary Clinton?
Good call on Apple. They’ve only made our world a little bit better.
The hate that some people have for this blog really surprises me sometimes. Don’t know what the deal is, I think it’s hilarious.
Hey, let’s all go here…
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I love this site! It cracks me up. The author must live in Austin.
kind of played your hand here. interesting.
What about text-messaging? We’re always doing that!
Not the best but still very good
Are you one of the writers on strike from WGA coz these posts can easily make a popular sitcom
If all you can see is expensive sandwiches, please wake up now.
I’ve done the math and there is no f-in difference between Billary and McPotatoHead.
If the dusts settles that way, I will NOT vote. Given the fact that the old fat Supreme Court justices have died/retire there seems littlepoint in voting for the candidate that sucks less than the other/last one.
Wow great. It’s the first thing i check at work, and it makes my day. LOVING IT.
You forgot to mention Whole Foods in the list of companies at the end, haha
Can we please identify the author? I want to feel proud when I am correct in my assumption that it’s a Jew.
This blog is of great anthropological use. I am writing my thesis on white people, and hopefully I will get a grant to do a study on your cultural traditions!
HAHAHAHA
how true
I ❤ this site.
So true! I love Target, but love to hate on Walmart. Keep up the good work. 🙂
“mention Apple Computers [yikes, I’m on one now!], Target or Ikea in the same breath…”
Add Miramax to this. And Costco… The latter apparently bribed a city council to condemn a church, just to expand their parking lot, but you never hear them get the flak Wal•Mart gets!
#23 Beef:
“Can we please identify the author? I want to feel proud when I am correct in my assumption that it’s a Jew.”
No, he’s Christian. I don’t have any idea to which faith he adheres, but read the interview or the news stories. He’s “Christian”. And a Canuck.
Fuck WalMart!
Wasn’t the movie, “the coroporation” a big hit around the time the anti-Walmart movie came out? Besides apple and co, whities don’t like to hear how bad Starbucks or Krispy Kreme. Unless they are involved in an upmanship battle where they will then proclaim they get their coffee and the Coffee Bean.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO hahahaha
Though buying Adbusters is totally stupid. Well, the fact that they participate directly in capitalism through it is stupid.
So true that it beats me down to have to be lumped in with those white people.
So anti “Big …” (anything).
Distancing …
Damn it! It’s like looking into a mirror every time I read this blog! ALSO, I’ve noticed white people love to eat vegetarian, even if they’re not one themselves. Can you explain that one to me?
Naomi Klein…9/11 apologist and complete tool of the far left. Pretty White Females can get media attention, no matter how horribly ignorant their arguments are.
I thought the first 79 were funny but the last three are scary dead-on for me. STOP READING MY BRAIN
adbusters is insulting to people’s intelligence. why the heck should i buy black dot shoes for 90 bucks when i can get the converse all-star (practically the same shoe, just made in china instead of portugal) for 50?
oh, because the black dot is made by portuguese union workers. which should help the chinese people get more money, right?
no. if anything, the black dot is SUPRESSING third-world economies.
because if the nike shoe factory goes out of business, then those workers are S.O.L. instead of making one dollar an hour making shoes, they will be making no money doing nothing.
the black dot is a ridiculous invention made to make white people feel better about themselves while loudly proclaiming their rebellious, anti-corporate lifestyle.
LOL… I’ll have to ask my supervisor about this. He would know about these books. He actually worked for two of the mentioned corporations.
I doubt it is necessary to two recommended books to get high with white people. You can get high with them and listen to Mos Def.
OH whoops….i just found the post. Thanks for answering that before I asked.
White people also love to let you know that they don’t eat at McDonalds… which is somewhat related… Apparently McDonalds is as big as it is only selling burgers to non-white people…
Amazing!
And for goodness sake NEVER badmouth the $7 Billion company that’s putting independent health food stores everywhere out of business. That would be Whole Foods!
I don’t know a white person who reads adbusters, but i do agree that “walmart sucks, target rocks” is a bit silly. They both sell crap from china… one is just bigger than the other.
“White people prefer to hate corporations that don’t make stuff that they like.”
Sure, but they also love to campaign for cosmetic changes to the ones they’re addicted to so they can feel better about consuming their products – cf. Starbucks getting one or two fair-trade coffee types and putting up posters about rainforests and brown people. Or Calphalon pans that have a sticker telling you $.0.25 of your purchase goes to some hunger project.
The archetypal white-person store is actually the sort of indie-hipster place that sells a careful selection of hip women’s ballet flats (all about $100), retro or 60s dresses, linen shirts (again, with $80-$150 hand-written price tags), soaps and bath products with clever ironic girl-power slogans on them (around $20), a basket of organic single-source bean chocolate, usually from Vermont, and a selection of erudite-ironic-funny greeting cards and little books or postcards with 1950s women saying feminist things on them. The person staffing the store will be white, have darkened hair, and a few subtle tattooes. Nobody needs to ask which corporation made the products, because the high prices are testament enough to the fact that they must be “ethical.”
These are usually bought by the same people who don’t watch TV. Rots the brain, don’tcha know.
Well done, again.
“When engaging in a conversation about corporate evils it is important to NEVER, EVER mention Apple Computers, Target or Ikea in the same breath as the companies mentioned earlier.” – gospel to rival anything in the New Testament or the Popul Vuh.
how about “reading the stuff white people like blog” for a topic! i’m white and i can’t get enough of this. it’s the greatest thing since mad tv, or the office!
White People especially hate WalMart.
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especially true if said white person works in marketing and/or advertising
yeah… supporting shit stores! big or not. sure
suburbia spicks, chinks, towelheads, and crackers all love toxic shit whole foods, pottery barn, costco, and mom knick nack shops, etc.
people need to stop buying shit. they have bad tastes to begin with. this shit economy is the best thing ever! it will squeeze everybody out of cost vs inflation in the coming years. it’s going to fail on it’s course. it’s a blessing. i am happy all these yuppies can’t afford more shit. all the baby boomers will in nursing homes and have 30+ chronic illnesses from their gmo food, pharm, media toxic world they created. giving all there money back with overpriced medical bills they “worked” so hard for.
#43 Mango Girl; you scored a bulls-eye!
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Oh, and please, come down on NEW AGE MUSIC!!
Birkenstocks; aka birth-control shoes.
another one:
On The Road
Riverdance! What the hell is that about!? And why do white people go apeshit over it?
A few years ago i was flipping through an issue of Adbusters, looking at spread after glossy color-saturated spread of shocking, outrageous Things That Are Wrong In The World. And letters to the editor by excitable young people writing about how awful things are and how outraged everyone should be about it. I realized that the visceral stimulus of Adbusters is like a porn magazine, only it’s outrage porn. Blood and oil instead of cum and sweat; strident manifestos instead of Penthouse Letters; clear-cuts forests, razed Palestinian houses, and slick corporate logos instead of fake tits, lip gloss and hard cocks.
Cant vouch for that more. And I’m not even white. But corporations seem to have such a stronghold on things that even our minds start to ignore it. Like Wal-Mart. Take for example Tesco, a British Wal mart if you like – i used to really hate them. Having seen them grow, grow, grow and GROW they now practically have a Tesco inside a Tesco, because they cant buy land quick enough. What are the repercussions of this? Well suppliers get squeezed of course. But the good thing is, we get cheap stuff. Ok, it aint the best quality stuff, but when you’re a poor uni student like me, a penny saved is a penny going into the piggy bank until i have $4 to be able to eat chicken
Cool cite! If you’re interested in learning what black people DON’T like, check out my video blog, http://www.spadeproject.com.
In my latest video blog I explain how much black people don’t like literature!
Haters! I got more things to add to your list whoever writes this blog. Things white people like:
storage
gay friends
talking about how fucked up they were the night before
Subarus
blogging
You should start a cult man. I’ll be the first of your many followers.
I think I figured it out–with some exceptions, you’re talking about American College kids in general (fascination with the European, the Green, the pretentious) not just white ones but, like racists of the past, you’re equating “American” with “white.” I guess I should thank you for not burning a cross on my lawn…but then, since I don’t have a lawn, I can’t be sure you wouldn’t have tried.
This is going to sound odd, coming from someone who’s only been to this site twice and seem alone in not finding you funny, but I’m going to ask you please not to put any more posts on this site and to take down the ones you’ve put up already because you’re portraying a skewed version of the world that encourages snap-judgments and tries to fit complicated people into neat categories.
I’m sure I would love to see the response to this post (if there is one) but since I will never visit this site again, I guess that’ll jsut be a bummer.
Thanks for not being funny or discerning. It really brightens my day.
I hope this missive finds you in good health and spirits,
Adam Stephen Katz, Columbia College Class of 2008
Feminism…
’nuff said.
This was covered so well in the 2003 docu film The Corporation.
http://stufffilmcriticslike.wordpress.com/
yo but question, if white people like to hate on multi-national corporations just because it’s popular to do so, does that matter? I mean, I’m sure very few people here- regardless of race- would be quick to jump to the defense of corporations. Who cares if anti-corporate sentiment is premised on social norms as long as it has the potential to achieve the same thing? is there some wrong way and right way to go about hating on the man?
The same is true for the previous blog on fair trade coffee. The blog is absolutely right in pointing out that a lot of white people buy fair trade more because they like to think of themselves as the kind of person who buys fair trade than any other reason. But if white people wanna throw an extra couple bucks to a cup of coffee that makes them feel trendy, what’s wrong with that? In fact, as it seems that the normative appeal of fair-trade coffee has great traction with people (esp white people), shouldn’t it become the strategy of those in favor of equitable trade to try and pitch the idea based on white-people social norms?
the point is, of course this blog is accurate, but I don’t understand the implication that there’s one sort of morally pure way to look down on corporations. If you disagree with me, what would you identify as a better model for white anti-corporate sentiment?
well i always love watching our country dig its grave that much deeper.
dont hate on the corporations, theyre just using a model that works.
theres a book maybe u’ll enjoy called liberal fascism
people will believe anything evil is great as long as its got a big fawkin happy face on it
you damn sheep
ur all lost
and all you do is attack others to keep them in line
the blind leading the blind
well, good luck with that.
There’s a reason for this though. I think that people should stop trying to monetize everything!!!
In other news, my friend just sent me this site:
http://www.stuffasianpeoplelike.net
John K.
Ooh, monetization. yes of course. While people hate the idea of money. They wish we could just go back to barter. In reality this means quitting your job at the organic company to join the Freeconomy movement and trying to travel across Europe hoping other people will take care of you till you reach Gandhi’s shrine.
anthropologie
should be added to the list, too.
WP love that chain.
White people like the idea of free beer. It only exists in your bros keg, and like you will pay him someday but not really but hey white people are into perception so fucken yeah bro.
people like that are hypocrites, they say one thing then do another. they hate corporations but own an ipod. they hate pollution yet they drive to work (albeit in a prius, which still pollutes and took lots of fossil fuels to make). and so forth.
Now im gittin skooled.
i did not no of the existence of either nologo or adbusters though adbusters sounds framiliar.
knocking the fascist regime is one thing but the idea of buying into either of these bugaboo publications is by enlarge the sine qua non of hipster hubris & the hallmark of poseur idiocity.
Lol. You have just described everyone I know. Spot-on about Target, too — it’s all right to hate Wal Mart, but somehow Target is an awesome store…?
Anyway, this made my morning.
The irony is that white people are the largest (literally and figuratively) creators and consumers of these “evil”, multi-national corporations.
Don’t blame others for what you did.
Clean up after yourself.
white people luv 2 bite the hand that freed them.
You might find “NoLogo” in a privately-owned used bookstore, but, except in Berkeley, Madison, Austin, New Haven and other such places, you’ll only be able to get “AdBusters” at Borders or Barnes & Noble. How perfect the irony.
I find this quality annoying about white people as well. But I think British white people are more of this ilk than their Amero ones. In Britain the youth actively protest McDonalds intermittently.
Also I have nothing but disdain for the white people who wind up in cubicle culture and act like they have some sort of existential crisis about it. If you don’t like corporate life don’t go there and know that the company is paying you for your time and to do specific tasks or use specific skills, not for you to be “brilliant” or “be all that you can be”. At the end of the day cubicle life is pretty freaking good folks if you compare what it was like to actually labor for a living. All the people who complain about corporate life should have to take a job outside for one winter, that would certainly set them straight.
#73 Bob sounds a lot like Lucy Kellaway.
It’s not corporations that are evil per se, but the corporations that other people endorse. Likewise with brands.
I have become an active reader of this site, and this entry cut a little to deep.
Thanks for the laugh at myself,
Wesley
“White people prefer to hate corporations that don’t make stuff that they like.” Hahaha oh man, so unbelievably true.
I LOVE Adbusters.
Too true. You’re always guaranteed to keep a conversation going for hours if you put on the ‘evil corporations’ voice.
Best one yet! So, so true.
yes, yes..but i want to know where the author is buying his food? i mean, just look at those pictures. good god, color me jealous…and white (wa wa wa).
Recently I my social status as a white person has climbed when I said “I’m an avid reader of stuffwhitepeoplelike.com.” Of course I was sure to say this loudly at a sushi bar so my fellow whiteys could hear. Those that hadn’t heard of the blog I treated with contempt.
“While the growth of multi-national corporations can be attributed to a number of complex social, economic and political factors, many white people prefer to take the word of two trusted sources: No Logo and AdBusters.”
There’s nothing complex about it: Coca Cola either are paying paramilitaries in Columbia to kill union members or they aren’t.
Stick to writing on what you know about cocksucker.
Fans of Stuff White People Like might enjoy Dennis Dale’s Untethered:
http://dennisdale.blogspot.com/
Wow, this is uncanny! Heard two white ppl discussing the evils that is target yesterday. I guess if I sit in a room with them long enough, all the shit on this blog will eventually bubble up to the surface.
Comment 7 has echoed my thoughts. And yes, shopping in boutique stores, supporting local businesses, hating chain restaurants, would come under this post, by extension.
It’s all just jealousy, middle class whites hate rich whites with a passion, they wrap it up in environment, or big business, or hegemony, but if they ever make it up the ladder themselves, watch them turn around so quickly! 🙂 I know because I once read addbusters, but now make good money instead 😀
(I’m sure middle class asians hate rich asians too, same with other races – they just do it differently)
You can especially shop at Target and make it feel more upscale and exclusive if you told your girlfriends you bought your cute, ironic screened tee at (faux French accent) Tar-zhay.
“When engaging in a conversation about corporate evils it is important to NEVER, EVER mention Apple Computers, Target or Ikea in the same breath as the companies mentioned earlier. White people prefer to hate corporations that don’t make stuff that they like.”
Pure gold.
43 Mango Girl! Brilliantly done! Places such as you describe exist in every hip young white place, and in many that desperately want to be hip….
My modification to the piece would be to say white people love to hate corporations other than those they own! I know, this plays to the ‘elite’ side of this whole ‘white people’ discussion that we somewhat disagree on, but from my perspective, the very essence of whiteness — at least in the sense this blog deals with it — is its elite origin and status. Without a least upper or upper-middle class status to begin with — or leftist academic upper-middle class values acquired at university — no American white person would have any of the values pointed up in this blog – rather, they would want to get theirs and be part of the American dream (and this blog does focus on white America, rather than white Europe, which is a whole different matter). At any rate, the kind of white people who have these values BEFORE they get to the university, are upper-middle are upper class, and they are often the ones who have, or their families and/or friends have, significant shareholdings in major corporations. Not unusual example of which I hae personal knowledge: an upper middle-class kid’s sailing partner whose father is the primary owner of a billion dollar corporation.
From my european point of view there is no such thing as “White people”. Although I know that this blog is adressing mainly “white” Americans- I don’t consider myself as “white”, I am German. And neither would a French, Spanish or British person, for example.
But don’t get me wrong. I enjoy this blog. Sometimes I really find myself here, other times I find, some issues solely apply to white Americans.
Anyway, you call it Stuff white people like. That implies you talk about “caucasians” from the whole world, which is wrong. The blog should really be named Stuff white-american people like, to be politically correct ;-).
From my european point of view there is no such thing as “White people”. Although I know that this blog is adressing mainly “white” Americans- I don’t consider myself as “white”, I am German. And neither would a French, Spanish or British person, for example.
But don’t get me wrong. I enjoy this blog. Sometimes I really find myself here, other times I find, some issues solely apply to white Americans.
Anyway, you call it Stuff white people like. That implies you talk about “caucasians” from the whole world, which is wrong. The blog should really be named Stuff white-american people like, to be politically correct ;-).
I would add name dropping of their far-left heroes to the list. At least… that’s what I do (notice how proud I am to say this): “You know… when I read my first Chomsky…” “Well… this reminds me of something Zinn mentions….” Something like that. It gives me notoriety among other white people… well… left-leaning white people. Conservative white people feel threatened and try to fight when I do this, but conservatives are really a different kind of white person (not really the kind we’re talking about here).
I just found out that I’m not white!
I have no idea what “NO LOGO” or “ADBUSTERS” are.
Got nothing against corporations as a rule either. There are profitable ones, unprofitable ones, ones with good labor relations policies, ones with bad ones and on and on and on…
91 Anonymous: Germany was never very successful at empire, unlike the British and the French and (early on) the Spanish, so the concept of ‘whiteness’ as the delineator of “us” vs. “them” was never as fully developed in your philosophy and literature – and, of course, since the Late Unpleasantness in the European Family in the 1940s, it has been rather ‘streng verboten’ to make racial distinctions in polite circles in Germany.
On the other hand, the Brits and the Frogs have finely developed senses of whiteness … as in the British phrase “wogs begin at Calais” which is widely believed below the chattering classes, and inhabits the secret heart of hearts of even most public school boys (and girls now) who don’t have aristocratic family connections on the Continent (which is more common than you might think).
Hey now, I happen to like No Logo! Maybe that’s why this works so perfectly…
I think the better stance to take from this is the idea that white people like to shop at SAFE boutique and “alternative” stores. More often than not, all my white people friends LOVE shopping at something edgy like Urban Outfitters even though there clothes come from the exact same place Walmart’s does. Same with stuff like Starbucks when people think “Oh, but I’m helping the children in Africa by buying this $5 bottle of Ethos water!” Meanwhile, they’ve quadrupled their carbon footprint and all the kids in Africa are dehydrated.
My humble opinion, but I think being concerned where your money goes is actually NOT a white person thing. Most white people throw their money on useless shit and dont think for a moment about the fact that someone actually had to make that thousand dollar massage chair for them. Instead, it’s the idea that every cheap ass tshirt from Walmart just popped into existence for their convenience.
But, just a thought.
I Love You!
Plain Genius!
(I always thought that “No Logo” was ment for “youth” in their 18-20`s. Did not know that people took it seriously!
I love your logic by mentioning Ikea and Apple)
Keep Up the good work!
This post is amazing. So accurate.
On a related note, white people like Michael Moore (rich white man hating on other rich white men – very white thing to do). They used to like Ralph Nader until the 2000 election.
And what about the ultimate corporate machine, which white people won’t hate on, like McDonald’s and Wal-Mart, but love like Apple — HOLLYWOOD.
Well, white people also like blogs and blog blog blog … but this blog is cool.
Great point, #96 Wesley.
Dang! You did it again!
i think bob marley should def be added to this list..he’s one of the safest black people for white people to adore
I believe I work for the “evil empire”…
#102, your post made me laugh. We have a Bob Marley poster hanging “high” on the wall in our summer cottage “by the water.” My son, now 34 yrs old, got it when he was at college in VA. He also tried to have dreadlocks in his light brown wavy hair, but they became so painful, I had to cut them off. How white is that? Actually, reggae music would be a good topic for this blog.
You forgot BORDERS. Chock full o’ white people!!
adbusters is a great magazine
http://unappreciationpost.wordpress.com/
You just figured out my favourite past time. Bravo, well done.
with Apple, it’s obvious. white people like white machines.
Every time I overspend my meager, nonprofit Yuppie income on things I don’t need at Target, I jokingly tell my friends that I am singlehandedly helping Target keep their edge over WalMart. This post is hilarious and SO TRUE. (Oh, and I just bought a MacBook this week, too…and organic fair trade coffee last week. Ha.)
Love the tongue-in-cheek, satirical view of this blog. I myself would love to tell more people about it, but being that I work for a nonprofit, any statement I make that could possibly be misconstrued as culturally insensitive (i.e. speaking aloud the words “white” or “black”), I am subject to disciplinary action rivaling the treatment of heretics in the Catholic Church. This is one white girl who’s NOT in favor of working for a nonprofit. Overworked, doing very unpleasant things I’m way overqualified for, and a salary that qualifies me for the “economic hardship deferment” from my student loans. The “making a difference” appeal wore off its shiny luster after about a year and a half. (Can someone help me down off this high soapbox? Thanks.)
While many of us realize this, it’s important to note that this blog describes a specific subset of the white culture – the liberal, educated, urban-dwelling, secular humanist crowd. None of this applies to, as one post put it, “the wrong kind of white person,” of which I know several, and I can guarantee that they’ve never heard of any of these things!
All that being said, LOVE the blog…makes me feel like I’m reading an anthropology textbook about myself, and I’m game for anything that gives me a good laugh, even at the expense of my own supposed “enlightenment!” Keep it coming, and I’ll find some subversive, vague way of telling my like-minded whiteys about it!
REALLY advanced white people will supplement No Logo and/or Adbusters with a copy of Hardt and Negri’s book, EMPIRE, which they will never read but will keep on their bookshelf, because they’re really, really planning on reading it as soon as they get a chance.
woo hoo!
I love it when people hate Halliburton! Especially since almost none of those people know what Halliburton does!
Oh yes, Urban Outfitters! Anyone know where they source their stuff?
Have you ever looked in the closet of someone who rails against consumerism and corporations? The clothes and shoes are usually worth a small fortune but usually from small boutiques, Urban Outfitters and expensive vintage stores (because, see, if someone *else* bought it first, you aren’t buying into the Consumer Fashion Machine). Trendy clothes bought in Europe get a free pass, but any t-shirts with political messages usually have a “sewn and grown in the USA” label.
The shopping choices of the HipsterUrbanWhitePerson make me think of the part in Monty Python’s Life of Brian where Brian is trying to throw off the crowd following him and tells them to think for themselves, and not follow him, because they are all individuals, and they chant in unison, “Yes! We are all individuals!”
I love how you right-wing wankers pretend you are in some kind of minority.
Also, Cato (90) who says:
“no American white person would have any of the values pointed up in this blog – rather, they would want to get theirs and be part of the American dream”
So there are no white American people in unions?
I can’t understand why people like you develop these convoluted arguments to justify the fact that you don’t give a shit about the millions of people in your country who lead miserable lives below the poverty line because of corporate greed.
Even though major corporations tend to be headed by white people, themselves, white people follow the trend of Corporation Hate, as a cover to their subconscious envy of their dominating kin. They hide privilege by hating privilege.
Maybe, missamuel, but white people are victims of these corporations too. If you had worked on a shop floor or a factory you’d realise that.
Ignatz Mouse: there are a few white people who belong to blue collar unions (I don’t count white collar unions like the AFMusicians, and government employee unions), but fewer and fewer. Blue collar unionists by and large are interested only in getting theirs, they are not interested on the political and social agendas of the left.
Public service unions, on the other hand, are a different matter because there is no competitive pressure. They hate corporations because of jealousy (perceived higher salaries) and general left-over leftyness, but, again, the primary interests of union members is getting more.
Union leaders, on the other hand (like corporate leaders) are primarily interested in power.
People stay in jobs they hate and lose time with their families to make money to buy things they don’t need.
These things have been created with obsolescence in mind–they will either break or “go out of fashion” in a very short period of time. They will then proceed to be thrown into a landfill, somewhere; having already used the earth’s resources, and polluted them, to be created and transported, they will be thrown back onto the earth as a pile of shit.
We’re destroying the Earth to create and dispose of things we don’t really want or need. And we’re giving away our lives and souls to earn something with socially constructed value (money) in order to be told we want/need to buy these things.
Think about it. PLEASE
I go to Wal-Mart now because too many white people think Target is acceptable to shop at. That makes me ironic.
Ignatz Mouse, I’m pro-union and care very much about poverty. I just don’t think it can be combated by buying expensive hip stuff. People buy from hipster stores to make a statement, because it fits with their aesthetic or makes them feel good about themselves, rarely because they’ve actually researched the business practices of the store (and principles usually go out of the window when it comes to getting deals on electronics, or buying stuff online, or getting cheap takeout – the latter is considered a sort of birthright). Nor do I have much use for people who see their *own* material wants as justified (because they’re high-minded or doing good in the world or whatever) but those of others as “greed,” or rant against corporations while looking for good returns on their 401(k) investments, or who will never admit that some high-minded purchasing choices are only open to the well-off.
(Full disclosure: I buy fair-trade whenever I can, and am a confessed sucker for anything produced by a women’s cooperative)
I am running out immediately to get both peices of reading material as I don’t feel like a complete white person cuz i haven’t read either yet. However, I have engaged in conversation with many white people about the evils of the big corporation. I myself own a small…..VERY small corporation. Hopefully, God willing, I will never reach the large scale that will offend my fellow whites so that i will not end up on this blog as someone that white people hate… LOL.
LOL…right on point with this one
#88: Oh grod, I HATED when my friends (all of us upper/middle class white suburbanites) called it “Tar-jay”, and then would get all defensive when I pointed out that their logo was, in fact, a target.
That said, I was all about the WalMart hate. Then I moved out of my parents’ house. 🙂
I am a white person and I love this blog.
i love this site!
thanks to stuffwhitepeoplelike and its spinoffs, i have discovered that i am an educatedblackwhiteperson! my post-college existential crisis is totally over now. like duh, i need to go to grad school!
this site is like a life saver!
i love this site!
thanks to stuffwhitepeoplelike and its spinoffs, i have discovered that i am an educatedblackwhiteperson! my post-college existential crisis is totally over now. like duh, i need to go to grad school!
this site is like a life saver!
Can anyone tell me why white people HATE Walmart, but LOVE Target?
The part about Apple is so true. I used to work for a guy that hated Microsoft with a passion. I once pointed out that Apple and Microsoft have opposite public images, despite their actual actions. Apple gets the reputation that they’re a friendly, nice corporation that does all the right in the world when in reality Steve Jobs is a horrible asshole, doesn’t donate a cent to charities, and pretty much shits over every one of his employees. On the other hand, Microsoft is a pretty crappy corporation, but they pay all their workers extremely well and its founder is one of the most charitable men in the entire world. I don’t care about what your corporation does, but when you donate a billion dollars to orphans you get some fucking credit. Nobody does that solely because they want to be loved.
He never agreed with me about that one point. He always held that Gates must be such a charitable man because he feels the need to repent. I think he just likes Apple too much to admit they’re assholes.
From reading the comments I’ve discovered that a lot of white people don’t like punctuation, capital letters, spelling, or grammar.
A few white people. Like how many? 3?
The reason there are fewer of them (but not so few as you think – they help prop up the Democrats for fuck’s sake) is because they were pounded by successive governments who are held to ransom by big business.
Of course they are interested in getting theirs. Who else is going to look out for it. But if you are implying that they don’t see the heads of big corporations as working against their interests then you’ve got to be joking.
I agree about union leaders looking out for themselves though. But there are ways round that.
Well, Wal Mart is where poor people shop while Target has got itself a hipper image and targeted an ever-so-slightly better off market. Wal Mart is also owned by a guy who gives lots of money to the Religious Right, and stocks evangelical books in the store. The Wal Mart corporation has an astounding number of worker mistreatment and gender discrimination/sexual harassment cases pending against it. All sorts of ickiness. Target hasn’t had that kind of publicity yet, so who knows.
“Can anyone tell me why white people HATE Walmart, but LOVE Target?”
Walmart sells worse quality products and they underprice their products to put other corporations out of business. Then when the local competition is gone Walmart raises the prices again.
From reading the comments I’ve discovered that a lot of white people don’t like punctuation, capital letters, spelling, or grammar.
From reading your comment, I discovered you don’t like commas.
The people who run corporations hate it when people don’t hate people who hate corporations. Don’t you hate that?
