# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![Inna\_Minnit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Inna\_Minnit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inna_Minnit)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-for-white-people-the-u-s-edition/686068/101 "2014-04-16T07:53:36Z")
> [@randompattern](#): > > 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! Traveling on the magical, super-secret whitey roads. > [@zoid](#): > > and the color of the day. White! It’s always white! > [@obbn](#): > > Man, the OP hates our roads. Seriously? The only really bad roads I’ve encountered are in done of the States that receive heavy snowfall. But in case your question was serious, do you realizes how many miles of roads there are in the US? Road repair is constant happening, but it can only happen so fast. Well, you do realize the snow is white? Can you imagine the uproar if there was a topic for questions for darkies? :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Honesty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f04885/32.png) [@Honesty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honesty)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-for-white-people-the-u-s-edition/686068/102 "2014-04-16T12:23:53Z")
> [@Inna\_Minnit](#): > > Can you imagine the uproar if there was a topic for questions for darkies? > > :smack: Given my years on the board and the replies posted here, the “uproar” would be as loud as a mouse pissing on cotton. - Honesty ---
**Author:** ![Honesty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f04885/32.png) [@Honesty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honesty)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-for-white-people-the-u-s-edition/686068/103 "2014-04-16T12:29:58Z")
[QUOTE=B Serum] Then what the %$@# was up with that insipid OP? [/QUOTE] The OP were questions that I have. I am not going to argue people’s answers in this folder, if I were interested in debating people’s answers, I would have posted in Great Debates. I did not. I asked for people’s input, they gave it, what else do you expect of me? To bicker back and forth with posters about people’s answers? To point out their join date? To refer to them as a troll? To truncate one’s questions as to blur its meaning? To make a bunch of snide remarks without addressing the OP at all? I won’t do that. That’s not my style. Sorry. - Honesty ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-for-white-people-the-u-s-edition/686068/104 "2014-04-16T13:09:29Z")
> [@Honesty](#): > > Sorry. > > - Honesty Apology accepted. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-for-white-people-the-u-s-edition/686068/105 "2014-04-16T13:26:22Z")
> [@Honesty](#): > > The OP were questions that I have. I am not going to argue people’s answers in this folder, if I were interested in debating people’s answers, I would have posted in Great Debates. I did not. I asked for people’s input, they gave it, what else do you expect of me? To bicker back and forth with posters about people’s answers? To point out their join date? To refer to them as a troll? To truncate one’s questions as to blur its meaning? To make a bunch of snide remarks without addressing the OP at all? I won’t do that. That’s not my style. Sorry. > > - Honesty It was just so damned obnoxious, is all. White people are not one giant hive mind. There are plenty non-white folks who are judgmental about welfare and abortion. I don’t even understand your link between white people and fixing roads or sending money to other countries. You just set up all kinds of racist stereotypes with these assumptions about white people. I’m a single (white) mom on welfare/food stamps. I’ve had an abortion. I have no say in where our tax dollars go (despite this mystical ability to vote that seems to be available to people of ALL skin colors in the US). I think if you say you’re white, you’re white. I don’t care if you’re just one-fourth white or lily white. It doesn’t matter to me. It shouldn’t matter period. Our own president decided what to call himself. He has one black and one white parent but he associates more with being black, and that’s fine. If he called himself white or mixed that would be fine too. The love of my life is Mexican and prefers to be called brown. I thought he looked white personally but he does not, and that is fine too. I don’t think one way or another about Puerto Rico, to be honest. I have enough on my plate worrying about immigration reform and the fact that people are still freaking out about “Illegals” when deportations are higher than they’ve ever been and immigration has fallen even more. That love of my life was deported when the sensible thing would have been to grant him a green card and let him continue to work his labor job and bring in an income and pay taxes like he did for almost 20 years before ICE shipped him back to Mexico, a place he knows little about after being in the US most of his life. ANYWAY . . . As for cocks, blech.No matter what you call them, they’re still icky and look like organs that should be INSIDE a body. But then I feel the same way about feet. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-for-white-people-the-u-s-edition/686068/106 "2014-04-16T14:29:43Z")
> [@Honesty](#): > > The OP were questions that I have. I am not going to argue people’s answers in this folder, if I were interested in debating people’s answers, I would have posted in Great Debates. I did not. I asked for people’s input, they gave it, what else do you expect of me? To bicker back and forth with posters about people’s answers? To point out their join date? To refer to them as a troll? To truncate one’s questions as to blur its meaning? To make a bunch of snide remarks without addressing the OP at all? I won’t do that. That’s not my style. Sorry. > > - Honesty What have you learned from these responses? ---
