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March 16, 2008 by clander

Leaving Behind the Trucker Hat by Allen Salkin in The New York Times, March 16, 2008.

Stuff referenced:

Posted in News | 216 Comments

216 Responses

on March 16, 2008 at 7:53 am BS

Please don’t tell me your next entry will be carhartt pants.
on March 16, 2008 at 7:54 am FXSmom

lol…Nice 🙂
on March 16, 2008 at 7:55 am offendedblogger

It is such an honor to see that my people are finally being portrayed in such a positive way in the media.

I thank Jesus every single day for giving me the strength to continue to fight the good fight, despite all of the obstacles I face daily as a white girl from Idaho.

His tacos with extra, extra jalepenos are sometimes the only things that keeps me going!!

Hooyah!! 😉
on March 16, 2008 at 7:56 am lizelby

Great job!
on March 16, 2008 at 8:00 am Stuff College People Like

cool
on March 16, 2008 at 8:00 am Stuff College People Like

http://stuffcollegepeoplelike.wordpress.com
on March 16, 2008 at 8:01 am Ian

I read this yesterday and thought it would be perfect for this site! Bravo!

I’m giving up my job to be a farmer!

Visit New Paltz, NY if you want to see this kind of stuff in action!

HAHAH
on March 16, 2008 at 8:04 am T

also mentioned:

microbrew beer
on March 16, 2008 at 8:05 am Matthew

HAHAHA
on March 16, 2008 at 8:09 am tuben

Wow… Legitimization… Congrats on finally having evidence to back up your hilarious topics!

RC
on March 16, 2008 at 8:11 am Matthew

You missed the critical reference–“…feeling good about yourself.”
on March 16, 2008 at 8:12 am mojowrkn

AKA What to do when you trust fund comes in…….
on March 16, 2008 at 8:17 am Tee

Congrats on the exposure! You’re showing up in a lot of the “top blog listings” nowadays, and I keep getting articles emailed to me from your site. That’s great news for you, keep up the good work!!

http://www.joyfuldigesting.com/
on March 16, 2008 at 8:19 am M

– Top 10 lists
– Surfing
– Photo booths
– Record players + vinyl
– Expensive haircuts
– Sailing
– RSS feeds
– Bagels
– Designer or vintage sunglasses
– Religious experimentation/shopping for religion
on March 16, 2008 at 8:21 am jonesview

Reminds me of the 60’s TV show “Green Acres”.

http://www.jonesview.wordpress.com
on March 16, 2008 at 8:23 am Zen

“Wearing Carhartt and leather, motherf_ck the weather, on Valentine’s Day, doing stickups together” – Gangta Bitch by Apache

Not sure of Apache is on the approved rappers list for white people. He’s retro now so maybe he has the kitcsch factor working in his favor?
on March 16, 2008 at 8:24 am MWINYIMBEGU

waited 4 days and this is all i get?

how about white people and THE WEST WING?
on March 16, 2008 at 8:39 am Bob

All of those eight things posted are white people things for closeted homosexuals supplied by white closeted homosexuals.

Just look at that girl’s disgusting hairdo in that picture: there can be little doubt she is trying to look like a boy.
on March 16, 2008 at 8:42 am troppmann

hilarious!!
on March 16, 2008 at 8:44 am Jeff

Best one yet. Now I can’t stop looking at “Awesome Farm’s” website.
on March 16, 2008 at 8:50 am www.anythingblack.wordpress.com

LOLOL damn this is a good post
on March 16, 2008 at 8:51 am M@

How ironic. I thought immediately of your blog when I saw that on the front page of The New York Times’ online version.
on March 16, 2008 at 8:52 am The Don

lol i’m having a hard time understanding this post

http://www.hustlershome.com
on March 16, 2008 at 8:53 am M@

I particularly enjoyed how the writer made the distinction that now their “Carharts” lacked irony.
on March 16, 2008 at 8:53 am Hammer Loop

A couple people have already referred to them, but Carhartts are definitely stuff white people like. They act similarly to the Outdoor Performance Gear, letting other white people know how rugged you are. Carhartt’s also say to other white people – “Hey. I work hard. I like drinking coffee and eating scones, but I might have to go frame a house or ride a tractor in a minute.” The degree of wear shows how much a particular white person truly needs the durability of Carhartt pants.

White people like to show off diversity in their Carhartt apparel. Pants used to be good enough. No longer. Sweatshirts, stocking caps and overalls are even becoming cliche. Soon, white people will have to wear the full-body, insulated coveralls to really prove how hard their lives are.

There’s a crucial difference between the mountain gear and Carhartts, though. While the performance gear is expensive and excludes poor people and working class people (who white people care about), Carhartts are more inclusive, affordable and worn by actual farmers and actual construction workers! Thus, rich white people can blend in with less rich white people and escape the guilt of higher education. This way, through the wonders of brand loyalty, white people can say “Farmer Joe. I understand what it feels like to work a fourteen hour day shoveling poop. I feel your pain. Just check out the pants.”
on March 16, 2008 at 8:59 am Noah

And irony! It was the first line of the article!
on March 16, 2008 at 9:01 am gaycondo

Book deal next?

http://gaycondo.wordpress.com
on March 16, 2008 at 9:04 am steevo

This times article should have been called: “the life of a trust fund baby”
on March 16, 2008 at 9:05 am pchuck

You missed the critical reference to studying abroad, one of these hipsters spend a two years in Italy.
on March 16, 2008 at 9:07 am vanitylicenseplates

I am anxious to see something about white people adn best seller books in airports.

http://www.platenuts.com
on March 16, 2008 at 9:11 am Jordan

Other stuff white people like: shamelessly plugging their own blogs.

Like this: ipostupost.com.

White people will love this blog.
on March 16, 2008 at 9:22 am Micah

did you get this from my blog? 😛 so true though.
on March 16, 2008 at 9:24 am andrew e

hah… I second the west wing. In fact I think an aaron sorkin post as a whole has strong comedic possibilities.
on March 16, 2008 at 9:33 am Anna

Admittedly I thought this was going to be a NY Times article about “Stuff White People Like.” But it was really about stuff white people like.

