Over at gradcafe, I was following a thread about some woman who was concerned about how her relationship with her boyfriend would be affected since she would be two years ahead of him in grad school.  Someone responded with a message basically stating that the original poster had petty concerns, but prefaced it with the following:

I am sorry but this thread is such a hilarious example of "white people problems." Oh no, your boyfriend won't get his Ph.D. until two years after you! The horror!

I noticed that a lot of people were giving this post +1s, even though it seemed to me that the quip about "white people problems" was racially derogatory.  So I write:

I'm sorry, but your comment is really out of line and someone needs to call you on it. Some might even say it's bigoted. What if someone made a comment about a hilarious example of "minority people problems"? Wouldn't be very nice, would it?Anyway, I really don't see how race is an issue at all with the OP's concern. Do you even know what race she is? Then why bring it up? Without your first paragraph your point would still have come across quite clearly.

Now people are defending the "white people" remarks, giving me -1s, etc.  It just seems to me like such a remark would never be tolerated if it were about a minority group, yet because it's about caucasians it's somehow acceptable.  Seems like a glaring double standard to me.  I'm just wondering how other people view this.

You are obviously dealing with a lot of liberals who believe in white privilege.  I suspect you are the minority on that board in terms of world view.  I'm glad now I didn't follow you over there because you know me, I don't let things like that go by either.

You are obviously dealing with a lot of liberals who believe in white privilege.  I suspect you are the minority on that board in terms of world view.  I'm glad now I didn't follow you over there because you know me, I don't let things like that go by either.

+1 From me too.