Stuff ("Liberal" Yuppie) White People Like

Another one from the archives.

The short-lived blog, Stuff White People Like (2008-2010), was fun while it lasted (if taken in small doses). I may be the last person to have found it. But, unlike white-”liberal”-yuppie persons, being au courant isn’t “where I’m at” (to use an expression that’s probably no longer au courant).

There are 136 entries. Here are my suggested additions:

  • Foreign-language films — especially if incomprehensible, even with subtitles, about angst and suffering, and without an ending (the French way).

  • Dressing casually — especially at fine restaurants. It’s a fetish — like wearing shorts regardless of the temperature.

  • Public schools — for other people’s children.

  • Public universities —très gauche, even if you attended one.

  • Cheese — as in “I found this wonderful little cheese store.”

  • Handymen — as in “I found this wonderful little handyman.” Who’s probably not white. But “little” isn’t racist, is it?

  • Charity auctions — for buying ugly stuff and feeling good about it.

  • Celebrities — good if they’re adopting half of China or full of socialist/greenie crap that they don’t practice

  • Europe — such a civilized place, as long as you ignore economic stagnation, unemployment on the dole, rioting Muslims, and the tendency to turn to the U.S. when in danger.

  • Britain — ditto, with smashing accents.

  • Social Security — good for the “little” people.

  • Medicare — ditto, but avoid doctors who accept Medicaid patients.

  • Drug companies — hate ’em. Where are my tranqs, anyway?

  • Brand-name products of a superior kind — très important, as long as they signify good taste, in an understated way, of course.

  • Urban compression — the opposite of “urban sprawl”. Also known as cities: dirty, smelly, crowded, crime-ridden, architecturally chaotic places that, for some reason, “deserve to be saved”. But why, and at whose expense?

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