tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-528074983146803930.post661100143134024312..comments2024-03-06T08:29:13.333-08:00Comments on stuff white people do: escape having jokes told about themmacon dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07795547197817128339noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-528074983146803930.post-81041759574410889622009-03-17T20:54:00.000-07:002009-03-17T20:54:00.000-07:00I started looking for "white" jokes told by black ...I started looking for "white" jokes told by black people because I get so many racist jokes that I wanted to send something equally offensive back. I think the reason white people have so many qualifying labels fo white people (Polish, Italian, red-neck, etc.) is to distinguish those people from themselves and their white friends. When using color as the distinguishing factor, it is much easier to lump everyone of one color into one group, and be excluded yourself. I am often offended by women jokes yet laugh at men jokes...everyone needs someone "below" them to make them feel better. I wonder if how badly you dislike yourself determines how much you dislike others. When you meet people one-on-one it is much more likely that you will find they have more in common with you than the one big difference (color, nationality, religion) that you "hate" them for.Sharon K.https://www.blogger.com/profile/15812743809415050952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-528074983146803930.post-37574546072346060712009-02-16T19:58:00.000-08:002009-02-16T19:58:00.000-08:00okok I got one for ya (courtesy of Paul Mooney):A ...okok I got one for ya (courtesy of Paul Mooney):<BR/><BR/><I>A white woman is making a chocolate cake for her family, when her little son grabs some batter and smears it on his face. <BR/><BR/>"Look, mommy! I'm black!" He says. <BR/><BR/>Of course the mother is appalled and slaps him in the face. <BR/><BR/>"Billy, that's terrible. You go show your father what you did."<BR/><BR/>So Billy goes to show his dad - when his father sees him in improvised blackface he naturally shits a brick and gives him five across the eyes:<BR/><BR/>"Billy! That's absolutely disgusting. You go speak to your grandfather about this."<BR/><BR/>So Billy goes to show grandpa: "Look, grandpa! I'm black!" And gets the same reaction from grandad as well.<BR/><BR/>So with an aching jaw, Billy returns to the kitchen. His mother sits him down and says, <BR/><BR/>"Now Billy - what did you learn?"<BR/><BR/>And Billy says, <BR/><BR/>"I've learned that I've only been black for five minutes and I already hate you white people."</I>K Vhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05694205607293601441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-528074983146803930.post-71834174529452473292008-11-18T15:37:00.000-08:002008-11-18T15:37:00.000-08:00Here's one: Why do white people tell black jokes? ...Here's one: Why do white people tell black jokes? Because they're too cowardly to set a cross on fire, too lazy to learn to wield a whip, and too cheap to cut out arm-holes in a brand new white sheet.<BR/><BR/>Copyright, ME.<BR/><BR/>For the record, I'm half and half, so I know that whites are not all racist. Just ones who tell black jokes.<BR/><BR/>My mother was recently sent a very racist Obama joke from a white friend (my mother is black, father is white) and she wondered why you don't hear that many racist white jokes. So I made one up for her. Except that only racists will find it offensive, so I still get to sleep at night.<BR/><BR/>And thank you for being so cool and open-minded about the whole thing. It's very refreshing. When I stumbled across this blog I expected to find some kind of racist manifesto or something, and I really didn't feel like being too sick to my stomach over it to eat dinner tonight.<BR/><BR/>It's rare and inspiring to find a place on the internet where racial issues can be discussed with respect and intelligence. Turns out that this site is just what I needed to be reminded that I'm not the only person in the world who can laugh at both sides. Thanks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-528074983146803930.post-76468818715086913452008-10-09T15:52:00.000-07:002008-10-09T15:52:00.000-07:00A friend told me about another kind of "white peop...A friend told me about another kind of "white people" joke last night. Apparently they're called something like "without us" jokes. Here's the only one my friend could remember--anyone else heard of these?<BR/><BR/>White person A: "What would sociology be called without us?"<BR/><BR/>White person B: "Um, I give up."<BR/><BR/>White person A: "Anthropology."<BR/><BR/>There's probably a better way to tell these. I'm not good at creating new jokes, but it might not be too difficult to make new ones of this sort. . .macon dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07795547197817128339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-528074983146803930.post-64757001657066249482008-10-07T10:47:00.000-07:002008-10-07T10:47:00.000-07:00I kinda liked this post, especially the last joke....I kinda liked this post, especially the last joke. <BR/><BR/>PoC do make tons of White people jokes, but in my personal experience, I find they tend to joke about the crazy things they see White people do. "Piercing their testicles! Oh, crazy Whitey!" That kinda thing; they're not usually decorated with punch-lines and stuff. I'm gonna admit that it was fairly common in my household: until my Dad found his father, consequently finding out that we're all part Scottish and put an end to the White jokes ("Kids, you can't make fun of White people anymore; they're in our family!"). <BR/><BR/>But you know, that's just the ones I've heard in person not counting stand-up.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-528074983146803930.post-40224586165524149112008-10-05T18:11:00.000-07:002008-10-05T18:11:00.000-07:00Redcat,Why is my name in your mouth? "Boringly an...Redcat,<BR/><BR/>Why is my name in your mouth? <BR/><BR/><BR/><I>"Boringly and academically written..."</I> <BR/><BR/>Now that's funny...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-528074983146803930.post-89184801993281283312008-10-05T18:00:00.000-07:002008-10-05T18:00:00.000-07:00macon d said:Restructure and jw, thank you for sto...<B>macon d said:<BR/><BR/>Restructure and jw, thank you for stopping by to deliver more hot, steaming piles of your gargantuan intelligence and deeply non-superficial wisdom.</B><BR/><BR/>Just ignore them, macon d. Most of the time I do, for the majority of their comments are boringly and academically written, and full of bitterness and hatred and statistics.<BR/><BR/>And what a drama queen that Restructure is! Just leave if you don't like this blog and/or the blogger. There is no need for you to declare that you are going. Is macon d holding a gun to her head, forcing you to post comments here? There are millions of blogs in the blogoworld where you can go that will fit you perfectly: Go find one. Go and find the perfect white anti-racist blogger whom you think macon d is not being, and go post comments on that person's blog. But, I don't think you will stay away from here, because you and your other two partners (jw and Nquest) are bullies who need macon d, or a white boy like him, to gang up on, so that you can get your fix to satisfy your 1,000 to 3,000 word count jones.redcatbikerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08645491470348404443noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-528074983146803930.post-42426187863517881432008-10-05T15:10:00.000-07:002008-10-05T15:10:00.000-07:00and because of my excellent yahoo-skills, lol, I h...and because of my excellent yahoo-skills, lol, I have one for you, a light-bulb joke:<BR/><BR/>How many whites does it take to change a light bulb?<BR/>None - whites hate being enlightened. <BR/>:-DAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-528074983146803930.post-134791899277328182008-10-05T14:28:00.000-07:002008-10-05T14:28:00.000-07:00I like that line about the Klan, social justice co...I like that line about the Klan, social justice communicator. And I too have been to the WPC, and I strongly agree with your recommendation.<BR/><BR/>Restructure and jw, thank you for stopping by to deliver more hot, steaming piles of your gargantuan intelligence and deeply non-superficial wisdom.macon dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07795547197817128339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-528074983146803930.post-24621761337561546452008-10-05T13:58:00.000-07:002008-10-05T13:58:00.000-07:00just because you couldn't find them doesn't mean t...just because you couldn't find them doesn't mean that they don't exist.<BR/>You try to equalize jokes when in reality this is not possible I think.<BR/>Jokes about oppressed groups use stereotypes. <BR/>"Light-bulb jokes" and "Blonde-jokes" etc also work with stereotypes and I am quite sure that whites created them to make fun of certain groups of their own people because whites seem to be addicted to look down on everybody else and to create stereotypes about as many groups as possible.<BR/><BR/>Jokes about whites quite often have a true message about the oppressor and humor can also be a way to deal with a reality which isn't so funny. Such jokes or humor aren't meant to be known by the oppressor but can function as some sort of survival strategy for people who are oppressed. <BR/>I think that you try to address this topic in a quite superficial way.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-528074983146803930.post-63222571652538668042008-10-04T15:05:00.000-07:002008-10-04T15:05:00.000-07:00I would think that jokes about white people by non...<I>I would think that jokes about white people by non-white people would be easy to find because, to answer your second question, yes, non-white writings ARE easy to find on the Internet by Googling.</I><BR/><BR/>Sorry, I forgot that most white people see more people of colour on the internet than in real life. The internet is pretty white to me, and I do not see many views of people of colour on the internet that reflect the full range of diverse views of people of colour in real life. We have different definitions of what is "easy" and what counts as "many". I think that people of colour are underrepresented on the internet, but perhaps you think that we are overrepresented or proportional?<BR/><BR/>I asked if non-whites assume that whites don't have internet access as a rhetorical question. I see lots of racist jokes and discussion about non-white people on the internet, as if nobody reading these writings could be non-white. I would never hear these kinds of discussions in real life, because of obvious reasons. My point is that non-white people do NOT assume that whites don't have internet access, unlike the case with many whites.<BR/><BR/>I disagree with your term "homogenize", but I think convincing you of anything is futile, so I will leave it and that and offer you <A HREF="http://www.eminemweb.com/board/showthread.php?t=22896" REL="nofollow">this link</A>. (I think some of those are racist against non-white people, though.)<BR/><BR/>I think you're being stupid again, and I'm going to stop commenting again.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-528074983146803930.post-78028932888317179152008-10-04T14:04:00.000-07:002008-10-04T14:04:00.000-07:00I'd like to suggest that white is the basis of com...I'd like to suggest that white is the basis of comparison to nonwhite people, but jokes about white people are made with subsets of white people like redneck, hill-billy, hick, probably because there's no racial basis of comparison among white people.<BR/><BR/>This also points out that whiteness is treated as normal, universal. <BR/><BR/>I tend to make jokes about white people with my white friends of mine using the travesties white people have cause people of color. Sort of like a conscience-raising tool.<BR/><BR/>Since were on jokes, when white people say racist or ethnic jokes a good comeback if you catch them off guard is "Did you you learn that one from the clan?"<BR/><BR/>Joe Feagin's work might give some insights into the nature of jokes and the prevalence that white people share the jokes with each other. I believe he called it two-faced racism. I can't remember, I learned about his work back in April at the White Privilege Conference. Which I strongly suggest anti-racist activists go to!Tom Gladys Vancehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03251289585080351134noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-528074983146803930.post-60201770457322493612008-10-04T11:12:00.000-07:002008-10-04T11:12:00.000-07:00Yes, uglyblackjohn, that difference in typability ...Yes, uglyblackjohn, that difference in typability IS odd . . .<BR/><BR/>mr. noface, I don't feel bad about your not being sure if you should feel bad about not feeling bad about laughing out loud at that last joke. I myself didn't feel bad about laughing at it. Not TOO bad, anyway.<BR/><BR/>Hello Daisuke, and thanks for the input. "Classical music" does seem like white music, though a lot of non-white people around the world like it too. And if it is a "white music," it still is, as I think you're saying, a music mostly enjoyed by a certain subset of white folks.<BR/><BR/>Thanks x 2 for those links, Restructure. I love Russell Peters.<BR/><BR/>You asked:<BR/><BR/><I><B>Well, if they do, I would think The Google could find them.</B><BR/><BR/>Why would you assume this?<BR/><BR/>Is it easy to find non-white writings on the Internet by Googling? Do non-white people assume that white people don't have access to the internet?</I><BR/><BR/>I would think that jokes about white people by non-white people would be easy to find because, to answer your second question, yes, non-white writings ARE easy to find on the Internet by Googling. And so, since "ethnic" jokes that whites often tell each other are easy to find that way, I would think that jokes non-white people tell each other about "just-plain-white" people would also be easy to find. But for me, they weren't, and I decided that may be because there just aren't many "just-plain-white" jokes out there, because as UBJ and Daisuke note above, whiteness is usually segmented into certain types of whites, and this seems to be another example of that. But maybe, in the case of jokes, I'm wrong about that.