The reaction to this post is funny. It’s funny when white people go to the other extreme and start talking loudly about how they shop at wal-mart and had a slurpee at 7-11, ordered a steak and like professional sports to show how proletarian and totally not elitist they are.
Not that there’s anything inherent;y wrong with either, just the self importance people attatch to the symbolism of either extreme is annoying.
Except for adbusters, adbusters has always been incredibly stupid and always will be.
Nadia,
That is the point. I also like shooting .12 gauge shotguns, fast sport bikes, and death metal.
I am a libertarian that hates both liberal and conservative philosophies, and I probably ride a bicycle more than the average hipster, but not because I’m environmentally conscience. I just like having fun.
Damn, that makes me a paradox.
I hate it when those corporatation guys sit around in their corporation buildings and act all corporation-y.
Ignatz, Ignatz, you sound like an SWP apparatchik …. that is so last season. Go read Beppe Grillo’s blog http://www.beppegrillo.it if you want to see what a seriously f’d up country is like….
Another fine post…
A few more for the list:
The New Yorker
The Utne Reader
Bed Bath and Beyond
Pier 1 Imports
Urban Behavior
Hacky Sack
David Sedaris
…and how is Target different from that?
140 swblows … “and how is Target different from that?”
Savvier marketing which has convinced the hip it’s cool.
I’m not SWP. But I don’t have an erection for capitalism either. And therein lies the difference between us.
I’ve been to America. I love it. But it is royally fucked up. One of the most militarised, segregated countries on the planet. Italy I like.
Re: #67–“people like that are hypocrites, they say one thing then do another. they hate corporations but own an ipod.”
It’s a rare occasion when I see a white person whose DAP is not an iPod!
The rumour is that the person writing this brilliant blog is Canadian. This makes sense because this describes Canadians to a tee. Naomi Klein is Canadian, eh?
It’s just another way of saying, “I liked X when before it was popular.” They are all trying to find the new cool store before it becomes successful and it reaches the masses.
140,
Target plays better music, and has cool commercials! Lol!!1!! OMG I LOVVVVE TARGET. SO cute.
Nadia,
That is the point. I also like shooting .12 gauge shotguns, fast sport bikes, and death metal.
I am a libertarian that hates both liberal and conservative philosophies, and I probably ride a bicycle more than the average hipster, but not because I’m environmentally conscience. I just like having fun.
Damn, that makes me a paradox.
Oh I definitely realize that that is the point, I just think that a lot of the commenters on this post completely missed the point.
Ignatz, Sie sind nicht Amerikaner, und auch nicht Italienisch. Sie sind warscheinlich Deutsch. Auch welchem Stand? Kleinbuerger? Sie haben vielleicht einmal (oder zwei…) einem Besuch nach Amerika gemacht, und so Sie schon Expert geworden sein?
While I understand the concept of the hating of multi-national corporations, the book and magazine that have been mentioned are unknown to me.
I must find out what this No Logo and AdBusters book/magazine is all about so that I can fine-tune my whiteness.
Man, I’m sooo white. I totally hate the ‘corporatacracy’, have purchased an Adbusters… yet, I work for a megalithic defense contractor, but will be voting for Nader, because Hillary’s too “corporate”…
I’m such a hypocrit.
I need to go to a recovering white people seminar…
I’m white and I hate Apple! (More a fan of Linux here, for truly advanced anti-corporate whites.)
I’m not white but I like all them stuffs.
Adbusters is cotton-candy anti-capitalism.
Weak.
You were occasionally funny before but this was booorrrring.
Me thinks the end is near.
Ah. Cato is german. That explains a lot.
I’ve actually met Naomi Klein and told her, “No Logo is like, my Bible.”
Speaking of which, “Saying ‘like'” wouldn’t make a bad addition to this list.
-Your Friendly Neighborhood Asian-American
No, Cato is not German. He merely suspects you are. You might be a Bennite Brit or a Frog, but I thing German is most likely.
PS Cato, you don’t have to be an expert to recognise that America is segregated and that a lot of people have bad lives as a direct result of American economic policy. Since America continually makes its business the rest of the world’s business, we are all experts.
Face it, you resort to writing in other languages, making cringeworthy glib jokes (“that is so last season” – my sides!), and engaging in these transparent rhetorical sleightes of hand
1) because you don’t have an argument
2) because if you put things plainly and directly you would have to admit your position: right-wing
3) because you are a pretentious twat.
“White people prefer to hate corporations that don’t make stuff that they like.”
Well said.
Don’t know if you’ve got this suggestion already, but College Sports. For some reason, every white person I talk to loves college sports and shakes their heads at the excesses of professional leagues, like the NBA and NFL.
damn. I guess I’m a white asian… A lot of these posts apply to me. I think “white” is a state of mind more than the color of your skin or origin.
MANGO GIRL Out SWPL’s SWPL on this one sans product placement deals with NoLOgo & AdBusters no less.
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Mango Girl # 43 –
“White people prefer to hate corporations that don’t make stuff that they like.”
Sure, but they also love to campaign for cosmetic changes to the ones they’re addicted to so they can feel better about consuming their products – cf. Starbucks getting one or two fair-trade coffee types and putting up posters about rainforests and brown people. Or Calphalon pans that have a sticker telling you $.0.25 of your purchase goes to some hunger project.
The archetypal white-person store is actually the sort of indie-hipster place that sells a careful selection of hip women’s ballet flats (all about $100), retro or 60s dresses, linen shirts (again, with $80-$150 hand-written price tags), soaps and bath products with clever ironic girl-power slogans on them (around $20), a basket of organic single-source bean chocolate, usually from Vermont, and a selection of erudite-ironic-funny greeting cards and little books or postcards with 1950s women saying feminist things on them. The person staffing the store will be white, have darkened hair, and a few subtle tattooes. Nobody needs to ask which corporation made the products, because the high prices are testament enough to the fact that they must be “ethical.”
Mango Girl # 64 – Ooh, monetization. yes of course. While people hate the idea of money. They wish we could just go back to barter. In reality this means quitting your job at the organic company to join the Freeconomy movement and trying to travel across Europe hoping other people will take care of you till you reach Gandhi’s shrine.
Mango Girl #112 –
Have you ever looked in the closet of someone who rails against consumerism and corporations? The clothes and shoes are usually worth a small fortune but usually from small boutiques, Urban Outfitters and expensive vintage stores (because, see, if someone *else* bought it first, you aren’t buying into the Consumer Fashion Machine). Trendy clothes bought in Europe get a free pass, but any t-shirts with political messages usually have a “sewn and grown in the USA” label.
Mango Girl #119 – People buy from hipster stores to make a statement, because it fits with their aesthetic or makes them feel good about themselves, rarely because they’ve actually researched the business practices of the store (and principles usually go out of the window when it comes to getting deals on electronics, or buying stuff online, or getting cheap takeout – the latter is considered a sort of birthright). people who see their *own* material wants as justified (because they’re high-minded or doing good in the world or whatever) but those of others as “greed,” or rant against corporations while looking for good returns on their 401(k) investments, or who will never admit that some high-minded purchasing choices are only open to the well-off.
Oh, Ignatz… of course I’m a pretentious twat, I’m white, after all…. Your understanding of America is limited to cliches, and so you miss the irony and beauty of this site, it is only with the most profound knowledge of America and “whiteness” that one can truly appreciate the subtleties of what the writers (and commentators) are about.
The best commentator on the whole site, I think, is Mango Girl. I don’t always agree with her, but she “gets it”
Google and Nintendo are also corporations that white people do not consider evil.
White People like to leave earnest comments at this website.
White people hate Wal-mart but are ok with buying marijuana. Drug dealers don’t exactly have the best health plan either but that is ok because they serve a particular need for the white person. The only way a white person might stop buying marijuana is if they started selling it at Wal-Mart.
Grammar be Tyranny!
splelling 2!
Cato. Subtleties. Ha. This site is about centre-right cranks taking a few cliches about self-hating liberals (who are not unique to America) and calling them ‘white people’.
I quite like the site. But the comments of yours I responded to in the first instance weren’t jokes, they weren’t ironic. You were making a statement of fact – that white people all buy into the American dream. That’s not subtle or based on any profound understanding of America. That’s you being uneducated and blind to everything that is on your doorstep.
“When engaging in a conversation about corporate evils it is important to NEVER, EVER mention Apple Computers, Target or Ikea in the same breath as the companies mentioned earlier. White people prefer to hate corporations that don’t make stuff that they like.”
Very true.
Ignatz. You are so earnest, it’s charming. However, you make a valid point that I was probably wrong when I said
“Without a least upper or upper-middle class status to begin with — or leftist academic upper-middle class values acquired at university — no American white person would have any of the values pointed up in this blog – rather, they would want to get theirs and be part of the American dream (and this blog does focus on white America, rather than white Europe, which is a whole different matter). At any rate, the kind of white people who have these values BEFORE they get to the university, are upper-middle are upper class,…”
I should have qualified the statement by saying “almost no” — my point was not that no one has these values, but that the are quintessentially upper and upper-middle class. While they may not be completely unknown among the middle and working classes, they are relatively rare, witness the hostile reception over the years to socialism in most of the American labor movement. Our class dynamic is very different from Europe’s, and attempts to understand out system in European terms are probably misguided, but nonetheless we do have a class dynamic at work here.
So, where ARE you from?
THis is great! We had one of those anti-corp. idiots here in Austin complaining about a potential Wal-Mart that was going to be built. He was arguing at a city council and was wearing a Ralph Lauren Polo shirt with the horse logo on the chest and holding an iPhone……what an idiot!!!!! Keep em’ coming, this is the best site on the web right now. WHite people love the internet!!!!! Write about that. Or, White people LOVE this blog! hahahaha
So good…So So good.
finally, a site that shoves self-righteousness right back down people’s throats. It’s tough medicine but it’s good for you.
It still sounds like a lot of mealy-mouthed evasiveness to me.
You don’t have to be a socialist to dislike big business. You just have to be in their way. And the fact that you are so obsessed with where I am from shows what a reductive view you have of politics.
But if you must know where I am, I am upstairs in your loft shaking my head earnestly at your collection of Nazi memorabilia, your Ronald Reagan-shaped dildo and your diary. Sample entry:
March 4th: “Watched News Report on Sudan. My, how earnest those poor Sudanese are. Someone should raise money to buy them a sense of humour. Am I being ironic? I’m not sure. I’ll have to get back to myself on that one.”
McDonald’s is a giant corporation. And I love me some of those Filet ‘o Fishes. Delish.
Also, McDonald’s seems to like black people. For example, you might notice that McDonald’s commercials always feature black people prominently. In fact, their commercials usually feature ALL BLACK CASTS. Very enlightened.
This is why I don’t eat at Burger King.
Wow, I was expecting to see this one a lot earlier on the list. Going to school in Madison, I can see that this is 100% true on a daily basis
Wow, Ignatz, you’re so creative. Not.
I don’t so much care where you’re from as wonder, since you are admittedly not an American, where you’ve learned so much about America and the intricacies of its class system… intricacies that even most well-read Americans have a very limited understanding of.
I LOVE CORPORATIONS… THE MORE I CAN GET FOR MY BUCK THE BETTER! I DON’T LIKE WALMART THOUGH, JUST BECAUSE I DON’T LIKE BEING AROUND HUMANS, THEY’RE GROSS. AND WALMART ATTRACTS THE GROSSEST OF THE GROSS. I DON’T REALLY LIKE SHOPPING EITHER. OTHER THAN GROCERIES, 95% OF MY PURCHASES ARE ON EBAY. IS THAT CONSIDERED A CORPORATION? IF SO, I LOVE IT!
I ALSO LIKE TYPING IN CAPS…
ha ha. You should have mentioned the white person sunday foods, like CHICKEN APPLE SAUSAGE while they sip foam from their frothy coffee drinks. so true so so true
#53
Smartest comment I’ve seen in a looooong time.
Every day. EVERY DAY you call me out on something. Dammit.
Blacks and Hispanics love corporations because they’re poor! See, I can jump on the racist bandwagon too!
There are no intricacies. There is only neoliberal obfuscation of the kind you peddle. People are being paid enough, or they are not. People are being prevented from joining unions, or they are not.
“You are so creative. Not.”
Tell me, when did Roman orators start using formulae from Bill and Ted?
I don’t mean to pick on you. You are probably alright in an endearingly annoying kind of way. Hell, if I did live in your godforsaken country, I’m sure you, your Ronald Regan mojo pin and I could have a good laugh together. Take it easy Cato. xx
@ Just Wondering
“White people also love to let you know that they don’t eat at McDonalds… which is somewhat related… Apparently McDonalds is as big as it is only selling burgers to non-white people…
Amazing!”
Not so in Manhattan. There’s a McDonald’s across the street from my office and it’s always crawling with plenty o’ white people when I walk in there.
lol, @ Target, Ikea, & Apple reference
I work for a large corporation, and the irony is that many of them, including mine, are extremely liberal. Especially when it comes to social issues.
The word “Christmas”, banned from company material, even internally.
But on gay pride days, they hang the rainbow flags throught the buildings.
As a non-white it’s pretty hilarious!!! The irony is great. On a good note to counter, I do know some melanin- deficient that don’t need instruction manuals to to subvert. Their sense of being part of a greater whole just filters into their everyday existence.
One to consider if you haven’t already: Fair Trade Coffee. I realize you already have a coffee category (in fact it’s number one). But people really get boners over this stuff. Talk about a feeling of moral superiority. It combines the best of Co-ops, organic foods, hatred of corporations, environmental issues, small, family operated businesses (might consider that one), and knowing what’s best for poor people.
“White people hate Wal-mart but are ok with buying marijuana. Drug dealers don’t exactly have the best health plan either but that is ok because they serve a particular need for the white person. The only way a white person might stop buying marijuana is if they started selling it at Wal-Mart.”
ROTFL
Another Target justification: The family that owns/runs it, the Daytons, are big time Democrats and philanthropists in Minnesota(Whitest place on earth, in the sense used by this blog).
Also:
Urban Oufitters and Anthropologie are owned by a hardcore rightwing republican.
American Apparel’s founder is going to bankrupt himself and/or the company with all the sexual harrassment suits against him.
Gap/Old Navy/Banana Republic: In addition to sweat shops etc. is owned by family with forestry interests, cutting down old growth forests.
Forever21: Despite the skankiness of the clothes, owned by evangelical Christians.
General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler used to be big targets of corporation hate. Now the US auto industry is so crippled that no one gives a crap anymore.
Where did we go wrong?
I love this blog, and I’m not even white!
Thud!! un-evolved adbusters plllllllease that so 1991
Here ill give you one; Jazz (come on this ones ez)
Hating Apple is very white now come on catch up!
The site is addicting, though not nearly as much as the comments. I just wasted 45 minutes reading the responses to this post.
At first, I thought this site was funny, and I do still consider it very clever. Nice work, whoever started it. Then I realized it was just a criticism of my demographic!
I think it would be fun to start another blog called “Stuff Other White People Like” to take a dig at white conservative males, just to even it out.
A few early nominees for categories:
-Raving about how cool Maxim magazine is
-Getting MBAs
-Complaining about high taxes
-Bashing the Clintons
-Reminiscing about college hijinks, some 10 years later
-Deer hunting
-Buying Budweiser products
But all in all, it’s just for fun. If you can’t laugh at yourself … well, then you’ve got problems.
I hate AdBuster and all those who read it.
I’m not sure what white people YOU talk to, but they must all be from big cities, because you are COMPLETELY out of touch with people in the mid-west and western states.
“You are all individuals.”
“Yes, we are all individuals.”
“I’m not!”
Administrator:
I believe your website has been hacked. This morning someone posted a patently false blog entry in order to make white people look cooler then they are. I have on good authority that white people do not in fact hate Corporations. So clearly, your website has been hacked. I would suggest removing the offending post and apologize to all the confused people who read this blog.
Chris “White Person” L
For those that may have a problem with Shoes from the EU – just remember White people (okay me) like to buy things made in the US. That way the money (and jobs) stay here. I sort-of care about the wages of workers in China but I guarantee you that the US corporations (all) that export their manufacturing to China do not.
Buy american (what is still left – New Balance) – yeah it costs more but that money stays here.
Cheers,
James
One must differentiate between hating corporations, which white people and most others do, and hating capitalism, which most white people love by any other name so it smells sweeter.
Good post.
love it
where does Michael Moore fit in to all of this?
My friends and I were talking about Walmart the other day…lol
Whoa, I’m so confused. I thought white people made corporations and buy stocks in them to pay for college?
Can I recommend Genealogy?
I’ve never read “No Logo” or “Adbusters.” But, as a white person, I guess I should.
And does this mean I have to stop shopping at Wal-Mart and Home Depot if I want to retain my whiteness?
mr. white guy,
perhaps you should consider taking Target off the list of stuffwhitepeoplelike. a Target opened up this week in a gentrifying neighborhood of DC and many white people believe it is the spawn of the devil.
but not us, because we love buying cheap crap.
love,
the oakies
http://oakies.wordpress.com/2008/03/05/totally-white/
Stuff White Women Like: FEMINISM
Men graciously gave them the right to vote after spilling blood, sweat and tears to create, maintain and improve Western Civilization and then Women turn around and use their right to vote to pass Misandric Laws that allow the Government and Women to Control/Destroy Men, Families, & Fathers.
I suggest you read the book Taken Into Custody by Baskerville. If you don’t want to read the book, at least read the reviews so you can understand the evil that WHITE FEMINIST WOMEN are doing:
http://tinyurl.com/26o5a4
61 tim
“yo but question, if white people like to hate on multi-national corporations just because it’s popular to do so, does that matter? I mean, I’m sure very few people here- regardless of race- would be quick to jump to the defense of corporations.”
I’ll defend em… at least, to the point that I think outrageous and unfounded attacks on them are silly and should be called such…
And pointing out that people who make outrageous and unfounded attacks on them are dangerous populist demagogues that are probably much more dangerous than corporations… at least corporations want to give us stuff they think we want… Instead of pissed off people who want to change other people (via force if they ever get the power)…
My oh my, I feel so darned white all of the sudden.
Thomass. Where were you when I needed you!? I was exposed to a dangerous populist demagogue for only 20 seconds. I immediately ran out of my house and sent 20 million people to a nearby gulag. I am so ashamed.
If only I had trusted in the corporations, who wanted to “give” me delicious, lifestyle-affirming products. And love. Sweet corporate love.
173 Ignatz Mouse
“You don’t have to be a socialist to dislike big business. You just have to be in their way. ”
Ummm, yeah, you do. Everyone else doesn’t much mind them unless one screws up… and they want to deal with that one and/or do a structrual change to prevent the problem, in question, from happening again.
“But if you must know where I am, I am upstairs in your loft shaking my head earnestly at your collection of Nazi memorabilia”
That’s out left field. We don’t like socialism. Be it national or international….
for anyone, white or otherwise, who wants to actually DO something about corporate rule (rather than just bitch about it while blogging on your MacBook or whatever) here are a few resources:
http://www.duhc.org
http://www.poclad.org
http://www.libertytreefdr.org
hating corporations passively is pretty lame but rejecting corporate rule and bringing power to the people is really important, and people of color and in the global south have been working on this for a looooong time. we’ve got a lot to learn, fellow whiteys.
thanks for the daily reality check!
210 Mr Wimpy
“Thomass. Where were you when I needed you!? I was exposed to a dangerous populist demagogue for only 20 seconds. I immediately ran out of my house and sent 20 million people to a nearby gulag. I am so ashamed.”
Right here. Short breaths.
You probably can’t get away with gulags these days. But you can try to micromanage people and bully them even in western countries. It’s easier to kill non westerners with your control freakery though. Ban some highly effective insecticide or such and starve or condemn them to the resulting diseases. Chin up, your day will come.
1dumblonde wrote:
“One must differentiate between hating corporations, which white people and most others do, and hating capitalism, which most white people love by any other name so it smells sweeter.”
You’re right of course. Aren’t you the historian/JD teaching in a white trash town from the graduate school thread? Both as an historian and an a lawyer (which are you teaching?), don’t you find it a bit curious? Capitalism, after all, is about accumulating wealth with relative facility and freedom from the risk of confiscation, and corporations are simply a form of business organization (I’m sure you took corporations….) which encourage risk-taking in accumulating capital by limiting the potential loss on an investment to the cost of shares. Which, of course, is why corporations have been successful.
Risk-taking and risk aversion are closely related. The amount of risk one is willing to tolerate depends in part on the potential upside, but even more (for most people) on the potential downside. While an individual entreprenuer may be willing to risk everything, he doesn’t have the capital needed for his enterprise. Investors, who have capital, are willing to risk a bit, not to to risk having their entire capital exposed to risk on the basis of a reward. The corporation allows the entrepreneur to obtain capital at the cost of part of his potential upside reward.
So, is it the actual idea of the corporation people hate (I don’t think so, most people don’t have a clue about economics or law and economics) or the notion that some corporations have become so successful (accumulating so much money and power) that they act outside the law, or rather buy the law, in much the same way the medieval warrior class did?
Jesus Thomass. You’re a piece of work.
My control freakery? I am not telling anyone to do anything.
All I did was make fun of a paranoid creep.
haha so true. My undergrad was full of white people like this.
This site is great! As a black person, it’s one of the first sites I go to when starting my day. It’s tremendously edifying, validating (stuff I already know about white folks), and most of all, hilarious!
@ #56
I love my Subaru and I am not afraid to run you down in the streets with it
And what’s the next post:
#83 – Dissing other white people.
Any post thereafter, you will have written yourself into obsolescence. You’ve really taken the fun out of making fun of my own race.
Or
#84 – Mocking their own whiteness.
Ugh!! I see myself in your posts!!! Hahahahahahahahaha!!
(Goes back to sipping Starbucks latte and assuring everyone that ‘it’s about TIME a black man was president!’ any black man, right whitey? As Sandman said recently “I’m not for Obama cause he’s a blackman, it’s cause he’s the best man in my opinion” For as smart as white people are, a lot of them would pull the lever for Obama just because he’s black.)
And before you say “oh, if you don’t like it, why are you here?” I say it keeps me thinking.
Also, Thomass, when you say in response to Ignatz mouse that “we don’t like socialism” – is the “we” you refer to you and your collection of hand puppets?
I find you and your short breaths frightening.
So great! I hate corporations EVEN MORE now!
sigh so true, I often moan about the sins of Wal-Mart but happily shop at Target…. they’re nearly the same freakin’ thing but somehow white circular logic makes me not worry about that.
Borders and Barnes & noble are also on the list of giant corporations we are willing to look the other way at… but where else are we going to buy our copies of Adbusters?
i’m white. on the outside.
i love this blog. it’s so true. sometimes.
cuz i’m white and i HATE apple. and target. hate.
But, but, but — Wal-Mart IS evil! 😉
I just hate shopping anywhere that treats it’s employees terribly.
Is it wrong to want to shop in places with HAPPY employees? Life is depressing enough, thanks.
What I’m finding really funny about this blog is that it seems that most of the white people visiting it DO see the humor in it.
However, there are a lot of non-white people who just use it as justification to continue hating all white people.
Fucked up.
Just laugh! It’s funny!
Hate, however, is NOT funny. I don’t hate anbyone because they’re black/Mexican/Asian/etc but somehow it’s ok to hate someone just because they’re white?
What did *I* ever do to you? Nothing. *I* did not discriminate against you. *I* did not enslave ANYONE (nor did my ancestors who were poor white cotton pickers!) But it’s ok to hate me because of the color of my skin? You’re just as bad as any racist fuck out there. You are JUST LIKE THEM.
Yeah. All white people are rich. We’ve all got it easy. We don’t realize what it’s like to be discriminated against. Ha! Yeah right!
Get over yourself.
Really enjoying this blog – thanks! And thanks for the dialog.
since the covered realm is hipsters, lets see a post about
Fixed Gear Bikes
is there anything more urban/ivy league but scruffy/ indie band listening than a dude in Williamsburg that lives in a loft on parents $$ but is a bike messenger in Manhattan??? (wearing really tight expensive jeans)
You must only meet white people at Starbucks. Check out “Bass Pro Shop” or a tractor pull sometime. Not sure which type of whitey is more amusing.
Haha, awesome post.
I wish we had Targé in Canada! Michael Graves, Phillipe Stark!
All we get is Debbie Travis at the Canadian Tire.
About the Target comment above…not true. Target is a publically traded company now..the Daytons took the money and spent it on themselves. Target is pretty middle of the road when it comes to politics. Examples:
They unbanned “Christmas”
Support traditional groups (yes, even the Salvation Army)
Was a sponsor for the Cathedral of St Pauls 100th anniversery (some large companies would not sponser an event related to a Christian church).
Buying adbusters from a corporate bookstore with a starbucks inside is ultimate white thrill.
I speak from experience.
#83: AYN RAND
Kuripi,
I agree, trying to find a non-white person at Bass Pro. is like playing “Where’s Waldo?”.
Here’s the thing about Wal-Mart haters. They are almost always richer white people who can afford to shop at boutique shops.
The Wal-Marts I go to…sometimes I’m one of the few white guys in there. So the well-off white folks want to prevent lower income people of color from shopping at the Wal-Mart.
White people love Target because they (target) never talk about rolling back prices. We hate feeling like we are shopping for the lowest price…hate it! WP love paying just slightly more for the exact same hunk of junk that we would buy at walmart for a penny less.
You’ve got us pegged!…I love you. I mean that.
and i love your elvis costello glasses
elvis costello glasses are a nice white person fad
Besides being a naked attempt to self-identify as a “smart guy,” what does this mean? “Published in 2000, No Logo has been responsible for more white person “enlightenment” than any book since the burning of the library at Alexandria.” Egyptian library, 7th century, enlightenment, white people?
Your work continues to be beautiful. Thank you for this little gem of joy.
whoever rights this is just hittin on left wing stereotypes a bit much
most people dont even know what adbusters is, if this thing was serious they’d have written about douney and burk purses and popped collars ages ago
Ignatz is British. Probably from somewhere in the north, near a bunch of true Socialists (like Scotland). Hates what Blair did to his country (Blair not being a true Socialist), but likes to go to America to go shopping. That’s mostly what America is for–shopping. Oh, and WDW. That would be Walt Disney World.
This blog is amazing, and this post hits close to home. Everyone knows those Che Guevara shirts with his head in shadow? I bought one a few years ago with the communist star removed from his beret and a dollar sign in it’s place and a short caption beneath it that reads: “This shirt brought to you by capitalism”. It drives people crazy!
This is the first post that I disagree with.
Now this is an example of something only certain white people like. I live in a province where a Wal-Mart is pretty much the local hangout, and Wal-Mart haters are seen as absurd. Basically, the only place you won’t find a Wal-Mart in Alberta, is within a 20km radius of a major University. This is largely the same across all the Prairie provinces, Wal-Mart is seen as a source for bragging rights in small towns across the West. When a town gets a Wal-Mart, they soon get a Canadian Tire too, and the white people LOVE it.
Having read a bunch of Naomi Klein (I’m from Vancouver, and it’s practically required here), I’m kind of surprised that she gets away with using such inflammatory rhetoric and gets away with it. Adbusters does it, too. White people won’t take spin like that from Fox News, but I guess they’ll take it from anyone espousing hip opinions.
Another thing that should be on this list: Greenpeace. Being a memeber of Greenpeace is essentially required for living in “whiter” neighbourhoods, especially around here.
This site reads increasingly like a right wing manifesto. It trivializes important issues and consists of one oversimplification after another. Most of these observations are hackneyed as opposed to profound. We live in a time of nearly unparalleled corporate control, staggering income inequality, poor prospects for recent college graduates, and numerous pending environmental crises. You don’t have to be a member of an ethnic group–or really, a certain thinly disguised, well-to-do socioeconomic subset of one–to pick up on that.
Will you please make a coffee table book of the most popular entries? I will totally buy it and keep it in my office. They seriously brighten my day!
