# Questions for white people \[the U.S edition\] **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 14, 2014, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-for-white-people-the-u-s-edition/686068 "2014-04-14T04:00:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Honesty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f04885/32.png) [@Honesty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honesty)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-for-white-people-the-u-s-edition/686068/1 "2014-04-14T04:00:50Z")
1. Why are you always other people’s business? Why do stay awake all night worrying what paltry benefits Tamika Johnson is getting from the government, whether Amy O’Connor is getting an abortion clear across the country, or if Adam and Steve are getting married in some obscure town in California. What do any of those things (and other things that don’t directly concern you) have anything to do with your daily grind? Why do you concern yourself and desire to meddle in affairs of people and things that have nothing to do with you? 2. Why are you naive? This, unfortunately, includes Obama which suggest that the naivete trait is dominant. Nonetheless, I am still curious as to why this is. I sincerely believe that the majority white people would vote for a talking Teddy Ruxpin doll if it were programmed to promise low taxes and limited government. This is clearly a scam in light of the data over the last several decades. You’re being played and you must know this because everytime someone goes into office promising those things, they never deliver, and, in fact, deliver the opposite. Why do you continue to believe and buy into the Teddy Ruxpin fantasy? 3. Why don’t you fix your roads? I am completely dumbfounded on this one.There must be a hidden reason that I am missing. My biggest fear is that you all will purposefully allow it to deteriorate over the next few decades to the point where it “needs” to be privatized, thus fucking everyone over (again). 4. Why do you rush to give white people in other countries money but you won’t provide relief for poor brown and white people living in your own borders? For example, Detroit needed less than a few million to stave off bankruptcy; at the same time, the government disperses free money in the form of a $1 billion package to Kiev - whose prosperity is several orders of magnitude greater than Detroit is. And, to my knowledge, Kiev is not a part of the United States but Detroit (much to your chagrin, I imagine) is. You did finally gave Detroit its aid package after you scared and bullied the black electorate into voting for a pro-business, white Mayor through forcing Detroit into bankruptcy. Congratulations. 5. Why do you provide monetary tribute to other countries when the American people are overwhelmingly [against it](http://www.politico.com/story/2013/02/poll-most-only-want-foreign-aid-cuts-87948.html)? 6. Why do you vote against your interests? 7. Why do you lump minorities as a group but become indignant when it is done to you? 8. Do you consider Jews, Italians, Greeks, Spaniards, Arabs, Iranians, and other white, brown-eyed people to be “white”? Can you tell difference between the aforementioned groups? Is there some internal hierarchy of whiteness between these groups where they are treated differently? Or are they are equally considered to be “white” and are treated with the full rights and privileges thereof? 9. Why are you always meddling in the affairs of other nations when you can’t even fix your roads or run government without throwing an annual temper tantrum and shutting the government down? 10. Why have you been silent on the issue of Puerto Rico’s statehood? If memory serves, the brown people voted to be apart of the United States almost two years ago and Congress has been silent on the issue. Why? God knows if Ontario voted to join the Union, it would be considered and voted upon at the first available opportunity. What I don’t understand is this: if you claim to love and respect democracy why not first practice it within your own borders before exporting (democracy) to other countries? 11. Bonus: Why do you all refer to penis and dick as “cock”. Thank you. - Honesty ---
**Author:** ![dracoi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@dracoi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dracoi)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-for-white-people-the-u-s-edition/686068/2 "2014-04-14T04:07:12Z")
Glad to see there’s no racial stereotyping going on here… :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-for-white-people-the-u-s-edition/686068/3 "2014-04-14T04:17:50Z")
Generalization much? ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-for-white-people-the-u-s-edition/686068/4 "2014-04-14T04:22:26Z")
> [@Honesty](#): > > 1. Why are you always other people’s business? . . . Why do you concern yourself and desire to meddle in affairs of people and things that have nothing to do with you? I don’t. If it doesn’t affect me, I leave it alone. > [@](#): > > 1. Why are you naive? . . . Dunno. Just happened. Came from a family wealthy enough to support my naivete. > [@](#): > > 1. Why don’t you fix your roads? . . . I always vote for road bonds. And, in personal practice, I’ve graded more than my share of back-country dirt roads. I’ve put a few hundred miles on the old Minneapolis Moline. > [@](#): > > 1. Why do you rush to give white people in other countries money but you won’t provide relief for poor brown and white people living in your own borders? . . . This doesn’t apply to me, either way. > [@](#): > > 1. Why do you provide monetary tribute to other countries when the American people are overwhelmingly [against it](http://www.politico.com/story/2013/02/poll-most-only-want-foreign-aid-cuts-87948.html)? It isn’t “tribute,” so watch your language, buddy. Foreign aid is viewed by many as a strong moral necessity. We can’t fix all the world’s problems, but if a few hundred thousand can build a health clinic somewhere, why