Ah, hypocrisy is alive and well on WordPress

Being on WordPress allows you the “privilege” (?) of scanning some of the more popular WordPress blogs while tending to your own.

There appears to be this sudden glut of blogs with nice little stereotype-perpetuating ideologies; some are deemed “humorous” in nature, while some seem to be genuinely rife with hostility. I’m talking about the “Stuff _______ People Like” blogs.

Stuff White People Like appears to be the original, or at least the most popular and most frequently posted and commented upon.  I’ve also seen Stuff Black People Like, Stuff College People Like, Stuff Educated Black People Like, Stuff White Parents Like, etc.  (Note that I’m not providing links to any of them because none of them deserve the free plug.  I didn’t even want to mention their names, but not doing so would have really made this post rather vague.)

First of all, the Stuff White People Like blog is pretty ridiculous.  Of the nearly 100 things so far that they claim white people like, there have only been a handful that I myself am remotely interested in.  Therefore, it is a stereotype.  “Humorous” or “satirical” or not, it’s still a stereotype.  And then there’s the Stuff Black People Like and Stuff Educated Black People Like blogs, which, while written (presumably) by blacks, still perpetuate stereotypes.  The few entries I’ve seen on these blogs even have comments left by readers that go on to further incite the “Fuck Whitey” sentiment.  Go check them out- my particular favorite is the one that, on a post entitled “Hate Groups Know No Color” or something along that line, someone left the heartwarming comment, “Hate groups DO know a color and it is white”.

Ah, good-natured ribbing indeed. A couple bars of Kumbayah, anyone?

If people want to go on bashing their own race (or any other, for that matter), that’s fine and dandy.  Freedom of speech and all, even if you’re an idiot.  Hence why I am here.  But speaking of which, why, then, am I pummeled here with hate mail (okay, hate comments) when I do nothing more than poke fun at Wal-Mart shoppers or craft beer and foo-foo coffee drinkers?  It cracks me up how certain people think it’s up to them and they alone to pick and choose when racism, labels, generalizations, and stereotypes are okay and when they’re wrong.  Again, call it “humor” or “satire” all you want- it still breeds the very unrest between ethnic or other sociological groups that people say they are striving to eliminate.  You can’t very well be trying to eliminate racism and stereotypes if you’re feeding them, now can you?

Kind of like that special “N” word.  It’s considered wrong when white people use it, yet it’s perfectly okay for black people to call each other (and themselves) that word at will.  I’m not going to pretend to be above it- I have used the N-word before in my life.  It’s not something I’m proud of by any means, but at least I have the balls to fess up to it.  I don’t like the word and I do think it’s extremely hateful in nature.  But if it is, it is hateful regardless of the race (or the mood) of the speaker.  Don’t give me the lame “black people use it as a term of endearment– they say ‘nigga’, so it’s different” argument.  It’s NOT different, sunshine.  It’s either offensive or it isn’t.  To vilify white people that say the N-word but then not think twice when a black person says it is… wait for it… RACIST.  The word is either hateful and racist or it isn’t.  It doesn’t depend on who says it; either everyone needs to stop using it or else you can’t get bent out of shape when you hear it.  Bottom line, it’s just a word.  It only brings you down as far as you let it.  But if you’re that offended by that word, tell those that seem to use it most (even the inbred limpdick neo-Nazi dickheads pinheads skinheads, who actually are not even worth the effort) to stop using it.  Otherwise, just shut up.

Once again, it seems it is okay to be racist, as long as you’re not white.

Bunch of damn hypocrite bastards.