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2634556 No.2634556 [Reply] [Original]

Plenty of people seem to be upset and/or bored by white people problems.

What do you want? Poor, black problems? Poor. Need money. Sell drugs, get shot.

There ya go.

I'll take nuanced, rich, socially superior quandaries any day of the week.

>pic kind of related, he's film though

>> No.2634569

I want my riding lawn mower to start every time I turn the key. Is this too much to ask for? I'm tired of fiddling with the carburetor.

>> No.2634574

I have always depended on the strangers to kindness.

>> No.2634581

mama hit jojo, oh lawd mama hit jojo wat du?

>> No.2634596

No, op, you're confusing "white people problems" with "rich people problems". "White people problems" is code for "mundane, upper-middle class problems".

>> No.2634599

>>2634574
ew

>> No.2634600

>>2634596


>thinks upper middle class is far removed from rich

>> No.2634603
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2634603

You have to be pretty materialist to think being poor is a problem.
When you're poor you can still read books... So all is fine.

There is no need for money.

>> No.2634606

>>2634600
Oh but it is. Read Class: A Guide Though The American Status System by Paul Fussell.

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2634608

>>2634600
>he thinks he's not a retard

>> No.2634609 [DELETED] 

>>2634599

Not a Tennessee Williams fan?

>> No.2634610

>>2634603
As long as I don't live in squalor I'm happy.

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2634628

I completely approve of this thread.

>> No.2634634

>>2634600

What world do you live in?

>> No.2634637

>white people problems.

0/10

>> No.2634642

Also... I've got 3 acres fenced in for horses in my back yard but I'd like to fence in 4 acres in the front. Do you have any idea how much weather resistant lumber costs these days? And thanks to the hippies arsenic can't be used anymore so not as good.

>> No.2634643

Many naturalists would have strongly disagreed with you OP. Frank Norris in particiular was critical or William Deans Howells and his "crisis over tea" novels like Daisy Millar.

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2634650

Which law school do I go to?

Which color leather do I order for my Eames classic lounge chair?

ARGHHHH FML

>> No.2634661

>>2634643

Henry James wrote Daisy Miller, and It was pretty fucking good.

>> No.2634681

To the Lighthouse is about some white people's comparatively unimportant problems, and it's absolutely incredible.
Further proof that how one writes is at least as important as what one writes about.

>> No.2634683

>>2634600
suck my dick, rich means doesn't have to work
i ain't rich, nigga

>> No.2634685

>>2634643
Now you've got the ghosts of Henry James and William Dean Howells mad at you. I don't care what race you are; that's a shitty problem to have.

>> No.2634691

Little known fact: Henry James was related to Jesse James.

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2634696

>>2634691

>> No.2634695

>>2634691
While I'm not an expert on Henry James, I've read more than a little bit about him. Do you have prove of this claim?

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2634694

>white people problems
>rich people problems
>mundane, upper-middle class problems

Whatever you want to call 'em. Do they make me upset? Not really. Bored, yes. Unless their problems are hilarious. Otherwise I don't understand the appeal.

>> No.2634699

>>2634695
>>2634696
I made it up. But would be cool if true.

>> No.2634701

>>2634699

Figured.

>> No.2634702

>>2634701
Sort of encompasses both extremes of America. Henry on one end Jesse on the other.

>> No.2634713

>>2634702

Certainly.

>> No.2634717

>>2634694
the appeal is developing a hatred that will be encouraged rather than shunned by society. Can't hate blacks. Can't hate Asians. Can't hate Jews, or Indians or Arabs. White people, though? Oh yeah.

>> No.2634718

>>2634713
I have to admit I stole this from Peter De Vries.
Great little known author.

>> No.2634719

>>2634717
You just hate regardless of colour.

>> No.2634721

Junot Díaz FTW

>> No.2634723

>>2634717

I'm saying I don't get the appeal of reading books about well-off people being bored, but obviously, some people do enjoy such books.

But what are you going on about? Are you just trying to complain about racism against whites?

>> No.2634728

>>2634723
>well-off people being bored
Comedy gold!

>> No.2634727

>>2634718

I'll check him out, thanks.

>> No.2634730

>>2634728
Sometimes is really is. Other times it just makes me want to die knowing that such people exist.

>> No.2634731

>>2634727
The Glory of the Hummingbird (1974)
Consenting Adults; or, The Duchess Will Be Furious (1980)
Slouching Towards Kalamazoo (1983)

My favorites.

>> No.2634736

So does everyone just ignore that a criticism of the wealthy white is also a criticism of the lifestyle and mindset of the power structure which more or less runs the Western world?

>> No.2634737

>>2634736
Postmodernist detected.

>> No.2634740

People who write off books because of "white people problems" fail to grasp what's really happening. Their understanding of the story is only superficial and the underlying themes go right over their heads.

>> No.2634743

>>2634737
Too rationalist to be postmodernist, thanks for playing.

Really, though, it seems to me if you're reading a book about the emptiness of this person's life and they're wealthy and powerful, that tells you something about what wealth and power are or lead to.

>> No.2634747

>>2634743
Marxist? Feminist?

>> No.2634764

>>2634736
Not everyone ignores it, but for the amount of continentalfags on here, it's surprising how little criticisms of power structures come up.

>> No.2634767

>>2634736

They do. And they shouldn't.

>> No.2634773

>>2634740
Give an example.