239: LOL. I initially though his pedantry seemed more German, but you’re probably right. Or, perhaps he still passes his glass over his water glass when he drinks the loyal toast. I’d bet he’s red brick, too. The site should do a post on white “anglophonia” — it never ceases to amaze me the way Americans fawn over the British upper class in theory, but wouldn’t know what to do with one if they caught up with him or her in the flesh, and how they wouldn’t recognize the class and regional differences in English speech.
Originally posted by Off the Grid: “This site reads increasingly like a right wing manifesto. It trivializes important issues and consists of one oversimplification after another. Most of these observations are hackneyed as opposed to profound. We live in a time of nearly unparalleled corporate control, staggering income inequality, poor prospects for recent college graduates, and numerous pending environmental crises. You don’t have to be a member of an ethnic group–or really, a certain thinly disguised, well-to-do socioeconomic subset of one–to pick up on that.”
Nah, it’s just satirical. Not a manifesto. More like a right wing Daily Show, which does the exact same thing you claim this blog does, only from a left wing perspective.
Has anyone noticed that WalMart is doing pretty well financially in a slow economy environment and Target’s sales heve been in the toilet for two qurters? Not to mention, Apple’s shares have taken a nice hit lately as well. The most recent “new” Apple products are NOT exactly flying off the shelfs anymore.
Frankly as a “More wealthy than most” middle aged guy, I’m beyond caring about P.C. BULLSHIT like this.
I just want to say this is a really funny blog, but I am disappointed that there are so many people posting about how inaccurate the entries are.
To suggest that each of the blog entries describes all white people accurately is just as silly as assuming that the author intended them too.
Further, at worst, the blog humorously points out the all too common self-righteousness nature that suburban middle-class youth exhibits from time to time. Maybe you agree, maybe you don’t. It’s certainly nothing to get red in the face about.
Obviously, this blog is far from describing all white people, but here in California, specifically in Monterey county and Davis, this blog does an outstanding job of describing my white friend’s habits–in detail! Really, this blog is laudable solely for writing down what I’ve witnessed since my early teens.
Keep up the good work!
239 + 242
Wrong, wrong and wrong again.
A free Fidel Castro Pog for the first business postgraduate schmoe who can guess (1) the provenance of Ignatz Mouse and (2) his reasons for visiting the home of liberty, freedom and Ed Gein!
And no it’s not Coconino county though I’d live there if I could.
Not 242 – I meant the entry by Cato, who is apparently a dialectologist now.
What about teenage angst? Even the half-white part of me has never understood that phenomenon.
“Following these simple steps can help you gain the trust and respect of white people in a relatively short period of time.”
Haha, so brilliantly put in the style of a Dr.Phil self help book.
I don’t get the hate for big corporations. I’d quite happily see “the little guy” get crushed all over town.
stupid white people.
If only everyone loved corporations more
How about, Going to the Olympics.
Just wondering – how much money did the bloggers make from the Adbusters and NoLogo images in this post? Product placement endorsements pay big these days. Tell “the man” you want to be paid for those ads!
I hate Apple, Target and Ikea most of all!!!!!
Oh, and I hate Canada…just FYI
And Google, what about Google? It used to be the Apple of the early 2000’s, but recently the mood has shifted a bit, I think..
Brilliant once again!
Let me use some whitespeak and drop some stuff white people like … one of my favorite ironic moments was one day, hanging out with a couple of guys in college, when one of them blurted out how much he hated multi-national corporations. Mind you, this was while he was playing a PlayStation by Sony, drinking a CocaCola, smoking a Marlboro, and he had just finished talking on his cell phone made by Samsung for which he had AT&T/Cingular service.
Other stuff white people like:
blogging about stuff white people while wearing rectangular tortoise shell glasses, a cardigan sweater, messed up hair, half grown beard; playing video games all day; and marrying a person with a bizarre penchant for photographing food and people eating food.
This is good stuff, I have had my peeps taking notes on this for my next speech…. Remember to blaim corporations for all evil in the world except apple and ikea… Done. I would appreciate any other tips you could give me to get white people to love me more. I seem to have the liberals, but those pesky Conservatives seem just out of reach. Do white people like taxes? I have some to give them. How about paying for other peoples health care? Got some of that too. How about giving up, you know vietnam style? Could give you that on day one. I is just so hard, no matter how much time I spend with ‘THE MAN’ i just can figure him out.
The hipster, liberal white guy is marginally annoying. But, the real annoying white person is the AM-radio calling dickwad who thinks they’re in my face. These are the self-described “salt of the earth” types who pride themselves on their work ethic but always seem to always find the time to call in to one of those AM shows. Yeah, hard working my ass. also, their anti PC view is the majority view and is hardly ground breaking, shocking or edgy. It’s those self satisfied assholes that wear their stupidity like a badge of honor and are responsible for the dumbing down of this country to the point where you are mocked for questioning anything. These are also the white people that are universally hated, unlike the types this blog focuses on.
You’re a faggot.
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I hate Target because they try to be so trendy that if you buy one thing you like there and return one month later to get another one, it will be gone — replaced in favor of a trendier item.
Do white people want change? For every dollar you earn I will take 60 cents and you can have the change, Change you can beleive in.
another hawt post 🙂 never fails.
We are at a defining moment in our history. Our nation is at war. Our planet is in peril. Our health care system is broken, our economy is out of balance, our education system fails too many of our children, and our retirement system is in tatters. I am going to throw you money at all of these broken pograms and you can keep the change.
How come I don’t see Nascar, lawn ornaments, wiffle-ball, IHOP, Mullets, Steve Miller Band, Campbell’s Soup, Cops (the show), Amusement Parks, camping, bumper stickers? I think your focus is too narrow with all the high brow shit. Roughly 85% of white Americans have never heard of Michel Gondry.
Wow this is very true, I hate all corporations I don’t like, but I do like some that make shit that I like.
God, I’m so white.
All across this state, you’ve shared with me your stories. And all too often they’ve been stories of struggle and hardship.
I’ve heard from seniors who were betrayed by CEOs who dumped their pensions while pocketing bonuses, and from those who still can’t afford their prescriptions because Congress refused to negotiate with the drug companies for the cheapest available price.
I’ve met Maytag workers who labored all their lives only to see their jobs shipped overseas; who now compete with their teenagers for $7-an-hour jobs at Wal-Mart.
Is this what white people like to hear? Stories about people I haven’t met, and conditions that do not really reflect what is taking place most of the time?
Sometimes, even the whitest people have a valid reason for hating corporations. Of course, this may just be an excellent post-hoc justification for smugness….
Its soooo true!!! and funny.
http://www.5millionpageviews.com
How about this line for my next speech?
All across this state, you’ve shared with me your stories. And all too often they’ve been stories of struggle and hardship.
I’ve heard from seniors who were betrayed by CEOs who dumped their pensions while pocketing bonuses, and from those who still can’t afford their prescriptions because Congress refused to negotiate with the drug companies for the cheapest available price.
I’ve met Maytag workers who labored all their lives only to see their jobs shipped overseas; who now compete with their teenagers for $7-an-hour jobs at Wal-Mart.
I’ve spoken with teachers who are working at doughnut shops after school just to make ends meet, who are still digging into their own pockets to pay for school supplies.
Just two weeks ago, I heard a young woman in Cedar Rapids who told me she only gets three hours of sleep because she works the night shift after a full day of college and still can’t afford health care for a sister with cerebral palsy.
Do white people like to hear about individuals who I have never really bet but I am sure exist. Do you like to hear the worst possible senario even though we have the highest living standards in the world of any country with a large population? I mean, we ain’t Denmark, would be a lot easier to run a country the size of portland. Actually I heard wallmart pays way over minimum wage, but who cares about facts, I just need to know how you feel.
# 536 Riemsiyll (who posted in Full List of Stuff White People Like – – – too bad they shut it down)
Dear Riemsiyll,
Thanks for giving us another shout out!
We love the fact that time and time again, it never fails that a white person who visits this blog and doesn’t understand the meaning of satire, will break their necks to make a list of everything Black People like.
That definitely evens the score.
We think you should be nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for making sure to equally include our whole race on this site.
How so?
Well, duh . . . because your list about what we like is SO freaking accurate and comparative.
“They drink malt liquor and orange juice” is so on par with white people liking coffee. And “Wearing their pants around their knees, causing them to waddle” is exactly like white people liking vintage clothing. And we can’t forget that “Taking pride in ignorance, and accusing a teacher of using “big words” when said teacher uses a word like “sophisticated” ” is equivalent to white people liking graduate school.
Whoa! The similarities are quite frightening. LoL. You make us Black People laugh out loud for sure. By the way, thanks for coming over to Stuff White People Like (a site created by a white man) to tell the world that we black people “are just as trendy as shallow white people.”
That makes us feel so much better about ourselves. Let’s get you that Nobel Prize STAT!
I think somebody before you already mentioned that we love fried chicken and watermelon too. But wait!!! . . . you both forgot to mention that we can’t stand to eat either one without the hottest hot sauce we can find. Sorry to inform you, but We the Black People, are gonna have to deduct some brownie points from you.
Just kidding!
We also CAN NOT forget to mention that you hit the nail on the proverbial head when you said “In other words, this blog takes the actions of some people, and pin it on an entire race . . .”
Boy, how smart are you? At first, all of us Black People thought that Clander (you know, the white guy) was satirizing himself and certain types of people he knew (who happened to be white). But now that you’ve clarified what this blog is REALLY all about, we all feel so enlightened and humbled to be in your presence. Thank you All-Omniscient One.
Anywho, we’re gonna go back to reading more comments on Stuff White People Like.
Stuff. White. People. Like.
Hey, I just had a light bulb moment!!!
#83 should be “Mentioning All the Bad, Stupid, Unhealthy Stuff Black People Like”. You know, Riemsiyll, sorta like what you and about 6,347,209 other white people visiting this blog have already done.
Well, let us go snatch our malt liquors from our various refrigerators. We’d bring you back a sip, but we know how whites like to get crazy-drunk and puke all over themselves and/or get video-taped in various x-rated positions as they do x-rated things.
Ciao bella!
With love,
Black People
I agree with Tom in #262.
When I’m guilty of liking something that these “white people” like, it’s been helpful for me to remind myself to be careful about crossing that self-righteous line … and instead simply be confident in what I like and what I believe without passive-aggressively or unintentionally holding that over somebody’s head.
If any of these “white people” are like me, they felt marginalized and disenfranchised earlier this decade as U.S. political polarization increased, particularly during the run-up to and fallout from the 2004 election. I got tired of hearing Bush, Rove, Dobson, Rush, O’Reilly and all the people who support them insinuate their with-us-or-against garbage.
So there was a certain comfort in indie music, giving time and money to my church and various charities, and drinking microbrewed beers in the city … when all my conservative friends were making tons of money in the corporate world, going to the same sports bar every weekend, and teasing me about being the only Democrat with a full-time job.
I’m hopeful that as a country we can get beyond this Internet-fueled, culture clash that sometimes feels more like a civil war.
But I didn’t mean to go so deep. This is, as somebody pointed out, a blog that’s no less satire than the Daily Show and if we keep it light and realize the importance of respect for others and their views then we’ll all find life more enriching and less bitter.
And if you will stand with me in seven days — if you will stand for change so that our children have the same chance that somebody gave us; if you’ll stand to keep the American dream alive for those who still hunger for opportunity and thirst for justice; if you’re ready to stop settling for what the cynics tell you you must accept, and finally reach for what you know is possible, then we will win this caucus, we will win this election, we will change the course of history, and the real journey — to heal a nation and repair the world — will have truly begun.
Man white people love me and hate that B!tch.
Too easy.
Yeah but white people have NO PROBLEM camping out at 2 am on Black Friday after Thanksgiving, outside a Best Buy, Walmart, or Target, to get that $1 DVD player that’s made in China and contains who knows what carcinogenic chemicals.
are self impressed twats. have fun with your circle jerking!
I read that book in college while studying a liberal arts major that I’m not using in the real world. LOLZ
comment #58:
“I think I figured it out–with some exceptions, you’re talking about American College kids in general (fascination with the European, the Green, the pretentious) not just white ones but, like racists of the past, you’re equating “American” with “white.” I guess I should thank you for not burning a cross on my lawn…but then, since I don’t have a lawn, I can’t be sure you wouldn’t have tried.
This is going to sound odd, coming from someone who’s only been to this site twice and seem alone in not finding you funny, but I’m going to ask you please not to put any more posts on this site and to take down the ones you’ve put up already because you’re portraying a skewed version of the world that encourages snap-judgments and tries to fit complicated people into neat categories.
I’m sure I would love to see the response to this post (if there is one) but since I will never visit this site again, I guess that’ll jsut be a bummer.
Thanks for not being funny or discerning. It really brightens my day.
I hope this missive finds you in good health and spirits,
Adam Stephen Katz, Columbia College Class of 2008”
SWPL #83: being self-righteous
SWPL #84: using their middle name to sound more intelligent
SWPL #85: being insulted at everything
Denver Here.
I love that this blog describes me and a majority of my friends. Its like a dirty secret that’s not so classified, yet no one has really come out and pointed it out. Keep it up, I’m an AVID fan.
ps “avid” –total wp word :p
white people like to be critical, especially when it is not the least bit constructive.
i know this because I am, in fact, an albino. Which makes me so white, that i am able to speak for all white people.
one might call me, sir whitey, your holy whiteness, or if one were so inclined, Dr. Saltine.
for top notch comedic stories that white people love:
http://www.garbarrassing.com
a very entertaining session of love, hate, and absolutely no masterbation whatsoever.
along the lines of “humanitarian capitalism” (Apple, Ben and Jerry’s, etc) , have you thought of doing a post on politically correct porn? I think it’s the perfect example of the
pleasure – exploitation = guiltless enjoyment
equation that so many of the other posts are hitting on.
Am I a traitor to whiteness if I don’t hate Wal-Mart? I’m really starting to feel a racial identity crisis.
Some companies are good, some companies are unscrupulous, but they are all soulless (in the same sense that a committee is soulless – not meant pejoratively).
Companies exist as purely legal entities to prevent financial rseponsibility and liability from falling upon the owners. This is a good thing because it makes investment possible.
This site should really be called “Liberal Stereotypes Right Wing Assholes Like to Whine About.”
No Logo is a good book.
I’m not white. well, not all white.
When is the blog on white people likeing to take pictures of food they eat and posting it online for other white people to look at? That shit isn’t just white. That shit is retarded. Asians do it to. But just indie rock asians. Hip hop asians don’t mess.
so when are you going to write the “taking pictures of food” and/or “blogging” entries?
Most if not all corporations are run by white people.
Most if not all corporations are run by white people. in America that is
Starbucks and Target are also off the table.
kendallmck – it’s actually called “Liberal Stereotypes White Right Wing Assholes Pretending not to be White Like to Whine About.”
Yeah, white people, especially young hipster white white people hate multinational corporations. Meanwhile almost every single American (and many non-Americans) can trace their income back to a multinational corporation, whether directly or indirectly.
No Logo was a stupid book. It was like all: “Gee whiz, some companies have a global supply chain! And we think that’s bad!!”
Lou
http://syndeticfluxion.com
U stay dropping knowledge, hahaha. I have yet to hear a white person EVER say anything negative about apple.
IKEA i think is safe grounds because of how quickly the furniture fu**s up. After a couple of years your little futon permanently turns into a bed because the hinges and screws no longer work.
http://www.lullmengesha.com
The blog today mostly true out here too. I am white and live in a small town with a 50 /50 split of cowboys and artsy folk. We live 60 miles from the nearest normal wal-mart and 2 1/2 hours away from the nearest super wal-mart. Whenever I bring up introducing one to our area the response is generally: “No! Wal-mart is evil! It will destroy our lovely little town!” By which they mean that it will knock out the overpriced crappy stores that don’t have any variety in their products.
While the stereotypes don’t apply to all white people they do apply to those artsy yuppies around here (and in Houston). I remember being in middle school and my mom complaining about the yuppies living in our neighbourhood.
I would love to be able to relate to some of the things on the list, but being a school teacher at a treatment facility just doesn’t offer enough pay to allow me to afford it. That’s just a sacrifice I pay to have a job I love I suppose. So, does that make me less white?
Can I see something on how much we love the UN?
Wal-Mart is always out of stock of stuff white people want. Meanwhile, Target is always putting on “clearance” stuff white people want, like high thread count bamboo bed sheets and decorative string lights for the patio.
I have noticed that pregnant white women also like talking about how institutionalized and patriarchical modern medicine is and vowing to have natural childbirth instead of letting the doctor administer unnecessary treatments in the delivery room. Pregnant white woman also like painlessly delivering babies in clean, sterile environments with CD players and digital video cameras, though, and wearing special post-delivery lounging outfits for receiving guests. They must strike a delicate balance.
Addendum:
And 9/11 conspiracy theories!
OK–
Can someone tell me why you can’t put Target in the same group as Wall-Mart? THEY ARE THE SAME THING!
I can’t begin to tell you how many times I have fought with my own people on this–Why white people can’t see that Target and Wal-Mart are exactly the same is beyond me!
Also–Loudest voice against corporations and thier lobbyists in the presidential campaigns; JOHN EDWARDS–the white guy
John Edwards clearly read No Logo.
Sometimes my white friend (I like to have white friends because it makes me feel authentic) starts talkin’ a big chubby one about how much he loves his Apple products. I bid him shut his fat yap, then I go play on my Nintendo DS.
yep, it’s no secret that white hipsters hate corporations. Hence the ‘duct tape wallet’. White people who make these pieces of crap are very proud of themselves, like they’re really one-upping the system.
Yep. I love how people complain that Wal-Mart is a cult. It seems that the cult consists more of people who accuse Wal-Mart of being a cult.
White people really like to feel “liberated.” They also love theoretical solutions to real life problems.
In response to comment #287
I really wish people would stop insisting that this is from the perspective of a right-winger, whether or not it is, there is no political agenda put forth. The vast majority of these entries are related to pop-culture, not political issues.
Further, this blog is humorously critical not of the actions or ideologies of “white people,” (see #248) but of their seemingly meretricious reasons for having them.
There is nothing inherently right-wing about this blog, unless of course making fun of self-righteous liberals makes you a conservative. It doesn’t.
I’m reading “No Logo” right now! My whiteness knows no bounds!
“realise” (no “z”), “wankers” “provenance” (oh, how upper-crusty-familiar-with-antiques-y of you). . . Ignatz, you speak and write the Queen’s English. And even if by some chance you aren’t in the UK itself, then you are part of the Commonwealth and have neatly absorbed her attitudes–the received opinion of the chattering classes. Where you are exactly isn’t so important, because your usage and opinions make it clear what you are.
White people pretty much hate being considered mainstream. That’s why many bank at those small community banks instead of bank of america, citibank, wamu, and wells fargo. In fact I’d bet that 99% of people that bank at smaller, community banks are probably white.
White people also hate mainstream media outlets and subscribe to “the nation” or “atlantic monthly” and consider people that watch CNBC, FOX News, ABC, CBS, to be the considered spoonfed masses, meanwhile we love PBS and donating to PBS.
Did you already mention big V8 trucks? I believe you commented about our love for hybrid cars already.
Hey, not all white people are the same. I like corporations. In fact, I’d much rather have the world run by corporations than by corrupt governments. At least corporations are accountable to someone!
Corrupt corporations run the government PB!
Shit… I tried not to do that… I just couldn’t help myself!
I’m off to watch another Alex Jones Documentary…
I was wondering when he’d get to Naomi Klein. I’m convinced this blog was at least partly inspired by The Rebel Sell.
It’s funny how they’re against big corporations but love big fake boobs and porn they can download. ?
Corporations are not accountable to anyone…thats the problem PB.
Amma you are an idiot
Amma… you are an idiot
Its just kinda obvious and not really that funny.
Must be written by an american
I love corporations. They make http://www.EvilCarbon.com possible.
Global Warming alarmists beware… EvilCarbon.com
There are a few different kinds of people who comment on this board:
In order, from least to most obnoxious:
1. The people who see it for what it is: light-hearted observations and mildly accurate satire.
2. The people who are angry, and don’t understand that it’s not “racist”.
3. The people who are extremely bitter, for some reason, at the upper-middle class, and take these observations too far. These people are usually well-educated too, but take great joy in complaining about how they had to work so hard to get where they are, while some just get everything handed to them.
Shut the fuck up and deal with it. People can’t help it if they’re lucky. Your bitter jealousy shows through and makes you look ridiculous. These people also refer to the “snobbery” of the upper-crust elite. Ironically, since these people seem to think they “transcend” that, while still exhibiting their intelligence, they come off as the most snobbish of all.
Hypocritical fucks.
@262= Right on the money, my friend. Just because it’s cliche to hate on the majority (no, not just because they ARE the majority) doesn’t mean it isn’t valid.
@263= I hope you never breed. I’m not offended by terms like “faggot”, but such schoolyard taunts indicate the intelligence of a child…someone who shouldn’t be passing along their genes.
I can’t thank you enough for this blog, its amazing how many more white friends I have now! This is such cutting-edge social technology that they dont even realize they’re being stereotyped!
No, Asian Invasion, I totally didn’t realize I was being stereotyped. You’re so much more enlightened and well-rounded than all of us unthinking, pseudo-intellectual members of the white upper-middle class.
the commentary you make about white people is analogous to the commentary adbusters makes toward corporations. soooo, have you really proven anything?
or am i missing the funny part?
do all the responders shop at target or do they shop at wally world? C’mon…tell the truth.
keep spreading the hate – it certainly sells.
So….
The white heads*** of corporations…
Either hate themselves, or are secretly not white?
***Hah pop them and get some ProActiv!
#288 says:
I’m not white. well, not all white.
White people love being “not all white.”
White people like alot of these things. Though the most recent development in the species’ palate would be a delicious little crumpet the french or some other food loving culture discorved, devoured, and regurgitated. that would be the Blog.
James
http://catallaxyfiles.com/?p=3447
http://catallaxyfiles.com/?p=3447
Hey here’s another thing white people like: ironic blogs.
White people making fun of white people: HIGH-larious! Patent that one!
Cartoon characters making fun of people is much funnier!
Beautiful, hilarious blog. I wish I could comment more often.
You want a real book to delve into the evils of multi-national Corporations? Look for a book titled “Confessions of an Economic hit man”. Rather informative, and if your a person that can put two and two together your understanding of the world’s current situations grows considerably.
hello No. 326 – thanks…much clearer.
I always got “No Logo” confused with John Seabrook’s “NoBrow”. But the latter was too much fun to read, so it would lack cred with the “White People” this blog aims at.
For all the newbies who misunderstand the concept, just change “white people” to “colorless people”, and it all becomes clear– pardon the pun.
The irony is that, there ain’t no other races who really own multi-national corporations except white people, and I’m talking globally!
Other races may be installed as CEO’s/COO’s/whatever/etc., but it’s only a figure head position to cop some fat cheques (no real power, heaven forbid), for a real short while.
And lets say any other race does start a corporation and it succeeds and grows into what could be a multi-national corporation; it always ends up getting bought out by a white-owned multi-national corporation.
I feel that I have failed to mention in the past how much I enjoy this blog. It is FANTASTIC!
white people and george strombolopolous or whatever. they love him and his goddamn hour. he’s just so well versed! OMG. the leader of the youth vote!!
Elitist, upper-class, pretentious, liberal white americans you mean. Give or take class.
This is a funny blog, and it adequately describes most of the people I know (I live in Brooklyn). But every post simply doesn’t apply to the vast amount of middle america, and southern whites, who are pretty much the majority in the US.
Only buy Philippe Legrain’s “Open World” if you want to antagonise white people.
Also, white people hating McDonald’s is a form of displacement therapy, since they are not allowed to hate poor people directly.
Well when I 1st read this list I laughed so hard I almost cried. Then the more I read the list the more I realized how very true the list is.
i’m sorry, but it’s simply a fact that many corporations SUCK and that many of the things they do are EVIL. if you think it’s only white people that feel this way then you are terribly ignorant of the life and death struggles of many non-whites against evil corporations around the world. after all it’s usually non-white people who bare the biggest brunt of the evil.
this site is quite funny. i think its okay for us all to laugh a bit at ourselves and to try not to take any of it personally.
but, i see why some folks get a little defensive. i was reading through all these posts saying, “yeah. white people are like that. i mean, other white people are like that.”
and then i got to the post on mos def and was like “dang. i’m totally a white person. i do love mos def and i would cite the artistry of ‘black on both sides’ as the reason why.”
but, really, if any of this pushes our buttons… i don’t know… maybe we should look at why our buttons are pushed?
I cannot believe how many comments have been posted since my comment post only hours ago. White people sure love this blog.
White people also really like:
-Daft Punk (and inconsequently Justice)
-Web Forums
-Music Blogs
and
-Beards (this is more of recent phenomena)
“White people” does not mean all whites. It doesn’t include southern whites who like NASCAR.
“White people” are a segment of the white population that for whatever reason (guilt, a desire to be cool) do things to distance themselves from the white mainstream. Like somehow eating sushi will make them less white. This part of the population looks down at other whites for many reasons, but mainly for being close minded sheep.
What the author is doing is basically doing is pointing out to these people that not only are they still white no matter what they do, but they are utterly predictable sheep. Close minded in their own special way. They are not original. They are not unique like they think they are. They are one of millions whose actions are so obvious that a blogger can describe their lives, loves and actions without even meeting or speaking to them. This comes as a major shock to some people and the bitterness comes with that. They are scared. They’ve lived their whole lives convincing themselves they are somehow counter culture. To their dismay, they ARE the culture. What a let down.
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Your blog is easy to like, except for when it’s difficult.
Nice post. Great sattire.
I, too, detest some of the corporations that are mentioned above.
-Jeff Lewis
Brilliant and oh so true. Why understand the world when we can jump on a bandwagon that makes us feel sanctimonious? Really, all the problems in the world can be solved by just finding the right scapegoats! Damn those corporations that made all that stuff we wanted! Love it, just love it.
Dan Read
2 more suggestions:
Burning Man
Radiohead (I know you did indie music, but Radiohead fans and they’re jive about “all its layers” is really something else entirely.)
You should do a post on “Affirmative Action”. White people love affirmative action.
I’m applauding (really, I’m sitting here clapping my hands). This is great–keep up the great work….
Hey, I’m black and I like Radiohead. What gives? I did live in england for a while as a kid though…and my mum is british. I guess that explains it.
332-
‘And lets say any other race does start a corporation and it succeeds and grows into what could be a multi-national corporation; it always ends up getting bought out by a white-owned multi-national corporation.’
According to Market Place, my favorite show on NPR–that I listen too instead of watching TV, cause I do not own one.
(That stuff rots your brain, and then they have the nerve to air anti marijuana adds on TV! that was the straw for me…Weed changed my life, remind me to tell you about this time I went to Amsterdam…)
Anyway I digress–Last night on Market Place, they did a story about a Corporation that recently became a MULTI-NATIONAL one; but it is not WHITE, it’s Brazilian! I KNOW RIGHT! but wait you haven’t heard the best part….you see it’s a meat packing company (I am a vegetarian and all but still) and it bought 3 of the top 5 WHITE (read: American) meat packing companies! it’s bigger than TYSON!!!!
It has a lot to do with the weak dollar and the strong brazilian currency and the rest, it’s all very fascinating, but then everything on NPR is fascinating!
Here’s the link: http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/03/05/meaw_pm_adv_brazil_beef/
LOVE THE SITE, and when someone can find me a reason Target isn’t the devil, i will kiss you!
I worked on some ad research last month. One of the interviewees was not of the white persuasion but he did seem to have a bit of white in him. He went on and on about how he could see right through advertising and how none of the commercials on TV could fool him into buying their evil products. I was enlightened. I had no idea that anyone could tell commercials were trying to sell something.
Paragraph 9, end of line 5 is missing the “t” in “at”. Do you think I can get into a top notch grad school given my superior editing skills?
This is so true! Love the way you portrayed it. Check out my satirical works at http://mymodestproposal.blogspot.com
Frisbee Golf
Contemporary Art Museums
Urban Outfitters
Compost Piles
Switching back to Republican
Teach For America
This is by far the most accurate portrayal of ‘enlightened’ liberal white people I have ever read. Keep up the good work…
*sigh*
am i just getting old, or is topical irony just not really all that funny anymore?
goodness, this is too funny.
