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Vote For The New White Racial Slur!
Yesterday we asked for new and improved racial slurs for 'white people,' and we got more than 350 comments in response. We've narrowed the list down to the top ten. We want a real, usable slur, so we've focused on pithy, easy-to-shout ideas. Now we're turning it over to you, our racist readers. Please keep in mind the gravity of your task; the very racial equality of our nation depends on the equality of its slurs. After the jump, vote for your choice in our poll. Choose well! More »
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Famous NYC Whites Are Happy To Give You Directions
So much racism news today! What else are non-Caucasians concerned about? Their massive erasure from the portrayal of New York City in its marketing campaign to tourists, that's what! The city's laughably titled "Just ask the locals" campaign encourages clueless tourists to ask famous NYC celebrities—who are friendly, and stationed at strategic spots throughout town—where to go in the city. Deborah Harry likes Kenkeleba Garden in the East Village! But now people are grumbling, because a little counting reveals that an outrageously disproportionate number of the celebs featured in the campaign are white. Latinos, it seems, just don't sell: More »
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Village Voice Boss Honors Pal With Racial Slur
Mike Lacey, the pugnacious chief of Village Voice Media and overlord of alt-weeklies across America, is known to be a man not afraid to speak his mind. In fact, he's the self-proclaimed "asshole in charge." So attendees at a Phoenix Society of Professional Journalists awards dinner last Friday might have expected Lacey to say something interesting when he accepted an award on behalf of one of his papers [East Valley Tribune]. But they were less than amused when (the white man) Lacey referred to his deceased friend, Pulitzer Prize-winning [UPDATE: also white] journalist Tom Fitzpatrick, as "my nigger." More »
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Moby: Lothario, Alcoholic, Special White Man
Moby, the beep-boop musician who unfortunately can't stop talking about himself, speaks to Salon today in that very particularly grating way that only Moby can. His formula, I'm figuring out, is to vigorously agree with every insult you throw his way, then go off on tangents about how, hey, he's not like all the other yuppies who act exactly how he acts, because of his revolutionary sympathies against our white male-dominated society. Then, speak much too openly about his own sexuality and personal problems. He follows this pattern today, reminiscing that "When I was DJing in the late '80s, more often than not I'd be the only white person in the club, and I found that strangely comforting." You'll surely have that gay minority child one day, Moby! So, please tell us more than we want to know about your sex life now! More »
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Rich Babies Run Thugs Out Of NYC!
"Now demographers say Manhattan is increasingly a borough of babies, and more and more of them are white and well-off." We've been saying that for years! But these demographers are talking about the actual kind of babies, ones that drool, whine, and live in expensive apartments, but are not the full grown adult versions. The Washington Post, in the cute way that it always hops on NYC trend coverage several months or years after it becomes passé up here, finds that Manhattan is no longer "an island of adult vices," home to "hustlers, runaways, addicts, murderers." No, today this gritty island enclave is being overrun by wealthy Caucasian toddlers! More »
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Stuff White People Like Is Making All Other White People Blogs Obsolete
If there is one thing white people like, it's mocking themselves. That's why Stuff White People Like is such an internet sensation. As Homer Simpson once said, "It's true. We're so lame." (And when is the Simpsons going to be on Stuff White People Like?) Now the cultural tastemakers at Men's Health are saying "Stuff a Specific Variety of Upper-Middle Class Liberal Arts Graduates Like" is the new Corporate-Casual. Aren't the editors of Men's Health being a little white-centric? (Another thing white people like.) Stuff White People Like just makes fun of white people; Corporate-Casual's misanthropy knows no racial bounds. [via Corporate-Casual]
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Whitney Rice And Edward Childs Are Cuckoo For Connecticut
The Weddings and Celebrations pages of the 'New York Times' are where the elite announce their TRIUMPH. They did it—they beat you, they beat poverty and, for now, usually, they even beat cancer. Our Intern Alexis picks a winner among the winners.
If last week's Altarcations was dreary save for the bright light emanating from journalist Greg Lindsay's beaming grill, this week's made up for it. Was it going to be the son of the chairman, the chief executive and founder of the Blackstone Group? The cute hipster-looking French and English doctoral candidates? Franc and Al, helmers of Franc and Al's Movie Foyer (even though Franc's "not big on Judy"), one of the two female rabbis? Or the D'Aulaire descendant? We loooooved D'Aulaires "Book of Greek Myths"! And we also love platonic roommates who hook up after drinking too much wine in Spain and then decide to get married! But in the end, it was none of the above.
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logical arguments
Hatemongers like Media Matters, the watchdog site, take stories from the media out of context (the context of people speaking to like-minded people), our enemy Stephen Colbert of "The Colbert Report" points out. It's a compelling argument! For instance, for centuries, Gentile people have been addressing themselves to other good Christians—so is it somehow now their fault if the Jews overhear on the T.V. what they perceive to be antisemitism?
Stephen Colbert Takes On The Liberal Media Hatemongers
Hatemongers like Media Matters, the watchdog site, take stories from the media out of context (the context of people speaking to like-minded people), our enemy Stephen Colbert of "The Colbert Report" points out. It's a compelling argument! For instance, for centuries, Gentile people have been addressing themselves to other good Christians—so is it somehow now their fault if the Jews overhear on the T.V. what they perceive to be antisemitism?
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WASP Fight: Daisy Wademan And Luc Dowling Are Whiter Than Thou
Each week, Intern Alexis demonstrates what we know to be true: That the Weddings and Celebrations section of the 'New York Times' is for faux-starry-eyed future-divorcees who are setting themselves up for current social status and future windfall divorce settlements. Here's to them!
It was the battle of the Mayflower descendants this week, as two separate couples (Daisy Wademan & Luc Dowling and Shanon Iorio & Robert Collins) included descendants of John Alden and Priscilla Mullins, pilgrims who were present and accounted for on the Mayflower. Bzzzzzzzrrrrrrrrtzzzz!! (Is that the sounds WASPs make when they fight?) Only one couple can, however, emerge as the victor.
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