Stuff White People Like
Is it me, or over the past few years has there been an precipitous rise in white people’s making fun of themselves for being uptight and ridiculous? Like the reflexive recitation of prison rape jokes, which also aren’t funny, this type of self-abasement stinks of both fear and complacency. I find it embarrassing.
When I first saw the site “What White People Like” (URL quickly and thankfully forgotten) I figured it was a political conservative making fun of white urban intellectuals by treating us with scorn, hoping to say something like “Your prejudice is showing” when folks get mad. Then someone gave me the book and the author’s picture makes it look like it’s self deprecating humor, like you say. Either way, it is not funny and invites people to continue their prejudices by giving them a way to say “I am not prejudiced, I talk that way about my own people too.”