Sponsored Charity Walks and Gap Years in South East Asia should be on here at some point… keep up the good work! (I’m keeping my Mac)
You should do a post on the reverence white people have for the ultimate electronic source of knowledge, “Wikipedia.” White people love their “wiki.” When graduate students with useless Masters degrees are sitting using their Macs and talking with their white, educated friends in fair trade coffee shops, they look up terms they don’t know on the sly on wiki.
They also use it to “research”random topics late at night when they can’t sleep and are too tired to write an epic blog.
Why would white people waste their time hating corporations when they can be out lynching negros?
I just realized how awesomely white I am even though I never finished Jr. College, believe the Bible, and once voted for Alan Keyes! This blog makes me feel great.
I live happily in a tiny condo, use less electricity and gas than 99% of white people, spend less money on stuff I don’t need than 99% of white people, donate substantial time and money to charity (giving me a leg up on 90% of white people, who join protests and raise awareness while doing nothing), work for a non-profit (a church, admittedly, but I could start lying and telling white people that it’s a government organization of some sort), am married to an Asian (of Indian descent, so points against, but still), and use a Macbook! Why don’t more White People like me?
I am going to take advantage of this site, read those periodicals you recommend, and start taking advantage of all my amazing good deeds by announcing my compassion to all who will listen. I also plan to get in the good graces of more white people by wearing more expensive trendy clothes, getting myself into debt, and maybe even get a divorce. (We’d get back together later, but it’s good to have that divorce on record).
You are the whitest person to ever live. This is amazing.
Via happy chance I found your blog. Not exactly sure that I understand what you’re doing yet, but whatever it is, it’s funny as hell.
Like everyone here is using an Apple computer…..if you were that peeved about the big corporations you would be buying from the ones that were doing their bit for a better world…so at the end of the day you only have yourselves to blame…. Personally i don’t give a hoot…and no i don’t have an APPLE COMPUTER!!!!!!
I am one white male very pleased with his score of 3 out of 82.
I was beginning to think I was white until I read this post 😦
white people like linking to this web-site, this is the second time this week something i’ve been reading has linked to this. which probably means that white people won’t like this site by next week. its probably best to downplay how much you like this site when you’re around other white people.
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what about pirates? i’ve never understood why white people have an obsession with pirates/talking like pirates/johnny depp as a pirate
this is amusing. I bet tho, if you were in another socioeconomic class if your perceptions of white people would be different.
Actually many many corporations SUCK! that what i know but they cleaver to make big money.
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Off topic, but now that I’ve recognized an offshoot blog called “Stuff Educated Black People Like” (and it’s rapidly climbing up the WordPress charts, by the way), shouldn’t we Asians organize something? Like “Stuff Asians Like”?
Because we’re Asian… we’re all about imitating popular trends and making them better. 🙂
To give an intrepid blogger an idea: #1 Anime, #2 Video Games, #3 Master in Engineering degrees, #4 Fish.
C’mon, Asian bloggers! Don’t let our lack of a sense of humor keep us down!
Not sure if I’m posting this in the right place, but what about “blogging about soaps and clothes.” I’ve come across blogs where people actually write about their latest clothing purposes. Like, “March 6th. Today’s purchases were these super cute jeans and mauve top.” Who the f*ck cares?
opps, that should have said “purchases” (not purposes)
Things white people like: Reading ‘Things White People Like’ while nodding and smiling.
Who gives a shit. Everything is made in China anyway.
#360: “Why don’t more White People like me?”
It’s that religious badge; it’s like halitosis.
Real white people are now into Wiccan, Santería, Vudú, Buddhism – that kind stuff. Now that’s OLD time religion. And if you don’t have Ganesh prominently on display in your “tiny” condo, you’ll never score that MacMansion!
Good luck. I hope this helps.
your next one should be that white people love ‘curb your enthusiasm’
OMG, this whole blog is the greatest expose of our so white culture. Great commentary on Swiss Bank Socialism. Best retort to Das Kapital…EVER.
Future topic: white people like Noam Chomsky.
I wound up having “No Logo” assigned in two different classes in college, and in one of them it was a wildly inappropriate reading selection, nothing to do with the class at all. Of course, this was a (not nearly tenured) professor who also couldn’t see why the United States shouldn’t be providing all of Africa with free food, water, and gasoline.
I wound up having “No Logo” assigned in two different classes in college, and in one of them it was a wildly inappropriate reading selection, nothing to do with the class at all. Of course, this was a (not nearly tenured) professor who also couldn’t see why the United States shouldn’t be providing all of Africa with free food, water, and gasoline.
Man! Talk about pushing some buttons! I don’t know from white black asian. White people are so much at the head of the hegemony that many are not really aware they are a member of a demographic group. Not really. Yeah, if you remind them by having a blog about “What white people like,” but not most of the time. Oh, make that certain, trendy white people in the US.
I think it is a waste of time to whine on about corporations, as they will not be affected one whit by the whining. Corporations are not very emotional about anything. What I liked the best about the post was its pulling 376 comments.
Absolutely..White people’s love for Stores like “Great beginnings” “Container Store”, “buybuybaby” should also be emphasized.
I am half white. Doesn’t matter, though, as I don’t wear this fact on my sleeve.
I was going to read your website articles, but I figured that it would be BORING like most white people, so I didn’t bother. I decided to do more important tasks–like formulating my plan to dominate you.
*yawn*
*chuckle*
Know what else white people like?
This blog.
Heehee, I never understood this exactly. Its ok to shop at Target and Ikea and buy Apple products, but the rest are evil? Such hypocrisy.
I mean don’t get me wrong. I love Target. In my part of the world, we don’t have the luxury to hate big corps and buy elsewhere. I would buy independent, if given the choice.
I really am beginning to think the white people you talk about live in a 25 mile radius surrounding Hollywood Blvd.
Hardly describes any of us in WI(maybe on the Lawrence campus…). Still freaking funny though. 🙂
just a suggestion, i think “records (lp’s)” would be a good one. “CD & iPods are too commercial, i like my music with a little pop & hiss, its soo organic.”
>>>Published in 2000, No Logo has been responsible for more white person “enlightenment” than any book since the burning of the library at Alexandria. <<<
you are amazing [salute]
White people like cynicism A LOT, so that they don’t have to risk standing for anything. It’s much easier that way.
Can I just say that its quite obvious that #83 must be. . .
White people like to read blogs about “stuff that white people like”
I mean look how many people are reading this blog an eating it up. I bet there all white and saying to themselves. . .
“man, I thought I was really cutting edge!”
Ya, that’s me LOL
I’d hate to think niggers read this
“Having read a bunch of Naomi Klein (I’m from Vancouver, and it’s practically required here), I’m kind of surprised that she gets away with using such inflammatory rhetoric and gets away with it.”
Naomi Klein? Whites should NEVER take cues from jews.
She has an ashkenazi horse face. She isn’t White.
“Future topic: white people like Noam Chomsky.”
No, he’s a jew hero and only liberal white dupes like Chomsky.
For chrissakes, this site is about jews and metrosexuals, not Whites.
Exxon pays 1/2 of the taxes in America. Most non-Whites don’t pay any taxes, get $10,000 per pupil in free education, and now they want “universal health care”.
If Whites don’t reproduce faster, there will be nobody to cover for the non-Whites!
The US is going down, and it’s totally correlated to the percentage of non-Whites that live there. That’s Stat 101.
I’m not white but I LOVE Adbusters
Adbusters is brutal!
Clearly, I have been spending too much time fraternising with the Philanders and the Thomases in my neighbourhood. That’s what happens when you live accross the road from the Cloetesville police district, I suppose. Didn’t even know about most of these publications. Time I got my whiteness back and started hating multi-nationals, hehehe…
Oh shucks, I just realised I might need to kick out my non-White flatmate too! Becoming White again is going to be decidedly inconvenient.
If you *really* want to impress white people with your dedication to being anti-corporate, you can tell them about your ethical shoes made in a union shop in Europe out of 100% organic hemp and recycled tire rubber, which are a steal for only $90 or $113 total from the AdBusters website!
https://secure.adbusters.org/orders/sneaker/
https://secure.adbusters.org/orders/blackspot.v2/
(respective to prices)
The irony is that Canada produces the bigggest bunch of suck-ass corporations in the world. It is also a country that leaches off the US and likes to slam the US’s corporations and market economy, while people like Naomi Klein make vast fortunes off the US market economy. If No Logo had only been released in Canada, Klein would need to live on government grants. But because it got a US release, she now is a millionaire. Ironic huh?
What is also funny is that the people who just LOVE Naomi Klein tend to want a world run like Canada’s awful public broadcaster, the CBC. A place where bloated lifers produce bland news and entertainment.
your topics are so unique for a white person
Funniest thing I’ve read in ages. How is it that Apple has figured out how to remain beyond reproach? It’s the shadowiest corporation of them all, yet Apple lovers seem completely unable to hear any reasoned critique of the company. The most enthusiastic flock of sheep in the global marketplace.
Ok, so you like CORPORATIONS, well then I suggest you dig more on really why people hate them, because this is not the only book whithe people read, among others, read these ones for enlightment, instead of conforming to the mug as this blogger ironically subverts
http://www.policestateplanning.com
http://www.davidicke.com
http://www.prisonplanet.com
I’m curious why no one has yet accused the posters of being racists themselves. I’m personally friends with many black people who also enjoy shopping in boutiques, having nice things at home, educating their children, advanced degrees for themselves and most of the other things listed on this post attributed to white people alone.
I think what’s really the issue is a difference in culture or simply ambition. I also know plenty of white people who are worthless scumbags who I generally don’t give the time of day to. People are people, we’re just not all liberals with ignorant views about humanity.
Why’s it always gotta be a racial thang, yo? Why not just start a post that says, white trash, ni##ers, ragh#ads, etc. etc. etc. all suck equally. Everyone loves to say that white people are racist but it’s really everyone else that’s racist today. I don’t give a $hit what race you are: you’re either an a$$hole or you’re not. Plain and simple. They come in all colors.
But thanks, dicks, for keeping racial issues at the forefront of every social discussion. If people would just shut up about it and leave it be everyone would soon stop caring about race at all.
This is my latest favorite website. Thank you. Every post had me cackling out loud.
404 Matrix
blahblahblah…
http://www.davidicke.com
“white people like turning into reptiles!”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_icke#Reptilian_humanoids
I worked for Target for 19 years. As a college student it was a great job because they worked around my schedule, promoted me and gave decent raises. As a mom with little ones they let me work part time even as a supervisor, gave me maternity leave, and again–worked around my schedule. They were very respectful to women and minorities. I never heard even one inappropriate comment from anyone from management ever. They always score high when rated concerning the corporate climate for working women. They are also HUGE into giving back directly to the community that supports them. I volunteered at many store sponsored events including Habitat for Humanity and fundraising for our local zoo. They also give directly to schools and organizations in the community particularly youth groups. I applied for money for my Girl Scout troop and recieved it even after I left my Target job. They also donate 10% of their profits to charity every year as opposed to about 2-3% by Walmart. I left Target 3 years ago but still love shopping there. My feeling when working there was that they want to do the right thing. I am sure much of it was to make good PR but a lot of things they do really never gets out to the masses. Employees knew from participating in activities and from just exisiting in a corporate culture that is plugged into giving. I can tell you from being on the inside, this is a company that is at least trying to be good.
Stuff Black People Like… should I write that blog? I’m a black man, but I won’t write it because this blog kinda makes me laugh and see things I would write anyway… mine would be more like “surprising stuff black people like.”
Stuff Black People Like… should I write that blog? I’m a black man, but I won’t write it because this blog kinda makes me laugh and see things I would write anyway… mine would be more like “surprising stuff black people like.”
Jon
http://www.interracialoasis.com
Yeah, I’m always amazed by the younger people who come in to my local watering hole. They all hate “corporations” but none of them realize that if they had their way and put them all out of business, they’d all be out of work and starving. I especially enjoyed hearing a local graffiti artist tell me that she “only hits corporate buildings”, as if she’s not hurting anyone. It was fun watching her struggle for words as I told her how much time and effort it took ME to remove the graffiti from the front of MY office down the road, and how all the tagging going on there was ruining my property’s value. She was so surprised to hear that actual people own corporations …
academics hate corporations
http://www.stuffacademicslike.com
The only MNC that you listed above that I hate is Wal-Mart. I rail against Wal-Mart, I campaign against Wal-Mart, I would LOVE to see them go bankrupt and defunct.
I’m pretty sure white people have started a lot of corporations that put other colored people to work in sweat shops. Isnt this interesting?
well, you did put the “star” in the name and not the “hyphen” which tells me your not a day over 28. Sam Walton started with “Walton’s 5 & 10” and later “wal-Mart” with a hyphen but after his passing in 1992 and the company moving purchasing to China the “hyphen” was drop and a “star” appear. If you think they care about China……your right….just go to their China web page and look….
quote****In China, as elsewhere, we follow the Wal-Mart tradition of building our business one store and one customer at a time. We strive to provide our customers with friendly service and a wide selection of quality products at Every Day Low Prices. With each Wal-Mart store we bring advanced retail know-how to the local market. By fostering a healthy, competitive environment, we hope to constantly improve our business operations and customer service in order to contribute to the prosperity of the local economy.
Wal-Mart firmly believes in local procurement. We recognize that by purchasing quality products, we can generate more job opportunities, support local manufacturing and boost economic development. Over 95% of the merchandise in our stores in China is sourced locally. We have established partnerships with nearly 20,000 suppliers in China. At Wal-Mart, we always work with our suppliers to grow together. In August 2007, Wal-Mart once again secured the top spot of the 2007 Supplier Satisfaction Survey conducted by Business Information of Shanghai. Additionally, Wal-Mart directly exports about US$9 billion from China every year. The export volume by third party suppliers is also estimated to be over US$9 billion….****end of quote
But if you look at the US web site….they say nothing about supporting American export are buying locally.
So! if they have 95% China items in the China stores and 70% in the USA stores that’s 82.5% China crap which only leaves 17.5% for the other 179 country’s including the USA.
Dang! they don’t even give the nice people of China a choice……that is sad!
Maybe you should ask South Korea and Germany why they kick their a!! out.
Towns need dollars and if a big block store like a Wal*Mart are Target take in $500,000 are more per day…all them ther dollars leave the town each and every day of the week.
Cheap crap didn’t make America great…..but the American people taking pride in their country and buying American made did!
Take the time to read “Grandfather Economic Report” series from A to Z by Michael Hodges and your have a new outlook that ain’t in what you wrote from above…..than read what Thomas D. Schauf wrote back in 1992.
It is general human nature to like something until the rest of the masses are exposed to it. It is kind of like that little indy band you love and then all of the sudden they become a huge pop hit. And now you hate them for their success because they are no longer your special little band that makes you unique in your music taste. Another example is at one time everyone loved Star Bucks in the NW until they became huge and then all of the sudden they are evil. We praise a business for their success, but if they become too successful then the people turn against them. White people sure are funny.
“Asian man in Idaho(a very white state)”
…….with your Star Bucks it had more to do with $4.56 cup of $0.89 cent coffee than get’n to big for their pants…..when the American people ain’t got 2 nickels to rub together and get’n worse sitting around in a coffee shop with a Apple laptop, a $5 cup and only $0.07 left in your pocket jus ain’t gonna work!
Pedro, my point exactly! Since corporations control everything anyway, lets just abolish the middleman (the government) and everything would be much more efficient.
The Rebel Sell: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebel_Sell
The Rebel Sell: http://www.harpercollins.ca/rs/excerpt.asp
Of course, the corporation-hating also extends to church-going. The more corporate it is, the more likely the people this site parodies are to avoid it.
The Vatican is, of course, one of the most hated brands for folks who like their religion a bit more personalized. But Baptists and the like are also fair game. Unitarian-Universalist is usually OK, because they talk about every religion there.
Yup, white folks love the “I’m spiritual but not religious” thing.
Shameless plug would be that I talked about that topic on my blog on March 3. Of course, I also talked about masturbation today and getting jiggy in late February, so those of you with more prurient tastes can find something too.
But, yeah, I’m guilty of hating on Wal-Mart and loving Target. Of complaining about Bill Gates while coveting an Apple notebook computer. So many white things I like…
😉
PB…..at $53 trillion in debt the government is the main man!
http://mwhodges.home.att.net/nat-debt/debt-nat.htm
this site is really just a list of things that most black people DONT LIKE.
not the other way around.
F minus.
http://www.garbarrassing.com
now there is a site that everyone would like…
so what does that mean, white people read more socially advancing, books then other races. or even suggest white people care about social injustice more then other races. I highly doubt that to be the case, i am tending to believe more that humans in general do all these things, and that most of you dont really know people of race, to see that others do that same stuff. it just so happens you mostly live in a whiter area.
I am white and lets just say Logo’s and name are everything.
I believe that if anyone or any color has created something,
Music, clothing, or any other product a name is great way of acknowledging who created it in the first place.
Target is a good store along with Ikea, Walmart, Sams Club, Macy’s, Abercrombie, you name it….
I am a strong believer in driving something that is reliable and something with a passion of design. I only buy German cars. Mercedes Benz, Audi or BMW.
Being an owner and designer of a Graphic Design Company I ONLY USE MAC!
Nothing wrong with big corporations. They just need to be aware of how they take care of their employees.
[as usual your blogs are ery amusing if not anything else]
r a d i o h e a d: is a god
what a way of marketing and selling something.
+ plus their music is incredible!
@ Mango Girl *swoon*
the cleverness of this cheers me up, i know every white person you speak of and on a couple occasions that has even been me.
Horse sh*t. Target and Ikea suck too.
Apple’s cool though
“controlling chaos”…..with all that names and logo stuff…if that be the case….why did they drop the “hyphen” from the Wal-Mart after Sam Walton passed away and put a big single star in that place…..moved the purchasing department to China bout the same time.
Sam Walton started with Walton’s 5 & 10 and later went to Wal-Mart with a hyphen cause he knew proper English!
Sadly a large portion of American whites aren’t truly radicalized enough to actually be anti corporate, or anti capitalist–although a lot of them ‘try’ to be, as it’s seen socially acceptable to do so (i.e. what is seen in this thread here… “walmart sucks! apple’s cool, though.”)… but they’ll still buy ipods and burger king.
There’s a lot of reasons to distrust corporate power. But no trendy bearded whitie “intellectual” is going to have actually read more than one book on it, I’m sure.
You got me again.
To be fair, I love Wal-Mart.
Maybe if I could afford to shop at places that have unions for their workers, then I would. But since I can’t, I don’t.
hahahaha. It’s fucking funny cause it’s true.
Lame.
Okay, this entry should thenceforth be called:
“Stuff Chomsky loving, stupid white materialist wannabe commi’s like..”
wow…this is me …I am an Irish White person and have read No logo ..and like Apple.. I guess white people are the same everywhere…..keep up the blog..
what about skiing ? I don’t ski, but it seems to be a white person thing
Don’t white people own all the corporations? Oh, I get it, THOSE white people….
Am I that transparent?!
this site should be called “stuff liberal white people like.”
I think the line about disliking only corporations that make stuff we don’t like is spot-on. I know SO MANY white people who would never go to Wal*Mart but who LOVE Target, when the only difference is the hip advertising!
@440
I think there’s a much bigger difference between Wal-Mart and Target than just the advertising.
Everybody should go here…
http://moveitmoveit.wordpress.com
White people may hate corporations but they love big returns on their mutual funds- which invest in multinationals.
I recall having a conversation about video games with an 18-Year old white kid. Rather than talking about favorite games, he rants about Microsoft’s evil ways. He claims, that the XBOX is evil because it has been trying so hard to dominate the competition.
I mean, sh*t, do white kids play video games just “for fun”, or what? This isn’t the only conversation I’ve had with a white person. Really annoying conversations. I don’t need someone preaching to me.
thats the truth tho
I was wondering when you were going to do grad school and hating corps. Awesome!
What about station wagons, or car companies that make station wagons? So many of the white folks in my gentrified ‘hood take their kids to private school in their vw, volvo, audi, saab, or subaru wagons so that they can show the parents with the land rovers just how much more cool and grounded they are. It starts young since most of them went through college and grad school driving their parent’s old volvo wagons. Also, I have never seen a non-white in a subaru outback.
no station wagons for my family. A 2007 Audi S4 sedan. Fast yet reliable and all wheel drive. [ great for trips to Vermont and Colorado: snowboarding!]
Gotta hate the LARGE GAS companies: they take the most of our money!
I guess I am the non whitest white person
I know of a lot of people like all your descriptions in these posts but almost all of them are not me!!
Frig the people agaisnt Walmart and Mcdonalds, I love them both~!~
The white folks in my gentrified neighborhood complain all the time when they see a new McDonald’s, Duane Reade or Rite Aid about to open. On the other hand, they’re always whining about how we don’t have a Barnes & Noble, Ikea or other similar store. We have nice small markets for cheese, fish, etc., but this is not good enough for them. They want Citarella.
I love this!
I don’t get any of this. I can name many “white” people who run these multinational corporations, e.g. Bill Gates.
Don’t white people run corporations.
This is so funny. I got in fights with this girl over wal-mart. The reason she did not like it was she felt that they sold stuff for to low of prices. So she would go to target. lol .
When I told her that some people may not me able to spend more money on thing she looked at me as if I was lying .
She also loved dogs , an at organic… but she smoked too.
the reason for hating wal-mart is that they don’t pay their employees enough to get by, and don’t give them health coverage. So, you can love Wal-mart all you want, so long as you know that they bring poverty to their employees.
But they do have some nice stuff tho! 🙂 maybe they could cut salary on these almost minimum wage employees so I can get more stuff On Sale!
Screw Them!
WHITEY NEEDS MORE CHEAP CRAP!!
🙂
My brother works at wal-mart and he does well . Besides his HMO. He also where a tie to work and does not have to a wear a vest, so many that is not really the same thing lol.
this blog is offensive because of the author’s stupidity, not because of the overtly racist content.
the commenters are pretty offensively stupid, too.
The corporation that whites find most politically correct to like is not Apple but rather Ben & Jerry’s.
Klein is probably one of the biggest fraudsters of the past ten years: her books have variously claimed logos are bad, we live in a “brandscape” (whatever that means), and that she has unearthed some dark force in the world called “disaster capitalism” (more like same old same old).
Lefty whites just LOVE Klein and see her as the intellectual second coming, but fail to probe deep into her background or check our her sincerity (they may not like what they find).
In the past two years it has become more clear that Klein is actually building the foundations for some attempt at mainstream politics (maybe as leader of Canada’s Liberal Party?). It would fit in well with her well-entrenched and cozy position in Canada’s elite networks and powerful backing from mainstream political forces. What you see ain’t what you see, know what I mean?
While you have every right to be humorous about whatever you’d like, you’re extremely ignorant of, well, the rest of the world, if you think that what you call “anti-corporatism” is a phenomenon restricted to rich, ignorant, hypocritical white people. If you think this then you’ve never heard of Cochabamba, or the World Social Forum… or really, just about every other “third world” political movement, now that I think about it.
This blog must be written by a college student, because this entry doesn’t really reflect reality. Adbusters has a circulation of 120,000. There are 200 million white people in the US. Surely if this magazine was so popular with white people it would have a hell of a lot more subscribers.
The fact is that most *white* Americans couldn’t give a rats ass about corporations and how much power they have. None of the white people I know have even heard of Adbusters. This site is usually really great, but this entry is totally off-base…unless you’re a college student surrounded by “hipsters” all day long.
“Published in 2000, No Logo has been responsible for more white person “enlightenment” than any book since the burning of the library at Alexandria.”
Possibly the greatest line of this entire blog!
love it.
i would add starbucks to the list that makes white people hypocrites.
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on March 9, 2008 at 5:45 pm462 sok
love it.
i would add starbucks to the list that makes white people hypocrites.
hahahahaha….that was fuckin funny…good call on the starbucks too
XD Graphic Design Class Flashback!!!
Thanks for this chapter, I needed it.
Alright, yeah, selective “anti-consumerism” is pretty lame white people behavior. But I hope that doesn’t mean that we’re gonna cheer-lead for advanced capitalism, does it?
THANK YOU FOR WRITING THIS BLOG Really, its amazing. Like you’re writing about my life in every detail (except that I would put a McCain ’08 sticker on my Prius – but, then again, I’m just subverting the political paradigm for extra street cred, because deep down, I’m just a Big Government Liberal like all other white people).
Is there any chance you could write a post on that temple to the white household, IKEA (noting that some white people like to use the proper Swedish pronunciation, ‘E-Kay-yuh’)
Seriously, you NEED to write a book, and sell it to white people in white people bookstores like Barnes & Nobel and Borders.
This is a gold mine. Seriously.
http://forums.pearljam.com/showthread.php?t=257066
I didn’t know you had to be white to hate corporations–but then again, you’re not a true radical until you’ve read Che!
Haha… My freind on the Facebook, just invited me to watch an “informational clip” about “stuff” – aka hating corporations (http://www.storyofstuff.com/) …. If this doesn’t confirm this post I don’t know what does
Oh yeah, forgot to mention that Apple is not the favorite WP Corp. It is actually Google. Yes, Al Gore’s buddies and the largest chunk of his piggy bank. Goog is even whiter than the Seattle Post Intelligencer.
Is there a What White Cos Like Blog? 😉
And while White people hate corporations – people like me just hate Naomi Klein (no logo). Then again, I went to uni with her so I have reason to.
Ok, I admit, I’m one of those white people that is not afraid to launch into a mini-speech about the evils of multi nationals corporations.
But I got turned onto the subject by a Philipino….so how does this factor into my ‘whiteness’?
Your guidebook should be a wiki!!! 😉
I was in Economics class the other day and i hear this white lady just slashing wal-mart about how they are fooling people about their low prices and how they dont have union and cheating their workers, yet how Computers revolutionized the world. Incredible how on point this blog is. Too funny, keep up the good work
I guess fester hasn’t met my cousin.
This is by far my favorite post!
This blog is everyone on stepituphardcore.com… to a tee.
It’s actually quite pathetic
I loooved No Logo.
I am also painfully white.
I must be extra extra white, because after bashing on McDonalds, Wal*Mart and Exxon, I still have enough vinegar left over to douse Apple and Target a little too… Actually, Apple is likely my #1 target. But that is more likely because I am a member of a competing cult (Linux). From a corporate behaviour standpoint, I really don’t see much difference between Apple and Microsoft. Well, that’s not quite true — Apple boasts about its superiority a lot more.
Well… they are.
What is sad is this: No Logo was just a pathetic collection of previously published crap Klein had written in the 90s. It wasn’t even some new stuff! She sprinkled some marketing fairy dust over the thing to make it look more than it is.
In a sense, it was the perfect example of the power of shallow marketing and design and logos. She hoodwinked the gentiles with aplomb.
Corporations are free to do anything they want because white people like criticising them.
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I was in Economics class the other day and i hear this white lady just slashing wal-mart about how they are fooling people about their low prices and how they dont have union and cheating their workers, yet how Computers revolutionized the world. Incredible how on point this blog is. Too funny, keep up the good work
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And you responded by telling her how uncool she was to bring it up right?
I am white and don’t hate corporations. what’s wrong with corporations? they employ people. yeesh. major stereotyping.
can you imagine if this blog existed, substituting the word “black” for “white”?
Large corporations can be a good thing. They create many jobs and make the dollar go a little bit further. Groceries and basic retail is normally a good choice to go with the big crops.
** On the negative side: People become a number instead of a name. Corruption and killing the small business guys is never a good thing.
the Gas corporations are the biggest takers to date.
[people need to remember PUBLIC transportation or commute to work] save money!
[ you should remove “WHITE” from your blogs, most if not all your writings apply to almost everyone and race that I know ]
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Wow. Yes. Hilarious. Provocative. Moving. Powerful…Actually it’s just funny as hell and so damn true. I hate trustafarians.
Dude, what channel are you watcing?! Most corporations are owned and run by WHITE PEOPLE! All the corporate bastards I see in the Financial District are WHITE PEOPLE! How come White People hate corporations if corporations seem to employ most of the white people I see and produce services and products consumed by stupid white people?! You got it all wrong! You website should be called “stuff that hipsters like” then I’d agree with you.
