# y'all wypipo need to grow some skin **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 6, 2018, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yall-wypipo-need-to-grow-some-skin/817434 "2018-07-06T21:35:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2018, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yall-wypipo-need-to-grow-some-skin/817434/21 "2018-07-06T23:55:04Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > You guys have got to stop playing into the alt right’s hands. > > … You have to stop telling me what the fuck to do, Wyperso! ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2018, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yall-wypipo-need-to-grow-some-skin/817434/22 "2018-07-06T23:55:20Z")
> [@SmartAleq](#): > > One great example is the type of white person who insists on calling 911 to report black people existing within their line of sight. Permit Patty and BBQ Becky are total wypipo. Tipoff–that inordinate sense of entitlement. > > Another one would be some fulminating white person frothing over a black football player taking a knee because it dishonors the flag and is disrespecting veterans somehow thereby–while using a flag for a beach towel to sit on. > > Those are def wypipo. Why, pray tell, does the name Becky get all the crap? I am offended. ETA her name was Jennifer Schulte. ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2018, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yall-wypipo-need-to-grow-some-skin/817434/23 "2018-07-07T00:01:41Z")
> [@Huey\_Freeman](#): > > Statistics ought to be compulsory in high school. White males make 31% of the population yet hold over 65% of [all elected positions](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2014/10/08/65-percent-of-all-american-elected-officials-are-white-men/?utm_term=.db12d925524f). Thus, white males are overrepresented. Whites (as a group, including males and females) are only ~60% of the population. Thus, whites are overrepresented. That site seems to be including hispanics holding elected positions as “white”, but ignoring them as a group within the population. When including Hispanics and Latinos, the white population is closer to 80% (76.9 according to wiki). ---
**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 7, 2018, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yall-wypipo-need-to-grow-some-skin/817434/24 "2018-07-07T00:10:53Z")
Shut up **BigTard** Someone calls me “wypipo”, I’m gonna laugh. It’s not really that offensive. It’s more sarcastic than hateful. ---
**Author:** ![Ryan\_Liam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ryan_liam/32/3965_2.png) [@Ryan\_Liam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ryan_Liam)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2018, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yall-wypipo-need-to-grow-some-skin/817434/25 "2018-07-07T00:29:38Z")
typo ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2018, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yall-wypipo-need-to-grow-some-skin/817434/26 "2018-07-07T00:37:34Z")
It’s a cute word. Reminds me of “jigaboo” though I forget what that one means. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2018, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yall-wypipo-need-to-grow-some-skin/817434/27 "2018-07-07T00:48:46Z")
It does? You do? ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2018, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yall-wypipo-need-to-grow-some-skin/817434/28 "2018-07-07T01:01:37Z")
You don’t think so? They both sound like baby talk. Like “peekaboo”. ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2018, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yall-wypipo-need-to-grow-some-skin/817434/29 "2018-07-07T01:02:26Z")
Honestly, what pops into my mind is one of the greatest [SNL Sketches](https://videosift.com/video/Richard-Pryor-Dead-Honkey?loadcomm=1). It’s a silly term for silly people. I don’t see how it has the cultural baggage of nigger or nigga. While I’ll think less of the person using it my thoughts would be more along the lines of someone who said fuck every other word not someone covering their cars in nazi slogans. ---
**Author:** ![Jake\_Bullet\_Traffic\_Control](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3da27b/32.png) [@Jake\_Bullet\_Traffic\_Control](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake_Bullet_Traffic_Control)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2018, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yall-wypipo-need-to-grow-some-skin/817434/30 "2018-07-07T01:12:26Z")
> [@andros](#): > > Racist twaddle and trolling horseshit. Shut the fuck up **andros**. Your opinions aren’t worth the steam off my piss. To everyone else, there are three reasons I decided to make an issue out of Dibble’s use of ‘wypipo’: 1). I believe that, when it comes to racial insults, we can’t have one rule for group X and another rule for group Y. As such, I felt a moral obligation to upbraid Dibble for his racist insult, as I would do for anyone else. Bottom line: Either racial insults _are_ OK, in which case they’re OK for everyone, or they _aren’t_ OK, in which case they’re not OK for anyone. Which world would you rather live in? 2). Dibble was making the absurd case that if a white man says nigger _within earshot_ of a black person _even if he was making an anti-racist statement_, that constitutes an act of racism. If (white) Adam calls Bob a nigger, and then (white) Chris said _”Hey, don’t call Bob a nigger you racist piece of shit”_, Dibble would contend that Adam _and_ Chris we’re being racist because Chris said nigger and Chris is white. If someone is so eager to cry ‘racism!’ that they’ll gleefully strip any incident of relevant context and flush it down the shitter rather than miss an opportunity to stroke their outrage boner in public, they really shouldn’t be using racist slurs themselves, no matter how tepid they consider them to be, or how much insulation they think their own skin color provides. 3). I just flat out _don’t like_ Mr Dibble. He’s smug, supercilious, snarky, spiteful, and pathologically obsessed with having the last word. His behaviour toward Novelty Bobble and DSeid in that thread was reprehensible. He’s a massive, gaping asshole, and I will never miss an opportunity to take him to task for his bullshit because, seriously, fuck that guy. So that’s why I pulled him up over his use of ‘wypipo’. There’s nothing wrong with doing so and I’ll do it again. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2018, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yall-wypipo-need-to-grow-some-skin/817434/31 "2018-07-07T01:15:51Z")