Ah, Clander. I see what you did there.
on March 16, 2008 at 9:44 am Hard knock life

Congrats guys! Love this blog.

Suggestion for a new post: sarcasm. No other ethnicity or country (except England) are hip to this phenomenon.
on March 16, 2008 at 9:49 am Steph

Speaking for my white self via my white macbook, I can also assure you that white people like charities involving birds of prey and cute cute babies!

http://world-bird-sanctuary.blogspot.com/
on March 16, 2008 at 9:49 am Win Your Weight in Immigrants™

Anyone can get an article in the New York Times. You haven’t arrived until you become a crossword entry.

“STUFFWHITEPEOPLELIKE” is 20 letters, so it would have to be a Sunday one, too. Otherwise, the grid is too “shortz”.
on March 16, 2008 at 9:53 am Long Island

Great Site!

Maybe should start some sort of white drinking game while reading this story. Every time a favorite white person activity is mentioned we drink a shot of espresso. That would be non-starbucks espresso.
on March 16, 2008 at 9:55 am John T

White people have been doing this for decades — ever read the Whole Earth Catalog? The NYT article made me laugh, but I’d rather see white people spending their trust funds on boutique organic farms and non-ironic Carhartts than wasting their parents’ money on cocaine and designer denim. When the apocalypse comes (another thing white people like: fantasizing about the apocalypse), at least they’ll be able to grow their own food.
on March 16, 2008 at 9:58 am still white....

while i laugh hysterically at the posts on this website, it just continues the “rock and hard spot” of being a caring white person. I can’t change my skin color-neither can black people.

I’ve realized that if I try to learn and care about others’ issues, I fall into the “you try but you DON’T even KNOW” category, and if I don’t try, I”m just an ignorant white person- both of which are deemed stupid by this blog. (keep trying or give up?)

My rant this week goes out to the less-used phrase of “PEOPLE” after any category… When did it become ok in language or in print to refer to “gays” or “blacks”? I only speak in terms of “black people” or “gay PEOPLE” or “asian PEOPLE” in the hope that the common denominator is perceived, humanity not categories.
on March 16, 2008 at 10:01 am Elizabeth

This is a good one! I immediately thought of this blog when I saw this in the Times.
on March 16, 2008 at 10:17 am Ibrahim

Make sure you guys do your research b4 u go being “farmers.” It’s a lot harder than you think.

Ibrahim

http://www.IGotUGGs.com
http://www.BehindtheApprovalMatrix.com
on March 16, 2008 at 10:22 am Long Island

Steph

White people love animal web cams too.

Osprey Cam.
on March 16, 2008 at 10:30 am DDDddd

liberal arts college
on March 16, 2008 at 10:32 am Lins

#89 – Richard Simmons
on March 16, 2008 at 10:53 am Teve Torbes

Oh my God. It’s the Holy Grail.
on March 16, 2008 at 10:53 am Teve Torbes

Shit…I forgot to put on jazz while I was reading this…and it was on a Sunday.
on March 16, 2008 at 10:55 am Snufkin

When I saw this article on the NYTimes site, I thought it was an Onion parody, what with the strange hat that guy’s wearing and it supposedly being about agriculture yet located in the Style section. I guess all of those hipster librarians they profiled last Summer (which is another part of their “Stuff White People Like” series) got tired of ordering DDC themed cocktails and chucked it all for opening up a boutique organic farm.

Otherwise, how is this new and significant? Pretty much any organic farm in California is run by old hippies who got into food issues and agriculture back during the 60s. Does the name Alice Waters ring a bell? Also a large % of any farm that’s selling at Farmer’s Market out here is Southeast Asian/Hmong immigrants. But I guess an article about trying to survive in a new culture while holding on to your roots is probably not as stylish as talking about how to apply that liberal arts degree to food issues.
on March 16, 2008 at 10:55 am Teve Torbes

Shit…I forgot to put on jazz while I was reading this…and it was on a Sunday.

39, that’s true–but do we really want these particularly people to survive the apocalypse?
on March 16, 2008 at 10:56 am Teve Torbes

39, that’s true–but do we really want these particularly people to survive the apocalypse?
on March 16, 2008 at 11:01 am Lilja

Great list.
I like the Arts Degrees -> and then really understand art. Organic Food scores high too 🙂
Stay healthy!
on March 16, 2008 at 11:04 am Quasimondo

Thanks for ruining another good keyboard. I was just reading that same article minutes ago, which made me check this site, which brings to full circle, the definition of irony.
on March 16, 2008 at 11:14 am Win Your Weight in Immigrants™

Allow me to amend comment #37. You can indeed fit the name of this blog into a daily NYT puzzle, if you split it up:

STUFFWHITE
PEOPLELIKE

How symmetrical. And “CHRISTIANLANDER” would fit across the 15-square daily grid in either direction.
on March 16, 2008 at 11:14 am Dave

You forgot “Brooklyn Lager,” an excellent Microbrew.
on March 16, 2008 at 11:28 am D

One thing I did not see on the list that is quintessentially white – pumpkins. White people love pumpkins! Living in the Northeast it’s too bad we only have them in the fall. I was proud to have my pumpkin displayed from October-January. Wish I could have them displayed year-round as they are very white 🙂
on March 16, 2008 at 11:33 am Z.O.P.

So let me get the new white hierarchy correct…

Organic Farmer > Bike Mechanic ?
on March 16, 2008 at 11:40 am Anonymous

Okay I have a question for this blogger.

Does he actually believe that things like hating corporations, growing organic food, and having a much less materialistic society is a bad thing?

Or is he hating on the hypocritical pretentious assholes who only talk/wear those values on their sleeves but don’t do a damn thing about it type of people.

