Stuff White People Like
#23 - Microbreweries
If you haven’t seen it by now, Stuff White People Like is friggin’ huge right now. It’s been up for about a month and has already reached over 2.2 million hits.
There is a lot of speculation about who writes it. I am pretty sure that it’s a guy that lives in LA, and to tell you the truth, I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that he is white. How else would he know about all this stuff?
A lot of the items are spot on for me. Yes, I love Wes Anderson movies, Snowboarding, Arrested Development, Indie Music, and Bicycles. I don’t know whether to be embarrassed or proud about of having my whiteness laid out on the internets like this.
But it made me think, when did enjoying good beer become a white thing? What percentage of the people on BeerAdvocate and RateBeer do you think are white? How many microbreweries are there in this country that are founded or owned by non-whites?
What do you think, is there something inherently white about enjoying microbrews?
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I dunno, I find the site border-line racist. I just check it out and read a couple of the posts, and sure some of it’s funny, the other stuff just comes out as whiny. (Although I wouldn’t be surprised if “whining” and “reverse racism” are two of the posts on that site)
Why is enjoying good beer a white thing? I can’t think of any real reason, there is no reason why other races/colors shouldn’t enjoy it as well. I can make up a bs “Stuff White People like” reason though.
“White people love to discover things. It may be left over from the age of discovery when all sorts of white folk ‘discovered’ the new world and claimed it for their own. Just like they shunned their former religions and cultures, they now shun the Budweiser and Coors they used to drink themselves silly with at frat parties.”
Comment made by 6th Floor Blogger on Friday, February 22, 2008 @ 9:58 pm
That was actually a pretty good imitation. What I like about the posts are their “scientific” observations, like it’s a nature documentary or something.
Yeah, I was a bit put off by the site at first, but that was before I realized it was genius satire. Jeez and it’s amazing to read what people have to say in the comments, clearly a lot of people don’t get the joke.
A lot of the generalizations on there hit pretty close to home for me. And guess what? It IS written by a white guy in LA, and I’m sure he gets a lot of the ideas from things he actually likes.
No word on if he is a craft brew drinker.
Comment made by Dave on Tuesday, February 26, 2008 @ 7:39 pm
hi dave, i think that site is hilarious! i don’t know why enjoying good beer is a white thing but my bf is white (super white), from duxbury/boston, and he practically grew up on microbrews. i love wes anderson movies, arrested development and love good beers. not so much on the snowboarding and bicycles though. obviously you can tell i’m korean!
Comment made by susan on Sunday, March 30, 2008 @ 10:32 am
Haha, so post #11 was pretty accurate too, huh?
I just read that the author got a $300,000 advance on a SWPL book. Good for him!
Comment made by Dave on Wednesday, April 2, 2008 @ 9:34 pm