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I hope you're being satirical. White people aren't silly. PEOPLE are silly -- that I can agree with. White people may have one brand of silliness, while black people have another -- but they're ALL silly. Especially this guy -- gotta love 'im:



He cracked me up -- honestly, he did!

Not much time to comment atm, but when I hear a black person deride black people (in a serious way), I get offended at that, too.

It seems like one of those that is specifically for the white, middle class, blue state stereotype. As far as I know, hardly anyone in my state would want to go to San Fran.

San Fran was boring, even for me.

Anyway, I sort of think it is funny how the "What yellow people like" thread was closed rather quickly. I just wanted to give a shout out for my sister, Margaret Cho. She is histerical, and I love her..

And I love anime too.

Whoa... Even the "What black people like" thread was closed.

I guess now I won't partake in this thread anymore..
It just doesn't seem right, no matter the argument.

I agree with Ragtime, as hard as that may seem - even for the liberal bastard that I am.

I give this one a few more hours...

This isn't satirizing a race - it's satirizing a class. I could speculate on the particular region of the funny bone that this stimulates. Now, if you find this offensive, I apologize, but it really isn't racist. It's joking about the very perception of race in America as it relates to a particular class of people, and subjects them to absurd deconstruction which is particularly appropriate in their case IMO.

Nope, it is now official, white people are sillier.

1. People like to laugh at silly things.
2. Mods are more likely to close less fun threads than more fun ones
3. The threads on black and yellow people were closed but the white one stayed open
4. From 2 and 3, we know that the white one was more likely to be funny.
5. Because of premise 1, and the fact that this thread is about white people, we know that white people are sillier.

HA!! The logic is irrefutable!!

Oh, yeah...

White people also adore Psychology.

Now I'm done.

I think at least the "Black People" thread should have stayed open; we were making progress and being very mature about the subject.

Gelato. Because ice cream (even vanilla) is just not white enough!

The continuation of this thread where the others have been closed proves the hypocritical politically correct double-standard that suggests it is okay to bash and be racist towards white people but not anyone else.

I agree the other threads were right to be closed, but what I disagree on is that this one should remain open. If it is wrong to bash one race then it should be wrong to bash ALL races.

Stuff White People Like:

Civilization
Science
Freedom
Exploration
Art
Culture
Diversity
Diplomacy
Trade
Not being stereotyped as a race

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Stuff White People Like:

Being Politically Correct
Looking the other way when racism is perpetrated against whites
Hating themselves
Blaming their race for all the evil in the world
Closing Red, Yellow, and Black bashing threads
Allowing White bashing threads to remain open

i like drinking beer. all white people love it, none of that malt liquor though. ONLY budwiser (americas lager)

I don't get it.

Really, I know it's difficult to read between the lines here, but I really think that anyone who thinks this is stereotyping whites should take a closer look.

Now, consider the stereotype that all republicans are white men. This paragraph reaches new heights of absurdity: vast swaths of the white population are here being actively discounted as being really 'white'. This entry is absolutely absurd. The use of the term 'white' is playing a satirical role; I haven't quite fleshed out my interpretation to the point where it's worth posting, but it definitely is that this is not "stereotyping whites". Note the distinct lack of redneck jokes for example.

Anything making fun of yuppies can't be all bad in my book. Look deeper - seek and ye shall find.

Yes, people who have a firm grasp of the way white people really are and think would know that the claims this site makes are absurd, but such non-white viewers are definitely in the minority.
The site seems meant to be viewed in either one of two ways: either 1) satire about how whites are wrongfully seen, or 2) deliberate exaggeration of white traits in order to make a more subtle point that whites are dorks with their heads up their butts. If it wanted to be a real satire site, it could say something like, "People think whites are...", and then give the list. But to claim, just straight out, absurdities about whites is something that can't be known by the reader to be in jest, if it is. Because, as we know, countless absurd claims about particular groups of people appear all over the web. So, to say, "Well, he is only joking" when there's no evidence of that is just making assumptions. The site is ambiguous as to its aim.

But see, every white person knows that criticism of minority groups, whether in jest or not, is strictly forbidden, and that they will be called "racist" if they dare to even honestly evaluate a minority group. Oh, but we're all modern and colorblind in our thinking these days, right? All the people who think everyone's all cool with each other still interestingly keep the lines of conversational segregation sharply drawn, and discourage frank and open discussions of the differences -- toward a result of sustained ignorance. Hypocrisy, or blindness?