'Wypipo' Explained
By Michael Harriot
Lately there has been an uptick on the internet in the use of the term “Wypipo.” While I prefer to use the colloquialism “Y. P. Pull” (in my opinion, it has a more refined, formal, almost European tone to it), it is impossible to ignore that the former wording has become more accepted in widespread usage.
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What is Wypipo? Wypipo is an alternative, partly phonetic spelling of the words “White People.”
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Do tell. How so? Well, first of all, Wypipo say shit like “do tell,” whereas there are a number of white people who would never utter that phrase. To understand fully, you must come to terms with one fact:
Not all white people are wypipo.
The two should not be confused or used interchangeably.
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Most white people love animals, but wypipo will kiss their dog in the mouth and feed them with the same silverware they are eating with. While it would be wrong to lump all white people’s motives towards humans and nonhumans together, wypipo generally love animals more than they love people. Wypipo can see an unarmed bullet-riddled black body leaking blood in the street and feel no empathy, but will be outraged upon hearing that someone mistreated a house cat. Wypipo steer clear of black neighborhoods and don’t think about the economic and social remnants of segregation on black youth, but will show up at Sea World with picket signs to protest the captivity of killer whales.
Read More: http://neguswhoread.com/wypipo-explained/
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Read on and understand not all white people are wypipo. Not all white people, I am one. We have huge racial issues that we all need to deal with. We need to be woke.
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hell "the greater fraction" has been used for generations by wypipo. This trying to get fear infused into AA by stating WE will catch MORE hell from white people is bunk. "Exactly the same", no it isn't nor has it ever been so. Institutional and systemic racism makes that claim b******t
The echo chamber of civilization that reinforces what we see in the rippled waves that wash over us always wants to reinforce what has gone before. Those, whoever they might be, who want to castigate people into the "wypipo' do have a point. Then also, while wanting to blame any parties involved people might also want to remember some of it wasn't all personal choice. Not making an excuse for people who find it convenient to be ignorant but more of the reason that this is a topic.
Some get to see their way past it and see how it gets there. Then others just go with the flow because they are just lazy swimmers and think it will not matter for them.
P.s: I do love that book in your sig-line, I wish everybody would read or listen to it 
you mean. The whitesplaining and rationalizations used to make AA racist for using wypipo is ludicrous. All I have to say is institutional and systemic use of racism is in the hands of ONE RACE ONLY. And that race continues to apply that power whenever and wherever it can be applied. Stop the whining about wypipo. Start whining about a Trayvon Martin, Tamir, Rice, Tanesha Anderson, Yvette Smith, unarmed and killed by authorities of the state, and Starbucks reaction to AA in that particular store. Wypipo is not an epithet. Like the word n****r. PERIOD.
is about wypipo. Not the author of an article. Wypipo is a colloquialism, nothing more, nothing less. Yet n****r is not. It a hate inducing word created by wypipo to stimulate evil in racist wypipo. I am VERY UPSET about that word. Tell all your associates and friends, if they use it, to stop. Then wypipo may stop. Naw. Never happen. Fits a whole crowd of 'deplorables' for sure and those hiding in a closet. Wypipo, grow up.
It fits. Thank you Root for this article.
I never understood why the term "honkey" is still used. It's just so '60s (although I know "cracker" goes way way back). 
Limpballs uses it all the time to try to make idiotic points, so I know it does get used, but he never used or picked up any of the newer "slang" terms.
But Airplane was some funny ass shit. 
And sortof related to that, I finally finally saw Leslie Nielsen in a "serious" role in "Forbidden Planet" (for the first time a couple years ago although the movie came out 60-some years ago).
The one thing about some of these terms is when both groups use them for a similar meaning. You see "cracker" used here as part of a term and similarly represents the type of thing the OP is describing -
fear much? Cause you are whitesplaining and rationalizing white racism too much.
except to those who use slurs that are racist
fit the category understood by me as a racist sub-group of whites from many European ethnicities.
In ameriKKKa now I just have to listen to the conversation(s) at the 'farmer's market' to hear more native Europen language(s) being spoken than I have ever heard. I am 70.
Now to you being offended/confused by the classification term, American wypipo in relation to people from many ethnicities in the white race. I say wypipo's is fair and balanced a term that gives recognition and classification to hateful racist white people who DO NOT reflect the racism that has been poisoning the well water of this society since it's goddamn inception based on genocide and slavery. Which has represented to me, historically, as white people trying to get a classification on the red and brown skin people(s), that is still in use and as of 2018, on steroids, by the classification of a sub-group of white people, headed by d.trump who is doing a hell of a lot of pardoning to let his russiagate co-conspirator wypipo know, don't talk, I will pardon you. It really is pretty simple. There are allies and then there aren't. A classification ability, hate looks, spitting in ones direction and presence keeps me safe when in interactions on the street with the whole of society's white people and wypipo. What should an adherent of David DUKE, D'nish d-sousa, donald trump, steve bannon, gorka, alec jones et al; be classified as, I ask you? Racist? Bigoted? Prejudiced? THE waffle House shooter was wypipo. Every hateful racist coward hiding behind a badge and state authority who kills/murders/executes/imposes fatal summary judgement on ANY unarmed AA for BS like j-walking, not being respectful enough, speaking one's mind about an obviously racially profiled stop, killed for having a licensed weapon, undrawn and unthreatening, walking through one's own community, with things bought from the stop and rips, having a phone in hand whether they be raised or not. These are wypipo and I SHALL stick with the classification.