not? > [@](#): > > 1. Why do you vote against your interests? Because big advertising money lies to us, day in and day out, about what our interests really are. > [@](#): > > 1. Why do you lump minorities as a group but become indignant when it is done to you? This doesn’t apply to me, either way. > [@](#): > > 1. Do you consider Jews, Italians, Greeks, Spaniards, Arabs, Iranians, and other white, brown-eyed people to be “white”? . . . I don’t give a shit. They can call themselves anything they want. None of my business. I know people who have 1/32 American Indian ancestry who have registered as tribal members…and people with 29/32 American Indian ancestry who consider themselves white. > [@](#): > > 1. Why are you always meddling in the affairs of other nations when you can’t even fix your roads or run government without throwing an annual temper tantrum and shutting the government down? I vote against the people who shut the government down. And when other nations engage in really shitty activities, like piracy, or placing bombs on airliners, then that makes it our business. > [@](#): > > 1. Why have you been silent on the issue of Puerto Rico’s statehood? . . . It isn’t important to me. If the citizens there want statehood, that’s great: I’m open to it. If they want independence, that’s cool too. They can have it. If they prefer the status quo – and apparently, most of them do – then that’s fine. > [@](#): > > 1. Bonus: Why do you all refer to penis and dick as “cock”. . . . Linguistic tradition. Same reason we speak of “pussy.” There may be some very vague physiological resemblance involved. A penis looks a little like the stretched neck of a rooster. ---
**Author:** ![jimbuff314](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c57346/32.png) [@jimbuff314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimbuff314)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-for-white-people-the-u-s-edition/686068/5 "2014-04-14T04:24:07Z")
Damn. Glad I’m not white. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-for-white-people-the-u-s-edition/686068/6 "2014-04-14T04:24:41Z")
Yes only white people do any of those things :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_T](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Gary\_T](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_T)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-for-white-people-the-u-s-edition/686068/7 "2014-04-14T04:25:14Z")
We do all those things because it just feels so…white. ---
**Author:** ![jimbuff314](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c57346/32.png) [@jimbuff314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimbuff314)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-for-white-people-the-u-s-edition/686068/8 "2014-04-14T04:26:21Z")
> [@zoid](#): > > Yes only white people do any of those things :rolleyes: Kewl simulpost, huh **zoid**? ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-for-white-people-the-u-s-edition/686068/9 "2014-04-14T04:31:42Z")
LOL honkies be trollin’ amirite? ---
**Author:** ![randompattern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7993a0/32.png) [@randompattern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randompattern)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-for-white-people-the-u-s-edition/686068/10 "2014-04-14T04:33:35Z")
Us white people have secret meetings in golden palaces to discuss what we should do to make things worse for others. Don’t even get me started on the roads! ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-for-white-people-the-u-s-edition/686068/11 "2014-04-14T04:46:47Z")
> [@Honesty](#): > > 1. Why are you always other people’s business? Why do stay awake all night worrying what paltry benefits Tamika Johnson is getting from the government, whether Amy O’Connor is getting an abortion clear across the country, or if Adam and Steve are getting married in some obscure town in California. What do any of those things (and other things that don’t directly concern you) have anything to do with your daily grind? Why do you concern yourself and desire to meddle in affairs of people and things that have nothing to do with you? People worry about government programs because they pay the taxes that finance those programs. So it is their business. People worry about abortions and gay marriage for religious reasons. > [@Honesty](#): > > 1. Why are you naive? This, unfortunately, includes Obama which suggest that the naivete trait is dominant. Nonetheless, I am still curious as to why this is. I sincerely believe that the majority white people would vote for a talking Teddy Ruxpin doll if it were programmed to promise low taxes and limited government. This is clearly a scam in light of the data over the last several decades. You’re being played and you must know this because everytime someone goes into office promising those things, they never deliver, and, in fact, deliver the opposite. Why do you continue to believe and buy into the Teddy Ruxpin fantasy? Limited government is a way of getting lowered taxes. People want lowered taxes because they want to keep more money. Politicians promise these things because that’s what voters want. > [@Honesty](#): > > 1. Why don’t you fix your roads? I am completely dumbfounded on this one.There must be a hidden reason that I am missing. My biggest fear is that you all will purposefully allow it to deteriorate over the next few decades to the point where it “needs” to be privatized, thus fucking everyone over (again). More of not liking government spending. > [@Honesty](#): > > 1. Why do you rush to give white people in other countries money but you won’t provide relief for poor brown and white people living in your own borders? For example, Detroit needed less than a few million to stave off bankruptcy; at the same time, the government disperses free money in the form of a $1 billion package to Kiev - whose prosperity is several orders of magnitude greater than Detroit is. And, to my knowledge, Kiev is not a part of the United