White people hate a lot of stuff (white people who vote republican, television, Vin Diesel movies, SUVs, fast food) but every once in a while they turn that hate into sweet irony.
Often times, white people will make a joke about how hard it is to define irony. It’s not that funny, and back in the 1990s people got all upset at Alanis Morrisette for using the term improperly in her song “Isn’t it Ironic?”
But the reason that white people love irony is that it lets them have some fun and feel better about themselves.
The most horrific recent example is Trucker hats, that shockingly went from mainstream in the 80s to Ironic in the early 2000s back to mainstream, at which point they are no longer rare or unique. Once something reaches this stage, irony cannot be restored for 10 years.
Other examples would include white people getting together to have a ‘white trash’ night where they would eat Kentucky Fried Chicken, drink Bud Light and watch Larry the Cable Guy or The Marine. Maybe listen to Kid Rock or P.O.D. These events allow white people to experience things they are supposed to hate, all while feeling better about their own lives, decisions, and cultured tastes.
Occassionally, white people will put an ironic knick knack in their home or apartment such as a “Support our Troops” magnet or a bottle of Mickey’s. 
This can be used to your advantage. If you need to appear cool to white people, you just need to pick something that was popular 10+ years ago and put it in a prominent place at your desk or in your home. A C+C Music Factory Cassette, or a “2 Legit 2 Quit” t-shirt would both be acceptable examples.
Also, you might find yourself in conversation where you mention that you like something and there is an awkward silence indicating that it is not cool. In this situation, uou must say “oh yeah, I also like [insert similar things]” and smile, the white people will laugh and all will be well.
We also Love Pottery Barn. And Restoration Hardware. And Williams Sonoma. Or pretty much anywhere that will overcharge us for Particle Board. We start that trend when we are poor students shopping at IKEA.
writing, reading or posting on this blog qualifies as the most ironic of all.
I pooped my pants
I hate irony.
http://stuffgodhates.wordpress.com/
Seems like the whole concept of irony in this post is wrong. Something 10 years old might be outdated, but certainly not ironic.
i think it’s directed to upper/upper-middle class white Americans. the irony is that you’re privileged and wearing something that indicates “not privileged.”
sorry…i know white people (and pseudowhite people like me!) don’t like having their obviousness explained to them
if you like Alanis from “Plastic” and “Never Too Hot, Never Too Cold”, but don’t like “Ironic”. Is that Ironic?
Reality Bites.
Irony - the vast majority of white people vote republican, want SUVs and eat fast food. of course US white people know this, but in case there foreigners or whatever reading this site… “white people” here refers to the smaller, non-fundamentalist group of white people who are uncomfortable with being white people.
If all white people were really like this the US would be a much better (albeit more self-righteous) country, and the world would actually be better off by extension. In the mean time, have fun with your priuses guys.
Of all these sites, the most pathetic post I’ve read was from a 44 year old guy working in the non-profit sector who advised that he was just now buying his first new car - a Toyota Yaris. That is the very definition of a loser.
Please read this, its just sooo funny
http://www.melvindurai.com/obama.htm
Not 5 years ago (loser!), not 7 years ago (quaint!) but ten years ago, thank you very much.
My hobby (see username) isn’t going to be ironic anytime soon.
Nothing is more ironic than stuffwhitepeoplelike
stuffblackpeoplelike - eating watermelon! hahaha!!!
stuffarabpeoplelike - pumping oil! hahaha!!!
stuffblackpeoplelike - gang warfare! hahaha!!!
stuffmexicanpeoplelike - eating beans! hahaha!!!
stuffchinesepeoplelike - shooting heroin! hahaha!!!
stuffblackpeoplelike - welfare! hahaha!!!
stuffjewishpeoplelike - keeping money! hahaha!!!
stuffmexicanpeoplelike - wearing sombreros! hahaha!!!
stuffchinesepeoplelike - eating rice! hahaha!!!
stuffarabpeoplelike - kissing goats! hahaha!!!
