This year I'm not going to use the term 'white' if I can help it. It turns out that there are any number of specific things to call so-called white people if I have reason to identify something stereotypical about one's character. So I will expand that vocabulary and imbue with more meaning the following labels.
Now the thing that led me to this matter is that at several memorable occasions over the past several years, certain friends and associates have made some persistently self-conscious remarks while eating spicy or unfamiliar ethnic food. I was embarrassed for them and for myself in their company.
So for the fellow who acts all meat and potatoes when confronted with and confounded by spicy Mexican food or chopsticks, the term is 'gringo'.
For the doofus who is perfectly uncool, has no rhythm and cannot dance to save his life, but is not an actual spaz, the term is 'honky', and I am thinking of Tom from the Jeffersons.
For the uptight, bookish, pale and censorious prig who refuses to hang loose, the term is 'haole'.
For the rude, indecorous, filter-less lout, who is not actually an asshole but would embarrass my grandmother, the term is 'gaijin'. c.f. Donald J.
Rednecks we know and the term is not necessarily pejorative and sometimes endearing. For the pejorative we use 'cracker'. Peckerwood is deprecated. Wasps are few but still often need to be stung. I will also continue to mock snowflakes who may not necessarily be Caucasian, but I think haole will be much more often used. The absurdly PC are all haoles.
I am probably going to desist using the term 'beardy boys' although I will think it. I'm actually preferring that men wear beards (not neckbeards) even if they're not real men. But hipsters and douchebags will still be identified as such.
Here in Facebook if I think you need to be confronted with the import of something that should be relatively obvious, I will preface my comment with 'Dude'. If I call you a dumbass, then it's my bad.
Why? Because it's not racial.
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