Breaking: Wypipo Offended by "Wypipo"

[MineralMan]

Wait. Never mind. Of course they are. How silly of me! They think it's a derogatory term. Without reading it aloud, they don't even understand it. They believe their inborn privilege should prohibit such words. Why would anyone be surprised that they don't like that one?

[Gothmog]

1. LOL

[MineralMan]

2. Next trending thing will be: "Not All Wypipo!"

The T-shirts are already being screen-printed.

[CincyDem]

3. Hey now...some of my best friends are Wypipo. lol. n/t

[central scrutinizer]

19. Wypipo Lives Matter!

[TalenaGor]

4. help me out here....

Whazzit?

[MineralMan]

5. Read it out loud.

[TalenaGor]

6. ooooohhhkayyyy lol

I'm going to get some coffee now.... Clearly I need it lol

[MineralMan]

7. I couldn't resist.

[TalenaGor]

8. maybe I shouldn't get on DU until I get out of bed LOL

Let my basic comprehension skills kick in first lol

[Devil Child]

9. Breaking: It is a derogatory racial term

Attempting to rationalize wypipo by noting institutional racism, white fragility, white privilege, etc.. does not change the fact it is a racial slur.

[ismnotwasm]

10. Are your feelings hurt?

[Devil Child]

11. Very much

My white tears are flowing into my latte. It's cool tho, I'm going to an animal rights rally later so i will get over it.

[ismnotwasm]

14. I'm very glad you are going to be ok.

Kinda neat—Animal rights rally? Wow.

[cwydro]

50. Lol!

Well played!

[oberliner]

12. Nothing like a great unifying post to bring folks together

[silverweb]

13. Oh, not all of us.

I'm an old lady "wypipo," and I think it's funny, sardonic, and very clever. "Wypipo" who are offended by the term are hypersensitive snowflakes, probably the same cretins who so freely "dish it out" with sadistic enjoyment.

(It's also a much nicer term than "cracker." That one always made me picture Saltines, which I considered blandly yucky.)

[ismnotwasm]

16. Eh. There are white people who don't understand because they don't want to understand

It’s too much work, challenges too many comfortable preconceptions, interrupts the ‘I’m not a racist but” narratives as well as the “I don’t see color” justifications. In others words, Wypipo is a perfect descriptor of toxic whiteness, and since we aren’t used to being challenged on this level, many of us go into immediate “reverse racism” mode.

All of the defense mechanisms white people use to justify Whiteness as a dominant cultural standard are at best, irritating as fuck, and at worst, lead to the deaths of people with skin that is not white.

[silverweb]

20. Agreed.

A great many white people seem to believe that if they just deny any ingrained prejudices in their thinking, the problem of institutional racism either doesn't really exist or will simply go away.

Thinking about such things is hard, and requires a willingness and ability to be self-critical. Not a lot of people who don't consider it their problem are willing to do that work.

[bettyellen]

55. That assumes our culture has- or has ever had- a level playing ground. History teaches us this is

not true. White people never suffered anything near the pain and degradation that POC have. Slurs against black people have a very ugly legacy of oppression and abuse.
It’s literally ignorant to equate the two things. If white people as a race were subject to systemic oppression and abuse they might have an argument. Being made uncomfortable is not any where near what POC face - and that’s kind of the point.

[bettyellen]

58. Racism is used these days to describe systemic discrimination- I believe the word you're looking for

is bigotry. And since wypipo is designed to describe a subset of people who ignore racism - same as those suffering from”first world problems” - even that is quite debateable.

But we see this tactic from conservatives ALL the damn time- you can’t describe racism without being accused of bigotry. I hate to see liberals fam for that shit. But I do, all the damn time.

[betsuni]

15. Paraphrasing Louis CK:

I'm a white man, you can't even hurt my feelings. What can you really call a white man? "Hey, Wypipo!" Uh, ruined my day. ... Bringing me back to owning land and people. What a drag.

[ismnotwasm]

17. +1000

[Maeve]

18. Oh, but you have to understand

WE are the ones who get to make the decisions, WE are the arbiters of what is and isn't acceptable, whether it is language or forms of protest; WE define the norms that everyone else gets to abide by. And if you disagree with us, WE get to use any disagreement on ANY topic to prove that YOUR opinion is not worthy to be listened to, any time, any topic. Because WE are still the ones in charge and YOUR opinion is still only second-rate, at best, and we know better. Or as someone once noted "It's GOOD to be the king!"
/sarcasm

Sigh. Sometimes I wonder if civil society is even possible...

[B2G]

21. Are you talking about DU or white people?

It's hard to tell.

[Maeve]

22. 'WE' are the offended

'WE' are the ones who decide that it is offensive if people protest outside what 'WE' think is the proper venue and 'WE' make the rules because 'WE' have always done so.
'WE', in this case, are Wypipo, who are not the only white people.

DU, on the other hand, is a diverse group of many sorts of progressives (and some others) who constantly find ways to validate Will Rogers' line "I don't belong to an organized political party; I'm a Democrat."

[Sancho]

23. We should be sensitive to Wypipo feelings....

after all, a lot of Wypipo lives were lost at the Bowling Green massacre.

[tonedevil]

34. I'll never forget that day...

nearly all known stocks of covfefe were destroyed. It took decades for them to be replaced. For wypipo the struggle is virtule

[MiniMe]

24. I missed something along the way...

What is Wypipo? I have seen it written on DU a lot lately, but I don't know what it means.

[Bok_Tukalo]

27. It is a racial pejorative directed at caucasians.

The argument now is whether or not caucasians deserve to have racial slurs directed at them.

