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In reply to the discussion: An Observation About White People and Wypipo [View all]Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)THIS thread is the first time I've ever seen or heard of this "descriptor" "slur" "slang" term. Assuming it was some sorta shorthand, I mentally mouthed if a few times before it's meaning appeared to me - Wipipo - of course. I get it. Another category in which we can register folks of a certain skin tone! Just what we need to help us blend into one human community. Christ almighty! WHEN are all Americans of southern heritage going to move to SOUTH AMERICA??? Isn't that where they rightfully belong?
My Whitey-American ass has been saying for YEARS that we need to STOP using the "qualifier" prefixes to identify one another or ourselves. My paternal grandfather passed his immigration-mangled last name to my dad and onto me. But I don't go around making sure everyone qualifies me as a Bulgarian-American. Truth told, disregarding my last name, I should be qualified as a Euro-American, since FOUR distinct nationalities collaborated to my genetic mix.
The "racial" shit we endure to this very day, has it's deeper roots in the ignorance of times when folks learned ALL they knew of the world from common lore. That lore, a whispered, subterranean legacy of superiority that's been long-proven to be as bogus as the notion that the sun goes round the Earth.
We'd probably be WAY farther along to the "melding" of the races if we weren't insistent on the bogus bullshit of religions. That barrier certainly inhibits monofication of human physical distinctions. Imagine ONE global-wide skin color - with NO stupid "my-god-your-god" inhibitions to stand in the way of common sense!
Yeah - I'd never heard of Wipipo before today. And I honestly think I was better off not knowing of it - it's worth being nil. OF course....... unlike some of the dU community, I don't arise each morning with the only life I know being lived at this here keyboard. I don't have all my conscious hours to muse the intricacies of socio-political jousting and correctness. In MY head - ideally - I'd love to see the day when every earthling was of the same shade and the only "Wipipo" would be an occasional albino kid. And we'd have the genetic tools to fix said kid so he'd "fit in with the rest of humankind. Their parents would feel silly if someone caught them praying to some vacuuous entity for the child's eventual genetic repairs.