OK. I get it. Let's call Caucasians "pinkpipo," not "wypipo."

of man. We are all "people" she said.

I've read some histories of indigenous people in this country and the word the used to describe themselves was translated to mean "the people". Indians in the central valley of CA were called dried meat by the Indians in the mountains because they made jerky.

Humans have a wide range of skin tones, from the pallor of people of Scandinavian descent on the first sunny day of Spring to the deepest purplish black. We are all humans. The shade of our skin, due to varying degrees of melanin, is one distinguishing feature we all have. It's part of our description, and nothing more.

Except for some very small, self-sheltered communities, we see pretty much all of those skin tones on a daily basis. That we see different skin tones as anything other than a single descriptive feature is the problem. That those who are in the majority in the United States think there is some reason for pride in being pink is very strange, really.

We're all humans. We can interbreed freely, regardless of our skin tones. We're all the same species. We're all the same. We just don't treat each other as if we were. It's astonishingly stupid of us.

Santa Maria is 70% Hispanic. I am Anglo. The same dynamics go on here as anywhere people are minorities. Here I am a minority.

No proud pink folks here.

most primitive societies tend to call themselves some version of "the people" and call others something else.

Humans are tribal by nature. We collect together in various kinds of organizations, using a wide variety of methods to govern ourselves. The distrust of "the other" is kind of ingrained in us and takes active effort to overcome, while being exploited by "leaders" seeking power.

The human "races" are intellectual constructs based primarily on skin tone and some other physical traits that have developed over the centuries in reaction to environmental and anthropological pressures.

purpo pipo eaters go after?

called a purple people eater off and on for years...she hates that song even today.

My wife. "Roselyn, you're not black but a rich warm brown."
Roselyn, "Well, you're sort of pinkish gray."

I googled it but it still doesn't make much sense and I refuse to spend any more time trying to understand it. So if someone wouldn't mind giving just a concise definition: what constitutes a "wipipo"? Who uses the term and to whom is it directed?

various harsh descriptions of folks who don't except the meanings given.

But if there is no defining answer for this term, then I will just ignore it. It will probably disappear in time like other things like "errmergerd" and "dilly dilly"

(Only because my nephew loves to say "Dilly Dilly"

That's probably the best resource on this that's available, really.

But since it seems impossible for it to be explained in a sentence or two or if it has different meanings to different people - I won't bother with it.

I can't see myself using the term but thought if I heard it in conversation, I wouldn't be so "unhip". But I'll just stay unhip.

for "white people" that took on a life of its own.

I like mice, too. I don't mind if one eats the other, but I'm not going to hand a baby mouse or rat to a snake. Can't do it.

because they were copperheads...the professor lectured me how safe it was...but about a month later came in with his arm so swollen he couldn't move it...yep the damn thing bit him.

No big deal. In my almost 10 years on DU, I can count the number of hidden posts on one hand.

And it would not only be alerted. It would be hidden.

But this is DU’s fave hatefest for the time being. Silly as hell.

Wypipo is causing much hilarity in my household this weekend. Everyone is called wypipo in place of their name.

Pinkie was the name of my border collie/golden retrieve mix.

She was a hell of a digger!

Captian Shran became friends with some of the pinkskins.



I wish I was BLUE

........I prefer "blue-eyed devils!"

"richpippo" are dividing "wethepippo". Can we stop the pie fight over labeling and just unite for the betterement of humanity?
Human is the label we all share.