General Discussion

... suggestive of Ebonics but more a pun from it on specific actions BY white people?

As in, why, white person, are you doing stereotypical white things that should embarrass every one of you?

I'm horribly embarrassed, as a white person, by every winner in the 2016 category (well, I probably never will get the Taylor Swift/Kanye stuff but I also never paid attention).

https://www.theroot.com/the-2016-wypipo-awards-1790858299

Does it affect me at all that there's been a name codified for people of my skin color doing such appalling crap by the community affected by people who look like me oppressing them for centuries? Not one darn bit.

You think it's to establish a "poor me" complaint? FFS, if anyone is saying "poor me" in this it's the white people who feel "slapped in the face" that an oppressed community comes up with an ironic double-meaning nickname for people who give their oppressor's race the reputation it has!

Who feel associated with any true "wypipo" just because they happen to share the same skin color, so associated they feel attacked. Personally attacked.

I feel it's a slap in the face to mothers to suggest childbirth should be forced rather than a choice. That it shows forced birthers don't really value the sacrifices involved in even an uncomplicated pregnancy, let alone the risk of things going wrong and parenting. Particularly because my older sister nearly lost our mother during my birth, I'm aware of the sacrifices that go with pregnancy and childbirth.

I can't equate that kind of sacrifice with the "sacrifices" made by anyone non-white under 50 in the name of fighting racism unless they've been involved in the recent Black Lives Matter protests -- I don't know how old you are, but I'm under that and it's a reasonable cutoff for when white people certainly weren't risking arrests with beatings during activism regarding race. One could even raise it higher, but it's just a figure I can state with certainty to be true and if I'm going to pull numbers outta my ass I try to err on the side of caution. And while protesting now isn't without risk, it's better than it was.

There was a generation who did fight, who did risk arrest, that I don't want to forget, but it wasn't most of us. And you'd think if you were one of the fighters, you'd realize getting all offended is... well, kinda demonstrating the point that we all do have to work on some issues.

Both black and white people were affected by the disease and evil of slavery. One thing we, as white people, have to be able to do is let go of residual guilt for the past, because it's useless, while still acknowledging just how bad things really were. And how entitled some people still act. Without attaching that to ourselves even though we look like them, to instead focus on our our actions, except to look at ours occasionally to make sure we aren't being "Why, People?" instead of people.