[MiniMe]

28. Thanks, but what does it stand for?

Or is just a name that somebody made up? I feel really dumb about this

[TCJ70]

29. Here:

http://neguswhoread.com/wypipo-explained/

That’s the link shared in another thread here.

[MiniMe]

30. Thanks

[IluvPitties]

25. I am a minority and I think it's stupid.

[TCJ70]

26. Do we really need more racially divisive words? N/t

[EffieBlack]

32. Words aren't "racially divisive"

[EffieBlack]

36. Please explain how, if you aren't already a racist, anything anyone on DU writes will "divide" you f

people of color?

Please be specific and tell us exactly how someone here using the term "Wypipo" in any way affects your view of or relationship with anyone of color or changes your support for equality and equal opportunity?

[MicaelS]

38. I'm sorry, I should have been clearer.

As a 60 yr old cis white man, I find Wypipo funny as hell. Sort of like honky back in the 60s/70s. Not to mention "red headed peckerwood", since I USED to have red hair, freckles and am very pale.

I was thinking of derogatory words for POC, LGBT, and Women. Those words ARE hurtful and can and do divide us. Not the US on DU, but the larger society.

I came across as too harsh, and I apologize.

[EffieBlack]

40. I understand

But I don't agree - words hurt, but it's the mindset and attitude they express that are divisive, not the words themselves. Even if left unspoken, the divisiveness still exists.

One reason I push back on the "you're being divisive" argument is that it is almost exclusively used to shut up POC and others who point out and try to discuss racism - as if the mention of the evil brings it to life and if we just don't talk about it, it won't exist.

But I definitely hear what you're saying. Apology accepted, but not necessary.

[TCJ70]

37. Really? No words are racially divisive? Interesting...n/t

[EffieBlack]

43. No, they aren't on their own

You know what's "racially divisive?"

Racism is racially divisive. So is bigotry. So is refusal to notice or acknowledge them.

So is the insistence that black people shouldn't talk about them because that would be "racially divisive."

[BumRushDaShow]

45. It is the context and who is in a position of power to define the words

and use them as a means to oppress and assert superiority. E.g., if a term is used as a "code", like the use of the "innocent" term "inner city", which replaced the equally "innocent" term "ghetto" that was distorted from its original meaning to basically mean "poor minority slum areas", regardless of who might have also lived there that did not fit that particular economic connotation. The code version conjures up all sorts of stereotypes that are assigned to those "words" by a power structure.

Societies assign "meanings" to terms and those who control (in the majority) are the ones who can act on those assignments.

[EffieBlack]

31. Lol!

[EffieBlack]

41. You need to stop being so divisive ...

[ProudLib72]

42. I just can't help myself

Michael Harriot is so damned funny!

[RhodeIslandOne]

33. Wypipo vote for Hillary Clinton

I guess I’m Wypipo, and fuck anyone who’s got a problem with it, including that Democratic hating black dude.

[bettyellen]

61. Statistically speaking, we do not vote Dem anywhere near what we should. Why do you think

that is?

[cwydro]

44. Um. If you read the author quoted in the other thread -

you will see he INTENDS it to be derogatory.

Reading comprehension is necessary in order to discuss what an author said.

I’m not offended, but as others have pointed out - it’s divisive and just plain silly.

As to your opinion that most people pronounce words or phrases in the way you wrote - all I can say is that I’m glad the folks I know have much better pronunciation skills than the ones you seem to know.

Wypipo has become the word du jour in my household today.

Thinking about renaming one of the baby chickens.

[EffieBlack]

46. "I'm glad the folks I know have much better pronunciation skills than the ones you seem to know"

Yes, how fortunate that "the ones" you know have such good pronunciation skulls ...

[cwydro]

48. Yes.

Their “skulls” are just fine, thanks!

And one of the new spring peeps is now called pipo.

She needed a name, so thanks!

[Stargleamer]

47. Breaking: Wypipo amused by "Wypipo"

Can you imagine someone saying, "I'm a proud member of the Wypipo clan!" Would bring some chuckles I would think.

[Vinca]

49. It's amazing. I leave the house for the morning and come back to find a new and improved

stupid topic taking up much of the discussion in this forum. Meanwhile, Dear Leader is claiming the people who crafted our immigration laws "don't love America." Priorities, people. There are words and then there are words.

[GeorgeHayduke]

52. Was thinking the same thing.

Wondering why this wasn't locked and moved to the lounge.

[argyl]

51. This post was alerted on. I had to excuse myself because I'd never heard the term "Wypipo"

If I'd have known I'd have shaken my head and voted for it to stand. I'm a wypipo myself.

[gollygee]

54. It was a humorous article

and intended as humor. The category that was literally written at the top of the article was "humor." I think maybe some white people are sensitive to the humor people of color make as oppressed people about their oppression.

I've checked out some more of the website's humorous articles and they are all funny, and they are all pointed. I wonder if white DUers would have been as offended by this one: http://neguswhoread.com/sound-white-phone/

[XRubicon]

59. I miss the unrec.

[GeorgeGist]

62. Do tell .

[BannonsLiver]

63. Harriott's Problem

Is that he knows and understands less about the machinations of white liberals than he should as a humorist.

For example he mentions that there is no color and everyone is the same is the epitome of white liberal guilt.

That’s actually not true at all. In fact I frequently cringe when I see any white person say they don’t see color. It’s become the new “some of my best friends are black” and is most always used by a right winger. Say I don’t see color around liberals you’re more likely to be mocked than praised.