The rise and rise of Stuff White People Like

One of the most extraordinarily popular blog sites over the last month or so has been the US satirical site Stuff White People Like, which takes a humorous look at trendy white liberal Americans.

It's comments threads are now so long that I won't dare opening them for fear of my computer (or my brain) ceasing up, and the hit counter has now reached over 6 million. Last time I looked, about two weeks or so ago, it stood at about 2 million - an amazing increase by anyone's standard.

One of the surprising things about the blog is the amount of hostility it has generated, with a large number of critical commentators arguing, possibly from a white nationalist or perhaps homour-deprived white-liberal perspective, that the blog constitutes an unjust, jealousy driven attack on successful middle-class whites. According to Steve Sailer this particular controversy has now been silenced since the author has turned out to be a middle class white himself.

Personally, I wouldn't have minded if the author had turned out to be a non-white. I'm all for people breaching the modern liberal taboo that people shouldn't be allowed to make fun of other races and cultures.

For racialist whites to argue that non-whites shouldn't make fun of whites is just as hypocritical as liberal whites who support "free expression" complaining about aging conservative comics making racist jokes about minorities.

Anyway, while it's a pretty entertaining read, I don't think it's quite as good as its massive popularity suggests. For example, does an elegantly amusing, but hardly side-splitting post about the white liberal penchant for bottled water really justify 400 plus comments?

If you're that excited by clever satire, then try checking out some of the great post by the relative blogging minnow Dennis Dale, who in all fairness is a step up in quality from the less cerebral offerings of Stuff White People Like, and throws in some pretty thoughtful political musings as well.