If it’s the former then he is just a fool.
on March 16, 2008 at 11:40 am Pablopapabso

OMFG, this article is embarrassing. In those articles they mentioned about fifteen Universities. Of course, a professor from UC Santa Cruz had to comment. I go there, statistically it is the whitest UC.
on March 16, 2008 at 11:43 am Expert Level White Person

#54

Pumpkins remain one of the few truly seasonal crops. Nobody has them year round. This is probably contributes to why white people like them so much.
on March 16, 2008 at 11:43 am The Lipstick Librarian!

OMG–you read my mind! When reading this, I got that sinking feeling of not being hip enough. Then I realized it was really the feeling I wasn’t white enough for folks.

Thanks stuffwhitepeoplelike, for making me realize that once again being biracial means never having to apologize for not acting white or Asian enough for this world.
on March 16, 2008 at 11:49 am Pablopapabso

It’s time we stop dicking around and get the real meat of this issue. White people fucking love food ethics. It allows us buy expensive food, compete, and pretend we are doing good just be eating.
on March 16, 2008 at 12:02 pm lols

#1 needn’t worry, people who wear Carhartt in a non-ironic fashion are the “wrong kind of white people.” I also think #44 needn’t worry – Richard Simmons has also fallen to “wrong kind” standing, even if we concede there might have been an argument for “right kind” 20 years ago.

Guy + Girl living together and not having sex would probably also qualify under the other recent entry, “Gays.” Might be a stretch. At least emo if not. It’s gonna be cute when they get bored of Scattergories and take their Prius out to the local bar only to get smacked around when when they’re overheard complaining that there’s no Brooklyn Lager on tap. Anyway, I hope VH1 does a “Where are they now?” in 18 months, after the novelty wears off and they get a dose of oh-shit-I-actually-have-to-do-work.
on March 16, 2008 at 12:15 pm kaytchinha

Like others here, I read the NYTimes article first and thought it had to be a joke, because it so dripped with excessive white detail.
on March 16, 2008 at 12:30 pm Paleforce

I believe the white profession food chain goes something like this. I’m going to take a stab at this…Feel free to add items or correct it.

Organic Farmer
Ultra-Progressive elected grass-roots local politician
Works an international humanitarian non-profit
Bike Mechanic
Works at any other type of non-profit
Manager for a band that is considered ‘cool’ this week
Works for ‘hip’ company and ‘designs’ stuff
Pot grower
Any other type of job
on March 16, 2008 at 12:34 pm James

The NY Times basically wrote this article with your blog in mind.
on March 16, 2008 at 12:47 pm Sue

What is UP with that dude’s hat? Even a white person should know better than to mix it with a carhart, though somehow it makes more sense on him than her. That picture is screaming for a caption such as the ones you might find on Stuff on My Cat. But I am much better at laughing at captions than writing my own.
on March 16, 2008 at 1:02 pm Tom

I actually cannot read that article, it’s too cringey. It’s like goatse with words.

You would never, EVER catch a non-white saying anything was “like goatse”.
on March 16, 2008 at 1:03 pm PA

Other high-status Whiterpeople professions:

– Visiting literature professor
– Civil rights lawyer
– Peace Corps volunteer
– Photographer
on March 16, 2008 at 1:19 pm GG

Yes! I love how the article mentions, for no reason, that the one guy, ‘spent two years living it Italy after graduation.’ As if that somehow qualifies him to work on a farm.
on March 16, 2008 at 1:32 pm pornstarbabylon

No mention yet of white people liking porn? It’s this countries number one past time!

http://pornstarbabylon.wordpress.com/
on March 16, 2008 at 1:35 pm pornstarbabylon

Oh god! I just noticed that was number 69. HAHAHAHA! 🙂
on March 16, 2008 at 1:39 pm The Dude

I know it’s already been mentioned, but there’s 11 references. The missing one is Microbrewed beer.
on March 16, 2008 at 1:39 pm Russell

Cha-ching! Still, they mentioned mud and carhartts. You’ve got to be a hell of a yuppie to get your feet dirty. Hell, they might even listen to Tim McGraw.
on March 16, 2008 at 1:47 pm heather's damage

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

Not that I can talk, as while I’m reading this article, I’m listening to this american life on podcast as i sit in a lab @ my liberal arts college working on shit for my women’s studies degree.

Makes me glad I’m just a tourist in the land of UppityOvereducatedWhitePeople.
on March 16, 2008 at 1:59 pm Restructure!

LOL, that NYT article reads like satire.
on March 16, 2008 at 2:22 pm get with the program

hey, #56, have no fear: Christian is himself white and says he does and likes many of these things (unless of course the name Christian Lander and the pictures on the site are just a front for a Hmong villager in Cambodia who for some strange reason wants us to believe he knows all about white people in the USA).
on March 16, 2008 at 2:41 pm culture vulture

yup, couldn’t read the Times article without thinking this is only possible because they know they have their parents’ wealth to fall back on, use to get a loan. I read this and see the ‘racial wealth gap’ written all over it. of course race is never mentioned in the article (though all the pictures of are of white farmers), but this is SO white. the person who made the quip about trust funds is onto something.
on March 16, 2008 at 3:31 pm Khaki

I think the author of the article mined this blog to find out what white people like… so many things in one little article.
on March 16, 2008 at 3:40 pm Stuff People Like

Coming up with lists is fun!

Add your RSS/ATOM to the site below and everybody can have a list, including hopefully, Stuff Mr T Likes!

http://www.StuffPeopleLike.org

(Organized Feed for Stuff People Like)
on March 16, 2008 at 3:48 pm lguerrrr

Would it be fair to say that white people like being ‘authentic’ by following the latest trends?

I’m a PhD student (non-white) in business. I notice many white PhD students in business are not fans of capitalism, economics, or any of the research that would inform firms about how to be profitable … which is supposed to be the whole point of doing business research.

Corporate Social Responsibility is their thing. Nevermind that we have not figured out the answers to profitable growth. The new trend is to not focus on profitability or else you’ll be called … greedy.