Love the site. Should be more accurately called “guilty white baby boomers who used to be hippies and are trying to relive the sixties while being voracious shallow consumers at the same time”.
For all you who can’t handle it-grow up dummies its called satire and you can handle it. There IS much funny to be seen in relentlessly blaming corps and using “documentaries” for all your info and justification for self-righteousness. Although I guess blaming corporations and supporting stupid campaigns like “go green” avoid any PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY….
WHITES LOVE EXXON!!!! But only because we are forced to.
Exxon pays so much in US income tax that they cover for the huge amounts of non-White (asians excluded), non-tax-paying masses. We couldn’t afford our welfare state without Exxon.
Those douche bag liberals that hate “Exxon” better understand that if that source of income disappeared the savages would be running wild and car-jacking their sorry asses!!!
see below for more info:
“Corporate profits receive a lot of media attention, but what receives considerably less attention are the corporate taxes paid on corporate profits. Do a Google search for “Exxon profits” and you’ll get about 8,000 hits. Now try “Exxon taxes” and you’ll get a little more than 300 hits. That’s a ratio of about 33 to 1.
I’m pretty sure that Exxon’s tax payment in 2007 of $30 billion (that’s $30,000,000,000) is a record, exceeding the $28 billion it paid last year.
By the way, Exxon pays taxes at a rate of 41% on its taxable income!”
THAT PAYS FOR SOME SERIOUS NON-WHITE ENTITLEMENTS!!
Eh, I wouldn’t agree with this at least for my town in Norman, Oklahoma.
All white people here love corporations and commercialism. =(
West coast thing maybe?
Yeah i’m wondering where all these corporate-hating white people are. I’m cool with those “white folks.”
This blogger seems to be referring to the more extreme, pretentious, poser crowd that wears everything about them on their sleeve. You know, people with lots of tattoos.
How that equates to “all white people” is beyond me, and really, not all that funny. Ho hum.
Sounds like another whiny internet conservative with some “liberal” friends. He learned the definition of those things in high school I bet.
“White people prefer to hate corporations that don’t make stuff that they like.”
Priceless.
hahahahaha, but remember its only the liberal, or moderates who hate corporations.
Read The Rebel Sell — it basically explains (and debunks) all the ‘countercultural’ stuff described here.
Oops, that link should actually be The Rebel Sell.
roo you don’t get out much. Watch any Michael Moore movie or listen to any conversation at a coffee house. I know plenty of people -without tatoos-who fit every one of these items. If theres any correlating factor its white, wealthy, baby boomer, obnoxiously self righteous-and wine drinking!
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0811,374064,374064,1.html/full-
David Mamet is no longer a ‘brain dead liberal’.
Oh my God, I didn’t want to admit I’m White but the bottles of water is ME!!! Too funny! I hate Walmart but I’m all about Target!! How about how white people hate to see blacks & whites together but they think mix children are the most beautiful thing ever???
The statement or claim that white people hate corporations is patently false, highly illogical and intentionally misleading since all leading European and American corporations are owned and operated by white folk via the European and US systems of corporate and capitalistic stockholding.
Most Europeans and Americans happily invest in and work for corporations while only a few malcontents like you and I complain about the inordinate amount of power they have been given over individuals like ourselves by other white people.
You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.
John 8:31
BWAHAHAHA good call on Apple.
hating corporations is basically cover for marxists (i.e. liberal jews) that hate the US and Western values.
What’s hilarious are the duped Whites that follow these anarchist kikes in hurting their own interests.
Let’s see the marxists target a jewish-owned company, and then maybe I’ll believe they are have one sliver of altruism.
Wake up duped liberal Whites. Look at who is leading you. Duh!
That’s it… you’re my hero!
Good work
You should add that White People also like to feel like they are the new minority in the world. Especially older white folks, but that may not be your demographic. Corporate marketing has diversified to make all consumers, no matter what their colour or creed, seek the “good life”. It is funny that white folks, often employed by these corporations, rage against the very thing that has brought them a lifestlyle that allows them to enjoy a Starbucks Frappucino while wearing a Columbia fleece etc… Just a thought. You should also add that white people love documentaries and pretending to care for the Environment that their grandparents destroyed and parents continue to destroy.
when it comes to dissection, you’re a genius
white people like generalizing
white people like masturbating
white people like contradictions
Anonymous, spew your hate elsewhere. Some of the richest people in the world are Arabs, and Bill Gates and Warren Buffet aren’t Jewish.
I do hate almost all corporations.
Hey, what about Google? And what about fashion designers and their fancy labels? The kind of white people you talk about love those things!
#504 Hey David
Communism is Jewish to the core. That’s not hate, it’s history.
So funny, did you see all the hate mail the magazine Fast Company (Jan 2008?) received when they suggested that Apple may be less than perfect as a corp? What you say here is true.
I have friends who won’t go to Starbucks but will go to Second Cup, or won’t go to McDonalds but will eat at Wendy’s. Yes, they are in fact white.
I’m just realizing how pasty-white I truly am… Time to go fake n bake.
I like the fact that white people like to support small independent companies. I do not think that all corporations are bad though. Starbucks for example has done alot of developement in the countries that they obtain their coffee and tea. I do not know if they are perfect, but they make attempts, which is more then other companies. Thier brand water “Ethos” helps bring fresh water to villages in Ethiopia.
-Candy
http://www.beautyjar.com
i jst picked up my first copy of adbusters and thought to myself, this is pretty cool. white people watch out.
i’m a bicultural (mexican/american) girl from orange county. but after reading your blog, i’ve found out i’m the whitest girl ever. “no logo?” seriously? dead on. can’t wait to read more!
gotta love those sweeping generalizations.
“The archetypal white-person store is actually the sort of indie-hipster place that sells a careful selection of hip women’s ballet flats (all about $100), retro or 60s dresses, linen shirts (again, with $80-$150 hand-written price tags), soaps and bath products with clever ironic girl-power slogans on them (around $20), a basket of organic single-source bean chocolate, usually from Vermont, and a selection of erudite-ironic-funny greeting cards and little books or postcards with 1950s women saying feminist things on them. The person staffing the store will be white, have darkened hair, and a few subtle tattooes. Nobody needs to ask which corporation made the products, because the high prices are testament enough to the fact that they must be “ethical.””
OMG Where is that store — I love it already– esp the hand printed labels made from recycled paper with leaves in it [ I hope!].
on March 6, 2008 at 5:11 am102 whiteymcwhite
“i think bob marley should def be added to this list..he’s one of the safest black people for white people to adore”
Bro, have you heard of Will Smith? HE is the safest black person to adore, followed by Danzel Washington and last but not least Lenny Kravitz.
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.
Y’all are running out of ideas huh?
It was actually a bunch of chinese kids who showed me adbusters and the white people I work for would be pissed to know that people are against multi-national corporations
In my experience it should be white people like corporate stuff.
Yes, I shop at Ikea for the cheapo furniture. And I recognize it as cheap. But they have nice styles for their cheapness. However, their shit is fragile and sometimes borders on worthless.
I don’t own and probably never will buy an Apple computer – I don’t see the sense in buying one, save for people who absolutely need Mac-only software like Final Cut Pro and Digital Performer. Other than that, Apple computers are in no way “better” than Windows PCs, save for all the little things which Windows always gets wrong and Apple always gets right. These little things are not worth the $1500 extra I have to pay for a Quadcore 3.2ghz with 4GB ram and Nvidia 8800 card, though…
I go to Target, but I hold no love for it. Some good prices now and then, and they’re pretty much the only store in a near vicinity which carries my favorite candy – a super big bag of Reese’s Pieces. 🙂
…..and you suckers will never stop our corporations.
We import every little chinese item made and we could care less about lead paint or any White Gentile’s whining.
You will now go out an buy a diamond too. Suckers.
By the criteria used here at Stuff White People Like, Democrats are whiter than Republicans.
I think the “Wal-mart: bad/evil, Target: good” philosophy stems not just from some anti-corporate sentiment, but also good ole left leanings. Wal-mart sells guns but (usually) not birth control. Target sells the latter and not the former.
Hello…
About the only thing interesting you mentioned was the tendency whites (oh, and I know this asian guy that likes to wear sweaters that doesnt like corporations either!) to “hate” some corporations but still remain devoted to others, like apple et al.
Even if every person in the world isn’t a sociologist that critiques corporatism or educates others on one or two issues out there (not exactly a bad thing), it certainly beats sitting on your apathetic ass crying about others crying about what is wrong in the world.
But that is a side effect of capitalism. It breeds complacency and contempt for those that diverge from the common path, the shaped herd mentality.
You are right, though, corporatism is more complex than a simple matter of “good” and “bad” brand names. In the not so distant future we will realize (once again) the importance of supporting your local community and economy when the wheels of the machine start to break down.
“hating corporations is basically cover for marxists (i.e. liberal jews) that hate the US and Western values.
What’s hilarious are the duped Whites that follow these anarchist kikes in hurting their own interests.
Let’s see the marxists target a jewish-owned company, and then maybe I’ll believe they are have one sliver of altruism.
Wake up duped liberal Whites. Look at who is leading you. Duh!”
What a deluded clown. But you know I think its trendy to critique white people. On the other hand it is useful to do it when taking into consideration power dynamics and historical racism; neither of which this site takes into consideration.
Perfect! I like the twist with Target, IKEA and Apple at the end. LOL!
How can white people hate Corporations when they run them? Is that self hate?
#500 and #524
hating corporations is basically cover for Marxists (i.e. liberal jews) that hate Western values.
I think there’s plenty of truth there…..Jews have always been leaders in communism and trade unionism, still are today. How is that deluded?
Every time you see a communist booth or an anti-corporation booth at a book/street fair it’s manned by a leftist Jew, is it not?
Building on the adbusters theme, I am reminded too of the backlash against antidepressants because for WP if you take them you are a tool of the corporations.
Good white people take themselves off antidepressants *that often actually improve their quality of life* for the simple reason that they hate the idea of depending on a corporation [never mind your cigarettes].
#528 Excellent observation.
I’m so tired of reading people who put all these qualities into one frame: granola-eating, pot-smoking, organic-purchasing, lesbian liberals, right? We must be doing it because we think we’re better than everyone else. Jesus Christ. Or because were trying to be hip. I don’t give a shit about being hip or being better than anyone. I’ll live as a bum if it would support my cause. What is this annoying attitude towards us?
Corporations would be great, if the profit motivation did not trump EVERY OTHER FUCKING THING, including the well-being of humans, animals, and the environment. Corporations are a legal person, and for this reason they could actually be diagnosed as psychopathic. I don’t support any corporations who pump out their products with this short-term gain being the end all, be all of their company.
Of course, ironically, the grand majority of multinational corporations are owned and operated by, you know, white people.
Wait! White people love Whole Foods..oh nevermind.
Fools. You people are a joke and I that if you hate corporations you shouldn’t work for them or buy from them. Go to your co-op college campus grocery stores and stop whining. You give liberals a bad name. Nevermind. Liberals giver liberals a bad name.
The title of this blog really needs to be changed to “Stuff Liberals Like”.
This list mainly describes anyone that lives in the upper class part of any city in the US or even other countries (not necessarily white). There are a few things on here that are true about white people in general (asain women–of course guys think they are hot, even some women do), expensive coffee (not me personally, but I am sure there is one chain that thanks the Lord we love exp coffee).
However, there are a few other things white people like:
hunting
fishing
rebel flags
frog giggin
tx country music
muddin in trucks & on 4 wheelers
swimming in the pond
bonfires
cold beer (domestic)
OK, I could go on, this is really a list of what “country folk” enjoy.
Also, I think it is more fun to read what people comment on than to read the entire list………
This site should be called …
“What White Liberal People Pretend To Be Because They Want To Be Accepted By Their White Liberal Social Groups”.
Me and my dad were talking about (and i’m gonna just go ahead a say it) ‘liberal’ white people’s curious hatred for Wal-Mart but love for Target, and we concluded that liberal white people claim to be for the poor but just don’t want to have to see them. Escpecially in the next aisle.
Just came back from working in north Louisiana. Boy were those people white! They even tell you so in general conversation. I was in what they called the “Vanilla City” Though funny, none of the “likes” on this blog apply to these white Louisianans. In fact, the white people with the preferences listed here are considered worse than the non-whites living in the “Chocolate City”. “Yep, that college kid’ll make some might fine gator food. Better than a N***** since he’s all soft an tender.” Now there’s is a true white person
Regarding Noami Klein and Adbusters. I Highly recommend “The Rebel Sell”. The authors tackle a lot of the absurd ideas of the well meaning, but less than stellar thinkers on the “progressive agenda” They rip Noami a new one, especially when she cries about her Bohemian neighborhood getting a little less exclusive. The authors are Canadian also.
I started my own business and now I’m the itty-bitty evil corporation. Please don’t hate me.
Wow,
All these white people you live around must be a bunch of West Coast commie pinko yuppie scum. Gay friends? hatred of corporations? lovely dinner parties? Where are the usual stereotypes of the white population as rednecked religious right freaks? Since most of the white population is in the midwest/south I find your blog a little disconnected from all the white people i see.
However, when I lived in California, yeah thats them.
hmm. Interesting. My conclusion, there is not really any “white” culture just as there is no “asian” culture (which is a really laughable one… “uhhh we are just gonna lump everybody from the continent together yeah that’ll work). there is “black” culture, but then again they are one of the oldest contiguous ethnic groups that has retained efficacy inn this country.
“Seriously, you NEED to write a book, and sell it to white people in white people bookstores like Barnes & Nobel and Borders.”
As opposed to the black, asian, latino, ect. bookstores? what are these called I wonder. idiot
I read No Logo. I liked it. It made me aware of how gosh-darned competent the capitalists are. Look at their flexibility and adaptability! They can go into any environment, even one that seemed profoundly hostile to them, and come out with a way to profit from it.
It made me, um, actually like and admire the capitalists.
And isn’t the irony beautiful? If you look at No Logo’s visual design, you will see that it has, um, a logo. And a graphic design.
The design was very carefully presented to appeal to a target audience of other graphic designers, artists, illustrators, etc – the exact audience she knew would be most interested in her message.
In other words, Naomi Klein is just another capitalist, a highly capable one. She designed and tailored her book to a specific audience. I remember that my copy was beautifully printed, on thick, creamy paper. It looked fantastic. It was designed to.
Can we really trust an anti-capitalist capitalist?
I think her book is a very effective argument for all the admirable parts of capitalism.
Come to think of it, I wonder where the creamy paper came from and where it was printed …
D
Must buy Northface jacket at REI.. But I hate them, Argh, I’m turning into a pirate!
You really mean liberal white people.
How can you say “we” hate Microsoft, you probably wouldn’t have this blog if we didn’t, also most of your on-lookers wouldn’t be able to see it!
Corporations suck! Especially if they provide you with a job or a product. I keep trying to buy an independent car- and I want it to be locally sourced. The only thing I could find was a fire truck or a sprint car. For the whiter among us, Sprint cars are open-wheeled dirt track race cars.
I came to post a comment and it was already said by Billy Bob in comment number 544. Its the same thing with the gay friends thing, and the soccer thing, but I did laugh b/c I say I’m a fan of the tottenham Hospurs from north London. yeah, Study abroad. I never claim to be into soccer, or to know anything about it except for who David Becham and Ronaldo are. As for Saint Patrick’s Day, You were right on. But no, I’ll never claim to be Irish. Just one day a year, and everyone is. Even Iraqis.
Not Just liberals, I am a Con but hate bonuses for execs that are failing, or corporations geting involved in cultural or political activities. Theres something to hate for everyone.
this is more of a youth (specifically imaginative-schematic immaturity) phenomenon than it is a white one. 21st century free-ish trade and the high-density meshwork of capital is difficult to map. it does not help that NPR voices are saying we have entered a second “guilded age,” because then we misrecognize the uniqueness of capital formations, and mistake them for 19th century monopolies. there once was a world of corporate bad guys–ayn rand worships them–you could point to self-righteously and name as cruel and avaricious, just as there once was a political world of iron-willed autocrats–that only marginally persists today in Belarus, Uzbekistan, Burma…–but counting Saddam and Milosevic, that list of decidedly oppressive deciders has shrunk almost as much as the greedy captains of industry. in fact the most recognizeable captain of industry alive, Bill Gates, is indisputably the world’s greatest philanthropist. young people need the Scrooge MacDuck narrative just as much as attacked americans need “evil doers.” we need somebody hiding under our bed or in our closet, whether it is the CEO of Walmart or Dick Cheney or this Cleric or that Imam. it is hard to give that up. the crusade against [X]. without it you move ever closer to a Beckett-ian world of zero-degree protagonists and hallucinatory antagonists, total stasis. some philosophers believe violence or the possibility of opposition is the a priori condition not only for action but for intentionality and meaning itself. An enemy or an antagonized hodological space may be inevitable for everyone, but if people grow up and read decent newspapers they will learn that one cannot “be” anti-capitalist or corporate, maybe in a few hundred years there might be a fundamentally new set of rules for exchange and in that case people will “be” something else, but it is not by their own decision or posturing. more people should read Hegel and Marx and Gadamer (and maybe braudel and wallenstein), they might be able to historicize their thoughts and actions and better understand the natural limits of their efficacy.
“more people should read Hegel and Marx and Gadamer (and maybe braudel and wallenstein), they might be able to historicize their thoughts and actions and better understand the natural limits of their efficacy.”
Listen to this guy….going on and on. “historicize this, I’m a leftist unintellectual that…..” Let’s keep it simple:
Shut up jew. Adolf Hitler had the German economy humming while the USA was mired in deep depression, and we all know what a loser Judeo-bolshevism turned out to be, on all fronts, not just economics.
bolshevik translates “new party.”
Hegel is a Lutheran. i could not vouch for Gadamer’s religious background, but if Nazis make you all warm and tingly, he was Heidegger’s pupil–Heidegger the rector of Friedburg and the pride of Nazi intelligentsia, cheated on his wife with jewish existentialist Hannah Arendt.
yes Karl Marx is a jew, a highly misunderstood German Jew who has nothing to do with Russia’s ludicrous experiment.
the reich government was not responsible for a population and land mass as large as the continental US. it also had a wealth of coal and iron ore deposits. it also had petroleum from north africa and bavaria-baltic states. it also had, until 1933 and 37′ emmigrations, jewish scientists and engineers.
what started america’s deep depression? wallstreet wasps, washington bank deregulators also wasps, NY federal reserve chairman also a big wasp.
FDR is a wasp, like Hoover no? Since when is Federalism the same thing as judaism?
is there corn where you are?
or is it Korn?
I would trust anyone with a copy of Adbusters on his (modern) coffee table.
Obfuscation. You just cannot bring yourself to give credit to where it’s due.
Maybe the wasps should have followed the fuhrer’s lead too? and avoided what they and jews collectively did do that resulte in depression for 10 years? Is that your point? What is your point?
To suggest that the US was at a disadvantage with regards to size and resources is not merely revision, but an outright falsification.
Just admit it, you are a jew. It’s totally obvious.
I always wanted to be Jewish. You know, so I could be like Einstein, Feynman, Oppenheimer,etc. Then I wanted to be black, you know, like Jordan, Rice, Shak, etc. Truth is I’m stuck being white, Like George Sr., George Jr, Dan Quayle, Cheny, Rumsfeld, David duke……I feel so sad.
So many of these people would whine and complain about the actions of major corporations and turn a blind, almost willfully ignorant eye to the actions of their government. They turn from one to condemn another, but don’t figure the consequences of removal or regulation of these companies and the tens of thousands of jobs that would be lost, benefits cut, pensions depleted, and a general downpull in the economy. However, these people are too busy and/or lazy to protest the government which has tankered the U.S. economy, dragged the people unwillingly into a war for money, handed out favors to countless lobbyists, lined the pockets of Dick Cheney from war profiteering, and brought the U.S. on the brink of a nuclear war with Iran. The ignorance of some people makes me sick.
When AT&T illegally sold American’s phone records to the government, that was pure corporate evil that must be stopped.
When Apple made its iPhone exclusive to AT&T (in the US), that was enlightened, progressive thinking that must be supported.
YOU ARE SO SO RIGHT…one of your best to date…although the living by a body of water one got me too…keep up the good work…
Let’s make fun of people who challenge the corporate power that is destroying our democracy, economy, and the very foundation of our personal interactions. Hooray for monopolies, hooray for the return of 60 hour work days and child labor, hooray for being paid with coupons to the company store. Let’s pick at the inconsistencies of some to dismiss the truthfulness of the entire message.
We need more of these sites to teach white people to not be in solidarity with their own poor people and poor people of color…more sites to teach white people to promote the interests of the rich…more sites that promote corporate culture. This site is garbage.
Jeremy,
“coupons to the company store” You mean to iTunes? Where can I apply? Should I waive my right to minimum wage before or after the drug test?
the thermodynamic arrow cannot be reversed jeremy. there will be no turn of the century Harlan county coal miner company store within the 21st century.
just like there wont be a big union, big labor, strong, IWW, strong communist party a la 1930s America in the 21st century.
FDR wont come back as a zombie.
Neither will EUGENE DEBBS… nor has he been reincarnated as Ralph Nader.
HISTORY IS AN IRREVERSIBLE DIALECTIC.
Even Bill Gates does not get to influence the vection of civilization and the logic of exchange.
National borders will continue to grow more superfluous, capital and labor forces more liquid. There is nothing worth protesting here.
cumbersome, centrally regulated corporations are the last structural vestige of the 19th and 20th century economies of scale, and will eventually fall to smaller, fleeting, goal-specific entities.
the marketplace eventually warmed up to global warming, and green technology, thirty years too late mind you, but sadly, it had nothing to do with ‘awareness’ festivals and everything to do with agrobusiness, subsidies, the loss of Caspian Sea drilling concessions, the ravenous apetite for fossil fuels in India-China, and Prius sales.
rauccitron,
The first part of you post was fine, but the remainder must be descrining another planet somewhere – and I suspect that planet lies somewher in the la-la land down the the west and south sides of that bay in California – whith a sister colony called Northern Virginia.
More resources are being concentrated in fewer hands at a faster rate, and in larger corporate entities than ever before – just drive down any suburban strip.
And in accordance with the dialectic, it will all eventually collapse under the weight of it’s contradictions – even if not quite in the way Marx or Debs envisioned.
What green technology? I see none on TV, just slick ads for SUV’s and local slick propaganda ads from the Consol Coal Corporation – one of just three coprporations that over the past few years have bought up all the coal around here, which wil be needed to power all those big plasma TV, built by 2 or 3 corporations, blaring forth mind numbing crap manufactred by just 5 corporations.
This site has been devised to perpetuate the whole smear campaign of the US left as rich snobs – and drive a huge wedge between and black and white workers.
So I am to assume that poor black people, and rich ones too, like most Howard U graduates, LOVE big corporations, and they HATE things that help the working class like living wage ordinances. Do you her me Dr. Rev. Simms, Ms. Mcdonald-Roberts, and Ms. Carlisle (from your jail cell)?
I find it funny and ultra white that people think the internets are serious bizness especially on a blog like this.
I’ve noticed a lot of these things only apply to liberals. I do love this site though
Rev WHITE he-ah f’um da Trinity United AME-COGIC-Pentecostal Freewill Community Friendship Missionary Baptist Congregational Church o’ da Brotherhood o’ da Af’ican Oppressed and Po’ (’cuz o’ whitey). Da onlies’ reezin dat whitey be hait’n on all dem big ol’ co’perations is because dat’s whe-ah owa Shaniquas and Mahliquas get deys paychecck. We all seen dem be-yutimus ebony skinned gawdesses workin’ da checkout line at da WAL-mahts, when some white debil tryin’ to make it on da back o’ owa people staht rollin’ dey eyes and sayin’ sump’n like: ‘Excuse me. But is there someone in charge here? I’d like to speak to the manager, please. Hm? You, chop–chop. I don’t have all day. I HAVE to get these orange slices to Trevor’s soccer practice.” Yeh, but whut whitey don’t no is dat Trevah’s down behine da ‘cession stan’ smokin’ crack wid’ Jamal. An den’ when he git Jamal hooked on dem drugs, Jamal ain’t got no choice but to go to lootin’ an’ burnin’ an burglerin’ jus to supo’te da drug habit dat whitey done pushed on him. Sho!!! Jamal wind up in da penatench’ry doin’ fifteen yee-ah’s, while da white debil Trev-ah be sittin’ on da parole board sayin’, “I’m sorry Jamal, but you must serve your complete sentence. We can’t have you out on the streets to father a section 8 house full of illlegitimate children that you won’t take care of.” No suh. Nah you no’s das da truth!! An den’ whitey be closin up all da WAL-mahts in owa nay-buh-huuds ‘. Sho!!! An’why? Jes’ ‘cauz owa young mens has gone an’ jined a gang an’ nobody wants ta’ shop on owa streets no mo’. Dey’s say ’tain’t safe no mo. Well, ah’m sor’y mistah white debil WAL-maht. Da white debil dun th’owd down da gauntlet. Sho!!! Ah’s callin’ fo’ da ova’tho ub the WAL-KKK-mahts, da MAC-g*****n-donel’s ‘n’ aw dem uda whitey institooshuns. Dey dun helt da black man down long enough, Sho!!!
I’ve worked for environmental non profits, homeless non profits and a very popular hippie brand. Some of the fraud, embezzlement, and outright thievery I’ve seen is horrible.
It seems that when people have already found the enemy (corporate America) they feel completely justified in doing whatever immoral thing enriches them.
My experience has not made me like Wallmart any more but I certainly don’t trust progressive businesses just because they can throw up some stupid cliche about the environment. When I asked about some indiscrepancies in the accounting at one environmental group my boss told me.
“You must hate the environment.”
As soon as anyone asks too many questions about salaries, the marketing material, or what happened to that grant money they simply call you a Republican or George Bush.
“Question authority. Just don’t question ours.”
Hey Michael now you know what it’s like for a conservative to question Global warming. You get the proverbial, “so you must be for dirty air or dirty water” or “you don’t care about the environment”.
Truth is we do care about the environment but we won’t be suckered into more regulation, more taxes and guilt on a hoax
I hate corporations. I mean, all they do is employ millions of people, invest billions into research and development, contribute to the well-being of the average person’s life in too many ways to mention, and help provide for the future retirement for the millions of people who own stock in them. I mean, other than those relatively minor things, corporations totally–ya know–suck and stuff. Oh, and they–what is it?–“rape and pillage the earth.” Yeah, that’s it.
Look at me I’m White and Nerdy
I L O V E Being WHITE !!!
One of the biggest jew propaganda ploys that works on dumb Whites is the “a portion of our proceeds are given to _______ reserach” (breast cancer, or whatever) marketing ploy.
Nobody ever audits these Heebs now do they? It’s a typcial business marketing scam. Jewish corporations are really big on the “green” bandwagon also. Yeah, they are really fooling people!! Like Gore they all have huge environmental footprints and so do their companies.
You will find more corruption and deceit in the so-called ‘progressive left’ third sector of charities and ‘green’ businesses, than you find in mainstream corporations. Nobody has noticed the explosion in so-called NGOs over the past fifteen years, and how many get away with anything because nobody checks them out and just takes their word that they are doing something good for the world.
The reality is something else. Just like Naomi, they take government money and travel the world, stay in nice hotels, bonk each other, and feed off of poverty and misery while never raising the elephant in the room: poverty and misery increases when the NGOs move in, whereas when the free market is allowed to create jobs and discipline the workforce, prosperity is the result.
This website is hysterical. White people like is acting disenfranchised.
They go on and on about the “system” being corrupt. While their parents and grandparents set it up that way to ensure they are so prosperous that they can bite the hand that feeds them
wrong kind of white people? I guess that’s the non-Jews.
When engaging in a conversation about corporate evils it is important to NEVER, EVER mention Apple Computers, Target or Ikea in the same breath as the companies mentioned earlier. White people prefer to hate corporations that don’t make stuff that they like.