The open hostility shown to me by white persons now is much more prevalent than say 6-7-8 years ago. I mean let's get real here, I can't move faster than a snail in a wheelchair and white people, in cars, in stores, see me, don't know me or my experience from adam, locking their car doors, clutching that purse pretty defensively there.....it's fear of black from all fox news is filling their receptive minds with.
For your information I'm bi-racial. I don't stand for ugly from any race or culture. And will call out AA on any unreasoned hate as I will a potential Vegas or Parkland shooters. Two wypipo for sure.
And I will tell any white person anything I deduce about their racism and/or racial hostility especially if directed to me or mine or unjust behaviour or language against different cultures, NOT European. Brother Harriot is right on. No matter your umbrage at an AA making a definition fit the crime. It really was just slang for white people.
Hey 'it' hit as a definition of a sub-culture of all those white new and old immigrants speaking different Europen languages, who hate on race and class because ameriKKKa teaches white people how to become wypipo. One of our posters here had a huge thread when that poster referred to wypipo from an article that poster had read at the theroot.com.
https://thegrapevine.theroot.com/roseanne-barr-says-she-begged-abc-to-let-her-make-amend-1826477697 wypipo, for sure.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/01/from-black-panthers-to-bbq-becky-the-displacement-of-black-oakland
Have a good one 
I could ask you to do the same thing, but.....I won't. I had a lot of fun with this OP and you.
Who do you hope that? Sensitive?
we are immediately labeled as such. See how that works? Gosh, I am not real wild about my dog kissing me on the mouth, but she does sleep on my bed. Horror of horrors! I had no idea my love for my animals meant I was a disgusting racist. Oh the shame!
they weren't allies in the first place.
Fighting for civil rights is not some gift that white people bestow upon us conditionally, as long as we behave as they want us to - and the minute one or even a few of us say something they don't like or say something in a way they find objectionable, they pack up and leave.
That's not how it works. White allies aren't doing us a favor by being our allies and if they are truly allies, they don't get offended and storm out over picayune shit like black people making jokes about "Wypipo."
That said, I appreciate the compliment and am glad you find meaning in my posts.
pejorative. It's white people. Is the term white people pejorative? Go ahead I want to see YOUR pejoratives. Can't wait.
wypipo are white people. Period.
self-explanatory after I got what it means. Mr. Harriot DID NOT call wypipo anything they are not. Wypipo are white people. What's the problem? In your experience what does wypipo mean to you? You feel like someone called you a n****r or something derogatory? What?
"pipoacula". What is that. It took me a minute to understand the term wypipo. Am I slow on the uptake sometimes?...sigh yes
I am one of them too........ 
Loved the last part:
But if you stop crying for a few seconds, and listen to the universe, you just might be able to hear the world’s tiniest man playing an even-tinier piano. He is strumming a sad song, collectively written by the ancestors of slaves, the descendants of Jim Crow’s strange fruit and the marginalized people all across America. Its low-volume wail reflects the buckets of white tears and caucasian pain felt by the aggrieved souls of whiteness everywhere.
It is officially entitled “Blues For Butthurt White Snowflakes in the Age of Resistance”
We call it “Wypipo music.”
Unfortunately I know a lot of people that term applies to.
Omygerd:
how many here were OK with not voting for HRC because their emotions were wrapped up in another primary election candidate LOSER. Free speech is why it was okay for the backers of a primary election candidate LOSER to not say nice things about HRC and he wasn't/isn't a Democrat? Harriot has free speech rights and while I do not agree with him, have fought and will defend his right to say what he pleases about any candidate running for office. All this is distraction and diversion from his wypipo colloquialism. Lots of poor people got their fe fe's hurt. Their entitlement and privilege do not allow any brown person to find non pejorative words as used by many, many people BEFORE Harriot wrote his piece. And still is. I know damn well it's part of my personal dictionary now and forever.
will get rid of the stink of hypocrisy that is heavy in the air because of people NOT wanting wypipo to describe their existence. It's all about a one-word description of members of one race that raises the hackles of the entitled and privileged here. Nothing more, nothing less.
