I met someone the other day who proudly self-identified as "straight, white, Anglo Saxon atheist.
I’m clear on straight, white and atheist. But in this context what does Anglo Saxon men? Why is this a point of pride?
I wonder if he was riffing off of WASP- white, Anglo Saxon, Protestant.
He (or She, but unlikely) just means “white.”
No, they mean that they’re not Irish, Italian, Polish, Russian, Jewish, German, Swedish, or any of those other steerage-class people that started immigrating to the USA in the 19th century.
A Protestant atheist?
Right. That’s what they mean by “white.”
No… Replace Protestant with atheist.
Funny that the Angles were originally from Germany/Denmark and the Saxons were about as steerage-class as you could get. Just ask the Normans. 
So… a WASA?
I guess. You’d have to ask your friend, but I’m guessing that’s what he was playing off of.
Well, how do you know that you’re a true aristocrat? You can trace your lineage back umpteen generations to a band of barbarian rapers and plunderers.
Not what the point of the WASP reference is, but there is indeed such a thing. Catholic atheists can be very different.
If you eliminate the “Irish, Italian, Polish, Russian, Jewish, German, Swedish, or any of those other steerage-class people that started immigrating to the USA in the 19th century” who is left?
I resemble that remark; one of my ancestors was a kanigget pledged to Strongbow.
No, a SWASA.
Which is just a STK short of a SWASTIKA.
TIK, actually.
Anglo Saxons
He thinks adding salt makes something well-spiced.
To me, “Anglo” is a slang term “white, and not Latino”. That use doesn’t usually come with a “Saxon”, though.
As an aside, in Israel, the term Anglo-Saxons (or “Anglosaxim” in the local parlance) refers to Jewish immigrants from English-speaking countries like the U.S., UK, Australia, Canada or South Africa. I’m a second-generation *Anglosaxi *myself.
My parents always found the term funny, because back in the States, Anglo-Saxon was one thing they weren’t.