My first thought before reading the thread was that it was mocking black accents. ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2018, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yall-wypipo-need-to-grow-some-skin/817434/32 "2018-07-07T01:38:26Z")
> [@Jake\_Bullet\_Traffic\_Control](#): > > Shut the fuck up **andros**. Your opinions aren’t worth the steam off my piss. It’s not my fault you are so very, very stupid. “Pulled him up,” lol. ---
**Author:** ![Jake\_Bullet\_Traffic\_Control](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3da27b/32.png) [@Jake\_Bullet\_Traffic\_Control](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake_Bullet_Traffic_Control)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2018, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yall-wypipo-need-to-grow-some-skin/817434/33 "2018-07-07T01:47:39Z")
> [@andros](#): > > It’s not my fault you are so very, very stupid. > > “Pulled him up,” lol. You don’t have the mental horsepower to do up your fly without trapping your dick in it. You’re really in no position to call anyone else stupid. But by all means, keep ignoring my points in the thread you started to attack me. Fuckwit. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2018, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yall-wypipo-need-to-grow-some-skin/817434/34 "2018-07-07T01:49:19Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Shut up **BigTard** Get over yourself already. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2018, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yall-wypipo-need-to-grow-some-skin/817434/35 "2018-07-07T01:55:14Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Like it or not, the term “wypipo” is indeed a derogatory term that is used to negatively stereotype white people. That makes is a slur. The other—perhaps more significant—usage of “wypipo” is by _white_ people who are dismissing or ridiculing black people’s complaints about racist treatment they have experienced. The reason I say this is more significant is that in our society, racism is truly a weapon only in the hands of white people. Anti-white racism by black people, for example, doesn’t really affect white people as a group at all in any practical sense. So white people can turn it into a joke or even turn it backwards and make it into another anti-black stereotype. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2018, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yall-wypipo-need-to-grow-some-skin/817434/36 "2018-07-07T02:02:47Z")
How are you supposed to recognize when someone SAYS “wypipo” to you? If their natural pronunciation of “white people” is “wypipo”, phonetically, how do you know? Or is this an internet-only outrage? ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2018, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yall-wypipo-need-to-grow-some-skin/817434/37 "2018-07-07T02:04:07Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > The other—perhaps more significant—usage of “wypipo” is by _white_ people who are dismissing or ridiculing black people’s complaints about racist treatment they have experienced. > > The reason I say this is more significant is that in our society, racism is truly a weapon only in the hands of white people. Anti-white racism by black people, for example, doesn’t really affect white people as a group at all in any practical sense. So white people can turn it into a joke or even turn it backwards and make it into another anti-black stereotype. Is that what’s happening here? I don’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![anomalous1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e56c9b/32.png) [@anomalous1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anomalous1)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2018, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yall-wypipo-need-to-grow-some-skin/817434/38 "2018-07-07T02:37:49Z")
> [@Huey\_Freeman](#): > > Statistics ought to be compulsory in high school. White males make 31% of the population yet hold over 65% of [all elected positions](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2014/10/08/65-percent-of-all-american-elected-officials-are-white-men/?utm_term=.db12d925524f). Thus, white males are overrepresented. Whites (as a group, including males and females) are only ~60% of the population. Thus, whites are overrepresented. Oh, ok. Washington Post cite. That’s incredibly credible! [/sarcasm] Actually it’s 72.4% ([https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2075.html#us](https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2075.html#us)) Not ~60% Whites are the majority of the population and hold majority of assets, therefore are **represented in the majority**. All the information needed is between the link above and wikipedia. There is nobody stopping any other ethnicity from getting the same positions or representation except for population size. That is it. Cry “No Fair” all you want, it’s legitimate and its not because there is some systemic conspiracy. Expand your demographics and work hard. More representation. Sorry for the derail everyone else. ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2018, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yall-wypipo-need-to-grow-some-skin/817434/39 "2018-07-07T03:21:45Z")
> [@CarnalK](#): > > Is that what’s happening here? I don’t get it. To the best of my knowledge, it’s really not what’s happening here. And it’s also not something I’ve encountered. Not denying it exists, necessarily, but I haven’t ever seen it. I’ve seen “wypipo” used by African-Americans and other POC, and by White folks to laugh at idiots (cf. JB-TC! above), but not by White people to mock Black people. **Acsenray** , can you point me to a link or three pertinent to what you’re talking about? ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2018, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yall-wypipo-need-to-grow-some-skin/817434/40 "2018-07-07T03:26:56Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > Get over yourself already. **BigTard** is the one who should get over himself. He could air condition Death Valley with that wagging finger of his. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yall-wypipo-need-to-grow-some-skin/817434.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yall-wypipo-need-to-grow-some-skin/817434.md?page=3)