So maybe it will have the opposite effect to your analysis of things getting worse because of the term wypipo. I hope the word helps disperse the stink of hypocrisy evident in a lot of responses here about the colloquialism wypipo vs what AA have been derogatorily called for generations. Racism in ameriKKKa will never end. Too many generations have perpetuated a hate based on skin colour. If wypipo hate the description wypipo, a non pejorative description, unlike the pejoratives, used to describe black people. No sweat. I feel it is because of some who hate to look in the mirror at themselves, catch a glimpse and don't like what they see.
it still doesn't take away from the FACT, wypipo means white people. I don't care what he put the term with as far as the conduct of white people is concerned. Whether wypipo or white people, you still can be called to account for the continuing racism, mistrust and evil deeds, historically and today as written by Mr. Harriot. Sick of the whining about WYPIPO. The term wypipo is not pejorative in its base meaning. I don't care what was attached to the word wypipo. Wypipo have been attaching much evil to the words, black people for generations. Yet the term black people is not pejorative in its descriptive meaning. I prefer the term person of color or specifically when warranted, African-american. I am done with this pity party.
and seeing this kind of crap re-enforces why I love animals more than people! Here's to animals! 
Make the interrogators look it up for themselves.
Nonetheless, as usual, you step up to bat and knock that sucker OUT of the park . 😁💐⚾
Good to see you, betsuni. 
Thanks though.
and little talked about, but tell scientists that. That nonsense matters to them as it affects their funding.
A book I have on this and recommend is "Our Political Nature: The Evolutionary Origins of What Divides Us." A number of good ones apparently came out around the same (2013) and of course others after, and this is neither the first or last word. But it offers a survey of what had been learned on this topic from various scientific disciplines, including neuroscience and genetics, and from a global viewpoint while addressing American politics.
Publishing on this topic for lay readers has been somewhat quashed since then as conservatives tend not to like what they're reading, but any search on it (personality, genetics, political, etc.) will turn up some things. Including such quirky findings as a study that MRI scanning of the brain could predict political orientation 83% of the time. "Scans show that liberals and conservatives use different parts of the brain when they take risks, helping to pinpoint the political party a person prefers." https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/study-predicts-political-beliefs-with-83-percent-accuracy-17536124/ According to something else I read, a quick glance at the MRI scans of a fair number of people can be as accurate, like looking at a pitcher's arms and knowing if he's a right or left thrower. It's because we tend to process information in different orders and exercise different parts of the brain a bit more.
Have fun. And for all the general conservative reaction to it, learning how and why we naturally hold the beliefs we do helps generate respect and empathy also.
Just like the creationists and people who yell "fake news". Sorry I'll take credible science over people who think their opinions are more valuable than fact and reason.
Mesmerizing!
he is invoking the term in the essay to make this point (from the OP article) -
So when you are unfairly (or even fairly) associated with anything negative, it is offensive because you live with the privilege of existing as an individual. You are not used to being reduced to a stereotype or trope.
It’s as reductive and demeaning as being referred to as “inner city,” “urban” or “underprivileged.” That’s what the term “wypipo” does. It is a tiny, microscopic taste of wypipo’s own medicine, and I understand why they find that little spoonful bitter. It is infuriating to be cataloged into a cliché that paints you with such broad strokes.
So in a way, it is "meaningless" (or perhaps "valueless"
in terms of it being a "fiat" or "token" term that can be assigned whatever the user chooses within the scope of racial discussion. I noted in another post that it is apparently used more like an adjective or adverb than a noun but it does open up a discussion on why it is used and what might trigger its usage.
Because they deserve it!!!
are a hoot. Got all the wypipo pissed at being called white people by a black person. Woke? Generations have passed since the end of slavery, 66million+ people are still asleep. The whiners here are still asleep. The tears shed here over that mean black man categorizing white people as wypipo has filled many pools. I'm laughing at the revelations laid out here as to real motivations concerning racism and why it persists. I laugh at the tears shed. 
Thanks to instant media, people are "seeing" into each others' worlds more than ever before. I.e., there is increased exposure, not just culturally, but economically as well - the "haves" and the "have nots".
Used to be that to see some of the very wealthy (i.e., those willing to be featured) in a publication, you needed to get a copy of "Town and Country" or "Architectural Digest" or maybe see an episode of "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" . Now you can just use a search engine and look at photos and videos of all of the trappings of wealth.
Similarly, the advent of cell phone videos have opened up a whole new world to some, where they can see how black people are continually harassed in public places. And what was continually deemed over and over as "isolated incidents", has become a tsunami of "isolated incidents" that basically establish a pattern. And it is frightening for some to see or believe because it is not something that is relatable.
The tech actually tends to magnify and we as humans tend to internalize that - particularly if it is something that is negative. And that is what helped to give birth to the stuff that Cambridge Analytica did.