^^ LOLOLOLOLOL
wp. best wishes to this site.
You will find more corruption and deceit in the so-called ‘progressive left’ third sector of charities and ‘green’ businesses, than you find in mainstream corporations.
Well stated.
Dude you are right – as a white Gen-Xer, I even go a step further – I think Apple is a scam and love/hate Target, Walmart and Costco. But, yeah, Ikea is great!
Also, I don’t watch TV. Have you done a blog post on that yet? You could talk about internet and netflix replacing tv, maybe even projectors and watching stuff on your computer if that’s not too geeky for the white mainstream (hey I live in S.F. 😉
To all the White people here…its good that your laughing at yourselves cause so much of this shit is true…But really…you dont Need to feel the pressure to degrade yourselves by writing how much you love these blogs because you feel you deserve the punishment after all the Horrible things White people have done to other races in the past and now… You DO realize that we arent the Only race who has been racist right??
I hope you realize that this site IS very funny AND extremely Rascist at the same time ??? I KNOW some of you are just Taking it because you have never expereinced racism before, dont know how to handle it…Wake up!! You dont Have to think its funny because its true.
Just let the Author be….leave the site alone…he obviously needs to work through his superficial egotistical mind and figure out that none of this really matters anyways. He really just needs to get a life.
At this point everything is corporate and made in China by 4th graders in sweatshops who work 16 hour shifts 7 days a week. The only way to fight it is to join the Amish.
I shall use this information as a guide book to understand white people better. Perhaps I could use it to score with white chicks. “Successful business is evil! Except for Ikea.”
this cuts to my core.
bug off. I love turning down these types, it makes my day.
there are fewer and fewer positions of decision and agency. the meshwork is too dense. what makes matters worse is the 20th century was filled with spectacularly RESPONSIBLE VILLAINS. Evils could be traced to orders issuing from a single decider.
why the media has such a crush on bin laden is he makes us all nostalgic for identifiably guilty men and the possibility of guilt itself.
he is a transitional character for a world that still wants to hang the badguy, yet has to face the fact that the world towards which they are irrevocably heading is one where “bad” and “guy” have been deconstructed and disseminated into oblivion.
Corporate officers are barely individuated egos, let alone “bad” or “greedy” ones. they are optimization machines working in a game logic that motivates other optimization machines of equal, lesser, or greater size.
What about white food? White people like to think they will eat anything, but when left to their own devices, will usually default to white food (possibly with some 2008 culinary trend incorporated).
What is white food?
Dear green tea,
You are clearly exhibiting a love of irony, as white people probably also like green tea.
I’m very disappointed this post doesn’t mention ‘corporate greed’. After all, everyone knows that it’s not really people that are greedy, it’s corporations. I’m telling Ralph Nader. He’ll show ya, when he wins this year’s election!
Actually, most people in the world outside of the U.S. like Chomsky – at least those who have heard of them. The percentage of the white population that likes Chomsky is probably significantly smaller than the non-white population.
White People also like VOLUNTEERING.
Aids Walks, Charity Events, Auctions, etc.
AND they like running/walking/biking races where they can raise money for a cause (breast cancer, etc).
They also like sending a link to a site that has their profile, name, race, and a button that you can click to donate money to sponsor them in their race.
Companies also like this idea and sometimes even match the employees contribution to whatever charity…
It’s funny because it’s true. Some white folk (mentally deficient liberals mostly) love to bemoan the evils of “corporations”. Nevermind that corporations employ most of the people working in the private sector. That’s just lefty logic for you; they love employment but hate employers.
“Costco…apparently bribed a city council to condemn a church, just to expand their parking lot, but you never hear them get the flak Wal•Mart gets!”
Because to many white people, demolishing a church–particularly one belonging to either Roman Catholicism or Evangelical Christianity–isn’t necessarily a bad thing; rather, it represents social evolution away from the backward superstitions of the past. Now, if Costco had sought to demolish a mosque or a Buddhist temple, then many white people would consider them to be just as bad as Wal-Mart for attempting to suppress local diversity.
I like free samples at the deli section in the local grocery store!
I like to hate sleazy right-wing hypocrites like tom delay and larry craig.
I like animals and plants of every shape and variety except for some insects which frighten me. I know it’s wrong but I am overwhelmed by their alien creepiness and ghastly mandibles.
I like getting hammered.
From what I can gather from your comment, I can say that if you weren’t a conservative reality-denier, you’d have realized that there is no “left” in America, and that the only acceptable form of political idealogical spectrum compatible with democracy and freedom, is between that of market conservative and market liberal. Both ends of the spectrum are very destructive.
Both parties are market liberal in America. One is market liberal to the detriment of democracy and freedom (and fiercely against democracy in such terms as privacy and bodily sovereignty), however.
Guess which one…
“There’s nothing complex about it: Coca Cola either are paying paramilitaries in Columbia to kill union members or they aren’t.”
Umm…they’re not.
HOWEVER, it has been proven beyond a reasonable doubt that Ben and Jerry’s is helping to fund the murder of Israeli civilians by funneling money to Hamas through intermediaries.
But of course what’s a few more dead Jews, right?
Karl,
Wal-Mart appeals to lower class white folks who white people do not want to be associated with. So by having a bumper sticker that says “I hate Wal-Mart” you say: 1) I am white 2) I am better than you.
I love Italy too, it’s full of Italians just like New York. Your welcome too for our defense of Italy and the West while you and your countrymen and women sit around all dressed up eating great food, drinking wine, smoking cigs and designing great cars that don’t sell.
Heh heh–exACTly. Ironic detatchment–so White.
Sad but true, I have a huge crush on Naomi Klein and her sexy books
BOOGA JEWGA BOOGA!
SHUT UP!!
DeBeers is the most wicked Jewish corporation there is, and thre are plenty.
“getting hammered”
LOL!!!
Cheers!
I hope I can get AdBusters in Canada because I am soooo moving there if McCain wins.
You probably sucked at school. Probably white.
It could get tricky. I don’t think your average honest American person is going to vote for a guy with a Black nationalist wife and Black supremacist spiritual advisor. You watch.
Fucking Canadian.
you do not have to hate corporate officers to recognize that the stock/profit maximization logic of shareholders, securities managers, hedge and bridge fund banks, and the secondary bond market is fundamentally flawed.
autocatalytic feedback loops of capital gains function according to a non-human game logic; this logic perpetuated the US housing bubble for ten years, and made hundreds of seven and eight figure millionaires in the process.
i cannot say whether this is good or bad. it is simply the american protestant entrepeneurial spirit. or something embedded in human consciousness, in the individuated ego?
basically at this point the global economy is too complex to be understood as a whole, even by economists. i respect the efforts made by world systems theorists and jacques attali, but ultimately the machine and its power plant is beyond comprehension.
And…back to irony
From what I can see you have not read number 81 on this list
What most don’t realize is that most of these “independent” stores are actually subsidiaries of larger corporations. The corporations just don’t make it known. When you’re shopping at Jack’s Hardware store, thumbing your nose at Wal Mart, who do you think is laughing all the way to the bank? I got news for you, ya’ pussy-ass liberals, it ain’t Jack!
Ahhh yeah sukah, my nigga Tom.
http://cooperationcorporation.blogspot.com/
Some other items crucial to white life.
Granite counter tops.
Per diem
Pills, perks, vikes, valums, viagra, midols, the pill.
on demand abortions.
Connections, back stabbing, ratting the way to success.
BJs -escorts, strippers.
being wonderful and important.
“When engaging in a conversation about corporate evils it is important to NEVER, EVER mention Apple Computers, Target or Ikea in the same breath as the companies mentioned earlier. ”
Haha, you forgot Starbucks and Nordstrom’s
I’m white and I love corporations. Without them and most of us would be living in a cave.
You forgot to mention that a lot of corperate haters are the children of fourtune 500 CEO’s.
Also while all of the posts are quite funny and true, this blog really is of, by and for the type of privleged, liberal, urban, “progressive” white people who live in sterile little bubbles and should just float away.
Okay, I know, it’s Fortune 500.
And if that struck a nerve … read on.
exactly, so why don’t you fuck off you racist fuck? it’s for white people, not for unemployed crack-head ghetto pieces of shit who whine about white privilege in a desperate bid to make themselves feel better.
Does the kind of Stuff White People Like include things like
Truth, Justice, and Equality?
http://www.survival-international.org
Wrong on all counts, but thanks for even more proof that priv.lib.urb.progs know nothing of the world outside of their bubble.
White people do like green tea, but for the whitest of white it’s gotta be organic all the way: either fair trade or locally produced.
I’m sorry sir, the people you must be referring to are most likely what we call”white trash”. That is a whole different story or blog, of course. Would you mind filling us in on their, excuse the expression, finer points? In other words, what kinda stuff do white trash people like? Certainly not dentists or soap, I would imagine. Of course I’m just imagining.
I am white. I can’t help it. I LOVE!!!! Wal-mart. Where else can you go to get milk, underwear, car stuff, contact lenses, your hair and nails done and get your picture made…………….oh and the bank….
I live in Texas. The only thing we hate is liberal minded fascist tripe.
Oh, and Mexicans.
Oh, and the government.
Oh oh oh- and people north of the Mason-Dixon or west of New (smells better than Old) Mexico. Nothing but liberal wack-job know-nothing idiots.
ps-come near me and I’ll shoot you
more me
Umm… do you really believe that this blog is “by and for” “priv.lib.urb.progs (which abbreviation, by the way, I love)?” Can you not see the irony, sir! It’s pretty clear to me that the authors of this site have nothing but contempt for the type of “white people” about whom they’re writing. The blog is a negative commentary on the elitism of white people, not an endorsement thereof (or, you know, it’s just really funny and we should all stop over analyzing it).
Just stirin’ the pot Jimbo. I think it adds to the funny!!
Heed, do you live in your mother’s basement and “get away” with keeping a bong there?
Oh, and people who drive Volvos…..
Wait…. I drive a Volvo… Nevermind……
Ok… I hate me too.
better if it’s green chai tea.
For your information, I plan to avoid working for anything but a small company where i personally know the person in charge because i dislike big multinational corporations.
To more precisely characterize this blog, you should change the title to “Stuff White Liberals Like” or “Stuff Jews Like.”
I’m white and I have no problem with corporations – it’s survival of the fittest!
Mark Zuckerberg CEO and Founder, Facebook passed the buck!!!
I know a child who was distraught after being subjected to cyber-bullying through Honesty Box. I emailed my concerns to Mark Zuckerberg, CEO and Founder of Facebook.
http://www.reallyworried.com/Worry.aspx?worryId=5733
I have loyalty. I work for Starbucks and I have to say that is the best company I’ve ever worked for. I’ve worked for local small businesses but their serious lack of organization is a pain in the ass. That’s why I like working for a corporation.
LOL. You’re funny.
I love to hate Walmart, too, but that’s because my loyalties lie with Target. 😀
green tea? green chai tea? you are far away from being truly white.
white tea is the new green tea. i only consume it after my two hour yoga/meditation routine in my japanese garden, or “the place where i feel better than you” as the fellas call it.
Oh yes, I know that store! It has really nice triple-milled soap soap, too.
What if I learned to hate corporations from the book /Nickeled and Dimed/? Do I still have WP cred?
What if I learned to hate corporations from the book /Nickel and Dimed/? Do I still have WP cred?
I learned to hate corporations and capitalism more generally from the Communist Manifesto. Go figure.
Being a poor white person I shop at Walmart fairly often because its cheap and I realize that there are no individual solutions to social problems. Trying to use your power as a consumer to smash capitalism is…useless.
Corporations still suck and we should fight them. But we should do it WTO Seattle 99′ style.
Pretty creative blog about us whiteys. We do love bitching about corporations. And I happen to be wearing a pair of new balances too 🙂 They need to take this blog a step further and have a section for what Old White People Like.
http://www.IAmSoOverMe.com
i don’t speak “liberal”. What the f*ck did he say?
Here here! It is odd how these people love to play the victim like some kind of redneck version of Uriah Heep crossed with Gollum. “Ooooh poor me, pity me, I is such a poor miserable put upon wretch with high standards of living two cars and a well paid job…oooh pity us ma dears pity us, the liberals wants to takes it all away and makes us all gay too…oooh pity us mah dears!”
LOL, what a stereotype. No wonder the world hates America. Typical in-denial, right wing, gas guzzling no nothing thinking. All that was missing was “from my cold dead hands”.
I’m not seen as white and most stuff on this blog, I don’t identify with so interpret that how you will.
People undermine how amazing capitalism is and what it gave us: the greatest era of prosperity in the history of human kind. People love to hate corporations but that kind of hate should be case sensitive. People forgot all business is in the business of making money and providing a service, and if anything different is bullshit.
And nonprofit organizations are non PROFIT. That just means they need to make enough money to repay all their costs for establishing and running the organizations. Oh and don’t forget employee pay that isn’t factored into the business model so chances are nonprofit organizations make more money than they spend because they need to pay their employees, expand, and of course because white people love nonprofit organizations.
Gee, I wish my perception of humanity was as simple and straightforward as yours. Everyone who isn’t a liberal hipster is an inbred yokel with bad grammar, eh? (Unless they’re black of course, then the poor grammar is part of “black culture”)
I’m half-white, and I dislike big corporations. Even when I’m munching on my McDonald’s combo at 2:30 am, filled with gratitude for their being the only place nearby that’s still open.
And corporations can win a place in my heart by acting as if they were something else. So Google and Second Cup win me over, ’cause they try to act like an extension of me. Apple and Starbucks don’t; they want me to be an extension of them.
thanks! best laugh i’ve had all week!
Working for a corporation sucks the life right out of you even if you’re a whitey like me.
I ride the city bus and you should hear the conversations the whiteys have on their cell phones, (apparently thinking the other passengers are hearing impaired). Betty Big Butt across the aisle from me has a llama that has a fever and is so upset. All About Me Man is going to visit his father in another state and they are going canoeing, and last but not least Martha Make a Meal has to give her caller the entire menu that will take place upon her arrival from her oh so horrible corporate job which she of course is the number one asset to the corporation.
Corporate america sucks! I just want to stay home and boss the dog around and get paid for it.
Since his given name is Christian, I’ll guess you’ll just want to crawl away and die of shame.
@D-MO, so, we’re REQUIRED to love the organisations who employ us? The opposite is usual, and amongst a FAR wider demographic than white people. They pay for our time, they pay for our labour. Contrary to what the CEOs might think, they haven’t paid for our souls!
Corporations CERTAINLY don’t express much love for the people they employ.
Or “stuff racists don’t like”.
I don’t hate big corp. I hate the people running them at the top making decisions to out source the low end jobs from America to some other turd-world country, but can you blame them for doing so? If there job is to make the company more profits…it’s an easy decision and then they can get their obsurdly huge bonuses.
You would do it too no matter what your color. Money drives all kind of less than favorable decisions so this topic is lame.
I like to read Adbusters, but ironically, it is too expensive for me to buy on a regular basis. Boo.
Great post, is Texas still a good place to live for a white person, or is it to over run with fucking spics? Looking into a move there, but the spic thing, how big a problem.
Ya I”m white and working for these motherfuckers, and I wage my Jihad against them everyday from the inside.
I think he said he’s very, very white.
Actually, being an Arab, you might want to go for the whole “Getting-high-with-me-shows-solidarity-with-The Struggle” angle.
I’m here to help.
Yep. I am white, but I don’t fit into most of these categories, but a few people I know fit into just about every single thing “white people like”.
This is my favourite blog; thanks so much for the hilarious takes on white people, I love it.
best laugh i’ve had
someone sent this to me. here’s my reply:
OMG you have time between swimming, tennis and driving to think of me?
how sweet – I’m sooo flattered.
Thanks for the hilarious reminder of how SHALLOW and CLOYING and WHITE it is to dare to as “as if” mall culture, short term profits, exploitation, pollution and greed are anything but the invisible hand of the Holy CEO in the Sky.
Oh, and for the HYPOCRISY of continuing to live in a material world while daring to notice that makeup and heels are everybit as essential as healthy food. WTF?!
But worst of all – to actually CARE what others think about me? How vulnerable and weak. I wish I had a Hummer and an RPG, then I woldn’t have to care. I could just think about me me me! Oh and you too of couse. As if you cared. hahaha
My bad. Must be all the drugs. yeah Bless you child. … hahaha
Here’s one for you: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/05/24/MN2C10P943.DTL
Hey, DaHoffa, you are funny as sh*t. ;P I totally agree, they (should) just ‘float away!’ 🙂
You might as well substitute the words “politically correct’
for “White”. You’ll be saying the same thing.
why only white folks?
how about not generalizing and quit putting people into stereotypes?
Corporations have not been liked since “The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit”. For those of us who work or have worked in corporations, they are pretty awful places. Why else would Dilbert be so popular. They are possibly the most hypocritical places on earth even exceeding Washington D.C. They push “thinking out side the box” but will fire you if you do. The worst corporations are the ones that call their employees “associates”! Unless you’re the CEO why on earth would you like most corporations?
Hey D-Mo, do you not realize that these large corporations are perhaps the only employment option for most people. Truly sad. Maybe everyone can work for one large entity called Globo-Corp in your little pre-fab nirvana. I, on the other hand, have avoided the corporate beast by cunning, hard work and luck. Understand, it is true freedom. Everybody should feel the non-soul-sucking, non-corporate bliss that I experience everyday!!
666 responses when I posted, spooky. White people are afraid of God, even atheist corporation hating lefties (I know how white) like myself.
At least I can laugh at myself. Do I get a prize now?
There. Don’t we feel more superior?
You can’t afford it because it’s not supported by Ads….IRONY!!!!
Yes, I was offended twenty minutes ago when i first saw this site…my white really wife shared it with me. And a mere 1,200 seconds later, I am a new man, aware of my whiteness, perhaps for the first time in my life. Must buy a Garth Brooks CD, or maybe download some Slipknot MP3s (or 4s for my iPod for that matter) from a bit torrent site.
I am a conspiracy theorist when it comes to the evil conglomerates that rule our world, and I correct grammar emphatically.
My children all get straight A’s, but are generally lazy and entitled, and that brings me great pride.
Now, if I can only shed this dashiki shirt without seeming too hypocritical, I think I will survive this transition from utter denial to a white man who accepts the ugly truth. And I really like official Barbarian brand rugby shirts.
And never, ever, end a sentence in a preposition, since it will show the world where you come from.
Get it? I just ended my sentence with a preposition. I just corrected myself.
correction…my really white wife…not my white really wife.
well I agree large corporations only think about money but I got a KILLER deal on the new “PS3 80GB Metal Gear Solid4 Bundle” at Wal*mart. Only $399.99 cause they gave out $100.00 G-Card if I bought it on the 12th of June. So on that deal it was worth going to a “large corporation”.
Corporations have become horrible places to work in the last decade, with overpaid executives, lack of innovation, deteriorating work practices, onerous work schedules for the rank and file, stagnating salaries and elimination of fringe benefits. Corporations at one time were led by visionaries who were loyal to their employees, lived in the communities where they worked, participated in community service activities, and had excellent salaries and fringe benefits for everyone not just senior management. While it is easy to explain why a lot of this has happened it doesn’t mean that corporations are great places to work anymore. That is just the reality. Save every dime you can and become financially independent, so you can leave corporations at the earliest possible moment.
white men hate feminism… they are the only ones that I have heard coin such terms as “feminazi” “ball-breaker” etc. Some white women are feminists, but most think it is mildly to extremely annoying when women are non-docile (especially if the women are not white).
White women and men, however, will both agree on the point that they can’t stand women with anorexia. Curiously, it somehow slips past the PC filter even though they are criticizing people for their valid mental illnesses. The same women will continue to secretly starve themselves as the men will secretly continue to lust after the waifishly thin. They insist upon continuing the public role play, however.
More things white people like:
gossip
scrap booking
owning and not playing a guitar (esp acoustic)
Guinness
having a deck
the blackberry (phone)
acronyms
windows with “a view”
expensive haircuts
inside jokes
autographs
scented candles
the nap
Another great article. People who think corporations are evil need to consider what their life would be like without them: Communism. If corporations don’t deliver essential services, that can only leave the government. Communism comes with a ton of problems of its own, and it’s never proved “sustainable”.
Bwahhhh!
“When engaging in a conversation about corporate evils it is important to NEVER, EVER mention Apple Computers, Target or Ikea in the same breath as the companies mentioned earlier. White people prefer to hate corporations that don’t make stuff that they like.”
Funny because its true!!!
It’s not funny, it’s moronic. What person in his right mind can simultaneously both hate and like a thing? If company X makes my preferred brand of widgets, I’ll probably like that company. Now, if company X also chucks live babies off the Empire State Building, once I find out about it, their products become non-existent to me. It’s real simple.
Let alone the almighty Toyota, who is now in trouble in Japan(again) for the underpaid, uninsured, sweat-shop migrant worker problems in the Prius plant.
And by that thought Ray, NO white person in their right mind would buy a Prius….
http://www.worldcarfans.com/9080618.016/toyota-accused-of-human-trafficking-and-sweatshop-abuses
The NLC and many other sources have confirmed this goes on. Wonder how Toyota makes money on the small cars and builds none of them here(they only use temp-status uninsured US workers for the larger stuff)…
Under communism there are no states. You’re thinking of state socialism like in the Soviet Union.
Of course I hate corporations. I saw a documentary (yes I know, the TV thing) called the corporation and it compared the corporation to a psycopath. It was interesting. Then I saw another documentary about investing in cruelty free, green corporations which stated that many of the people who work in these sweatshops would otherwise not have an income. Basically it all comes down to the almighty dollar. What can you do? Maybe put it on a bumper sticker.
really? do you think so? Maybe I’m deluding myself (I don’t have much money) but I would like to believe, if I won the lottery, that I would use the money for good. I sort of pride myself on not being materialistic. But pride is a down fall in itself. Hmmmmm
Why? I don’t feel comfortable with PC. I believe it alienates people. You don’t want to offend anyone so you don’t know what to say so you don’t say any thing. I don’t want to be vertically challenged. I’m short.
I believe this goes on everywhere. (I live in Canada and work for the goverment) It is the same there and in schools and universities, hostpitals, everywhere. Oh and banks. those bastards. Rich will get richer and take your money. that is how it has always been.
I do hate Wal-Mart.
As a white person who loves Wal Mart, Starbucks, and Coca-Cola, I can often feel the disaproval of my brothers and sisters.
I love the liberals who support StarBucks and WholeFoods and bash Wal*Mart.
StarBucks and WholeFoods destroy the local Mom & Pop shops and cater to the elite while Wal*Mart gets 8 applications for every job and caters to the “less than elite”.
The irony …
Finally! The only other stereotype that applies to me is the one about scarves. OMG! sssssoooo relieved to know I’m at least a teeny bit cool.
Wow, I didn’t know this was a trivial issue. Thanks, now I can have a good laugh about it. I was just being a silly white person caring about things like multinationals usurping political power and harming our ecology in North America while setting up sweat shops abroad… just being silly…
Merchants have been politically powerful throughout history, get over it…i’m more concerned with what some supposedly legitimate governments do with the political power they already have…
…”I was just being a silly white person caring about things like multinationals…”
Yes, yes you were.
For further reading on silliness, see point #18:
…”you get all the benefits of helping (self satisfaction, telling other people) but no need for difficult decisions or the ensuing criticism (how do you criticize awareness?).”
Well, you COULD have helped them to “get organized” and produce an even BETTER cup of coffee than *bucks. Then again, you’re probably so full of sh*t, you couldn’t organize a piss-up in a brewery.
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.)
For heaven’s sake, don’t take yourself so damn seriously!This is satire, for pete’s sake. The writer of this blog is white and says a lot of these things apply to him as well.
As a white person with a sense of humor, I dislike corperations for real reasons as well, but I had to laugh at the statement about Target, Apple, and Ikea, since I have a weakness for those places. Honestly, humorless “Activists” are what make grassroots work so unpleasant for the rest of us.
Yeah, never understood the hate of corps, but people want to have endless conversations about them. Corps are made up of people, and offer people jobs that they would not have otherwise, and offer products that people obviously want. Basically, the people that talk about it endlessly either use some of the same products, or, they are enraged that other people do and want to stop them. This is one of the silliest things about being white.
It’s not big companies that people hate really, it’s the Untouchable status they have because of the insane ‘person’ status that crazy laws have given to a faceless and unaccoutable entity.
What the fuck does that even mean?
So you can’t get excited that multi-national corp’s are helping to bring millions of people out of absolute poverty in countries where jobs don’t even exist? Quit bitching about a person making $2 an hour in Vietnam, when the next best paying job is $2 a day. You have no fucking clue what it’s like in these countries. MNC’s provide the most prestigious and high paying jobs in these countries.
I could not decide whether to stick this comment to yours, or to the comment left by “Shannon” (see below).
I chose you!
I hate Starbucks. Their coffee tastes like ass and they get away with it because everyone buys lame-ass non-coffee drinks which is where they make their profits. Get a “large” regular dark coffee once…It is disgusting.
Wal-mart and I have a love-hate relationship. I hate the corporate bull-shit that comes with Wal-Mart (and with working there), but can’t keep myself from shopping there because, face it, nobody else can beat their prices.
As for Coca-Cola; I know they are corporate and all, but when do you hear about them opening up thousands of stores? Companies that manufacture products are not worth attacking. Companies that offer services, direct to consumers, are.
When is the last time you were at Wal-Mart and had a good customer service experience? And Starbucks? How about McDonalds?
What it means is that in many ways corporations have the same rights as every person in America. How this manifests itself is that in most cases the people running a corporation are not directly responsible for the damage it causes, even if they were directly responsible for the implementation. It means the “person” (which is the corporation) responsible for fixing the damage is the business itself. This allows the people who are actually the causes of damage to get off the hook in most cases.
Similarly, It also protects the businessmen from ever having to pay off any debts incurred by the business over its lifetime. Which means that even if a CEO or a board implements a move that makes the business go bankrupt they hold no responsibility for it and thus they can walk away with their huge salaries/pensions and not have to look back.
I might suggest you watch a series called “The Corporation”. It goes fairly in depth as to the history of the legal definition of the American Corporation and how they managed to go from a relatively powerless organization to a Monopolistic force that in many ways controls international business and the American Government.
Written, hopefully, with flawless grammar.
These people only live in “poverty” because they have been very heavily exposed to western modernization standards and are now convinced that you have to have all the ridiculous crap Americans “have to” and live like them to survive. The reason why they initially looked impoverished is because you view everything based from your standard of living (as well as considering them culturally inferior). For example…
China, from a moralistic standpoint, went into Tibet because these people were “poor, stupid nomads that needed help”. In many Chinese peoples eyes (and I am talking about right now) the Chinese are helping the Tibetans out because they are bringing a higher standard of living and modernization. They are bringing them stationary houses (which are more valuable than ones easy to leave), roads and a viable marketplace. This however has in many ways caused a majority cultural and racial genocide of the Tibetan people.
Another Example… In the Amazon many of the tribes that lived in the forest have been convinced by missionaries or deforestation or whatever, to move out of lands that have sustained them for thousands of years because “they are poor and need to earn money”. The corporations don’t pay them anything considering how much they are making off their services.
Furthermore, and just to have said it, in many cases these major companies work through third party manufacturers and are not directly involved in the working conditions or wages (that’s not to say they don’t necessarily know). They just take the cheapest bid for the highest quality product (and in some cases without that last clause) services requested and let the other companies involved handle it.
From one corporation hating white person to another…
Another perfect example of “white” being confused with “white liberals”.
I really don’t want to know what your definition of poverty is. If toothpaste and clean water don’t count (both of which buge MNC’s provide) towards bringing people out of poverty then you’re a dick.
So you really believe that people in China, India, Africa, wherever prefer to live on $2 a day? I’ve met too many people like you who have this noble concept of subsistence farming. I can tell you that if a person had the choice between working the damn hot field or working in a higher paying factory – they choose the factory.
Where the hell did you come up with an argument for Tibet? Corporations have nothing to do with Tibet?