stuffmexicanpeoplelike - wearing sombreros! hahaha!!!
stuffblackpeoplelike - sniffing glue! hahaha!!!
aren’t i funny and clever!!!
don’t you dare call me a racist!!!
awesome you should have your own site.
that’s what i call irony
i laugh myself sometimes
lolololololololololololololololololololol
fuck you u stupid bitch shoulld yu go fuck your mother you are white so do dat you stick walkin up your ass whore
What? No one has any idea what you just wrote. I’m going to try and translate it… ok, here goes
“Fuck you. You are a stupid bitch and you should go fuck your mother. You are white so you should do this, you whore with a stick walking up your ass.”
Hopefully this will help the English speaking readers of this page to understand your important response to this topic.
Thanks Mike. Disgusting insults are so much more tasteful when the grammar and spelling are correct. Now I’m off to fuck my mother….
hahahaha you talk like a barbarian whose race has been appropriated by white people.
I’m white and I like how this blog turns around and makes fun of rich white people for making fun of poor white people. Yay!.
YES! I also like how quickly alot of the responders
(respondents? grammar police!?) show how they personify the stereotype that is the topic of the parody.
But then, I grew up wearing non-ironic Chuck Taylor’s
this is probably one of the funnier things i have seen in awhile. it’s a good satire, straight up.
mmm, mickeys. we hide the caps under the radiator incase we cant figure out the puzzle. come back to it a month later and it figure it out.
This form of irony is also referred to as “recreational slumming.” The first person to use the term was, I think, Douglas Coupland in Generation X.
I find a lot of this incredibly amusing. The one thing that strikes me, though, is that the author is really describing “liberals” than “white people” as a whole. Not that there’s anything wrong with liberalism. For example, I’ve read a couple of times on here statements that ostensibly say white people don’t vote Republican… which is a ridiculous assertion as the GOP is the old, rich, white guys’ club.
Nevertheless, this stuff is pretty damn funny.
Those GOP old rich white guys are what is known as the wrong kind of white people; i.e., not myself or anyone with whom I would willingly associate. Thank you.
Actually, white people vote for Republicans and minorities vote for Democrats. That is a statistical fact. Stuff white people like includes George Bush and John McCain. This site has it’s stereotypes confused. Take the Georgia primary - 96% of Republican voters were white. Only 43% of Democratic voters were white. Stuff white people like: Republicans.
We aren’t talking about Southern white people (if you read the post they actually make fun of them (giving me one more reason to hate them (I’m from the South and have a lot of Redneck traits))). We’re talking about Northern, Midwest, and Western white people that feel bad for being white.
I am thinking about this fucking never-ending ironic circle.
a.) this blog is written by a white person.
b.) “guilty for being white” by minor threat.
c.) you’re funny, you’re so radical and so different and elite!
d.) if there were a blog written about black people stereotypes, oh the mayhem it would cause!
e.) go fuck yourself.
multiple choice questions can be so tricky…..
I choose f.) lighten up
“White people hate a lot of stuff (white people who vote republican, …”
You have to mean Democrat.
this doesn’t apply to southerners.
Oh, I get it now! You mean Stuff White People (in Boston) Like.
It is important to be aware of certain facts.
Privilege will create insensitivity and smugness. It is a social and situational hazard, not a biological one.
Insensitivity is one result of the drive to shield the “self” from the pain the “other”, however those terms are being defined in the moment.
This disconnect causes its own deep wounds, most of them unacknowledged.
Privilege is a means of division- give some more than others and watch them fight.
Even those around us who seem to have the most privilege have tiny fractions of the kind of power reserved for the very wealthy around the world.
Everyone wants agency in the world. The trappings of privilege are not unjustifiably desirable. It is the inequity that is hurtful.
Humor is a socially acceptable way to clothe anger, especially against the powerful, or even the self.
Most people fear anger in others.
Outrage is often a socially acceptable way to clothe fear.
