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http://the-toast.net/2015/05/12/books-that-literally-all-white-men-own/

how typical are u /lit/?

>> No.6534915

Someone posted this already. I own nine of them.

>> No.6534925

Most of these are trash for american 20-something liberal cuckolds.
>no bible
>no augustine
>no summa

>> No.6534930

Books every black man own

...

>> No.6534933

inb4 complaints about literally
inb4 "buh most of these are classics that most people own"

>> No.6534936

>list 79 of some of the most popular books ever
>if you own at least one of these you are a white man

Wow, what a prediction.

>> No.6534937

What's "the-toast", some clickbait shit?

>> No.6534938

>>6534937
prove to me you are not a cuck rn.

>> No.6534939

Is this supposed to be funny or something?

>> No.6534940

>>6534930
boards that you should fuck off to. black men where I live are basically culturally the same as white men

>>/pol/

>> No.6534942

>it's just a random assortment of popular books by white male authors without any explanation for any of them

Literally no effort went into this. Fuck outta here with this clickbait, OP.

>> No.6534944

>>6534925

Sometimes I wonder: without the summa, how could we possible spot plebeian christposters? I mean, there's the fedora posting, sure, but without the summa they could be far more sneaky.

Instead they need to post about the summa every fucking time regardless the fact that they both don't understand it and don't realize how badly aquinas understood causation.

>> No.6534945

I own 20

>> No.6534948
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6534948

7/79

So I'm 5.53% of what I should supposedly own; yet I'm certain I am the most white person I know by far.

But this is the dumb bitch who wrote it so. Probably she is going off the book shelves of all the guys she has slept with.

>> No.6534950

>>6534938
"Rn"?

>> No.6534951

ITT everyone is gay but me and Tom Brady.

>> No.6534953

>>6534940

>black men where I live are basically culturally the same as white men

Well, that's your problem for living in the boondocks.

>> No.6534958

>>6534940
Shh it was a joke you fucking cuck

>> No.6534959

>>6534939

Yes, it's funny because white men have similar tastes.

See, when people take notice that white men are a group of people, it's funny and racially intelligent or something.

>> No.6534961

>>6534940
Sorry, I didn't mean to trigger you. I was just making a joke.

>> No.6534962

>>6534950
"Right now" cuck

>> No.6534963

Foods literally all black people like:
1. Fried chicken
2. Watermelon

>> No.6534965

>>6534944
tibs flabdora

but seriously, you are missing out of le top upvote link cute puppy on reddit. fuck off to there.

>> No.6534967

>>6534930
The Bible, and that's it.

Priceless joke, though. Reminds me of clip related at 3:27 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqzFTuuOHyk

>> No.6534971

>>6534963
rofl

>> No.6534972

>>6534963
i'm white and i like those foods too

>> No.6534973

>>6534961
just tone down the racism ok. its not appreciated on /lit/

>> No.6534974

>>6534965

>do I fit in yet guys?!

>> No.6534975

>>6534940
>>>/lgbt/

>> No.6534976

A collection of John Lennon's drawngs? What the fuck?

>> No.6534980

>>6534962
You write like I imagine faggot-ass twelve-year olds do.

>> No.6534989
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>>6534940
>where I live are basically culturally the same as white men

Where, exactly, do you live?

>> No.6534990

>>6534973
I can assure you it will never happen again.

>> No.6534992

>books that people interested in literature usually read

no women on the list. why is the woman who wrote this so assuming? i have zero of the books on the list, closest thing I have is The Sun Also Rises. i lent Infinite Jest to someone so that probably doesn't count

>> No.6535010

The purpose of this list confuses me more than Ulysses.

>> No.6535019

>>6535010

Stop making everything about you white man. A list about white men is not actually about white men.

>> No.6535020

>>6534975
I do browse that board, your point?

>>6534989
Rural Canada

>> No.6535026

>>6535010
Ad revenue. It's click-bait, the purpose is for visitors to scroll down the page and subject themselves to ads, while the owner of the page is paid according to how many times the ads have been seen.

>> No.6535028

>>6535010
you are taking it too seriously then. There has been a "things white people like" trend this decade and it's mostly just something silly for white people to laugh at because they don't usually get to hear too many stereotypes about themselves.

>> No.6535034

14
Apparently I'm not white

>> No.6535049

ITT:

Bunch of butthurt MRAs who can't take a fucking joke.

>> No.6535052

>>6534973
But the post said "black man", not "nigger"...?

>> No.6535068

>>6535052
thats a start but he was still implying that they don't read which enforces racial stereotypes that aren't true.

>> No.6535073

>>6535068
I wasn't aware that was a racial stereotype.

