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Becky of the Year Candidate: White Woman Says Sexism in Hollywood Is Like Racism
May I present to you the latest nominee for The Root’s annual Wypipo Awards, in the category of Becky of the Year: Emilia Clarke. Please don’t hate me for reducing a human being to the title of “white woman.” This story is about the woman who plays Daenerys Targaryen. Even though I am the biggest…
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College Campus Shut Down After Professor’s #LetThemFuckingDie Hashtag Scares White People
In a twisted narrative that includes butt-hurt wypipo, conservative trolls, a black college professor, a racist congressman and an online essay, a Connecticut college shut its campus down for what it called “threats received” after a professor at the college shared an article suggesting that first responders should let bigots die. About a week ago,…
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Jeff Bezos Is Buying Whole Foods, Completing His Monopoly on Whiteness
Amazon.com, the other tab that is probably open on your browser right now, announced Friday that it has agreed to buy the high-end supermarket Whole Foods, the final step in owner Jeff Bezos’ lifelong mission of cornering the market on whiteness. If you want anything from mom jeans to farm-raised, vegetarian chicken wings or a…
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Curt Schilling Is Wypipo
Whenever the word “wypipo” surfaces on the internet, there comes the inevitable Caucasian clapback that accuses the user of racism. Sometimes the accusers will even go so far as to inject the conversation with the fictional term that accompanies all white tears and brow furrowing: “reverse racism.” While the word is somewhat divisive, it is…
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Why Wypipo Love the Confederacy, Explained
With the decision of Biloxi, Miss., to no longer fly the state flag, and cities across the country destroying monuments to the Confederacy, the debate about the meaning and historical significance of the Civil War has once again reared its ugly head. Most notable among the discussions is whether white Southerners’ affinity for all things…
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Happy Anniversary, White Supremacy!
Because many people have accused The Root of not being inclusive and focusing on issues of race too much, please allow us to extend our most heartfelt, warmest wishes on this—your day of celebration. As Mississippi, Georgia and Alabama celebrate Confederate Memorial Day (which I have long proposed be renamed “White Tear-mas”—because who else but…
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The Top 10 Tools for Fighting Racism According to Wypipo
Every few months for the past … oh, let’s say 450-odd years, black people in America have endured a particularly brutal but seldom-discussed form of torture. We all know about the historical travesties of slavery, Jim Crow and systemic racism, but there is another hardship that Africans in America bravely withstand every day with very…
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Dude Wearing ‘Drunk Lives Matter’ T-Shirt Arrested for DUI
Remember the “Drunk Lives Matter” T-shirts being sold for St. Patrick’s Day last month? I remember it quite well, especially since I laughed about it and thought, “Who would actually wear that shirt?” To answer that question, meet Elwood R. Gutshall III of Newville, Pa. Gutshall, 44, was charged with DUI after authorities say his…
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Here’s a T-Shirt You Probably Shouldn’t Wear on St. Patrick’s Day
Wypipo strike again. And this time they’re aiming for the drunk fools who’ll be out celebrating St. Patrick’s Day by co-opting the Black Lives Matter movement. The folks at PubCrawls.com thought it would be a good idea to create a green Drunk Lives Matter T-shirt, which is being sold for $19.95. Not only does the…
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Confronting My Addiction
I remember the first time I tried it. I had heard about other people doing it, and I knew that a few of my friends used it from time to time, but I thought it was stupid at first. I looked down my nose at people who occasionally did it at parties or in social…