Anger often denotes disappointment, the idea that people have a potential not lived up to.
Passing on ideas on how to live up to that potential is a kind of care, however presented.
Call me an elitist self-absorbed smartypants idiot if you’re so inclined, but have the necessary conversations about these ideas.
Talking like an elitist self-absorbed smartypants idiot won’t start the necessary conversations. This blog already has. Your blog would not.
that’s like, so deep man. here, smoke some of this good shit man….
I, for one, am very tired of irony. Satire is fine but irony just just sucks all the joy out of everything.
@ 14 AMDubbin: I don’t dissagree, but I will say that anytime someone references a “liberal” they are usually talking about a white person. Black people for example, are not usually liberal but they do vote Democrat.
Also, people getting pissed off because there exceptions to the things on this list, need to lighten up. The blog is obviously about a specific type of white person; the hip, inner city variety. If you spent more than a few seconds trying, you’d find out very easily that this person blogs from LA. (so really I guess, the blog should be titled Stuff White People from LA Like).
Ya, I think irony is starting to show signs of fading out. I’m glad. I still really like irony, but when everything starts to get ironic, everything does start to get pretty empty.
Haha, my white friends have “Piss and beer night.” They rent crappy movies and drink crappy, cheap beer all night.
They “dress down” for the event as well, attempting to look like ‘white trash.’
They seem to enjoy it but the movies are very bad and I never make it through these “parties.”
The irony recycle cycle is muuuuuuuuuuch longer than 10 years. Proof: Seth Rogan & his bro’s doing the Jay & Silent Bob thing. It’s not ironic, or even recycled. It’s just part of a sloowwwwwwwwed down pop culture evolution process.
It used to be 10 years, a long time ago. Proof: Sha Na Na at Woodstock. 1969 gettin ironic w/ 1959. Or, American Graffiti: 1972 gettin pensive & reflective about 1962.
No one would make a film where major theme was “where were you in ‘98″. And 4 years ago, no one would make a film whose major theme was “where were you in ‘94″ Go watch Hype!. Find any common thread in there that could be rocked ironically today. Can’t do it.
OT, best ironic beer: PBR. It tastes good enough to actually drink it.
Ya’ know, I saw Sha Na Na in concert back in ‘78. Not a bad show. I’m not sure why I’m telling you this. I guess in the ether, no one can hear you scream.
“Sha Na Na were the Kings of Woodstock, deep in your hearts you know its true!
blue skies,
gold lame if only hendrix had been so smart!”
–the dead milkmen
kings of white irony in the 90s
It’s rather ironic how offended people seem to be by this blog.
World’s #1 Irony travel destination: Branson, Missouri!
(a.k.a. Las Vegas if it were run by Ned Flanders.)
Branson is where the Osmonds have gone to beach themselves.
omg that is fucking hilarious. so true. i’m from louisiana and my friends and i have been bringing up for weeks how all of our families love to go to branson. and how we judge ourselves for loving it, but it just doesn’t keep me from loving it
Shouldn’t this be “Misuse of the term Irony”?
i really liked it when clueless people whore von dutch trucker hats. because aside from his pinstriping and hot rod culture cred, von dutch was THAT crazy racist guy who lived in a bus and made guns and knives, spouted anti-semitic and sexist rants and made threats. i laughed every time i saw someone wearing von dutch- except britney- ‘that’ just made sense. irony? (i’m not sure, i’m white.)
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The irony seems to be that there are still a lot of folks that believe there is a difference between republican and democrat politicians. There is no difference, they are all crooks and their only agenda is enriching themselves and their cronies. Well, in actuality the politicians are bought and paid for by the very rich and the politicians have to dance to whatever tune the very rich play. Any of the politicians will gladly sell the country to the highest bidder as long as the politician’s commission on the sale is large enough to sustain their flock into perpetuity. The irony of the democrats, controlling the legislature, staying in lockstep with the republican white house is thus explained … they are all getting rich by letting exxon and bp push oil to $103 per barrel.