**Author:** ![Fubaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@Fubaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fubaya)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-for-white-people-the-u-s-edition/686068/107 "2014-04-16T15:13:32Z")
> [@Rushgeekgirl](#): > > As for cocks, blech.No matter what you call them, they’re still icky and look like organs that should be INSIDE a body. But then I feel the same way about feet. If we’re lucky, our penises do get to be inside a body on occasion. But feet… now that’s just kinky. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-for-white-people-the-u-s-edition/686068/108 "2014-04-16T15:47:23Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > What have you learned from these responses? Yeah, if you don’t mind. **Honesty** , I understand that you don’t want to debate in this thread; that’s not what I mean. But I am curious about whether you feel like some of your questions have been answered in a way that clarifies anything for you or, instead, if you were only considering this thread to be an educational experience for us. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-for-white-people-the-u-s-edition/686068/109 "2014-04-16T18:48:31Z")
> [@Fubaya](#): > > I started to post my answers but I just kept thinking someone should get this man a white friend because he’s way off about whitey! Honestly, Honesty, the questions just don’t make sense. White people don’t look at everything in terms of whiteness. In fact, the only time I think about being white is when summer comes around and I think “guess I better try to get a tan so I don’t look like a pasty freak.” “I’m not racist! I have a white friend. Also, he’s half Jewish, so I have “I jewed them down” privileges!” Tan = spend exactly 14 minutes in the sun, because any more and I’ll have to peel of the red skin to get to the even whiter stuff underneath. > [@](#): > > Because 51 stars would look funny on the flag. [Naaah.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_flag_51_stars.svg) > [@Rushgeekgirl](#): > > I don’t think one way or another about Puerto Rico, to be honest. I have enough on my plate worrying about immigration reform We need to stop it from being a state, or else Puerto Ricans will no longer have to go through the hassle of simply buying a plane ticket and not needing a passport in order to move to the US. Now the bastards will be able to buy a plane ticket and not get a passport in order to move. > [@](#): > > As for cocks, blech.No matter what you call them, they’re still icky and look like organs that should be INSIDE a body. But then I feel the same way about feet. Google “cat penis” or “duck penis” for what the inside body ones look like/do. _Shudder_. Or “cock cock” I imagine. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-for-white-people-the-u-s-edition/686068/110 "2014-04-16T23:13:14Z")
Question for Black people: Since you use the expression “you must be trippin’!” does that mean you guys can still find LSD? Because we haven’t seen any around for years. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-for-white-people-the-u-s-edition/686068/111 "2014-04-17T07:46:31Z")
> [@Honesty](#): > > The OP were questions that I have. I am not going to argue people’s answers in this folder, if I were interested in debating people’s answers, I would have posted in Great Debates. I did not.\*\* I asked for people’s input, they gave it, what else do you expect of me? \*\* To bicker back and forth with posters about people’s answers? To point out their join date? To refer to them as a troll? To truncate one’s questions as to blur its meaning? To make a bunch of snide remarks without addressing the OP at all? I won’t do that. That’s not my style. Sorry. > > - Honesty With respect to the bolded portion, it would be nice for you to indicate whether you take those answers seriously. Your OP is laden with questions that rely on acceptance of some pretty contentious assumptions. To be sure, you do provide a few data points that you imply support the validity of those assumptions (or perhaps I should say you imply that they establish their validity), but you are clearly demanding that their truth be taken as givens, and the questions approached from that baseline. The generalizations in many of them are pretty provocative. Under the circumstances, I think it’s not unreasonable to expect of you some display of your _bona fides_, to show that provocation is not you primary goal in posting this OP. Excuse me, I have a post to report. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-for-white-people-the-u-s-edition/686068/112 "2014-04-17T08:23:22Z")
In other words, ask a stupid question, get a stupid answer. ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2014, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-for-white-people-the-u-s-edition/686068/113 "2014-04-20T22:28:40Z")
> [@randompattern](#): > > Us white people have secret meetings in golden palaces… Not me and ‘the boys’. Whenever there’s strangers comin around and stirrin up things, we only use klaverns. And, local sheriff’s offices. Whenever we can get the pickups runnin. ETA: I didn’t notice-did the OP ask if we knew that the US isn’t named America, yet? ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2014, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-for-white-people-the-u-s-edition/686068/114 "2014-04-20T22:34:28Z")
> [@AHunter3](#): > > But I am curious about whether you feel like some of your questions have been answered in a way that clarifies anything for you or, instead, if you were only considering this thread to be an educational experience for us. The latter. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2014, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-for-white-people-the-u-s-edition/686068/115 "2014-04-20T22:41:34Z")