>> No.6535075

Thanks for the buzzfeed-tier list anon

>> No.6535077

>>6535068
>enforces racial stereotypes that aren't true.

The not reading one is true though.

>> No.6535079

>>6535068
>>>tumblr
Nigger faggot bitch

>> No.6535092

>>6535079
>>>/pol/
Idiot.
>>>/out/
Teenager.

>> No.6535111

>>6534908
Farewell to Arms and Infinite Jest. I have a PDF of Gravity's Rainbow, would that count?

>> No.6535119

>>6535092
I'm not from pol but I posted that because you're such an easily offendable little pussy.

>> No.6535122

>>6535079
>>6535092
Can both of you please leave.

>> No.6535124

>>6534940
anti-/pol/ posting has got even worse than /pol/ posting itself

>> No.6535133

>WHITE PEOPLE WHITE PEOPLE WHITE PEOPLE WHITE PEOPLE WHITE PEOPLE

NO ONE CARES AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>> No.6535136

The butthurt in this thread is amazing.

>> No.6535143

>>6535034
11
Same

>> No.6535145

>>6534908
0

>> No.6535156

I don't think the average person of any race owns 79 mostly classic books these days.

>> No.6535160

>>6535156
truuuuu

>> No.6535161

A. Wyatt Mann

>> No.6535167

>>6535136
The amount of people falling for obvious clickbait ITT is even more amazing.

>> No.6535172

Are these just a selection of the best-selling literary and semi-literary books written by white men? Couldn't we do the same for every race-gender combination?

>> No.6535177
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>The 9/11 Commission Report
>God Is Not Great

>> No.6535180

>those comments

ehl oh ehl

>"This may as well be titled, "books I read the first two pages of and threw across the room". And I have an English Lit degree!"

>I wanted to be able to say that I didn't own any of these, but you just had to throw in LotR.

>Oh this brings me back. I briefly dated a guy for a few weeks who would recommend some of these to me, and when I said I wasn't interested in masculinity books, he would "correct me" that he was genderless, even though he was obviously a white guy who didn't want to be criticized.

>> No.6535184

>>6535020
>Rural Canada

It's great that all two of the black people in your tiny village are like the whites, culturally, but they pretty much have to assimilate due to their small number.

>> No.6535187

>>6535124
Id rather /pol/ just stayed on /pol/, we shouldn't even have this problem

>> No.6535192

>>6535167
maybe none of us care. what do we loose from clicking it? are you living with slave morality from clickbait sites?

>> No.6535193

>>6535187
>I'm opposed to any opinion different than that of my own
I'm not defending /pol/, but that is what you sound like.

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>>6535184
>It's great that all two of the black people in your tiny village are like the whites, culturally, but they pretty much have to assimilate due to their small number.

>> No.6535200

>>6535184
>but they pretty much have to assimilate due to their small number.

thanks for proving the point.

>> No.6535201

>>6535192
You're giving them more page views.

>> No.6535208

>>6535180
>>Oh this brings me back. I briefly dated a guy for a few weeks who would recommend some of these to me, and when I said I wasn't interested in masculinity books, he would "correct me" that he was genderless, even though he was obviously a white guy who didn't want to be criticized.

jesus...

>> No.6535209

>>6535192
>what do we loose from clicking it?
Can't lose intelligence you never had, but it's the lack of intelligence which surprises me, not how much of it you lost by falling for clickbait.

>> No.6535216

>>6534908
7/79

What's the deal with this list? Those books aren't really bad.

>> No.6535220

>>6535193
Yes because this is a literature board, not a holocaust denial board.

>> No.6535227

>>6535220

>all pol denies the holocaust

back to le tumblr :DD

>> No.6535228

>>6535201
and? how does that effect me negatively?

>>6535209
this post doesn't even make any sense

>> No.6535232

>>6534958
>>6534961
/pol/ confirmed for youtube social experiment pranksters

>> No.6535240

>>6534908
15

>> No.6535241

>>6535227
I do browse tumblr, and I see nothing wrong with that. I thought you weren't opposed to opinions that weren't your own

>> No.6535243

>>6534965
epik maymay dude

>> No.6535245

>>6535193
Isn't constantly invading and shitting up every other board inconsistent with the idea that certain people should stick with their own kind?

>> No.6535246

>>6535232
s-sub to my filthy frank rip off channel anon?

still never been on pol even once

>> No.6535247

>>6535241
Kill yourself.

>> No.6535253

>>6535245
4chan is /pol/ and /pol/ is 4chan. You Tumblrites and Redditors are the foreigners.

>> No.6535254

>>6535241
>I do browse tumblr, and I see nothing wrong with that

Okay, back to pol with you

>> No.6535255

>>6534908
Wouldn't this be triggering if the shoe was on the other foot and somebody wrote "books that literally all white women own"?