<BR/><BR/>To answer your last question, I don't know what non-white people assume about white people's access to the Internet, but I for one assume that large numbers of non-white people do have access to it. Again, there's a ton of writing on the Internet by non-white people. But if that writing includes a lot of jokes passed from person to person about "just-plain-white people," I haven't found them yet. Again, maybe they are out there in copious quantities, which I've yet to find because my manipulations of The Google Machine are not as praiseworthy as I like to think. Maybe non-white people often do homogenize white people in their jokes about them, just as white people often do in their jokes about non-white people. If so, maybe it's an exception to the "rule" of sorts about whiteness explained and illustrated above by uglyblackjohn and Daisuke K.macon dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07795547197817128339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-528074983146803930.post-12815312903429078512008-10-04T10:13:00.000-07:002008-10-04T10:13:00.000-07:00Thanks, Restructure, for posting that Russell Pete...Thanks, Restructure, for posting that Russell Peter's video. He is very, very funny.redcatbikerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08645491470348404443noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-528074983146803930.post-12662974551031412602008-10-04T10:07:00.000-07:002008-10-04T10:07:00.000-07:00Here's a joke about white people I got as an e-mai...Here's a joke about white people I got as an e-mail forward years ago:<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.afmaal.com/graphics/Black%20Vs%20White.jpg" REL="nofollow">Dear Mzungu - dear white man!!!</A><BR/><BR/>Did you guys get this forward too? An "ethnic white" forwarded it to me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-528074983146803930.post-4039296262243655182008-10-04T09:30:00.000-07:002008-10-04T09:30:00.000-07:00Indo-Canadian Russell Peter's jokes about white pe...Indo-Canadian Russell Peter's jokes about white people are similar to the jokes and observations my friends and I make about white people, except Russell Peters tells it way better:<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn5jlrxcpkI" REL="nofollow">Russell Peters - Beating Your Kids</A><BR/><BR/>LOLAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-528074983146803930.post-38982107656212367012008-10-04T08:29:00.000-07:002008-10-04T08:29:00.000-07:00I like the last one.Sounds very similar to what I ...I like the last one.<BR/><BR/>Sounds very similar to what I heard when I was a student: "there is so-called inclusive black culture but there is no inclusive white culture as they are more classified into specific groups of white people."<BR/><BR/>Rap music - Black culture (simple: this is probably a common recognition, but old black people may not be listening to those rap music as much as younger ones.)<BR/><BR/>Country music - White culture? (well, this may not be as common a recognition as the above. Many people would say country music is more southern)<BR/><BR/>If rap music is black culture, what is a music of white culture? Classical music? Yes, but it is not recognized as raced culture. It may be a western, or even "universal" culture while it in reality is just music sprung from a certain kind of people; and thir skin color is always white.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-528074983146803930.post-8008988352135200942008-10-04T06:55:00.000-07:002008-10-04T06:55:00.000-07:00Do non-white people tell jokes about white people ...<I>Do non-white people tell jokes about white people when white people aren't watching them?</I><BR/><BR/>Yes, or at least in my circle.<BR/><BR/>(The jokes that we make when white people aren't watching are very similar to Stuff White People Like jokes.)<BR/><BR/><I>Well, if they do, I would think The Google could find them.</I><BR/><BR/>Why would you assume this? <BR/><BR/>Is it easy to find non-white writings on the Internet by Googling? Do non-white people assume that white people don't have access to the internet?<BR/><BR/>(I didn't want to comment here anymore, but I couldn't resist answering this.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-528074983146803930.post-49051476747639940642008-10-04T00:19:00.000-07:002008-10-04T00:19:00.000-07:00I don't know if I should feel bad about not feelin...I don't know if I should feel bad about not feeling bad about laughing out loud at the last joke in your list.Mr. Nofacehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07164229381294354588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-528074983146803930.post-8381128850445504482008-10-03T17:54:00.000-07:002008-10-03T17:54:00.000-07:00Well.. you stated the reason yourself. ALL Blacks ...Well.. you stated the reason yourself. <BR/>ALL Blacks are considered N******.<BR/>ALL Hispanics/Latinos are considered Mexican, Wet Back, Spick etc. ... ..<BR/>White epithets are usually ; Hill-Billy, Red Neck, Polock, Hebe, Kraut, etc. ... . See, the discription is of a certain type of white. The fact that I can type the terms (but not "N*****") is also odd.uglyblackjohnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14404995571276457138noreply@blogger.com