States but Detroit (much to your chagrin, I imagine) is. You did finally gave Detroit its aid package after you scared and bullied the black electorate into voting for a pro-business, white Mayor through forcing Detroit into bankruptcy. Congratulations. Foreign aid is usually given for strategic reasons. We send foreign aid to places where we suspect poverty could lead to political instability which could lead to war. People in Detroit may be poor but they’re not going to form an army. > [@Honesty](#): > > 1. Why do you provide monetary tribute to other countries when the American people are overwhelmingly [against it](http://www.politico.com/story/2013/02/poll-most-only-want-foreign-aid-cuts-87948.html)? Because it’s a good idea even if it’s not a popular one. > [@Honesty](#): > > 1. Why do you vote against your interests? Need more details on this one. > [@Honesty](#): > > 1. Why do you lump minorities as a group but become indignant when it is done to you? We don’t lump minorities into a group. Even bigots have different stereotypes for different minorities. > [@Honesty](#): > > 1. Do you consider Jews, Italians, Greeks, Spaniards, Arabs, Iranians, and other white, brown-eyed people to be “white”? Can you tell difference between the aforementioned groups? Is there some internal hierarchy of whiteness between these groups where they are treated differently? Or are they are equally considered to be “white” and are treated with the full rights and privileges thereof? Yes. Yes (well maybe not so much with Arabs and Iranians - they’re probably often confused together). Muslims rank below the other groups since 9/11. Pretty much. > [@Honesty](#): > > 1. Why are you always meddling in the affairs of other nations when you can’t even fix your roads or run government without throwing an annual temper tantrum and shutting the government down? Priorities. > [@Honesty](#): > > 1. Why have you been silent on the issue of Puerto Rico’s statehood? If memory serves, the brown people voted to be apart of the United States almost two years ago and Congress has been silent on the issue. Why? God knows if Ontario voted to join the Union, it would be considered and voted upon at the first available opportunity. What I don’t understand is this: if you claim to love and respect democracy why not first practice it within your own borders before exporting (democracy) to other countries? The results of the 2012 referendum were ambiguous. The government in Puerto Rico has said they will hold a statewide assembly to discuss the issue and achieve a more clear-cut goal but the assembly has not been scheduled yet. So the rest of us are waiting to find out what the Puerto Ricans really want. > [@Honesty](#): > > 1. Bonus: Why do you all refer to penis and dick as “cock”. We use all three terms. ---
**Author:** ![Silophant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a698b9/32.png) [@Silophant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silophant)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-for-white-people-the-u-s-edition/686068/12 "2014-04-14T04:56:47Z")
1-10: Not all white people are conservative. You’ve been on this board for more than a decade, you know this perfectly well. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-for-white-people-the-u-s-edition/686068/13 "2014-04-14T05:39:26Z")
Is this a parody thread? You have to provide a link to the original. It’s like the law. 1. Maan, I was in a black evangelical Baptist church the other day, and it was like rainbow flags everywhere. 2. Meet question 8. 3. Many of these groups have high rates of pale skin and not-brown eyes. 4. I am under the impression that if someone on here said they wanted PR to be rushed to statehood immediately, someone would accuse them of being an imperialist bastard. Congress would vote on it (or whatever happens) if it comes to the table. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-for-white-people-the-u-s-edition/686068/14 "2014-04-14T05:47:01Z")
> [@jimbuff314](#): > > Damn. Glad I’m not white. I’d trade it all just to be able to jump. ---
**Author:** ![Urbanredneck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ea5d25/32.png) [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-for-white-people-the-u-s-edition/686068/15 "2014-04-14T06:03:27Z")
Why dont you just ask why we like mayonnaise, white bread, square dancing, and country music? ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-for-white-people-the-u-s-edition/686068/16 "2014-04-14T06:10:38Z")
> [@Urbanredneck](#): > > Why dont you just ask why we like mayonnaise, white bread, square dancing, and country music? Don’t forget fried chicken and watermelon. Every white person I know loves fried chicken and watermelon. Coincidence? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-for-white-people-the-u-s-edition/686068/17 "2014-04-14T06:25:08Z")
I don’t like white people either, but this thread is completely flippin’ ridiculous. Except #11. Can somebody answer that? Not sure I’m sold on the “stretched out rooster” defense. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-for-white-people-the-u-s-edition/686068/18 "2014-04-14T06:25:34Z")
> [@Silophant](#): > > 1-10: Not all white people are conservative. You’ve been on this board for more than a decade, you know this perfectly well. On this board, you could usually pick up on that within the first hour. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-for-white-people-the-u-s-edition/686068/19 "2014-04-14T06:49:22Z")
For once, I seriously doubt Ignorance can be defeated here. The OP is trolling. ---
**Author:** ![jimbuff314](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c57346/32.png) [@jimbuff314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimbuff314)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-for-white-people-the-u-s-edition/686068/20 "2014-04-14T07:13:22Z")
Um, we’re not s’posed to say oll-tray outside of the it-pay. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-for-white-people-the-u-s-edition/686068.md?page=2)