These are the people Wypipo is meant to slur and offend. Right wing wants us to pick it up.

[applegrove]

There is not an attack of the lives of white people by anyone but the rich right wingers who own the GOP and cultivate all the wedge issues. But the GOP trolls would have us democrats start to attack.

https://www.politicususa.com/2018/05/04/democrats-target-union-workers-who-regret-trump-vote.html

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Union workers who vote for republicans, over and OVER again, cant be

helped, their brains clearly dont function properly.

I wont say the W word, but I wonder how many POC union members vote for republicans, maybe almost none.

[applegrove]

2. Many of these people voted for Obama. That is why it was such a shock.

[cwydro]

3. And it looks like some here jumped right on board.

Hmmm.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

4. Don't worry, "wypipo" is not a political term. If you want to reach out to racists who voted for

a racist and now regret it without talking to them about racism, knock yourself out.

[applegrove]

5. If someone who voted twice for Obama and comes to this site when trying to get good

information do they need to experience hatred of white people? I mean really. That plays into GOP hands which is why they are expanding the use of the term and are trying to get us to use it.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

6. The GOP invented the term "wypipo"? Where on earth did you hear that?

Someone votes twice for Obama, finds DU...somehow, looking for something, sees the word "wypipo" and...is DONE, FOREVER.

[EffieBlack]

7. Perfect response!

Funny, they don’t seem the least bit concerned that black folk might be a little put off by coming to DU and seeing so many White People (please note that I’m clearly enunciating so as not to offend any Wypipo) defending racists, making excuses for racist behavior, whitesplaning to African Americans, telling us we need to be nicer to Trump voters, justifying back-handed “compliments” aimed at President Obama certain non-Democratic politician, trashing a civil rights icon as a gullible sellout and worse because he didn’t endorse that particular non-Democratic candidate, whine about “reverse racism,” and try to shut us up whenever we discuss anything that makes them uncomfortable.

But that’s different, I guess.

[applegrove]

8. okay. But it is being weaponized by the GOP. Do we have to fall for everything?

[WhiskeyGrinder]

9. What, exactly, do you think people are falling for?

The fact that white people are fragile and get defensive when talking about racism? POC have known that forever.

[applegrove]

10. Doing something that is derogatory to white people on a site that is not derogatory

to any group. Broad brush. It is the very conspiracy theory the right wing has been spinning for years. For sure we can talk about racism.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

11. What is the conspiracy theory you're talking about?

[applegrove]

12. That white people are the real victims of racism.

[appalachiablue]

14. Racist BS like this white ESPN reporter claiming she was let go b/c of race

has always been around, the "white victim" mentality. Lately it's more open and circulating widely. Horrid.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/britt-mchenry-ex-espn-reporter-220938622.html

[BlueWI]

13. I gave this thread a rec for your earnest effort.

There is clearly too much race baiting on DU that tries to disguise itself as critical thinking, all the while categorizing whole groups of people under broad terms.

Decades of social thought about race seem to have gone with the wind. Intersectionality, bi-racial identity, diversity of opinions within racial groups - none of this seems to matter amid these glittering generalities about 150 million white people in the US and 35 million black people. Some posters are stuck in black/white binaristic thinking and seem to thrive on the conflict that these discussions gernerate. I find this behavior suspect at worst, counterproductive at best, in this fake news era where social media is routinely used to sow dissension among progressives.

Meanwhile, on DU today there was one article that discussed the extremity of wealth inequality, that the richest 8 people on the globe own more wealth than the poorest 50 percent. And, there was an article on the scarce water resources that threaten fresh water supplies to every city in the Colorado River basin, from Denver to San Diego. Incredibly important and alarming developments. But meanwhile, there are thirty threads discussing "Wypipo."

So, thank you for pointing us toward what I thought was a main priority for Democrats, which is winning elections and addressing grave threats to the civil order, environment landscape, and the like. Maybe we'll get there in time to create a blue wave election in 2018!!

[Bucky]

15. It's such a bad idea to use such an easily distorted racial slur

It is imprecise, and pretty much tailored to turn off moderate or persuadable voters who happen to be white. It is shooting ourselves in the foot to use a slur that is by design intended to sound offensive.

But to then turn around and say "Oh, but by wypipo I don't mean 'white people'," is equal parts disingenuous and stupid.

[applegrove]

16. GOP trolls are always trying to create wedge issues at the DU that

get us to fight or get us to separate from each other. Think of the two time Obama voter who is frustrated with lower wages historically who voted Trump and now sees it as a con. So they come here to educate themselves on how Trump and the GOP use guns, gays, abortion, and race to win elections and immediately see wypipo here and there. We need to teach and inform each other in these times. Not fall for GOP wedgies.

[MrsCoffee]

17. The two time Obama voter frustrated with lower wages who voted for Trump?

All three of them?

Trump voters didn’t give any fucks about the economy. If they want to be educated, perhaps a little reality is better than blowing smoke up theirs asses.

[applegrove]

18. I Don't think not using a slur that broad brushes and is against the terms

of service of the DU is blowing smoke up their asses. Not using wypipo will clear the air.

[DFW]

19. I think I have finally figured out what this all means

Up to now, I just thought that, with the Kilauea eruption and all, someone was misspelling Waipio, an area on the Big Island far from the eruption, and a potential safe refuge area for evacuees.

That'll teach me to live on another continent.........

[applegrove]

20. That is a mistake I would make.

[Iggo]

21. White people get called a name they don't like for two fucking days and they lose their goddam shit.

Me included.