Stuff White People Like: Tongue in cheek or head in ass?

I have generally avoided Stuff White People Like, on the grounds that it was funnier when it was a book, and it was 1982. Like The Preppy Handbook, from my limited perusal, SWPL celebrates the thing that it purports to satirize. Also, call me a fussbudget, but it's easier for me to laugh at satire directed at a class than at a race. Satire, when done proper, does not simply provoke a chuckle of self-recognition. So SWPL  is not part of my time-wasting routine. But Chow, in a post on menu typos  mentioned a recent entry in a new SWPL feature "White problems," this one being typos on menus:
"The presence of an improper apostrophe on a menu can ruin an otherwise delicious meal for a white person."
Nothing like a week at the northernmost Ivy to get you  thinking about race, but it's hard to avoid the inference that, say, black people are too busy exercising their natural talents for song and dance to let menu typos get them down.

Comments

[Rose's Lime]

I too was slightly troubled by SWPL, but didn't find it funny enough to worry about. It's billed as a satire, but as white people will soon be the minority in this country, it's easier for me to see it as cruely trading in generalizaitons.

THAT SAID... I was reminded yesterday as I stood in a line about 20 deep waiting for my CSA share of SWPL #5, Farmers Markets.

As local residents of the less tony end of Central Square made their way from the T across the parking lot to their homes, I read into their confused faces the question, "What the hell all these white people doing lined up getting handouts off the back of a truck?"

For those keeping track at home, we'll see how the CSA works out.

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