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>>6535192
>loose

>> No.6535271

>>6535253
You can posture about how awful reddit is all you want, everyone still knows about how all you /pol/smokers are piling in from /r/worldnews.

>> No.6535273

>>6534944
>All this talk about the suma and not the philokalia
Sure is western in here.

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6535277

>/lit/ thread about a buzzfeed-tier listicle
>/pol/ piles in

>/lit/ thread about politics
>/pol/ piles in

>/lit/ thread about what they thought of a book
>/pol/ is nowhere to be found

/pol/faggots have a funny way of showing that they're capable of sitting down and reading a book.

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>>6535180
> that last comment

>> No.6535281

>>6535277
Or it might just be that the majority of the /lit/ userbase aren't leftist cucks like you.

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6535286

>>6535255
There's nothing more beta than white dudes whining about reverse racism. It's fucking great to be a white guy; shit-talkers can shit talk all they want, it won't get them a trust fund, an excellent education, nor make their dads come back.

>waaa waaa, if the shoe was on the other foot...
You know the best way to handle this shit? Laugh it off, 'cause it's fucking great to be white and male.

>> No.6535287

>>6535277
>everyone who disagrees with me is a /pol/poster!
You certainly have the /pol/ mentality

>> No.6535290

Identity politics and these jokes are for an age without personality, were all we have is an identity. Never felt so maligned and buttstrated in my life. Should never have read books.
mfw so my ex this morning and she walked by me without acknowledging me. She was looking at her phone though. Never felt more part of an undifferentiated mass in my life.

>> No.6535291

>>6535246
>I've never even been to /pol/! What's a /pol/?

If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's totally not a duck, guys. Encouraging inductive reasoning is how the jews keep the white man down.

>> No.6535293

>>6535277
>actually believing pol comes here

When pol was shut down we literally got to see what pol act like when they come here, they made mein kempf threads and kept to themselves.

There was literally a "pol get in here" thread up at all times, and the rest of the posts on this board continued on basically normally. As it is now.

>> No.6535299

>>6535277

Or maybe you only see /pol/ when there are /pol/ related topics because otherwise people don't talk about their /pol/ related ideas.

>> No.6535302

>>6534908
This is honestly one of the worst threads I have ever seen on /lit/.

>> No.6535303

>>6535281
Or, here's a crazy idea, maybe people who spam reddit-tier /pol/ memes like "I don't know how to spell cuckold" are probably from /pol/.

>> No.6535307

>>6534930
underrated post

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>>6535299
Based on how that's sentence was structured, it's much easier for me to believe that /pol/dancers have to ask people on the street what signs say.

>> No.6535328

>>6535286
Fair point, anon.

>> No.6535339

>>6535303
You know how Crips don't spell words with a "ck" because that stands for "crip killer," so they replace it with two Cs? Like, kicc instead of kick?

/pol/ refuses to spell out any word with an "old" in it because they hate everyone who's older than fifteen. Hence, cuck instead of cuckold.

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>>6534908
>How to create a list of books all white men own:
>Start with list of best-selling books of all time
>remove Nicholas Sparks
>remove Hungry Games
>remove black woman sex books
>post on internet-- lol so white!

mfw I didn't select all of the dogs below
mfw I only selected two

>> No.6535349

>>6535273
>philokalia

Are you a monk?

>> No.6535351

>>6535303
here is an even crazier idea, what if people like pretending to be from /pol/ or a christfag in order to troll people here.

>> No.6535353

>>6535351
see
>>6535291

We are what we pretend to be, idiot.

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>>6535351
You really are a newfag and a redditor if you think "I was only pretending to be retarded so I could troll people" is going to fly as an excuse.

>> No.6535367

>>6535353
I hope you have no problem with biological males identifying as female

>> No.6535375 [DELETED] 

>>6535366
I do it myself sometimes therefore when i see other suspicious posts I think its people doing it the same. takes one to know one I guess

>> No.6535376

>>6535367
Sure don't.

>> No.6535384

>>6535375
>takes one to know one
Reported for underage posting. That's something only five-year-olds say.

>> No.6535419

ITT:

Impotent nerds angry at the world.

>> No.6535437

>>6534908
even white men barely read books anymore

they could have pared down that list to 25 books. many of them even seem too sophisticated or obscure for the average white guy today. most white men i know only remember and like 1984 and fight club.

>> No.6535491

>>6534908
I like how they specifically put the Seamus Heaney translation of Beowulf on there. I own R.M. Liuzza's bilingual edition. Come at me, plebs.

>> No.6535494

>>6535049
it's just not a very good joke