It’s like if medical researchers gave up on the whole curing diseases thing and started researching hugs or smiles.
on March 16, 2008 at 4:04 pm Dan

http://mantivity.blogspot.com/
on March 16, 2008 at 4:07 pm Red State Hillary Supporter

54-D, I live in a deep south red-state and I just got rid of my pumpkins! Had them on display from October until this week.

If they hadn’t gone moldy, I would have left them up indefinitely. I love pumpkins!

PS: If all you northeast liberals want real agie stuff, y’all need to come down below the Mason-Dixon line.

Love this blog!
on March 16, 2008 at 4:12 pm todman777

Hey, love the site. Keep up the good work. I am sadly unhappy that many of the things you talk about, I do/wear/think. http://reverendtiki.wordpress.com/
on March 16, 2008 at 4:38 pm Matt

Organic farming?… the idea of moving into the country?… that’s a topic unto itself
on March 16, 2008 at 4:41 pm damian

carhartt europe is that real piff. stuff white people don’t understand. that street shit my nigga
on March 16, 2008 at 4:47 pm browwiw

Huh. I didn’t know about the ironic Carhartt thing. See, I’m from Kentucky…and, well, you know. Sigh.

There actually used to be a Carhartt factory in my hometown, until it got relocated to Mexico. Damn corporations.

Crap, now I’m doing it.
on March 16, 2008 at 5:13 pm Soni

St Patrick’s Day just has to be on this list tomorrow.
on March 16, 2008 at 5:15 pm Thom

Holy crap! That’s my hometown, no lies!
Not mentioned in the article: not five minutes away from Tivoli there is a liberal arts college. (Bard College).
on March 16, 2008 at 5:21 pm Soni

St. Patrick’s Day just has to be on this list tomorrow. Or at least House of Pain (or were they already posted? I forget)
on March 16, 2008 at 5:26 pm Sue

Am I the only one who is deeply disturbed by that hat?
on March 16, 2008 at 5:37 pm D

81 – Red State Hillary Supporter

I live in the Northeast, but I am not liberal 🙂
on March 16, 2008 at 5:44 pm Bomb

The most ridiculous thing in the article to me was that this guy started farming 3 years ago. And now he gives seminars in New York called “so you want to be a farmer”. Like it’s not enough for him to just move to a farm, grow crops and shut the fuck up? He needs to tell large crowds about his experience to try and feel special about himself.

Good job with the site.
Keep up the good work.
on March 16, 2008 at 5:45 pm tan crayon

That hat is a thing of beauty, only a very high level of caucasian could pull it off!
on March 16, 2008 at 5:51 pm Justin

“Our rock stars are ricotta makers.” – so goddamn funny.

#90: Doing hard labor for fun/fulfillment.

White people love to do work that was either rendered obsolete or unnecessary by modern machinery or passed down to poor nonwhites. Another thing white people love is filling their spare time with fun or fulfilling pastimes. Doing hard or tedious manual labor as a hobby or lifestyle fulfills this need perfectly and soothes any white boredom or feelings of inadequate whiteness. Hard labor, if done correctly, can also incorporate other things that white people like, like organic food, bicycles, tshirts, dogs, or microbrewed beer. Whether it’s organic farming, brewing one’s own beer, designing ones’ own tshirts, making funky dog leashes/organic dog treats, or fixing/assembling bicycles, a creative white person can do all sorts of hard work that no nonwhite person would ever do outside of their jobs.
on March 16, 2008 at 5:54 pm violet from van

“OK, class, today’s Creative Writing 101 assignment: go to stuffwhitepeoplelike. Write an article for a well known newspaper (if you have to ask which paper you automatically fail) referring to as many entries from this website as possible.”

the people at the onion must be seriously pissed that the nyt beat them to the punch. an earlier poster is right – it does read like satire.
on March 16, 2008 at 5:56 pm tb

White people love sitting at their MacBook, sipping coffee and reading about new underground sushi restaurants while reading stuffwhitepeoplelike. They laugh and say things like “that’s so true!” “this is hilarious!” because if they can’t make fun of themselves they aren’t as smart as they thought they were.
on March 16, 2008 at 5:58 pm Quasimondo

After reading this again I’ve come up with one word:

VALIDATION
on March 16, 2008 at 6:03 pm Get Over Yourself...

Sounds like some real trendy shit…and hard fucking work to boot. I say no thanks to organic farming…I’m a capitalist to the core and I’m buying my produce from WholeFoods.

Fuck. It.
on March 16, 2008 at 6:04 pm sbh

i have never seen anything but white people at wineries??
on March 16, 2008 at 6:04 pm Red State Hillary Supporter

#90–D–and you’re still alive, lol? How do you survive up there with all that brie?
on March 16, 2008 at 6:19 pm mylosh

These people are assholes

Organic farms take jobs away from immigrants

Don’t buy organic
on March 16, 2008 at 6:20 pm lanphuong

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on March 16, 2008 at 6:27 pm olen

Totally. Fully living the dream, the lifestyle, the look. How dedicated of them! Self-righteous White hipsters asserting their authenticity because they couldn’t cut it in the city. I love it. Somebody give these kids a cookie!
on March 16, 2008 at 6:46 pm D

99 – Red State Hillary Supporter

It is not easy in my particular Northeast location, but us white conservatives stick together, secret society style – very white 🙂
on March 16, 2008 at 6:48 pm D

98 – sbh

You hit the nail on the head, wineries/vineyards are very white – one of the reasons I love them 🙂
on March 16, 2008 at 6:50 pm D

Boating, eapecially regattas – very white 🙂
on March 16, 2008 at 6:51 pm D

Anything equestrian is very white 🙂
on March 16, 2008 at 6:53 pm D

I am fairly certain that blogging is pretty white 🙂
on March 16, 2008 at 7:02 pm Catsandbeer.com

It’s high time the media starts paying attention to White People
on March 16, 2008 at 7:09 pm Red State Hillary Supporter

104-107 D–Are you WASPy white? Or mongrel white?

LOL!!!!!

Should I be wishing you Happy Saint Patrick’s Day?