However, crooked politicians’ real claim to fame is their continual use of the divide and conquer strategy – they play the minorities against each other, religions against each other, economic status against each other – and while we (be us white, black, brown, yellow, male, female, straight, gay, christian, jewish, muslin, poor, middleclass) rile against each other, because the politicians’ exclaim this or that group or “black hat” is the one that threatens and oppresses us. It is all smoke and mirrors, the real “black hats” are the crooked politicians. The corrupt politicians keep the masses fighting amongst themselves and continue the ferment distrust and animosity between various factions so we cannot and will not rise up with a solitary voice and send crooked politicians packing. As some of us worry about our god being replaced, or run in fear of homophobia, or having some minority take our job, or some conspiracy that keeps us from moving up the economic ladder, the rich just keep stealing from all of us (of course their term for it is “creating wealth”).
But we will continue to be the rich politicians’ pawns, and continue to buy off on whatever scare card the rich politicians want to play until they have established a return to the feudal system and there are only the have-nots and the have-way-too-much.
Dude,
Lay off the crack.
word of the day: succinct
If you want to join the elite, first you’ve got to purge yourself of all taste for the mainstream. But wait, stuff gets mainstream because it appeals to lots of people! So you must turn your back on your own instincts and develop artificial “taste”. Then you can look down on others who lack this self-discipline.
BRILLIANT.
#1 white person thing.
right now in Milwaukee the BIG IRONIC HIT is pabst beer. maybe it’s ironic everywhere by now.
even more authentically white, though, is acknowledging that everyone else is doing it to be ironic but you “liked it all along”
Everyone that drinks PBR claims they “liked it all along” but the truth is that they are broke cause its too close to the end of the month. Come the first, they’ll be back to drinking microbrews.
PBR is already too mainstream for the hip crowd. They’re moving on to Miller High Life and Coors Light. I went the Milwaukee’s Best route. Although, PBR will still stick around, because most bars with stock it because its hip even though it’s cheap.
@jamie: it’s a hit right now? hipsters have been drinking pbr for some years now.. sure some people drink it w a trucker hat for ironic value but the fact still remains that beers like pbr and oldstyle are cheap and dont really taste like anything: the perfect recipe for a night of ‘getting wasted’.
also irony isn’t a white-only phenomena, the bape/sneakerculture/hypebeast shit is rife with ironic color combos and graphics
Christian,
Learn how to write. Your sentence structure and English suck. Try “grad-u-ma-tating” 8th grade. You neglect to put your own name in “caps”… Enough said.
P.S. Your grammer sucks too.
… and so does your “speelling”.
” in the 1990s people got all upset at Alanis Morrisette for using the term improperly in her song “Isn’t it Ironic?” ”
They got upset mostly because they themselves dont know what the word really means and repeated what they heard someone say on a radio or TV show.
White people may have the majority of higher educational degrees in America, but they usually are not all that well rounded and knowledgeable, and will do everything in their power to make you believe otherwise.
So if they hear someone say something, and it sounds logical, but they are not sure, they will still repeat it as if they know what they are talking about. If you really question them and ask them to explain their positions, many of them quickly fizz out and try to change the subject.
Your Momma,
I’ll save you the trouble, I know I suck at grammar and sentence structure.
not that i’m one to read blogs, but i like this one. it definitely caught my attention because i’m a white person, and my skin doesn’t lie. however it is quite obvious, and this is not to diminish the its value, that this blog is written by a white person simply because the author conjugates verbs correctly. and this fact brings me comfort.
and not i don’t believe in “caps” because it makes the other letters feel inferior.
i meant “no” not “not.” when will voice recognition software reach the point in its development when it will function the way white people actually talk?
‘If all white people were really like this the US would be a much better (albeit more self-righteous) country, and the world would actually be better off by extension.’
We call this ‘Canada’.
I am feeling maligned and hated by your statement and will shortly be contacting a local CHC to report you.
CHRC, sorry