"Wypipo" is not clever;

[meadowlander]

135. Except that here on DU is not an informal discussion

between PoC describing this experience.

And if you want to have a genuine constructive discussion with white people in the room about race, starting out by slurring them isn't a helpful way to do it.

Put it this way... what's wrong with "clueless behavior" or "paranoid racial panic" or "racial profiling" any other way to describe the behavior that doesn't attribute it to members of a specific race?

My Korean aunt ran a convenience store and her hand used to creep to her panic button every time a black person walked in. It could easily have been her calling the cops on the men waiting in Starbucks. Does that make her "Wypipo"? It's the exact same behavior but it's not appropriate to use the term because, believe it or not, you don't actually have to be white to be racist dumbass. So why include the word white in your new term for racist dumbassery?

And if you want to use it as an informal joke among likeminded people suit yourself - I'm certainly not trying to stop anyone. But you're not in an informal group of likeminded people here so if you want to have an actual, constructive, useful discussion about a genuine problem like racial profiling why start it out with a broadbrush attack that sweeps in people who would otherwise be on your side.

Because, you may have noticed, we've now had 10 gazillion more threads about this ridiculous childish term than we have had about the actual racial profiling issue. And the only thing I have said on here is that starting out with slurs derails the conversation. You're welcome to consider that as "problematic" as you like but it doesn't change the fact that if you want your argument to be taken seriously you have to come from a place of respect.

You're not listening to people who are telling you that they find something offensive and why so why should they listen to anything that you have to say?