It sound like you live on the Connecticut shoreline. Now, that is whitewhitewhite!

See, we red-state folk know our liberal Northeast white stuff, fer shure, y’all!

I have to go put my car up on blocks now.

Nice chatting with y’all.
on March 16, 2008 at 8:08 pm Linda

I love people saying this is for white yuppies. Stop lying. All white people of any class can relate to over half of this blog.
on March 16, 2008 at 8:45 pm frmad

thank you
on March 16, 2008 at 8:50 pm frmad

Congratulation!! both of your blog, and this post are high ranked in our
“The top blogs of the day.” report
on March 16, 2008 at 8:50 pm frmad

Congratulation!
“The top blogs of the day.” report
on March 16, 2008 at 9:21 pm Becker

a big thanks to the new york times for writing about the struggles of a rockin ricotta cheesemaker, awesome farms, and entry-level farmers. also a big thanks to nyc for discovering farmers’ markets.
on March 16, 2008 at 9:32 pm AlotOfVagina

During the snowboard trip in Canada you used your iPhone to take that picture then asking the two if they were Gay? while wearing a North Face Jacket, supporting an Obama t-shirt, sipping on Starbucks.

It’s all fun. I guess white people like everything.

You will never run out of topics if writing about all us white people.

You forgot a topic: PORN!

{nude twister anyone?}
on March 16, 2008 at 10:59 pm DFCtomm

No no no! The freaky white people this blog applies to need to stay the hell away from rural areas, and never wear Carhartt, or own a John Deere or any Deere merchandise. I swear to God! Do not make me blanket mail copies of Deliverance to city zip codes. I will do it!
on March 16, 2008 at 11:00 pm DFCtomm

Bootleg copies of Deliverance of course, but still just as effective.
on March 17, 2008 at 12:07 am amandzing

hehehe. i like it.
on March 17, 2008 at 12:07 am Win Your Weight in Immigrants™

White people in the upper Midwest have a hard time getting into this agrisubculture, because the Hmong got there first and now run most of the farmers’ markets in the frozen north.

But the occasional Hmong child is born flaxen-blond, so maybe there’s something to their legends of having a white strain way way way back, somewhere. This city-to-farm business kind of reinforces the idea.
on March 17, 2008 at 1:08 am the dilated pupil

OMFG ITS TOO MUCH!!!! TOO MUCH!!!!

*dies of laughter*
on March 17, 2008 at 6:44 am bt

I n’ I Trustafari! Jah, VISA!
on March 17, 2008 at 7:04 am miz

wow, that article was a tour de force of whiteness.
on March 17, 2008 at 7:09 am Quinn

lets be real. this guy loves his trust fund, not working hard. he looks like a complete moron with that stupid hat in addition to being a hipster reject.
on March 17, 2008 at 7:18 am mo

Remember this from Notting Hill. That Hugh Grant movie taking the piss (from IMDB):

William: And, ahm: what exactly is a fruitarian?
Keziah: We believe that fruits and vegetables have feeling so we think cooking is cruel. We only eat things that have actually fallen off a tree or bush – that are, in fact, dead already.
on March 17, 2008 at 7:59 am miz

i love how rich hipster white people from the upper west side love to dress up like poor white trash, when they’ve never stepped foot in a trailer park.
on March 17, 2008 at 8:06 am hmmm

these sanctimonious do-gooders are probably running a prostitution ring!

I didn’t want to say anything mean but that photo made me do it.
on March 17, 2008 at 8:14 am miz

listen to these idiots talk:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/03/14/style/20080315_FARMERS_FEATURE.html
on March 17, 2008 at 8:15 am miz

i’m being to hard on them. sorry.
on March 17, 2008 at 8:38 am White Lady

Well, bless their little white hearts. LOL. And bless you for posting the article. Wayyyy too funny.
on March 17, 2008 at 8:50 am Tokyogodfather

man its so nice to finally have white people see articles, news stories, and the like they way..well..minorities see them. 😉 Kudos Clander, for changing the world, even a little bit. 😉

– Tokyogodfather
Nigerian American in Tokyo with a Hong Kong slant

http://blogger2.earthwalkersmag.com/
on March 17, 2008 at 9:12 am Bill Wilson

We used to call these play farmer/ trust-fund baby white kids “hippies” back in my youth. All this eco/ organic/ granola crunchin’ crapola has been around since the horrible late 60’s/ early 70’s. Then all the hippies were skeert-ta-death of a new ice age. Now it’s the global warming hoax.

Same bad wine, new bottle.
on March 17, 2008 at 9:12 am Tom

Great list, though clearly you’re talking about liberal white people.
on March 17, 2008 at 9:36 am Purple Banana

Please. I grew up on a *real* farm (it’s been in our family for 100+ years, my father does all the work himself). These guys are posers who will “play” at farming until they get tired of it; not unlike Marie Antoinette playing peasant at Versailles. :vomit:
on March 17, 2008 at 9:47 am Jim the Pathologist

“15. jonesview

Reminds me of the 60’s TV show “Green Acres”.”

Reminds *me* of that 17th century British colony Jamestown. Have they begun to starve yet?
on March 17, 2008 at 10:00 am White Lady

Finally, though, I understand why my black neighbor describes my organic home gardening/chicken-raising as “being weird about your food.”
on March 17, 2008 at 10:01 am Bobby the Black Friend

Reading articles like this make me wanna shout, “I heart white people.” This is awesome.
on March 17, 2008 at 10:18 am Win Your Weight in Immigrants™

But do they have guns? It’s not authentic until they have firearms. Even a “pink pistol” will do, when Bugs gets into the garden.
on March 17, 2008 at 10:27 am Win Your Weight in Immigrants™

#115 Becker (one of Walter’s?): “also a big thanks to nyc for discovering farmers’ markets.”

Not only has NYC always had farmer’s markets, until very recently the city had actual farms. (A National Geographic article in the ’60s said there were at least seven still operating at the time.) One or two still run as museums. If anyone knows of a real farm extant in NYC, please clue us in.

