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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: FunkyZero on May 07, 2018, 11:34:04 AM
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https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210585436 (https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210585436)
Mon May 7, 2018, 10:51 AM
Dreamer Tatum (10,910 posts)
Wypipo
There is a distinction to be made between a term being inoffensive, and a claim that certain people shouldn't find the term offensive.
The term is meant to refer to a group by skin color, and is therefore as offensive as any other term used to refer to any other group. Yes, it is. It's certainly not used as an honorific, or as a term of endearment, or in any way meant to confer any sort of dignity. It is therefore offensive, and any effort to separate it from other racial slurs is fatuous.
What people seem to mean by "inoffensive" in this regard seems to be "you haven't the RIGHT to be offended, because privilege." I guess that's a matter of opinion, which is fine. My opinion is that is bullshit.
Response to Trust Buster (Reply #1)Mon May 7, 2018, 11:03 AM
Dreamer Tatum (10,910 posts)
3. What I find bewildering is the assurance that whiteness is a cure unto itself
If that were true, there would be absolutely no depression, anxiety, insecurity, rage, despair, sadness, or even melancholy present in any white person. Don't like your circumstances? Why not? YOU'RE WHITE, after all.
We know the opposite is true, of course.
Response to Dreamer Tatum (Reply #3)Mon May 7, 2018, 11:45 AM
DanTex (17,449 posts)
22. I find it bewildering that you interpret "wypipo" as "whiteness is a cure unto itself".
Response to Trust Buster (Reply #1)Mon May 7, 2018, 11:03 AM
Star Member boston bean (31,244 posts)
4. Because white people are not under attack on DU.
White people who are racist are.
Response to boston bean (Reply #4)Mon May 7, 2018, 11:04 AM
Dreamer Tatum (10,910 posts)
6. Oh. Then I guess maybe it should be "Racistwypipo"?
Didn't think so.
it gets better...
esponse to Trust Buster (Reply #11)Mon May 7, 2018, 11:20 AM
Star Member EffieBlack (8,258 posts)
12. There we go with the "divisive" accusation again
Please feel free to step into this thread to define your terms: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210585465
Response to Dreamer Tatum (Original post)Mon May 7, 2018, 11:40 AM
nini (15,088 posts)
19. I think the real outrage is that Black people dared to label a segment of the white population
That's what the perpetually outraged fail to acknowledge. All this outrage that how dare a whole 'race' of people be labeled isn't the problem really.. admit it. It's that Black people called out that type for their fakeness.
There are certainly white people who are of that type wypipo describes - we all know it and those types annoy the hell out of me too. It's made so many people uncomfortable that the point of the term is being proven right here on DU by many.
It's unbelievable that DU has so many posters who fail to acknowledge this and continue to be so butthurt. Being perpetually outraged must be a hobby for some.
Response to Dreamer Tatum (Original post)Mon May 7, 2018, 11:44 AM
DanTex (17,449 posts)
20. Completely absurd.
The term is meant to refer to a group by skin color, and is therefore as offensive as any other term used to refer to any other group.
What's actually offensive is a discussion about race that ignores the relative positions of privilege versus repression of the races in our society.
Your twisted logic would imply that "wypipo" is as offensive as the n-word, which is of course insane given the violent history of slavery and discrimination that the n-word endorses. Whereas the term "wypipo", like the term "whitesplain", is in fact use to refer to people who perpetuate that history through their privileged obliviousness.
Response to Dreamer Tatum (Original post)Mon May 7, 2018, 12:18 PM
Star Member YessirAtsaFact (642 posts)
37. Can you say double standard?
Because of my skin color and alleged privileged status, it’s okay for a member of another ethnic group to call me a name. I’m not supposed to take offense.
But if I use the N word, because of the color of my skin I’m a horrible racist. I deserve whatever I get.
Yes , I know the difference in history of oppression regarding the N word.
That difference does not make calling me names right or fair. It certainly doesn’t take away my right to be offended.
BTW, if the goal is to offend me, you’ll have come up with a better word.
Wypipo just sounds dumb.
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YessirAtsaFact (642 posts) Mon May 7, 2018, 12:18 PM
Response to Dreamer Tatum (Original post)
37.....Wypipo just sounds dumb.
Ain't that the truth.
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I don't find it offensive. It is the way many blacks have been pronouncing it for decades. I find the use of the phrase as showing a lack of the ability to annunciate words. Think of "ax u" or "dat be true". Have we forgotten our ebonics?
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"N-Word" = Bad
"Honky" = OK
"Cracker" = OK
"Red Neck" = OK
"Wypipo" = Bad?????? Nah, Dreamer Tatum needs to down another jug of Prog koolaid.
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I'm thinking of calling DU-folk DUpipo instead.
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I'm thinking of calling DU-folk DUpipo instead.
hmm.. that's sorta catchy. I like that a lot better than DUmpass.
I might adopt that one myself
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Feel free to do so, FZ.
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I'm thinking of calling DU-folk DUpipo instead.
Nah, that makes them "pipo" instead of the pond scum they really are.
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Nah, that makes them "pipo" instead of the pond scum they really are.
valid point, indeed
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:rotf: :lmao: :rotf:
Dreamer Tatum placed the other primitives in front of a mirror. They never like that.
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:rotf: :lmao: :rotf:
Dreamer Tatum placed the other primitives in front of a mirror. They never like that.
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Don't blame them... they are a terrible sight to behold, enough to make one ill
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I'm a woke wypipo...................... :bird: