# If you are white and were called a "wypipo", would you be offended?

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**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")\
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**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2018, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-are-white-and-were-called-a-wypipo-would-you-be-offended/813752/101 "2018-07-07T23:12:15Z")

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Whatever happened to “honky” and “ofay”? Og, I feel old now…

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**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2018, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-are-white-and-were-called-a-wypipo-would-you-be-offended/813752/102 "2018-07-07T23:20:28Z")

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Up until a few minutes ago, I never even heard of wypipo. If somebody said it to me, I’d be baffled not insulted.

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**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:** [July 8, 2018, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-are-white-and-were-called-a-wypipo-would-you-be-offended/813752/103 "2018-07-08T02:10:02Z")

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No love for “peckerwood”?

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**Author:** ![Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Call_Me.Tim)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2018, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-are-white-and-were-called-a-wypipo-would-you-be-offended/813752/104 "2018-07-09T05:22:43Z")

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> [@SOJA](#):
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> OT Edit: ugh, just admitting “I’m nearly 30” makes me feel so awful. Cue Alphaville’s song.

Good News! Alphaville’s “Forever Young” is more than 30 years old.

I feel old.

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**Author:** ![DrCube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@DrCube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrCube)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2018, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-are-white-and-were-called-a-wypipo-would-you-be-offended/813752/105 "2018-07-09T14:05:16Z")

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I have heard it before. If I was called that, I would not be offended. But I would feel like the person who used the term _wanted_ to offend me. I can’t see any other reason they would say it. But they wouldn’t succeed. It takes more than a slur to offend me.

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**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2018, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-are-white-and-were-called-a-wypipo-would-you-be-offended/813752/106 "2018-07-09T14:16:57Z")

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> [@DrCube](#):
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> But I would feel like the person who used the term _wanted_ to offend me.

A very good point. Well said.

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