# 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:** 8
**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 8, 2018, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yall-wypipo-need-to-grow-some-skin/817434/141 "2018-07-08T12:23:08Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Man, I hope none of your RL friends read the board. Well, they don’t but they are actual friends not former work colleagues and “varsity mates” nor do they live on another continent. Your reaching is basically admitting how US race relations is indeed mostly an academic pursuit for you. Quit trying to pretend you have any personal stake in it. I don’t blame you- you want to argue but there is obviously not as big an arena to argue about South African race relations. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2018, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yall-wypipo-need-to-grow-some-skin/817434/142 "2018-07-08T12:34:34Z")
> [@CarnalK](#): > > Well, they don’t but they are actual friends not former work colleagues and “varsity mates” What the hey about those precludes them being “actual friends”? How the heck do you define “actual friend”, if not someone you regularly talk to, and occasionally see when possible? You think time and distance are going to magically erase 5, 10 years of previous friendship? And why the scare quotes around “varsity mates”? I don’t know what kind of piss-poor varsity life you had, but the friends I made in uni are some of my lifelong best mates. Some of them just happen to no longer live here. > [@](#): > > nor do they live on another continent. Pardon me for being more of a global citizen than you seem to be. I have friends, good friends, move-a-body friends, on 4 continents. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2018, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yall-wypipo-need-to-grow-some-skin/817434/143 "2018-07-08T12:44:16Z")
> [@CarnalK](#): > > Your reaching Well, _one_ of us is reaching… > [@](#): > > is basically admitting how US race relations is indeed mostly an academic pursuit for you. Quit trying to pretend you have any personal stake in it. Not sure why you’re so invested in making that accusation. Just seems like a roundabout way to shut me out of the conversation, which - good luck with that, mate. :rolleyes: I said it didn’t “mean nothing” to me, and that’s true. That you have to tie yourself in knots to belittle the value of my friendships kind of says it all, really. > [@](#): > > I don’t blame you- you want to argue but there is obviously not as big an arena to argue about South African race relations. Are you deluded enough to think we don’t have local fora to discuss our own race relations, or that I don’t participate in them? ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2018, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yall-wypipo-need-to-grow-some-skin/817434/144 "2018-07-08T12:57:50Z")
> [@MarvinKitFox](#): > > What is the uproar about? > > Wypipo is no more offensive than Nigga, Wop or Chink And if you believe they are equivalent to those, or even in the same category, you some obtuse (deliberately or not) wypipo indeed. IT IS NOT ABOUT RACE OR SKIN COLOR. At all. Not all white folks are wypipo. Some non-white people are wypipo. It’s about what you do and how you behave, not who/what you are. **Anomalous1** is mos def wypipo, for example. I don’t know who the fuck he is or what he looks like, but I know what he says he thinks. And he deffo believes wypipo shit, and is salty for being called on it. ---
**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 8, 2018, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yall-wypipo-need-to-grow-some-skin/817434/145 "2018-07-08T13:02:10Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Are you deluded enough to think we don’t have local fora to discuss our own race relations, or that I don’t participate in them? Of course, you have local boards. Just not enough for you, obviously. ---
**Author:** ![Delicious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@Delicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Delicious)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2018, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yall-wypipo-need-to-grow-some-skin/817434/146 "2018-07-08T13:34:40Z")
American boards for Americans! Build a firewall! MSDMBGA! ---