> [@Honesty](#): > > The OP were questions that I have. I am not going to argue people’s answers in this folder, if I were interested in debating people’s answers, I would have posted in Great Debates. I did not. I asked for people’s input, they gave it, what else do you expect of me? To bicker back and forth with posters about people’s answers? To point out their join date? To refer to them as a troll? To truncate one’s questions as to blur its meaning? To make a bunch of snide remarks without addressing the OP at all? I won’t do that. That’s not my style. Sorry. > > - Honesty Snide remarks are the most appropriate response to a snide OP filled with factually incorrect information and false premises. I’m shocked this has not been moved to the Pit. ---
**Author:** ![Terr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@Terr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terr)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2014, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-for-white-people-the-u-s-edition/686068/116 "2014-04-20T23:01:42Z")
Every \*\*Honesty \*\*post can be summarized as “Look at me, look how non-white I am!” ---
**Author:** ![Honesty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f04885/32.png) [@Honesty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honesty)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-for-white-people-the-u-s-edition/686068/117 "2014-04-21T02:29:39Z")
[QUOTE=John Mace] Snide remarks are the most appropriate response to a snide OP filled with factually incorrect information and false premises. I’m shocked this has not been moved to the Pit. [/QUOTE] Or one could STFU and not say anything at all. God knows that exactly what you do when the _ **monthly** _ “BLKS R STUPID!111!1” thread appears in Great Debates. Just be silent like you’ve always been. [QUOTE=iiandyii] What have you learned from these responses? [/QUOTE] Very little, though [puddlegum’s post](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=17287417&postcount=46) was probably the most enlightening. [QUOTE=Alessan] In other words, ask a stupid question, get a stupid answer. [/QUOTE] \ When you all fix your roads, I’ll give a damn what you think is a stupid question or not. In the mean time, enjoy your swiftly moving, no pot-hole, four lane freeway in Los Angeles. I hear it takes an hour to traverse a few miles, have fun with your trip, that’s your tax dollars at work for you. [QUOTE=Ahunter3] But I am curious about whether you feel like some of your questions have been answered in a way that clarifies anything for you or, instead, if you were only considering this thread to be an educational experience for us. [/QUOTE] Neither. Questions were answered but there was no consensus - Honesty ---
**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 21, 2014, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-for-white-people-the-u-s-edition/686068/118 "2014-04-21T02:36:11Z")
> [@Honesty](#): > > \ > > When you all fix your roads, I’ll give a damn what you think is a stupid question or not. In the mean time, enjoy your swiftly moving, no pot-hole, four lane freeway in Los Angeles. I hear it takes an hour to traverse a few miles, have fun with your trip, that’s your tax dollars at work for you. Where do you get this laughable idea that white people own the roads? ---
**Author:** ![Honesty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f04885/32.png) [@Honesty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honesty)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-for-white-people-the-u-s-edition/686068/119 "2014-04-21T02:59:05Z")
> [@zoid](#): > > Where do you get this laughable idea that white people own the roads? Let’s flip through the Book of Presidents. What do you see? Let’s flip through the Book of Vice Presidents. What do you see? Let’s flip through the Book of Speaker of the Houses. What do you see? Let’s flip through the Book of Supreme Court Justices. What do you see? Let’s flip through the Book of the House of Representatives. What do you see? Let’s flip through the Book of the Senate. What do you see? Let’s flip through the Census Data of 2010. What do you see? What I see a government that was and still is principally white, a government that does not fund its roads, a government that does not adequately fund the arts and sciences or education, and a government that can’t have annum without the government collapsing due to selfishly not paying its bills. I see a populace that is principally white that vote in people who can’t even do the People’s business. So yeah, I think white people own the roads (and the voting booth, too). How literal you choose to take the word “own” is, of course, up to you. - Honesty ---
**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 21, 2014, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-for-white-people-the-u-s-edition/686068/120 "2014-04-21T03:03:57Z")
> [@Honesty](#): > > Let’s flip through the Book of Presidents. What do you see? > Let’s flip through the Book of Vice Presidents. What do you see? > Let’s flip through the Book of Speaker of the Houses. What do you see? > Let’s flip through the Book of Supreme Court Justices. What do you see? > Let’s flip through the Book of the House of Representatives. What do you see? > Let’s flip through the Book of the Senate. What do you see? > Let’s flip through the Census Data of 2010. What do you see? > > What I see a government that was and still is principally white, a government that does not fund its roads, a government that does not adequately fund the arts and sciences or education, and a government that can’t have annum without the government collapsing due to selfishly not paying its bills. I see a populace that is principally white that vote in people who can’t even do the People’s business. So yeah, I think white people own the roads and the voting booth, too. How literal you choose to take the word “own” is, of course, up to you. > > - Honesty You do understand that the roads are maintained by taxes and that not only white people pay taxes, correct? Oh, I forgot, reparations would make all of these problems go away :rolleyes: This has got to be the most misinformed and plain stupid thread of the month. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-for-white-people-the-u-s-edition/686068.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-for-white-people-the-u-s-edition/686068.md?page=7)