If your tastes run to New England fishing villages instead, well, NYC has at least one of those as well: City Island.
on March 17, 2008 at 10:35 am SheQuon

Okay, here are a few you must add:

BATH/SKINCARE/SOAP SHOPS – The Body Shop, H20+, L’Occitane, Origins, Crabtree & Evelyn, Philosophy, etc…. but NOT–repeat, NOT– Bath and Body Works (corporately owned by evil entity The Limited)
…or in otherwords, NOT buying hair/skincare products at the grocery or drug store–if not a specioalty shop, only a healthfood store (Burt’s Bees)

CANDLES – anything but Yankee Candle (The Limited, again)

HUMMUS (I know you’ve had a few on food already, but this deserves its own entry.)

AREA RUGS (wall-to-wall is SO over)

CHRISTOPHER GUEST MOVIES

“EXOTIC” CHOCOLATES (with things like wasabi or chiles added, from makers like Vosges, Valrhona, Ghirardelli among others). Hershey and Nestle are for losers, but regional “chocolatiers” like Fannie May are acceptable.

DUST VACS (handheld)

BOXER-BRIEFS

AIR PURIFIERS

Just off the top of my head.
on March 17, 2008 at 10:56 am Thatemw

Hey I heard you on NPR.
Gotta walk my JRT.
on March 17, 2008 at 12:04 pm what a bunch of

Tools! they’re doing this because they can…trust fund babies want somethin’ trust fund babies get it! gimme a break, they probably still have their loft in upscale NY for back up when they get bored. they’ll probably live with an indian tribe in honduras next!
on March 17, 2008 at 12:23 pm Carl

These two “socially conscious” clowns are pathetic. Neo-hippies…
on March 17, 2008 at 12:24 pm Carl

Which one is the boy, which one is the girl? I can’t tell. I wish my dadd made enough money for me to devote my young adult life to the pursuit of communist theory.
on March 17, 2008 at 1:00 pm Doug

#57,

The blog skewers the upper-middle class whites who hold those values when in fact their lifestyles–such as organic farming on 25 acres pursuant to a sub-market lease from a charitable trust–would be impossible without the high degree of division of labor afforded by industrial society and its highly leveraged business entities.

The blog also also subtly underscores a far more serious point: that white people are too obsessed over status games with other white people to look out for their group interests.
on March 17, 2008 at 1:31 pm White Lady

But, Doug, that’s exactly how white people manage to stay ahead of the game– by sharpening their competitive skills against other white people, who at the end of the day are the only “real” competition in town. Same reason world-class athletes don’t waste their time proving their collective worth against mere dilettantes.

If white people were even remotely threatened by competition from other groups, they’d drop this “diversity” schtick immediately. Fact is, they just aren’t that threatened.

If anything, flooding the country with more and more competing tribal groups only secures White power, as the outsider tribes turn on each other for a bigger piece of the pie. But you know who’s always going to get the biggest share. ;P
on March 17, 2008 at 2:37 pm trust me

they are threatened by the people of color white lady. the us will have a black president soon and the us census states that you guys are already the minority. so ;P
on March 17, 2008 at 2:43 pm Old Girl School

OMG, I forget sometimes how white I am! Thank you, SWPL, now my husband and I can make up for the fight we got into over this stupid effin’ article.

“Amish-length beards” hahahahahahaha. As much as I like My Morning Jacket, this facial hair fad is just gross.
on March 17, 2008 at 3:34 pm Surrounded by White People

THANK YOU for this blog!!!!!!
on March 17, 2008 at 3:43 pm Dave

“Mr. Shute graduated from Amherst and worked for an antihunger charity.”

That about sums it up. Amazing job with this blog. Seriously, this has been needed for some time. You’ve hit just about everything…a few my wife and I have thrown around…

“Being fulfilled by work”

Psychology

Chiropractics
on March 17, 2008 at 4:00 pm che che

holy shit those people are fucking fags.

why is everyone such a faggot now-a-days?
on March 17, 2008 at 4:33 pm Scott

You gotta love hipsters
on March 17, 2008 at 5:54 pm whitey

This article more likely could be found in the Onion, not the NYT.
on March 17, 2008 at 6:56 pm serious?

I’m all for skewering trust fund kids, but I gotta ask a question — Why would anyone with a trust fund choose to start a commercial farm (these are not personal farms for their own consumption, but farms that produce food to sell), a life that involves getting up at 5 or 6 am and working 12 or 14 hours 6 days a week? Answer — they wouldn’t. Also, is””fag: the best insult you people can come up with? What a waste of your high speed internet connection.
on March 17, 2008 at 6:57 pm Son of Robert Moses

Umm.. they might actually be able to eat while we scavenge the detritus of a party gone horribly wrong. But thier whiteness is cute and cuddly.
on March 17, 2008 at 7:23 pm Anon.

If you think white people like a farming lifestyle, you also think white people like making 25k (or much less) a year.

Small organic farmers work their asses off and barely get by.

A wouldn’t describe this as a defining characteristic of “white people”
on March 17, 2008 at 7:26 pm Anon.

Another white person characteristic: assuming that everyone who is white and doing a non-traditional career has a “trust fund”.
on March 17, 2008 at 7:29 pm 57

#144

While it’s true that white people have led our country into unsustainability it is still foolish to demean those that are trying to correct the mistakes.

It is also true that because of the division of labor and lack of opportunities for minorites that mostly only whites can afford to live “sustainable” lifestyles (No one can really live sustainably in American society no matter how hard they try), while this is unfair it still does not make counter-culture a bad thing, quite the opposite. This blog seems to only target hippie white people, whom are an extreme minority in my region of the country.

If this blogger were realistic in representing white people he would have some of the following topics:

1. Lack of of willingness to learn from others

2. Lack of a soulful culture

3. Lack of communication

4. Blind trust in corporations and consumer society
on March 17, 2008 at 8:23 pm lepium

How long until these other white people start getting government subsidies to maintain their farms?
on March 17, 2008 at 8:44 pm Anonymous

“White kid from comfortable family chooses to become Commodities Trader / Airline Pilot / Congresswoman / Middle Manager / Hairstylist / Arms Dealer . . .”