**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2018, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yall-wypipo-need-to-grow-some-skin/817434/147 "2018-07-08T13:59:49Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > I’m offended. The preferred term of my people is “honky”. In certain contexts, Haole is OK. Gringo is good, but you can be a _gringo negro_, too, so maybe not. Cracker is something we use amongst ourselves, so don’t go culturally appropriating it from us!! Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have a bowl of jello that needs to be eaten. > [@bobot](#): > > Well I guess I see why they’re called snowflakes, then. They’re white as fuck. > [@Ambivalid](#): > > 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? HA HA HA HA HA HA … had to stop reading this thread here … this has got to be the **STUPIDEST** discussion I’ve ever heard … a bunch of Satan-spawned white trash if you want my opinion … ---
**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2018, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yall-wypipo-need-to-grow-some-skin/817434/148 "2018-07-08T14:10:28Z")
[**Jake Bullet** - pay attention here …] I like **Mr Dibble** … he’s one of the good guys here on these boards … I always enjoy his posts … very difficult for me not to be stalking him … [There, _that’s_ how you insult somebody right good …] ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2018, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yall-wypipo-need-to-grow-some-skin/817434/149 "2018-07-08T14:14:10Z")
Those of you coming down so hard on Mr. Dibble are, clearly, just bigoted against pompous blowhards. ---
**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 8, 2018, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yall-wypipo-need-to-grow-some-skin/817434/150 "2018-07-08T14:29:12Z")
> [@Delicious](#): > > American boards for Americans! Build a firewall! MSDMBGA! I never even hinted his participation here is wrong or unwelcome. Some people were clearly mistaking him for an African American and so I was pointing out that error. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2018, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yall-wypipo-need-to-grow-some-skin/817434/151 "2018-07-08T14:30:08Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Nowadays, Jews and Asians seem to be “Schroeder’s Whites”, depending on what supports one’s argument. I first read this as “Schrödinger’s Whites”, which I guess would mean that they’re only white or not when you actually look. But as to the greater question, I just lump it in with all the other racial terminology used by folks who feel the need to regard themselves as superior to others based on their paint job. ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2018, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yall-wypipo-need-to-grow-some-skin/817434/152 "2018-07-08T14:43:26Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > I first read this as “Schrödinger’s Whites”, which I guess would mean that they’re only white or not when you actually look. But as to the greater question, I just lump it in with all the other racial terminology used by folks who feel the need to regard themselves as superior to others based on their paint job. It seems to me there’s a difference between “I’m superior to you” and “I"m not inferior to you.” ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2018, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yall-wypipo-need-to-grow-some-skin/817434/153 "2018-07-08T15:50:27Z")
> [@andros](#): > > It seems to me there’s a difference between “I’m superior to you” and “I"m not inferior to you.” In theory, for sure. In practice, eh, not so much. ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2018, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yall-wypipo-need-to-grow-some-skin/817434/154 "2018-07-08T15:55:09Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > In theory, for sure. In practice, eh, not so much. As evidenced by “Black Lives Matter,” which was a phrase a lot of White people (and, particularly, wypipo) somehow have chosen to hear as a statement of superiority, not as the cry for basic equality it is. Those who benefit from systemic oppression always want to hear “I’m just as good as you” as “I’m better than you.” The fear runs deep. ---
**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:** [July 8, 2018, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yall-wypipo-need-to-grow-some-skin/817434/155 "2018-07-08T16:16:32Z")
I think some folks will be surprised that not only is Hillary Clinton one, but she is [an award winning wypipo.](https://www.theroot.com/the-2017-wypipo-awards-1821347209) Well, nominated: > [@](#): > > **The 2017 Wypipo Awards** > > Not everyone is eligible for these honors. Only the small subset of white people called “wypipo”—those who trade in privilege, hate and what our panelists call “white-people shit”—receive nominations. Now, without further ado, here are the nominees and winners of the 2017 Wypipo Awards: > > **White-Tears Award** > > \ > > **Hillary Clinton:** For rigging the primaries, then crying about how the 2016 presidential election was rigged. For contributing the phrase that is forever enshrined in the Salty Wypipo Hall of Fame: “But she won the popular vote.” > > **And the winner is:** The “It’s OK to Be White” movement. Sheesh, she couldn’t even win that! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2018, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yall-wypipo-need-to-grow-some-skin/817434/156 "2018-07-08T16:19:19Z")
