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Comment on Stuff White People Like…a review by shivaun

shivaun — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 03:55:24 +0000

Hey David, have you seen this? I’ve only looked over a couple posts, but maybe you’ll find it more productive…
http://stuffwhitepeopledo.blogspot.com/

Comment on Stuff White People Like…a review by Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:03:23 +0000

This site is great and all, but I feel like the posts aren’t actually that… funny. Like sometimes he’s just taking some obvious ideas and transcribing them in his guide-to-white-people style. It’s good humor, but I think it works just because the uneasy combination of liberal ideas and urban affluence in white culture is an untapped comedy goldmine. And by goldmine, I mean that I just read that the dude behind it got about a million bucks for a book deal already.

Also, remember Black People Love Us? They were first, man.

Comment on Stuff White People Like…a review by Brendan

Brendan — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:05:01 +0000

David,

I also love SWPL, but I am growing increasingly disenchanted with it. Where’s NASCAR? Where’s chewing tobacco? That blog, while clever, ultimately is “Stuff Liberal Urban Rich White People Like.”

I think you’re totally right that it reduces class to race. By equating all whites with yuppies, it silences the majority of the white working class, which doesn’t have any of these cultural traits (Of course, attaching culture to class is problematic, but watch me do it here anyway.)

SWPL is a good starting point, using humor as an excellent critique, but is ultimately as class-blind as the next hip anti-racist project.

Comment on Radical Citizens Network Idea Outline 1.o by Rosalind Garnder Super Affiliate Handbook Review

Rosalind Garnder Super Affiliate Handbook Review — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 11:43:32 +0000

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Comment on “Everybody I love you!” by kristen.s.

kristen.s. — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 23:09:41 +0000

I love you db. I am just visiting your blog for the first time and you are great. i just wanted to tell you that i am continually rejuvenated, compelled, and empowered by your presence. i often get the feeling that i will be 90 years old with you and Erik and Hazel and we will have built up this glorious life of working together towards what we want.

Comment on Radical Community Plan Draft 1.o by bad visa

bad visa — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 06:53:11 +0000

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Comment on Response to Full Frontal Feminism by dboehnke

dboehnke — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 21:10:26 +0000

good to hear! i am simultaneously impressed and depressed by the activism i hear about…so many amazing people, so many good ideas, so much quagmire…

you’re comment number 1, you win!

Comment on Response to Full Frontal Feminism by Erin Stapleton

Erin Stapleton — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 21:01:11 +0000

haven’t read the book, but have recently been to a forum for feminist artists that was surprisingly optimistic.
will be reading the book though, and I’ll be using the phrase, “I’m better than you in bed, and I’ve got feminism to thank for it” in a sentence today.