[no comment. acceptance.]

“White kid from comfortable family chooses to grow food for a living”

[outrage! ridicule!]

wtf?
on March 17, 2008 at 9:21 pm Anonymous

hahahahaha

fabulous.
on March 17, 2008 at 9:30 pm sexe-dequation

Let’s see if i got this: Kesey-era hippies drop out to communal-organic farming, get tired of worked-to-bone fingers-but still poor and drop-drop-out to mortgage banking & agri-biz commodities trading, thereby helping to increase wealth to the point where their grand-kids can bone-work fingers but sell boutique-farm products at high enough prices to other white people to actually make a living.

Is that about right?
on March 17, 2008 at 10:06 pm Adam

The grass fed lamb from Awesome Farm charcoal grilled on labneh with mojo verde would be a nice raciones.
on March 18, 2008 at 1:39 am Bob williams

This reminds me of when I was in the peace Corps! I taught villagers in Botswana how to grow their own food! They were amazed and grateful!
on March 18, 2008 at 3:59 am Entry Level White Person

Referring to Williamsburg as ‘Billyburg’ (as per article)

is not acceptable.

it is not HIP.

it is not ironic.

it is not clever.

it is stupid.

leave that crap to sports color commentators.

asshole white peeps….
on March 18, 2008 at 5:17 am mcsey

You’ve also been mentioned in the Washington Post (online at least). That’s where I first read about the site.
on March 18, 2008 at 6:19 am Anonymous

Hilarious

Great find.
on March 18, 2008 at 6:29 am Doug

#158,

The white people profiled in the NYT article are not practicing sustainable agriculture; they are practicing agriculture on the charitable excess of industrial society. If you turned over agriculture in this country to “organic” farmers scratching out a living on 25 acre plots, then the lower classes would be back to eating moldy potatoes in the winter and beans and cornbread in the summer. That is, assuming their locality got sufficient rainfall that summer.

In fact, the whole “organic” movement is simply the reaction of upper class white liberals to the fact that working people can now afford to eat as well as they do. You don’t see non-white people and the wrong kind of white people whining about malathion and antibiotics as they enjoy their broccoli casserole and babyback ribs.
on March 18, 2008 at 6:57 am Jack (Ethnic Person)

I rest my case…
on March 18, 2008 at 7:07 am Guns & Bitches

Yo Clander – you forgot one huge thing white people love:

G U N S !!!!!!!!

White people love to blow shit up. I hate hunting animals but people, thats another story. Show me a fucked up arab or communist bastard and I’ll shoot em’.

“Remember Guns don’t kill people, I do.”
on March 18, 2008 at 8:25 am Louis James

White people are way too preferential about their food. When they get all up in my face for not being vegan or eating organic food, I like to say, “40,000 people die of starvation every day”. That will usually shut them up long enough to enjoy my cheeseburger. Because I can has cheeseburger without guilt.
on March 18, 2008 at 10:05 am yum, manure

hahahahahaha!!!

most don’t have the luxury of choosing to farm.
on March 18, 2008 at 11:25 am Mr. Socko

Severine von Tscharner Fleming

UBER!
on March 18, 2008 at 11:28 am Mr. Socko

BTW, Entry Level White Person – using “Billyburg” in an ironic way was kind of hip, say, 10 years ago, but it is now more hip to insist on calling Williamsburg Williamsburg in a very serious way.
on March 18, 2008 at 11:41 am Doug

“Severine von Tscharner Fleming” LOL! Good catch.

And “KayCee.” Whiter than white!
on March 18, 2008 at 12:03 pm lintil

*wipes tears from eyes * clander was right. this article proves it. although i am very disappointed that the white people in the article didn’t mention bicycles.
on March 18, 2008 at 6:33 pm Mackey

The New York Times writers are no dummies. They are now scanning this blog as a guide to write stories including as much stuffwhitepeoplelike as possible!

Using this strategy, they will appeal to more white people and reverse their declining readership!
on March 18, 2008 at 7:06 pm Petite Maoiste

It was very IRONIC wasn’t it that when many fans of this blog saw the article, we immediately thought it was about you, perfect for you, etc.!
on March 18, 2008 at 7:07 pm youareRACIST

i came for to this website cause i thought it would have some intelligent or wity humor… and all i find is RACISM!!! replace the word “white” with “black” or “asian” and all you are doing is making fun of someone because they are different, successful, fashionable, not fashionable, smart… whatever.. you and many of the people that agree with you are just agreeing to RACISM… you make fun of white people that try farming, but then you’ll make fun of them for having corporate jobs… you make fun of their hipster clothes and then talk about how un hip they look… who cares! I would much rather read an article talking about a couple of white people using their trust fund (which who knows if they had… maybe they have a business loan!) trying to make a positive impact in their community than an article that just complains about people being different… your crap is about as worthy of a read as perez hilton… more crap… people should “be the difference” rather make fun of being different. i could go on and on.. you are RACIST!… and i’m not white… but i bet you are.
on March 18, 2008 at 8:55 pm oldwhitegrouch

“The white people profiled in the NYT article are not practicing sustainable agriculture; they are practicing agriculture on the charitable excess of industrial society……………in fact, the whole “organic” movement is simply the reaction of upper class white liberals to the fact that working people can now afford to eat as well as they do.”

Damn Doug, that’s good, REAL good.
on March 19, 2008 at 9:00 am Geo8rge

I hate to say it but with agricultural prices up, borrowing money to buy farm land, and successfully farming it (easier said than done) might not be such a bad move long term.
on March 19, 2008 at 10:18 am John

Not sure if this was mentioned…but how telling is it that this article was published in the ‘Style & Fashion’ section of the times?

Good to see that agriculture is in ‘style’ this season…

Do I get extra white people points for having a rooftop garden above my Williamsburg loft? I promise I’ll use sustainable, organic farming techniques. That should combat the damage being done to Williamsburgers by the 8 Superfund sites along Newtown Creek…

Good thing all us white folks can just move to Bed-Stuy now. GOD I love gentrification!
on March 19, 2008 at 11:16 am anon

Do you read these comments, clander? If so:

http://bitten.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/18/on-the-way-to-the-airport/

1. self-importance
2. blogging
3. travel
4. manhattan
5. being an expert on other cultures
6. new york times
on March 19, 2008 at 1:13 pm Ludwig von Munichausen

Damn fine website you guys got goin here, need more of this kind of stuff,keep adding to the list! So many things the white race have to be proud of!

White power!
on March 19, 2008 at 3:31 pm kathleen

you’re on it! warm it up, chris!
on March 20, 2008 at 6:04 am i get it

check mate!
on March 20, 2008 at 9:45 am Perdita

The hat appears to come from the John Phillips’ Mamas and Papas couture.

Alas for the back to the earthers: the Homestead Act finally ended in the 80’s, else they could at least have saved the purchase price of land if they were willing to head to Alaska.
on March 20, 2008 at 10:44 am emma

oh oh i forgot.here’s more:
-adopting foreign babies
-montessori schools
on March 20, 2008 at 11:19 am madhatter

You should add “vintage” to the stuff referenced by the article. Just look at his clothes in the photo.
on March 20, 2008 at 2:23 pm ilikebeingwhite?

A profile of me that is borderline embarrassing.

1. New York Times – Delivered daily.
2. Non Profit Organizations – started one in college
3. Organic Food – organic AND LOCAL! for me
4. Arts Degrees – dad has an mfa….
5. Brooklyn – San Francisco is a close second
6. Hating Corporations – hmm, i dont hate
7. Farmers Markets – every Saturday
8. Having Two Last Names – Thanks mom and Dad!
9. Irony – This post might be such
10. Study Abroad – twice, first one at 16!
11. Microbreweries – Go New Belgium!

Now the question is…what exactly does this say about me…..
on March 20, 2008 at 6:48 pm clay

I want to be white, but after reading about these honkies, I’m not sure I can afford it.
on March 21, 2008 at 2:17 pm Jessica

oh man, I saw this in the ny times (yes I’m clearly white) and thought, this is soooo “stuff white people like” and here it is!

I think you need “doing it yourself” as a s.w.p.l. item and have a big picture of readymade magazine. (it’s totally more authentic if you made it yourself, even if you spent hundreds of dollars on the parts and tools!)
on March 22, 2008 at 7:32 am Anonymous

Why don’t you flag the need to disambiguate use of the word ‘partner’ in this article? That’s one of the whitest things going on here.
on March 22, 2008 at 5:35 pm gary

I notice they are standing in a greenhouse. White people love greenhouses.
In March and April local greenhouses are packed with white people buying their little Marigolds, Geraniums, and souped up hybrid Petunias.

They also like the potting soil, little hand rakes and the colorful gloves that can’t fit any man in this hemisphere.

If you see a white woman with a smudge of potting soil over her brow,her little colorful gloves on, and on her knees(watch it now) in her “flower bed” with her little rake. You are looking at a happy white person.
on March 22, 2008 at 5:55 pm bri

Birkenstocks
on March 23, 2008 at 7:11 am Mark

I do not like any homosexuals. I tolerate them because I have to.

They think that everyone has to approve of their abnormal lifestyle and that that disagrees is hateful, and so on.

To be more clear, I do not approve of their lifestyle, but I must admit that they have been very nice to me.

Keep it in the closet guys and girls!!!
on March 24, 2008 at 10:48 am Neufzola

Is it just me or does the person on the left look EXACTLY like Jimmy Page?
on March 25, 2008 at 1:03 pm dawid

are these people in the greenhouse from wesleyan?
on March 26, 2008 at 6:50 am Anonymous

ok wesleyan university
on March 26, 2008 at 11:41 am Mike

I’m from the town (Tivoli, NY) where this couple has started their organic farm. Hipster’s trying to emulate the working class for the feel good factor make me sick. I’ve worn Carhartt for my job in construction and drink cheap beer because that’s what I can afford (although I would much rather enjoy a better beer). Just because you frequented”dive” bars back in Williamsburg, donned overalls and trucker hats for the irony and drank cheap beer does NOT mean that we have the same class interests.
on March 30, 2008 at 12:12 am Stuka1488

I guess these nazis are upset with your portrayal of White people:

http://www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php?p=5301911&posted=1#post5301911
on March 31, 2008 at 12:03 pm Anonymous

Thought this blog would be more of a reference to North California’s hippy towns or any other bohemian posers in US. This wouldn’t apply to hicks, that is for one thing.
on April 1, 2008 at 4:18 am Anonymous

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on April 1, 2008 at 10:57 am Stephan

God how hysterical! I was reading the article and was amazed by the fact that the author could have been writing your blog, only never would have known he was making fun of himself and his own.
on April 2, 2008 at 5:35 pm clinton

They also forgot to mention White Guilt…..
on April 10, 2008 at 9:39 pm Chris

They also mention health insurance – the ultimate goal of the hipster farmer.
on April 11, 2008 at 6:45 am nickaro

I enjoyed your post and the stereotype that you explore.

On the other hand, I find the term “White people” tittles and phrases like: if you ever been, talked, visited, or dated a white guy etc a bit racist.

Other people play rugby e.i: Latinos, African -Americans and damn if we are good at it.

Keep up with the postings.

Cheers.
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on April 13, 2008 at 4:33 pm Jim Becker

What about BRUNCH?

White people like brunch. What better way to enjoy coffee and talk about the Sunday section of the NY times?
on September 18, 2008 at 9:43 pm sam

Stuff white people like: Using the word irony in instances where it is the exact opposite.

Fucking hell these comments always back up the blog 100%
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i dont agree with some of this shit but that dont make me a nazi, right???

i believe in white power just like the blacks believe in black power…
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