Also, people like you are fuck-faces because while I’ve been working for an MNC in Asia, helping to create jobs for people in both SE Asia and the US, you’re backpacking across Europe telling people back home how you know how to run the world. Why don’t you really learn how the world works.
The owners of the business lose their investment when a corporation fails. The managers of the business can and are often prosecuted for illegal activity, in addition to losing their jobs.
The workers have protection in the form of unemployment insurance. If you’re going to bitch about 401k’s being maxed out in company stock and it tanks, then that employee was an idiot and should reap their consequence.
Realize that this is a site meant solely for humor. If they were to go too far into the descriptions, it would be tedious.
It’s much funnier just to say “white people” as opposed to “white, liberal, repressed, etc. people”.
They probably thought that the more conservative white people would be too cliche and too easy (They’re already funny in-and-of-themselves.)
Lighten up and enjoy the site… or just leave if you don’t like it… or just do what you’re doing and look like a fool, I don’t care.
Since you have no sense of rhythm or rhyme, may I ask if you’re a self-hating white man?
Your absolutely right. Once I realized that although it isn’t said explicitly, everyone on here understands we are really talking about white liberals, I find it hilarious.
LOL!
This blog is hilarious.
You people who left negative comments take it way too seriously.
This blog is so funny because many of these things can apply to the upper middle class in the whole western Europe. I live in Sweden, and my God, Swedish upper middle class people are exactly like this.
I agree! Most things apply, except for rugby, bumper stickers (only the wrong kind of white ppl have bumper stickers, usually about their dogs) and some other examples that are just so… American. A Swedish white person highly dislikes everything from the US (except for concepts like hamburgers, but then only produced by the Swedish chain MAX who have branded all their products with how much carbondioxide was released in making them)…
I’m also, totally, completely white…
Bitch
Who made the computer you’re typing on, the internet you’re sending over, and the software that makes it all possible?
Do you think you might just be another white honky cracker ass white guy?
I dislike Mc Donalds when I´m not hungry but like it when I´m out driving late, tired and hungry and finally see the arches that says: “Food!!! Come and eat!!!”
I dislike the concept of sweat shops, but I also dislike low quality organic fair trade shirts.
I dislike to go to work in my car, and sit in endless traffic jams, but I dislike the extra 1,5 hour it takes to go by bus and subway even more.
I, like most of us think everybody should consume less, drive less, eat better and be more tolerant, as long as it does NOT imply me 😉
Quite a funny piece, but of course this only applies to leftist white people. Also only idiots take Naomi Klein seriously, she’s a charlatan of great proportions.
So are Finnish! White middle class over the world are americanized…. 🙂
More like liberalized.
No devotee of that retrograde ten-thousand-monkeys project called “Linux” has room to bash BSD-derived Apple products.
“Just say no” to toy operating systems.
Never have merchants been protected from personal liability. Those who run corperations are legally protected from personal liability since the corperation itself is a legal “person”.
Hey Bo, go back to sleep. Hey I think Survivor is on– you don’t want to miss that (and subsequently be useful in some way)!
“Honestly, humorless “Activists” are what make grassroots work so unpleasant for the rest of us.”
Can share some of your grassroots activity with us? Please, do tell. I think your position speaks volumes about what how much you really contribute.
love it! http://www.SHOP-LUSCIOUS.com
I don’t truly hate big corps. Not if they’re willing to pay me enough to keep my mouth shut.
It’s sad how white people are. Are you white and able to see what jackasses we all are or are you some other race and have known all along what jackasses we are?
But quite frankly I don’t mind big corporations. I think that the reason they’re big is because they clearly make the best product. It’s how the world works. Cream rises to the top.
more like psuedo-artsy following-a-trend liberalization.
hey alma, i know this is off topic, but i just want to ask:
my family is from sweden, but that was generations back,
and i want to know about the culture of my homeland.
ANYTHING WILL HELP!!
Send me an e-mail at kurt_thomson@yahoo.com
I probably shouldnt have given you that, but my great-
great grandfather passed before i could even meet him,
(SHOCKER.) and i want to know what it’s like across the
pond.
P.S. i’m american, and if that raises any flags, i wont mind,
cuz we basically boss the whole world around, and I dont
think its fair, and i will admit i’m getting tired of american
culture, cough,cough MCDONALDS,harumph,hou HHAAAGH,
JEAN SHORTS, cough, OVERLY PRICED DELI MEAT THAT
SHOULD ONLY COST 2 @ A HALF BUCKS, COOUUGGGHH!!!
whew, must have been that american culture that was
wadded-up and shoved down my throaht like hot dogs at a
nathans contest.
check ya later, Alma!
(if you want of course)
hey, alma, i just want to know something. if you don’t want
to reply, it’s alright with me, just know that i have the best of intentions, and i mean you no harm. here goes. i’ve heard that moving to america lessens your overall sex appeal. i’ve heard that in general america pales in comparison to what swedens cookin’ up across the pond! (NOT A SEXUAL REFRENCE.) can you confirm the rumors??
if you want to talk, you know where to find me.
P.S. because i don’t know what you look like, and, my knowledge of swedish names is very limited, can tell me if you are a boy or a girl? please understand, i am not in touch with my heritage and I mean no offense to you.
I profoundly apologise if i offend.
signed,
Kurt A. Thomson ( there is no P in my last name)
Got it in one 🙂
I’m not sure if any of you know the actual definition of the word you keep throwing out there in such a negative context. Being ‘liberal’ is just a belief in progress and the autonomy of the individual that stands for the protection of civil and political liberties. Isn’t that what we all would want for ourselves and our families? It’s just a belief in progress guys.
Also, I believe its super easy for whomever you are to judge so called “white people” from your soapbox on the world wide web. All you are really doing is promoting the gap between the races and sounding completely irrelevant to most people while you’re at it. Good luck with your ventures. No one will ever remember your ignorant rants and I sleep better at night knowing just that fact.
I love corportations they make money for America
“Cream rises to the top.”?
Seriously? Sometimes shit floats too. That’s more analogous to corporations. Corporations are a concept. People make money for America, and the people who manage corporations are paid disproportionately higher wages than the people who actually do all the work. That’s why they’re big. They’re greedy. And they are also quite white.
I’m white with ya dude.
Yeah … how’s that working out for you buddy?
Oh I’m white and I’ve always hated white america. it’s probably one of the worst countries morally, people are so corrupt.
and -*cough*- are you by chance saying that companies like wal-mart sell good quality products?
well now…
I’m sure we could say the same for the better part of america.
I know this whole blog is funny, I enjoy it. But that comment is just rediculous.
People are paid higher wages in general because of their value. An engineer can go to the factory floor and perform an unskilled job with a few days training. On the other hand, the factory worker cannot go up to the engineer’s office and perform his job without years of training and experience. Which one adds more value?
In the same vein, people are paid higher wages because they can do something many others are incapable of doing. Professional baseball players make far more than techers, but few would argue that baseball players are better for society, are smarter, or are more essential. They make more because many have the natural ability to become a teacher, most cannot play beaseball that well no matter how much they practice.
People complain and gripe about the plight of the worker and then shop at these corporations because of greed. The greed is not at Wal-Mart- it is on your street, in your neighborhood. People continue to ask for Brooks Brothers wages for all, while still wanting to pay Wal-Mart prices. That is greed, if you want to call something greed.
Greed is buying more home than you can afford. Greed is maxing out your credit card when you can’t pay it off. Greed is not starting a company that employs those willing to work and being good at it. If you have a good day at work, accomplish something that was difficult or do something well, are you being greedy? Of course not.
If you don’t shop at Wal-Mart, only buy “fair trade” stuff, then good for you. If not though, then you are perpetuating the same cycle that you claim is bad.
Sometimes shit floats too. That’s more analogous to corporations. Corporations are a concept. People make money for America, and the people who manage corporations are paid disproportionately higher wages than the people who actually do all the work.
Oh, look, someone’s been reading their No Logo! Good work. Yep the only way to get ahead in a free market is by sheer greed and devilry. It would never happen by talent, dedication or hard work. People who run corporations mostly get there by eating babies and being corrupt, the few who aren’t corrupt and who are actually worth that much money because no-one else could do their job, are just exceptions to the rule.
/You’re an idiot. Try not to talk about economics when your knowledge of it doesn’t extend beyond first year college.
I also love giant corporations because I love a good 401k and health insurance. hurray
Funny, but God it’s sad that we hate ourselves so much, isn’t it?
Is this a Gossip or what? White people form part of campaign which is actually against the multi-national companies and corporate culture? how louder I can laugh Now! This is a real joke. There are campaigns of hatred. I agree. This is truly an assumption that white people as a whole community is trying to do this! We are aware of the bad effects of industrialisation in our day to day life. Let us work together with a view to protect the earth and not to distroy it. You cannot say what is right and what is wrong. But waiting for something proved may take your life itself. Then there never arise the question of multi-national, national or small scale industry. Eg. Union Carbide factory in Bhopal.
LOL, most of your topics are just poking fun at hipsters…i love it!
I purchase all my items from Wal-Mart; this ensures that they are made in sweatshops by underage minority children being paid low wages for working long hours. I love colonization of third world countries more than anything.
Since I live in Eugene, Oregon, and there’s this one local news magazine that’s always talking about hating corporations…I suppose I live in a VERY white city. So white, it’s like a polar bear blinking in a blizzard.
-MINESWEEP
So true!! When I was in high school I stopped eating Kraft products cause I found out (through adbusters) they were owned by the same company as Marlboro. it went on for awhile too.. until I moved to Dubai and found there weren’t too many imported products to choose from lol
Am I to understand that non-white people don’t like anything on this list? Or is it just not to such an extreme degree as “white” people?
Who says that everything white people like are bad? No one.
“When engaging in a conversation about corporate evils it is important to NEVER, EVER mention Apple Computers, Target or Ikea in the same breath as the companies mentioned earlier. White people prefer to hate corporations that don’t make stuff that they like.”
You, sir, are a genius. I bow in awe of your comedy.
Don’t forget, white people also rip on Starbucks (as they are sipping it, but that’s besides the point). They like to complain that it is taking over the world- there is one on every corner. I went to France recently, and they are getting into the habit of putting a Starbucks everywhere too. Coffee Bean tastes better anyway.
The complete lack of irony in your statement is DEEPLY disturbing.
I work at a Starbucks, and occasionally I get the “OMG, I can’t believe I’m actually in a Starbucks, I NEVER come here!” customer. This one time I had a lady say almost exactly that, and I said “Whether you’re giving your money to Starbucks, Target, or any other corporation it’s all going in the same place- away from you”, to which she replied “Well, I still believe in revolution.” I looked at her kind of cockeyed, and gave the revolutionista her $2 piece of marble loaf.
Something about this sentence doesn’t sound right…
i agree with wil. i was just thinking that target and IKEA need to be their own blogs. kudos, sir, kudos.
So true. I was in theatre in high school, and most the kids were hipsters. The description given describes about 90% of them.
Nice. “I still believe in revolution.” What does that even mean?
think about it this way, people talk about black people loving chicken and watermelon, but so do a vast majority
Addbusters is nice, but Wacky Packages rules!
The best way for you to fight capitalism is to move to North Korea and join the greatest army ever trained to smash the capitalist pigs.
I the site on cnn website last night so I checked you out. Then I was like I wonder if like most of this stuff is true and I asked some of my white friends to go check it out. The all said your right on the money so goo job.
It’s a joke, Joseph. The whole web site.
peace.
I love this site. It’s racist, but that doesn’t mean it’s not funny! Racism is societally acceptable if it’s against the majority 🙂 I can say that because I’m white
MUST POINT OUT THE BAD GRAMMER!!!!!!!
Peter Richard Johnson? Dick, Dick , Dick
i just found out about this on cnn.com and i am lmao! i think this is one of the funniest and truest things i’ve read…the entire list….i totally identify with most of it!
I am aware that this is all in good fun…but…the site should be renamed…”stuff post-yuppies and their progeny like”
What corporations? They’re now becoming state-owned entities. Way to go, you utter idiots, every last one of you.
Because they didn’t ask for bail-out money, right?
I just discovered wacky packages…and yes, they totally rule.
it’s hard not to hate corporations. especially ones like verizon wireless who are epic and utter failures at everything they do.
With the lifestyle some people ensure within corporate america, this mindset might be justified… or maybe not 😉
http://iloveclosing.wordpress.com/2009/03/02/honey-guess-what-i-did-at-work-today/
Hey dude, I think you’re confusing racism with stereotypes. Which is a pretty dumb thing to confuse.
yeah but he can say dat cuz he white
We must learn to love corporations. Afterall, we now own most of them in this recession.
I think its funny that now people who don’t like white people can feel great about being on the same side as multi-national corporations. That way, the white people still win.
i work for a multinational corporation and am proud of it.
Going by this list, I’m not very “white” despite my Irish/German heritage. While some of these have me dead-on, I don’t like most of these things. I guess I’m one of the “wrong type of white people” by not being a liberal, though far from a conservative as well. Where do we Libertarians fall?
This is getting kind of trippy. So much on this list of the shallow foibles and affectations and such of “white people” is true, and doesn’t reflect especially well. Now the dude is ranking on Naomi Klein? Weak. Whatever, pal.
But that’s not fair. His problem may actually be with all the white posers who may have read Naomi Klein. Or not his problem, but rather this is merely his observation. However, it’s beginning to pall.
So I’m not white but my group of friends is mostly pretentious white people. I have now realized that not only do my friends match this list tit-for-tat but, so do I. *sigh* I’m a pretentious white brown person.
i’ve been wondering the same thing
maybe we’re the wrong “wrong” type of white person
or the right type of “wrong” type of white person
wal-mart is hell on earth
mcdonalds, i love thee
So what you are saying is that, while other entries on this blog may have been accurate re. yourself, this entry was accurate in a way that made you actually question whether having read Naomi Klein really DOES make you smarter than other people?
I work for a multinational corporation that allows other multinational corporations to do business. I am proud of it too.
I don’t think one should hate on the companies who probably employ us at one time or another. Lord knows I work for the biggest ad agency in Chicago. I’m not going to hate on the kinds of companies who pay my bills.
When I see the “evil” corporations laying off loads of workers while the CEO gets a bonus…I used to be hateful, but then I got educated, and then redirected the hate to the actual sources.
People get laid off…it happens. A job is not guaranteed. Lord knows I faced unemployment a few times in my life, but I learned from it. I learned you can’t give loyalty the way our parents did. We’re commodities, and if we’re not being profitable for the company, they will get rid of us. It doesn’t matter how nice we are to everyone and how much people like us as a person. If we’re costing the company money, then we’re gone.
What’s the solution? Become profitable. This is why I got more education and took on more student loans. This is also why in this big bad recession I am getting people left and right offering me money for web sites. I am profitable now.
It’s the same deal for other industries. I would especially tell autoworkers that they should see the tide of change, and prepare for it. Get more education, specialize, get to a place where you won’t be easily unemployed or replaced. If your life is screwing in lug nuts for 8 hours a day, then you’re screwed. However, if you learn to repair the complicated parts of a car, I guarantee people will be rolling in to pay you to fix their cars. Even more, you might get to a point where some bigger company wants you to help them build a more complicated piece of machinery. That’s being profitable.
As for bonuses, I used to think it was insane that one gets a bonus for running a company into the ground, but an accountant made sense to me. The bonuses these guys get are not special money for doing a good job, but their REGULAR PAYCHECK.
Imagine you make $5 million a year in pay. How much you think you would lose to taxes? Now what if your accountant told you the government passed laws saying bonuses will be taxes less? If you could swing your pay at the company to be $200,000 in salary and the other $4,800,000 as a bonus (which gets taxed less), wouldn’t you do it?
So the answer to the bonus thing isn’t to hate the execs…but hate on the IRS. Get on their arses and ask them why they are not investigating how these guys get paid. They’re using bonuses as a tax shelter and possibly breaking the law.
I won’t hate on someone who invests right and gets rich. I will hate on someone though who manipulates the system to get rich. Hate on the companies who spend millions on lobbyists and campaign donations to get laws passed to make the system favor them. That’s why things get screwed up.
One has to see the full truths on what’s happening out there, not jump on the “hate the suits” bandwagon.
The author of the article isn’t “ranking” (whatever that means, sorry I’m not as well-versed with hip hop slang as you obviously are) on Naomi Klein. He is pointing out the propensity of idiotic prententious white people to take the information written in “No Logo” and other counter-culture works as gospel simply because the information is presented in a book and is in-line with their point-of-view. In truth, while many of these books do reference various statistics and data, the information is manipulated to corroborate the author’s theory on a particular subject. Although I have not read “No Logo,” I have read portions of another (and similar) Klein book, “Shock Doctrine.” I have found that in many cases the book presents a very biased perspective against corporations. In presenting the information, Klein frequently takes statistical data out of context to support her flimsy arguments, or draws conclusions which are not pertinent to the data presented.
People need to realize the information presented in these types of books is presented solely to support the author’s opinion, which may not be factual. I’m sure any of the “white people” who this blog is targeting would dismiss an Ann Coulter or Rush Limbaugh book as opinion, but for some reason, when the author is writing about a conspiracy theory or counter-cultural subject, they unquestioningly accept the material as fact. Klein is a journalist, nothing more or less. What makes her statements any more valid or factual than anyone on Fox News? Why do “white people” rush to defend her whenever her material is questioned? Why is she considered an expert when she does not even have a college degree?
I appreciated the part about the bonuses
never thought of that
thanks:) you are truly inspiring
I like adbusters and I’m proud of it. And alot of the things listed on this site have been bang on about me so yes maybe you are the wrong type of white person
yea it think its funny how many hippy retard stoners completely agree with-this. they think that we should all suck each-other off and never have a competitive society of capitalism.
Well said, D
Me too 😥
SUCK ON MY PENIS YOU FAGGOT
D-jam. while much of what you said is correct, i must ask. why the fuck are you giving long winded self important jerk off opinions about every single topic on this blog? they always begin with some disclaimer about how well educated you are and how successful you have become because you follow your own (most of the time completely retarded) advice. ooooo look at me im D-jam and i have a counterpoint. i work for the largest ad agency in chicago. shut up man. i wouldnt even leave comments here if it werent for the constant nagging assholery of yours…
The dude abides.
You talk about bonuses for those who run companies into the ground. And you talk about profitability. How is running a corporation into the ground profitable to the shareholders?
Note to corporate America: I the DreddPyrateRoberts will run your company into the ground for a mere $40,000 per year. The real kicker is that a $10 million severance package is all I ask for. I could then go back to earning an honest paycheck as a chef. I could pay off my house, take a good vacation, deal with some surgeries that would improve my quality of life, and even do some charity/humanitarian work on the local level.
So what do you say GM, Chrysler, AIG, etc.? I am cheaper and as unqualified as the last group of dudes you have dealt with.
I have what I consider to be a good gig — I work for a small division of a multinational American corporation.
My parent company makes devices that treat a medical disorder which helps improve the lives of millions of people. I am proud to be part of a company that does that.
They pay me decently, I do get a bonus when my division does well and I perform according to expectations. My job also allows me to have reasonable balance in my life, which is extremely important.
The people I work with are nice and my commute is short — another big positive.
I once worked in the corporate HQ of a large multinational bank and absolutely hated it. I was one of about 2,000 MBA financial analysts and it was the survival of the fittest — a totally cutthroat environment. I left after 3 years.
I much prefer being in a smaller company like I am now.
From my 30 + years of working for corporate America, the people you work with and report to are what makes a work environment good or bad.
However, as much as I like where I am at now, I don’t delude myself — if my employer thought they would be better off without me I would most likely be out the door. That’s just the way it works.
And finally, just remember that your first loyalty is to yourself — not to your employer. I have been laid off twice and as soon as it happened both times I never gave another thought to the companies that canned me — I was looking for my next paying gig and whoever provides me with a paycheck has my loyalty.
One day I hope that christianity devolves into a lunatic fringe cult as more and more people reject it’s folklore and mythology based nonsense.
I knew there was something I liked about Costco.
Mango Girl;
Man, did you ever hit the nail on the head!
I confess that I have been drawn in by the type of products that you described so well in your post. For instance, I recently paid an outrageous amount of money for two bottles of bubble bath made with goat’s milk!
However, since the recession and financial meltdown happened I have renounced my evil ways and by a lot more store brands at Ralph’s!
ahahaaha
yes, dude.
FIGHT CLUB!!!
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Don’t tell white people Target donates to the Republican party. It would crush their world and make them realize what tools they are for being brilliantly marketed to.
White people invented the corporation along with every single institution of modern business… so if they feel like hating them, why not?
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 their money on books and magazines which are anti-corporation.
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.)
http://thepighasacurlytail.wordpress.com/million-dollar-fund/
True…very true
White people hate big box stores.
Read the last paragraph:
“When engaging in a conversation about corporate evils it is important to NEVER, EVER mention Apple Computers, Target or Ikea in the same breath as the companies mentioned earlier. White people prefer to hate corporations that don’t make stuff that they like.”
It’s important to hate the WRONG big box stores. In the first paragraph, Wal*Mart, McDonalds and Microsoft are mentioned. These are the three most hated corporations by people who consider themselves trendy, edgy, or hip.
I never heard of nologo or adbusters til now, but I’ve seen plenty of examples of this anti-corporate culture and it’s really annoying. But not as annoying as people who write lame blogs that tacitly undermine the other anti-corporate campaigns of indigenous and impoverished people from around the world who are also fighting against the corporate takeover of their lands and privatization of their governments.
I love this writer because he’s smarter than 99% of the people he is making fun of.
Obviously some of the crap that these people do, hating MNC’s, etc, etc is legitimate. But the fact that there is a serious degree of fashion in the ideas and objects they cling onto is what makes it ridiculous.
Trying to act cool makes you a loser, being cool is a completely different thing, because you just do what you do, you’re not following anyone.
the ministry of love says…..embrace big corporations…..they are your friends….they bring good things to life….they don’t make things, they make things better….you’ll love what they’ll do for you….with them, you’ll be ‘lovin it’….
corporations are your friends
corporations are your friends
corporations are your friends
corporations are your friends
—HAL.
i hate white people fuck you all
And I hate your grammar.
White people control the government, run the corporations and has the money in banks. Why white people hate them? Besides, America was founded on the idea anyone can do what they want and open a business, no strict business regulation and plenty of competitors. The USA perfected the idea of capitalism because we’re a democracy, not the USSR under communism and government-domination of the economy. Is that what America really wants? WEIRD. +
Post-yuppie white America: welcome to my world: Broke, in debt, divorced, have messed up children, your neighbors (mostly white/wealthy) moved out, newcomers (quite the opposite) moved in, learning more about yourself, can’t find a good paying job, unemployed for a year, have a mental or physical disability, have a kid out of wedlock, your ex leaves you/goes to another state, you can’t move out of your now downscale neighborhood, drop out of high school/college, end up getting a county/state/federal check, get on SSI or disability, remain in the “poverty” range, borderline middle class life, and no longer proud to be American. Why not get on being human, being yourself and being alive? +
come on. have you ever been to a place where indigenous and impoverished people are fighting against corporate take over and privatization of their governments?
i doubt it. why? because impoverished people are impoverished BECAUSE of their government; because the government doesn’t allow businesses (ie. corporations) and just claims ownership of all resources for itself.
get your shit straight. leave the usa. go see the world, and then talk.
peace.
ps. i own you.
thats why everyone goes to target….being the only mexican in a town is so confusing in california where there is way less white people everyone goes to wal-mart….confusing
there are so many mexicans in walmart!!!
it’s like a mini mexico
THE AMERICAN DREAM
yeah this guy owned u!!
Yes, last time I said to a white person his apple was the same as a PC it told me that “Apple made his computers “tailor-made”. I just reply asking him to see the sticker that says “Made in China”.
Apple= PC with a software as crappy as Windows but that comes in pretty fashionable colors and 2 or 3 times overpriced.
The other excuse is because it has better graphics and everyone in the artworld uses it. My answer is simply that I am an actual artist and a geek and I don’t waste my money in Apple products because they have the same n-vidia graphic card as a PC. And of course I try to explain that companies use apple because in the 90’s it used to be better graphically than PC, it was easier in the 80’s make artist understand a visual enviroment and in the past most archives were only compatible with one or the other system. Today is because of showoff.
“The wrong kind of white people” too.
Wal-mart is a good ol’ southern conservative institution, but at least they don’t force black people or Mexicans to use the opposite door. The south changed all right and it shall rise again (it’s in a decline, thanks to carpetbaggers like Newt, the Bushes and the Clintons). +
This commentary comes in handy on the eve of the preiere of [i]Capitalism: A Love Story[/i].
This comes in time for the premiere of [i]Capitalism: A Love Story[/i].
White people love college degrees!
Study your history. Carpetbaggers are people from the north who come to the south to change things against the will of the locals. Newt is from GA, Bush is from TX, and Clinton is from AR, all southerners. The south will never rise again. Get over it. The rest of the country has.
It’s amazing to me just how stupid liberals are. I blame an over funded public education system that encourages this ignorant victim mentallity. Republicans and conservatives have had more to do with minority rights than democrats have ever had. History proves it, revision history confuses it. While democrats have more to do with entitlements and perpetuating victim myths. Its easy to see why minorities continue to vote democrat, and refuse to claim the equality that the U.S. Constitution already provides. Its as simple as a four letter word, W-O-R-K.
Well said, and thank you for that. Now please get back to the shallow end of the gene pool.
um I thought republicans deal more w/ minorities in order to keep them ignorant and to “W-O-R-K” as cheap labor?…. thats not very morally righteous.
That’s what you get for thinking, I guess.
There you go again Greg…It’s amazing to me how stupid conservatives are. I blame lazy lifers who sit on their arse for twenty years , engage in a bit of inbreeding, “retire”, and take up contracting. SHADDUP!!!
…as opposed to guessing (How’s the dawgs?)
I was a small business owner for some time. There is a huge difference between large corporations interests and mine. I resented what they could get away with, and never felt on the same page with their agenda. Also, when visiting my fellow strip mall business owners, i found that i was often not alone in this conclusion.
Well there is an oxymoron. A small business owner and a liberal? No wonder you are no longer in business.
Amazing. You make looking this stoopid seem effortless.
Actually Greg, i did quite well in business. The reason is not all of us “liberals” are black and white. I would be considered a Republican 25 – 30 years ago. This is something that has changed over time. My positions on a number of issues is split down the middle between what we now call Liberal and Conservative. I am certain that you neither understand nor accept this as a position. I have watched the politics of hate grow over time: i fear this will be the downfall of this country…
wrong……..pleant of white people like corporations….only libs hate corporations…and thats because they hate things that create a system where peopl work to earn money and succeed on their own. because corporations dont give out free shit to poor people, except for loans forced by libs that shut them down….libs hate them…except the ones they ruined
Your right for a change I don’t. 25 or 30 years ago, a democrat was a today republican. Now many republicans are rino’s, and democrats are communists. I haven’t changed over the years, but both parties have been dragging the entire country to the left. Since the clintoon/gore fiasco, at breakneck speed. I don’t think it will be the downfall of the country, but I wouldn’t rule out bloodshed.
you do realize that this isn’t “Stuff Conservative white people Like” it is geared at Liberals
LOL, you are the wrong kind of white person if you do
Liberals or liberals? The distinction is subtle yet essential exinsky.
It isn’t geared toward liberals or conservatives. It’s geared toward apathetic, inauthentic hipsters who are in every way susceptible to the will of They. Liberal or conservative, particularly thought out views on either of those positions, would require sincere thought and action. Sincerity is the antithesis of irony, which is the acme of white-ishness and the cornerstone of this web site.
Pay attention.
ha. haha. hahahaha. sorry, had to crack up for a minute. i love hearing republicans cry victim, and then cry foul when anybody talks about actual inequalities. seems like you’re always the one whining about the food magically disappearing from your kids’ plates. good thing they actually have food in the first place, and you don’t have to wonder where their next meal is coming from.
there are real inequalities in this country, created and perpetuated in shareholder meetings and boardrooms. race is their favorite tool and their sharpest weapon, and you disgrace your country by supporting them. democrats certainly aren’t innocent, but republicans carry the standard of exploitation and hoist it high, while you march behind them proclaiming the supremacy of your own labor.
anyone who thinks republicans are still the party of lincoln is stroking a tiny political dick and fantasizing about creaming all over the american flag.
