# If you are white and were called a "wypipo", would you be offended? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 7, 2018, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-are-white-and-were-called-a-wypipo-would-you-be-offended/813752 "2018-05-07T14:22:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2018, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-are-white-and-were-called-a-wypipo-would-you-be-offended/813752/41 "2018-05-07T20:16:08Z")
Can we be called myopic snorklers instead? ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2018, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-are-white-and-were-called-a-wypipo-would-you-be-offended/813752/42 "2018-05-07T20:23:10Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > No, but then I’m a white guy. I don’t have to feel offended or threatened by words others make up to refer to me because I still have my White Guy status. I know! Sometimes–usually–it’s good to be king. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2018, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-are-white-and-were-called-a-wypipo-would-you-be-offended/813752/43 "2018-05-07T20:34:17Z")
I’m not offended by “wypipo”. But it is a term that I would never use because I have no use for it. ---
**Author:** ![Not\_a\_Platypus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d26b3c/32.png) [@Not\_a\_Platypus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Not_a_Platypus)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2018, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-are-white-and-were-called-a-wypipo-would-you-be-offended/813752/44 "2018-05-07T21:22:25Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > No, it’s just a manipulation of ‘white people’ to avoid detection by social media algorithms. Until now I thought that’s all it was. I don’t think I’d be insulted by “wypipo” itself, since it just makes the user look like a moron, and chances are their insults would be based on assumptions because of my skin color, rather than anything I’ve actually done. It’s hard to take someone seriously if they’re just flinging rude remarks around hoping for something to stick. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2018, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-are-white-and-were-called-a-wypipo-would-you-be-offended/813752/45 "2018-05-07T21:24:30Z")
I thought wypipo was plural. So you couldn’t be “a wypipo.” But I could be wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2018, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-are-white-and-were-called-a-wypipo-would-you-be-offended/813752/46 "2018-05-07T21:29:44Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Is it bad enough that I would respond and give them the satisfaction? Not unless I can figure out some perfect snarky reply, which is all it deserves. I would just reply, _“The Sherriff is near!”_, and be amused by the puzzled look on their face. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/vcZ9ku_wInw/hqdefault.jpg "Blazing Saddles: "The sheriff is a ..."") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcZ9ku_wInw) ---
**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2018, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-are-white-and-were-called-a-wypipo-would-you-be-offended/813752/47 "2018-05-07T21:37:10Z")
This is literally the first I ever heard of the term, so I would assume the person was mumbling or just babbling gibberish or something. If they then proceeded to sit me down and carefully explain to me that it means…whatever it means, I would gradually come to realize that some nontrivial percentage of humanity is stupid. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2018, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-are-white-and-were-called-a-wypipo-would-you-be-offended/813752/48 "2018-05-07T22:15:03Z")
I’ve never encountered the term “wypipo.” Now that I have, I am not offended by it, not a little bit. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2018, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-are-white-and-were-called-a-wypipo-would-you-be-offended/813752/49 "2018-05-07T22:18:04Z")
By the way, now that we white people are discussing it, it’s probably obsolete. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2018, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-are-white-and-were-called-a-wypipo-would-you-be-offended/813752/50 "2018-05-07T22:34:07Z")
Richard Pryor and Chevy Chase were in an SNL skit that kind of covers this discussion. On my cheap phone right now, will link later. Unless some other candy ass honky beats me to it. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2018, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-are-white-and-were-called-a-wypipo-would-you-be-offended/813752/51 "2018-05-07T22:50:22Z")
There may not be a word against white people with the same weight as the n word for black people, but the same level of hate can exist in a person of any race towards another. yymv, imho, no I don’t have a cite, you smooth forehead p’tak! ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2018, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-are-white-and-were-called-a-wypipo-would-you-be-offended/813752/52 "2018-05-07T23:31:25Z")
I think it’s one of the dumbest I’ve heard yet. And I’d probably just laugh if someone used it against me. ---
**Author:** ![Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2018, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-are-white-and-were-called-a-wypipo-would-you-be-offended/813752/53 "2018-05-07T23:46:37Z")
I am and I would not. I don’t have a problem with non-white folks being on default suspicious of me because I’m white. Given the sum totality of bullshit that we’ve put them through over their lives, I figure it’s a reasonable stance to take. ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-are-white-and-were-called-a-wypipo-would-you-be-offended/813752/54 "2018-05-08T00:46:31Z")
> [@Jasmine](#): > > [**“NegusWhoRead”**](http://neguswhoread.com/wypipo-explained/) > > Found this via Google. To say it is an afro-centric web site would be the understatement of the day, but the segment below was interesting nevertheless. That list should be a test. Get 10/20 points and grats! You are a wypipo. I’ll admit I may be a wypipo. I just can’t tell. ---
**Author:** ![Grumbacher\_Red](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85e7bf/32.png) [@Grumbacher\_Red](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumbacher_Red)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-are-white-and-were-called-a-wypipo-would-you-be-offended/813752/55 "2018-05-08T01:37:22Z")
> [@Inigo\_Montoya](#): > > I’d go with divisive social media bot tactic. Nonwhites already have their epithets for us. They don’t need _more_, they need to give the ones they have _teeth_. How privileged that is: providing critiques for others to slur me more hurtfully. 🙂 I’m dumb. This is hysterical!! Best post of the thread! Yes, yes, let me school you on how to better insult me… I think there is a Monty Python sketch in there somewhere. 😃 As for whether or not it would bother me, probably not. I have spent most of my life as a minority in predominately black environments, so I have been witness to all manner of good and bad behavior directed at me. You have to go a lot further than that to get to me. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-are-white-and-were-called-a-wypipo-would-you-be-offended/813752/56 "2018-05-08T01:40:04Z")
I’m not even offended when non-whites call me cracker or honky or whatever, because it doesn’t really matter. What’s interesting, though, is that years ago, when I worked and lived in Japan, I actually did kinda mind being called a _gaijin_…like a little bit. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-are-white-and-were-called-a-wypipo-would-you-be-offended/813752/57 "2018-05-08T01:40:58Z")
> [@Grumbacher\_Red](#): > > This is hysterical!! Best post of the thread! Yes, yes, let me school you on how to better insult me… > > I think there is a Monty Python sketch in there somewhere. 😃 Almost sounds like it should be a Key and Peele sketch, if they were still doing that show. Does it count if I sometimes define myself by the point of view of the older Hispanic population in New Mexico and call myself Anglo? How about using gringo in a somewhat self-deprecating manner? ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-are-white-and-were-called-a-wypipo-would-you-be-offended/813752/58 "2018-05-08T02:27:58Z")
Having never heard it before; no. But I was fine for the 22 years my wife and I were just “possel-q’s” (POSSLQ). ---
**Author:** ![JackieLikesVariety](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackielikesvariety/32/296_2.png) [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-are-white-and-were-called-a-wypipo-would-you-be-offended/813752/59 "2018-05-08T03:15:32Z")
> [@](#): > > To me, the term is so ludicrous that I’d be giggling at it, not offended. if you want to take it more seriously, you can use the spelling Y. P. Pull, which I found in the link from Jasmine’s post. but, no, not offended no matter how you spell it. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-are-white-and-were-called-a-wypipo-would-you-be-offended/813752/60 "2018-05-08T03:23:00Z")
Y. P. Pull sounds like a rejected staffer from Car Talk. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-are-white-and-were-called-a-wypipo-would-you-be-offended/813752.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-are-white-and-were-called-a-wypipo-would-you-be-offended/813752.md?page=4)