*white Male American Base*

MapleTea wrote:

racist.

i agree. this thread sucks!!!

American Hong Konger or Gweilo

best thread ever

LOL ... What the fuck, why is everyone offended? If nothing else, that was the intent of the post.

eyedclaar wrote:

I might be a white (mostly), male, American, but I'm certainly not... wait, what was that 4th thing you called me again?

Near as I can tell, a "Base"?

MapleTea wrote:

racist.

http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/05/28/101-being-offended/

Stuff White People Like
#101 Being Offended
May 28, 2008 by clander

To be offended is usually a rather unpleasant experience, one that can expose a person to intolerance, cultural misunderstandings, and even evoke the scars of the past. This is such an unpleasant experience that many people develop a thick skin and try to only be offended in the most egregious and awful situations. In many circumstances, they can allow smaller offenses to slip by as fighting them is a waste of time and energy. But white people, blessed with both time and energy, are not these kind of people. In fact there are few things white people love more than being offended.

Naturally, white people do not get offended by statements directed at white people. In fact, they don’t even have a problem making offensive statements about other white people (ask a white person about “flyover states”). As a rule, white people strongly prefer to get offended on behalf of other people.

It is also valuable to know that white people spend a significant portion of their time preparing for the moment when they will be offended. They read magazines, books, and watch documentaries all in hopes that one day they will encounter a person who will say something offensive. When this happens, they can leap into action with quotes, statistics, and historical examples. Once they have finished lecturing another white person about how it’s wrong to use the term “black” instead of “African-American,” they can sit back and relax in the knowledge that they have made a difference.

White people also get excited at the opportunity to be offended at things that are sexist and/or homophobic. Both cases offering ample opportunities for lectures, complaints, graduate classes, lengthy discussions and workshops. All of which do an excellent job of raising awareness among white people who hope to change their status from “not racist” to “super not racist.”

Another thing worth noting is that the threshold for being offended is a very important tool for judging and ranking white people. Missing an opportunity to be outraged is like missing a reference to Derrida-it’s social death.

If you ever need to make a white person feel indebted to you, wait for them to mention a book, film, or television show that features a character who is the same race as you, then say “the representation of <insert race> was offensive and if you can’t see that, well, you need to do some soul searching.” After they return from their hastily booked trip to land of your ancestors, they will be desperate to make it up to you. At this point, it is acceptable to ask them to help you paint your house.

Because white people love nothing more than to be offended, so they can feel oh-so-much-more-sensitive and enlightened than everyone else.

fanch75 wrote:

Because white people love nothing more than to be offended, so they can feel oh-so-much-more-sensitive and enlightened than everyone else.

The other day I was supposed to attend an ACLU meeting at the same time my brewer friend invited me to his brewery for microbrews. Imagine my dillema...

eyedclaar wrote:

The other day I was supposed to attend an ACLU meeting at the same time my brewer friend invited me to his brewery for microbrews. Imagine my dillema...

Awesome. I bet you wanted to respond to him by giving him a printout from that website.

Or, you could have invited him to have an expensive sandwich.