I don’t like dontrelle, is he/she a corporation?
White people hate corporations–until they run them.
This literally made me smile. I enjoy this site.
You have drank deeply of the kool-aid my leftwingnut friend. I can see very plainly by this post that you are beyond redemption.
Brilliant!
3 Words: “Three Cups of Tea”.
I cannot believe how people try to distinguish themselves by claiming allegiance to one political party or another. You’re all the same – ignorant.
I am white, and I hate apple. I even have a zune which is probably not as good as an ipod, but I have it so I don’t have to have an ipod.
LOL! So true!
It has been said if you are a republican at 18 you have no heart and if you are democrat at 40 you have no money.
This should be adapted to whitey.
Sky Minor
A true standard in comedy blogging.
Another great site is http://www.SomethingYouShouldRead.com
I cannot believe how people pretend to be intelligent by not standing up for anything. You’re all the same too weak to deal with confrontation.
No, you’re a liberal.
It really says if you are a liberal at 40 you have no brain. Truer words were never spoken.
“Your right for a change I don’t. 25 or 30 years ago, a democrat was a today republican.”
I think illiteracy and parroting talking points is what is tearing down the country.
Aye, as well as the subdivision and polarization of the masses in political parties and religions, all fully equipped with labels and stigmas, are also to blame for bringing this country down.
Since this post is 2 years old, I wish I’d read it a month ago. I made the mistake of lumping Target in with Walmart to my coworkers one day when everyone was saying how they hate Walmart.
There was a very defensive and angry argument where ganged up on me, and when I refused to understand how Target was “different and better” than Walmart no one talked to me for 2 hours…
To settle things down I told everyone that my jacket was from Target, it wasn’t, but that made people relax again. whew.
nice save.
These people must live in cali or something cuz this is all hippie shit.
E-Bay bought the city name rights for a year in Capitola, Cal. east of Santa Cruz, while Google did the same thing in Topeka, Kansas…and I fear MSN will take over Washington (DC) in the near future. Microsoft, SN, the nation’s capital.
Don’t forget Nestle…white people hate Nestle with a passion!
To be fair, I’m a white person and the one who’s always going on about this anti-corporate shit is my black friend whenever he gets high. He’s convinced the Illuminati hates blacks and are holding them down by controlling the media and the corporations.
Guilty…
“Target as Bad as Wal-Mart? You Decide”
http://www.alternet.org/economy/35610/
lol @ Apple, Target, Ikea, etc. Is it already on the list that white people like being hypocritical?
uh…Bush is from Connecticut…
so true.
Uh, George “W.” Bush was born (and grew up) in Texas. His dad was born in Connecticut.
George W. Bush was born in Texas.
I really don’t like supporting big corporations all that much and try to shop at locally owned businesses as often as possible. (I especially enjoy the locally owned restaurants (if any of you are ever in Little Rock, AR Zaza’s pizza is the BEST!) and boutiques around where I live. But everything he says here is so right on. I have friends who even freak out about my shopping at Target occasionally. But I am on a pretty tight budget and when I need to buy some things, like contact solution or q-tips, I am probably going to buy them at Target so, no offense, but just get over it, lol! -“Apparently the belief is that when other people see this ad, they will be hit with an epiphany that their entire existence has been a Matrix-style manufactured universe.”- Great line- (LMBO)!
This is really funny.
A few years ago I was sitting next to a group of people complaining about Wal-Mart. Then one of them brings up the fact that the shoes there are really quite inexpensive and perhaps Wal-Mart is helping the poor somewhat by making their shoes more affordable. A great debate followed resulting in the conclusion that Wal-Mart was bad and poor people should be buying better shoes etc…
corporations provide hundreds, if not thousands of jobs, and fairly cheap products. They are nothing but good economically. I can’t say i like the environmental impact a lot of them have, but i don’t have a solution to it all yet, so i’m not going to denounce them when i myself can’t come up with anything better.
Things Republicans Hate: No. 29 Archaeology
http://thethingsrepublicanshate.com/?p=274
I love Naomi Klein!
there is some merit though, the treatment of workers who make wal-mart products is terrible.
The Facebook (#106) efforts of a gentrified (#73) neighborhood in Houston, TX to thwart a proposed Wal*Mart development. There are also chat rooms in which people are arguing what’s best for poor people (#62) – good wages or accessibility to low prices.
The nearby Target is very popular with the locals.
http://www.facebook.com/StopHeightsWalMart
Get yer, “sick of me yet?”, gear here!!
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I admittedly started to REALLY hate corporations almost exactly 15 years ago, long before I read “No Logo” or knew about AdBusters (which I also hate). Some of us started to hate corporations at this time due to our own observations, especially when we started to lose local independent businesses and, consequently, many members of the middle class.
FYI: http://www.bigboxswindle.org
Do I hate a lot of corporations? Absolutely. I hate them because they seem to want to create a neo-feudalist world and, while they’re at it, encourage cultural homogeny.
Younger Afro-Americans may love corporations, but the older ones should remember “Buy Black.”
BTW, I hate Target and Wal-Mart equally. . .
wow you’re original AND you’re enlightened. wait no, i meant, wow, you’re an idiot AND you’re childish.
that was a reply to another comment… kewl article 🙂
Wow this one hits home. I feel so exposed! I have never read either of those books but I am very guilty of educating other white consumer types on the evils of our shopping.
I’ll take THE SHOCK DOCTRINE over No logo, anyday USED and endorsed by every white hipster’s favourite philosopher Slavoj ZIzek. (sure he’s one of those baaad white people – he thinks vegetarians are “degenerates”
You’ve finally broken me. As I read through this list of things i realized that I’m no longer unique, I don’t have great taste in music and movies and my left wing politics sand vegetarianism is just a vulgar display of ego boosting grandstanding. And don’t even get me started about my self-serving concern for the poor. Yup, as I read through this list tears began to roll down my checks as I realized that my life is just one big pretentious sham and that the advertising agencies have played me for an even bigger sucker than the mainstream philistines I used to feel superior to. I’m serious.
Excuse the typos. I was shaking with grief as I wrote.
lol
Amen to that!
White people don’t have to face racism, discrimination, bigotry and poverty like other minorities in America so what do they do? Instead of helping minorities achieve equality in America, they pretend to hate Corporations that aren’t really fucking doing anything except making more white people rich. More superficial bullshit in America.
You know buddy, there is something such as reverse racism. I may be white but I live in a state made of primarily hispanics and mexicans. Our legislators are all hispanic or mexican and believe it or not, “whitey” is a victim of racism. Where I grew up because our community was mostly educated white people, we couldn’t have school busses with our names on them cause they would get rocks thrown at them and so would the students. I have a boyfriend who is hispanic and his brother is very light. He would get picked on at school, called a gringo and come home crying. My bf admitted that the white kids were constantly bullied. My parents came from poverty and worked hard for their education and there current lives. So you know what, it goes both ways. Fuck racism! And fuck people like you who perpetuate it. Just like not all minority groups are the same not all white people are. And also what makes you think there are not loads of poor white people. You’re just ignorant.
Oh the previous comment was a response to “fuck whitey” not the article. To the article, I see the satire, but I don’t find you funny.
LOL I saw this blog on http://www.DanielDickey.com (The MTV VJ) and I must say, it’s just as funny!!
“Fuck Whitey” is a [PREFECT] example of a racist.
IDIOTS use the term “reverse racism”….Yeah, white people are so oppressed. Man…sometimes you don’t even know where your next lobster is coming from. The clown-ass conservatives tried to pull that term out of there ass during the bid to nominate Sotamayer to the supreme court. The crusty old white men who look like Darth Vader when he took off his helmet, were spouting that nonsense. You know, because puerto rican women are oppressing rich white people and if one makes it to high office..what? what will happen? Its such a BULLSHIT term. Whites (no matter how “diverse”, “multicultural”, how many black people they know, how much 90’s hip hop they listen too,) will never know the feeling of institutionalized racism. Its not so much people burning crosses and lynching obviously (i believe this is what whites refer to when they say that racism doesn’t exist anymore and to “get over it”) it has taken a different form. It is a multi-faceted…actually, I dont really care that much. I’m high. Later.
Holy shit man that was fantastic
This is one of the most racist websites in the English language. White people are having offensive and racist slurs thrown at them and the non-white people sit back and laugh. It’s harder and harder to be a white person in today’s world.
White people, well all people, also enjoy http://www.NakedHipster.com. Mainly because the girls are hot and don’t have clothes on. Usually those two things go well together. You know, the hotness and the nakedness.
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I like your website a lot, but a few of your articles (this one is a good example) tend to be to hippyish. You should distinguish between white people and white hippies in order to be more accurate. Here is my main point in regards to this article. Most of the people who embrace corporations, work for them, and run them ARE white. Only poor hippies/liberals and poor black people (also moneyless liberals) hate corporations because they don’t know how to make money, something that white people love to do.
instead of saying “something that [white] people love to do” shouldn’t it be, some [people] have money because they understand you have to work hard to make decent money. Or, if I’m reading you right. “Moneyless liberals” have no money because they spend their time bitching about other people who have money, instead of getting off their ass and doing something to improve their lives.
No, because working hard doesn’t necessarily mean you will make money. Look at Mexicans, they work harder than anyone doing landscape work, picking grapes, or working in restaurants for less than minimum wage and they make almost no money at all.
what about hating insurance corporations:
http://www.americanchristiansociety.com
Healthcare for all citizens is the responsibility of all people in a society. Having fair and equal healthcare when needed is NOT a privilege but a RIGHT as a member of society. We are all in this together or we are not.
@Jackson>> you are truly a nutbag.. in every thread on this blog that I’ve seen your posts in, you couldn’t be more wrong. Including and certainly not limited to this one.
you fruitcakes live in a fantasy world of your own making..
God will shed light on America soon. The light could be good or bad. I am not going to point fingers. We must help each other soon. We must see the signs that we are given. We must change our ways of thinking and not worship the dollar. We mustn’t or it could spell the end of America as we know it. Our foundation is falling apart. Our debt is skyrocketing. Our middle class is decomposing. Does the hair on your neck stand up? It is not the government’s fault. It is the way of life of all Americans combined that leads to a faulty foundation. It is us who will ultimately allow for the collapse of America. We must get rid of Greed and materialistic ways. We must lend helping hands to those in need of help. And when I say lend a hand, I don’t mean to tell congress to, I mean to tell you to. Spread love throughout mankind in America and our country will be saved. Spread the word of the lord which has been around far before this country even existed. Go tell your friends and family, do not be ashamed for the lord is with you.
RIGHTS, are PRIVILEGES. Rights are not synonymous with responsibilities, in fact, rights avoid responsibilities by giving the person all of the boons without any of the hard work.
As a side note, this article is brilliant.
Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%
Americans have been watching protests against oppressive regimes that concentrate massive wealth in the hands of an elite few. Yet in our own democracy, 1 percent of the people take nearly a quarter of the nation’s income—an inequality even the wealthy will come to regret.
It’s no use pretending that what has obviously happened has not in fact happened. The upper 1 percent of Americans are now taking in nearly a quarter of the nation’s income every year. In terms of wealth rather than income, the top 1 percent control 40 percent. Their lot in life has improved considerably. Twenty-five years ago, the corresponding figures were 12 percent and 33 percent. One response might be to celebrate the ingenuity and drive that brought good fortune to these people, and to contend that a rising tide lifts all boats. That response would be misguided. While the top 1 percent have seen their incomes rise 18 percent over the past decade, those in the middle have actually seen their incomes fall. For men with only high-school degrees, the decline has been precipitous—12 percent in the last quarter-century alone. All the growth in recent decades—and more—has gone to those at the top. In terms of income equality, America lags behind any country in the old, ossified Europe that President George W. Bush used to deride. Among our closest counterparts are Russia with its oligarchs and Iran. While many of the old centers of inequality in Latin America, such as Brazil, have been striving in recent years, rather successfully, to improve the plight of the poor and reduce gaps in income, America has allowed inequality to grow.
Economists long ago tried to justify the vast inequalities that seemed so troubling in the mid-19th century—inequalities that are but a pale shadow of what we are seeing in America today. The justification they came up with was called “marginal-productivity theory.” In a nutshell, this theory associated higher incomes with higher productivity and a greater contribution to society. It is a theory that has always been cherished by the rich. Evidence for its validity, however, remains thin. The corporate executives who helped bring on the recession of the past three years—whose contribution to our society, and to their own companies, has been massively negative—went on to receive large bonuses. In some cases, companies were so embarrassed about calling such rewards “performance bonuses” that they felt compelled to change the name to “retention bonuses” (even if the only thing being retained was bad performance). Those who have contributed great positive innovations to our society, from the pioneers of genetic understanding to the pioneers of the Information Age, have received a pittance compared with those responsible for the financial innovations that brought our global economy to the brink of ruin.
Some people look at income inequality and shrug their shoulders. So what if this person gains and that person loses? What matters, they argue, is not how the pie is divided but the size of the pie. That argument is fundamentally wrong. An economy in which most citizens are doing worse year after year—an economy like America’s—is not likely to do well over the long haul. There are several reasons for this.
First, growing inequality is the flip side of something else: shrinking opportunity. Whenever we diminish equality of opportunity, it means that we are not using some of our most valuable assets—our people—in the most productive way possible. Second, many of the distortions that lead to inequality—such as those associated with monopoly power and preferential tax treatment for special interests—undermine the efficiency of the economy. This new inequality goes on to create new distortions, undermining efficiency even further. To give just one example, far too many of our most talented young people, seeing the astronomical rewards, have gone into finance rather than into fields that would lead to a more productive and healthy economy.
Third, and perhaps most important, a modern economy requires “collective action”—it needs government to invest in infrastructure, education, and technology. The United States and the world have benefited greatly from government-sponsored research that led to the Internet, to advances in public health, and so on. But America has long suffered from an under-investment in infrastructure (look at the condition of our highways and bridges, our railroads and airports), in basic research, and in education at all levels. Further cutbacks in these areas lie ahead.
None of this should come as a surprise—it is simply what happens when a society’s wealth distribution becomes lopsided. The more divided a society becomes in terms of wealth, the more reluctant the wealthy become to spend money on common needs. The rich don’t need to rely on government for parks or education or medical care or personal security—they can buy all these things for themselves. In the process, they become more distant from ordinary people, losing whatever empathy they may once have had. They also worry about strong government—one that could use its powers to adjust the balance, take some of their wealth, and invest it for the common good. The top 1 percent may complain about the kind of government we have in America, but in truth they like it just fine: too gridlocked to re-distribute, too divided to do anything but lower taxes.
Economists are not sure how to fully explain the growing inequality in America. The ordinary dynamics of supply and demand have certainly played a role: laborsaving technologies have reduced the demand for many “good” middle-class, blue-collar jobs. Globalization has created a worldwide marketplace, pitting expensive unskilled workers in America against cheap unskilled workers overseas. Social changes have also played a role—for instance, the decline of unions, which once represented a third of American workers and now represent about 12 percent.
But one big part of the reason we have so much inequality is that the top 1 percent want it that way. The most obvious example involves tax policy. Lowering tax rates on capital gains, which is how the rich receive a large portion of their income, has given the wealthiest Americans close to a free ride. Monopolies and near monopolies have always been a source of economic power—from John D. Rockefeller at the beginning of the last century to Bill Gates at the end.
Lax enforcement of anti-trust laws, especially during Republican administrations, has been a godsend to the top 1 percent. Much of today’s inequality is due to manipulation of the financial system, enabled by changes in the rules that have been bought and paid for by the financial industry itself—one of its best investments ever. The government lent money to financial institutions at close to 0 percent interest and provided generous bailouts on favorable terms when all else failed. Regulators turned a blind eye to a lack of transparency and to conflicts of interest.
When you look at the sheer volume of wealth controlled by the top 1 percent in this country, it’s tempting to see our growing inequality as a quintessentially American achievement—we started way behind the pack, but now we’re doing inequality on a world-class level. And it looks as if we’ll be building on this achievement for years to come, because what made it possible is self-reinforcing. Wealth begets power, which begets more wealth. During the savings-and-loan scandal of the 1980s—a scandal whose dimensions, by today’s standards, seem almost quaint—the banker Charles Keating was asked by a congressional committee whether the $1.5 million he had spread among a few key elected officials could actually buy influence. “I certainly hope so,” he replied. The Supreme Court, in its recent Citizens United case, has enshrined the right of corporations to buy government, by removing limitations on campaign spending. The personal and the political are today in perfect alignment. Virtually all U.S. senators, and most of the representatives in the House, are members of the top 1 percent when they arrive, are kept in office by money from the top 1 percent, and know that if they serve the top 1 percent well they will be rewarded by the top 1 percent when they leave office. By and large, the key executive-branch policymakers on trade and economic policy also come from the top 1 percent. When pharmaceutical companies receive a trillion-dollar gift—through legislation prohibiting the government, the largest buyer of drugs, from bargaining over price—it should not come as cause for wonder. It should not make jaws drop that a tax bill cannot emerge from Congress unless big tax cuts are put in place for the wealthy. Given the power of the top 1 percent, this is the way you would expect the system to work.
America’s inequality distorts our society in every conceivable way. There is, for one thing, a well-documented lifestyle effect—people outside the top 1 percent increasingly live beyond their means. Trickle-down economics may be a chimera, but trickle-down behaviorism is very real. Inequality massively distorts our foreign policy. The top 1 percent rarely serve in the military—the reality is that the “all-volunteer” army does not pay enough to attract their sons and daughters, and patriotism goes only so far. Plus, the wealthiest class feels no pinch from higher taxes when the nation goes to war: borrowed money will pay for all that. Foreign policy, by definition, is about the balancing of national interests and national resources. With the top 1 percent in charge, and paying no price, the notion of balance and restraint goes out the window. There is no limit to the adventures we can undertake; corporations and contractors stand only to gain. The rules of economic globalization are likewise designed to benefit the rich: they encourage competition among countries for business, which drives down taxes on corporations, weakens health and environmental protections, and undermines what used to be viewed as the “core” labor rights, which include the right to collective bargaining. Imagine what the world might look like if the rules were designed instead to encourage competition among countries for workers. Governments would compete in providing economic security, low taxes on ordinary wage earners, good education, and a clean environment—things workers care about. But the top 1 percent don’t need to care.
Or, more accurately, they think they don’t. Of all the costs imposed on our society by the top 1 percent, perhaps the greatest is this: the erosion of our sense of identity, in which fair play, equality of opportunity, and a sense of community are so important. America has long prided itself on being a fair society, where everyone has an equal chance of getting ahead, but the statistics suggest otherwise: the chances of a poor citizen, or even a middle-class citizen, making it to the top in America are smaller than in many countries of Europe. The cards are stacked against them. It is this sense of an unjust system without opportunity that has given rise to the conflagrations in the Middle East: rising food prices and growing and persistent youth unemployment simply served as kindling. With youth unemployment in America at around 20 percent (and in some locations, and among some socio-demographic groups, at twice that); with one out of six Americans desiring a full-time job not able to get one; with one out of seven Americans on food stamps (and about the same number suffering from “food insecurity”)—given all this, there is ample evidence that something has blocked the vaunted “trickling down” from the top 1 percent to everyone else. All of this is having the predictable effect of creating alienation—voter turnout among those in their 20s in the last election stood at 21 percent, comparable to the unemployment rate.
In recent weeks we have watched people taking to the streets by the millions to protest political, economic, and social conditions in the oppressive societies they inhabit. Governments have been toppled in Egypt and Tunisia. Protests have erupted in Libya, Yemen, and Bahrain. The ruling families elsewhere in the region look on nervously from their air-conditioned penthouses—will they be next? They are right to worry. These are societies where a minuscule fraction of the population—less than 1 percent—controls the lion’s share of the wealth; where wealth is a main determinant of power; where entrenched corruption of one sort or another is a way of life; and where the wealthiest often stand actively in the way of policies that would improve life for people in general.
As we gaze out at the popular fervor in the streets, one question to ask ourselves is this: When will it come to America? In important ways, our own country has become like one of these distant, troubled places.
Alexis de Tocqueville once described what he saw as a chief part of the peculiar genius of American society—something he called “self-interest properly understood.” The last two words were the key. Everyone possesses self-interest in a narrow sense: I want what’s good for me right now! Self-interest “properly understood” is different. It means appreciating that paying attention to everyone else’s self-interest—in other words, the common welfare—is in fact a precondition for one’s own ultimate well-being. Tocqueville was not suggesting that there was anything noble or idealistic about this outlook—in fact, he was suggesting the opposite. It was a mark of American pragmatism. Those canny Americans understood a basic fact: looking out for the other guy isn’t just good for the soul—it’s good for business.
The top 1 percent have the best houses, the best educations, the best doctors, and the best lifestyles, but there is one thing that money doesn’t seem to have bought: an understanding that their fate is bound up with how the other 99 percent live. Throughout history, this is something that the top 1 percent eventually do learn. Too late.
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May I share this in it’s entirety with others? Not as my own words of course, just as an intelligent and extremely well written discourse on America and it’s recent history. Absolutely brilliant.
I really like how you stereotype white people here. But that’s okay because we do it to black people, brown people, and yellow people and as long as we all think the other is stereotyping us… there is no harm or advancement.
Your not supposed to write a book in the comments
actually white people tend to be more right wing leaning than any other ethnic group in America. Historically, nearly all communists in America have been Jewish or Black.
Hence…the reasons why we have this inequality today.
When we the 99% do not educate ourselves, we end up buying into the corporate propaganda fed to us, like the military industrial complex propaganda of fear. “We need to fight them over there so we don’t fight them over here.” We end up believing the propaganda by the health insurance industry that effectively subverted any quality health care reform. “health care-for-all and a public option are bad for us”…”Death Panels, Waiting lists, etc.”
When we don’t educate ourselves we continually vote against what is in our best interests. We elect officials based on “feelings” rather than on knowledge. The policies that these elected officials create cause us to end up unemployed, foreclosed upon, uninsured or under insured, overly tax burdened, without the basic social safety nets that the rest of the industrialized (for lack of a better word) world enjoys.
Thank you for educating me, Nobel Laureate Stiglitz
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@wbettez
Propaganda and advertising are very different. Corporations by law are not allowed to use propaganda. Propaganda is lying by omission, which advertising is not and never will be.
Of course, “Occupy Wall Street” would be the logical conclusion of “hating corporations” and the beginning of world-wide movement of un-focussed self righteousness. It’s also no coincidence that Kalle Lasn of Adbusters is responsible for the creation of the whole thing.
ahahah this is kind of true. yes alot of white people have brought up evils of corporations. my favorite is when they bring up the evils of outsourcing and importing from china. Its also true that they talk about walmart, mc donalds and few other yet they don’t seem to mention apple at all. you know what I really like this sight. its not a perfect depiction of whites but its close, I’ve lived in the us for my whole life and i can’t quite put my finger on it, I couldn’t explain what it was about the people. This website really puts the ideas into words. what’s funnier is that white people will post comments that seem to reject the post but in a way illistrate exactly what you were saying. they are the weirdest people in the world. asians, Hispanics, africans and people from all over the world are normal and its easy to understand them. Next you should write about white people’s OCD issues and also write about the discontent with math/science based americans and artsy’s. your website is mostly depiciting the artsy ones.
Rather than share the link, I think its better if you obozo fluffing douchebags read this for yourself….
August 18, 2011 Obama: The Affirmative Action President by Matt Patterson (columnist – Washington Post, New York Post, San Francisco Examiner)
Years from now, historians may regard the 2008 election of Barack Obama as an inscrutable and disturbing phenomenon, a baffling breed of mass hysteria akin perhaps to the witch craze of the Middle Ages. How, they will wonder, did a man so devoid of professional accomplishment beguile so many into thinking he could manage the world’s largest economy, direct the world’s most powerful military, execute the world’s most consequential job?
Imagine a future historian examining Obama’s pre-presidential life: usheredinto and through the Ivy League despite unremarkable grades and test scoresalong the way; a cushy non-job as a “community organizer”; a brief career as a state legislator devoid of legislative achievement (and in factnearly devoid of his attention, so often did he vote “present”) ; and finally an unaccomplished single term in the United States Senate, the entirety of which was devoted to his presidential ambitions. He left no academic legacy in academia, authored no signature legislation as a legislator.
And then there is the matter of his troubling associations: the white-hating, America-loathing preacher who for decades served as Obama’s “spiritual mentor”; a real-life, actual terrorist who served as Obama’s colleague and political sponsor. It is easy to imagine a future historian looking at it all and asking: how on Earth was such a man elected president?
Not content to wait for history, the incomparable Norman Podhoretz addressed the question recently in the Wall Street Journal:
To be sure, no white candidate who had close associations with an outspokenhater of America like Jeremiah Wright and an unrepentant terrorist like Bill Ayers, would have lasted a single day. But because Mr. Obama was black, andtherefore entitled in the eyes of liberaldom to have hung out with protesters against various American injustices, even if they were a bit extreme, he was given a pass.
Let that sink in: Obama was given a pass — held to a lower standard — because of the color of his skin. Podhoretz continues:
And in any case, what did such ancient history matter when he was also so articulate and elegant and (as he himself had said) “non-threatening,” all of which gave him a fighting chance to become the first black president and thereby to lay the curse of racism to rest?
Podhoretz puts his finger, I think, on the animating pulse of the Obama phenomenon — affirmative action. Not in the legal sense, of course. But certainly in the motivating sentiment behind all affirmative action laws and regulations, which are designed primarily to make white people, and especially white liberals, feel good about themselves.
Unfortunately, minorities often suffer so that whites can pat themselves on the back. Liberals routinely admit minorities to schools for which they are notqualified, yet take no responsibility for the inevitable poor performance and high drop-out rates which follow. Liberals don’t care if these minority students fail; liberals aren’t around to witness the emotional devastation and deflated self esteem resulting from the racist policy that is affirmative action. Yes, racist.
Holding someone to a separate standard merely because of the color of his skin — that’s affirmative action in a nutshell, and if that isn’t racism, then nothing is. And that is what America did to Obama.
True, Obama himself was never troubled by his lack of achievements, but whywould he be? As many have noted, Obama was told he was good enough for Columbia despite undistinguished grades at Occidental; he was told he was good enough for the US Senate despite a mediocre record in Illinois ; he was told he wasgood enough to be president despite no record at all in the Senate. All hislife, every step of the way, Obama was told he was good enough for the nextstep, in spite of ample evidence to the contrary. What could this breed if not the sort of empty narcissism on display every time Obama speaks?
In 2008, many who agreed that he lacked executive qualifications nonetheless raved about Obama’s oratory skills, intellect, and cool character. Those people — conservatives included — ought now to be deeply embarrassed. The man thinks and speaks in the hoariest of clichés, and that’s when he has his teleprompter in front of him; when the prompter is absent he can barely think or speak at all. Not one original idea has ever issued from his mouth — it’s all warmed-over Marxism of the kind that has failed over and over again for 100 years.
And what about his character? Obama is constantly blaming anything and everything else for his troubles. Bush did it; it was bad luck; I inheritedthis mess. It is embarrassing to see a president so willing to advertise his own powerlessness, so comfortable with his own incompetence. But really, what were we to expect? The man has never been responsible for anything, so how do we expect him to act responsibly?
In short: our president is a small and small-minded man, with neither the temperament nor the intellect to handle his job. When you understand that, and only when you understand that, will the current erosion of liberty and prosperity make sense. It could not have gone otherwise with such a man in the Oval Office.
tl;dr
I don’t think it’s fair to say that white people are a group! lol i’m half white but grandma is black… is there a “stuff coloured people like”? oh wait. only white people are self hating because they have no religion, spirituality or any form of ritual ahh. but i digress, protest is a powerful thing that white people pioneer at, so whatever. there are good and bad sides to any stereotype
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I am black. I will refer to Boo Boo from Harvey Birdman for my answer.
“I do believe corporations rob us of our dignity and independence, and that these systems must be ripped down, burnt down, or leveled by any force necessary. “
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