Of all the peculiar practices of good old H. Sap, the strangest, to me at least, has to be race hatred and its kissing cousin race pride. Being proud of being white, black, Hispanic or Asian, or, for that matter Irish or Italian, has always seem to me as on a par with being proud of being tall or left-handed. It’s your genetic make-up, fool, and should, of right, be neither a source of pride nor shame. And for those who would argue, say, that black pride is merely an outgrowth of white bigotry I would reply that it is, then, the fruit of a _very_ poisoned tree. ---
**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:** [July 8, 2018, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yall-wypipo-need-to-grow-some-skin/817434/157 "2018-07-08T16:28:50Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > Of all the peculiar practices of good old H. Sap, the strangest, to me at least, has to be race hatred and its kissing cousin race pride. Being proud of being white, black, Hispanic or Asian, or, for that matter Irish or Italian, has always seem to me as on a par with being proud of being tall or left-handed. It’s your genetic make-up, fool, and should, of right, be neither a source of pride nor shame. And for those who would argue, say, that black pride is merely an outgrowth of white bigotry I would reply that it is, then, the fruit of a _very_ poisoned tree. Really? It’s right in line with standard primate behavior. Say what you will about the goodness or badness of those traits, but it would be odd if we didn’t exhibit them. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2018, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yall-wypipo-need-to-grow-some-skin/817434/158 "2018-07-08T16:48:42Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Really? It’s right in line with standard primate behavior. Say what you will about the goodness or badness of those traits, but it would be odd if we didn’t exhibit them. I take your point, John. By “strange”, I didn’t mean atypical, but rather least justifiable logically. ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2018, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yall-wypipo-need-to-grow-some-skin/817434/159 "2018-07-08T17:39:04Z")
> [@andros](#): > > As evidenced by “Black Lives Matter,” which was a phrase a lot of White people (and, particularly, wypipo) somehow have chosen to hear as a statement of superiority, not as the cry for basic equality it is. > > Those who benefit from systemic oppression always want to hear “I’m just as good as you” as “I’m better than you.” The fear runs deep. People with lotsa privilege see the world as a zero sum game, where any person given equal rights means those on the top lose some rights. They simply cannot conceive of a world where there isn’t some stupidy arbitrary ranking of groups based on irrelevant traits. Feminists see this all the fucking time, when men get all outraged because they think that demanding our equal rights means that we actually want to set ourselves up as the ones who put their boots on everyone’s neck, when what we actually want is for men to stop being total jerks and killing us. You’d think that wouldn’t be controversial but not so much. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2018, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yall-wypipo-need-to-grow-some-skin/817434/160 "2018-07-08T18:13:56Z")
> [@SmartAleq](#): > > People with lotsa privilege see the world as a zero sum game, where any person given equal rights means those on the top lose some rights. They simply cannot conceive of a world where there isn’t some stupidy arbitrary ranking of groups based on irrelevant traits. Feminists see this all the fucking time, when men get all outraged because they think that demanding our equal rights means that we actually want to set ourselves up as the ones who put their boots on everyone’s neck, when what we actually want is for men to stop being total jerks and killing us. You’d think that wouldn’t be controversial but not so much. A lot of that is basic insecurity. They don’t _view_ themselves as being capable of competing on an equal footing. But even knowing, as I do, that economies aren’t “zero sum games” it does seem these days , with virtually all new wealth going to the proverbial upper crust, that they might as _well_ be. These folks might be able, philosophically, to see blacks, women, etc. as _equals_, but their big worry is the fact that some are going to be _superior_. That was the problem they had with Obama. Here you had an educated, articulate, accomplished black man and what do they do? They undermine the value of his education by saying that he was a product of affirmative action or that he fudged his grades. They undermine his articulateness by claiming that he’s lost without the teleprompter. And they undermine his premier accomplishment, becoming President, by claiming that he wasn’t even eligible for the job. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yall-wypipo-need-to-grow-some-skin/817434.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yall-wypipo-need-to-grow-some-skin/817434.md?page=9)