The new “white people” are bigoted, but not the way you think—or they’ll admit.
20th September 2008
The Atlantic takes a look at Stuff White People Like.
Lander’s White People aren’t always white, and the vast majority of whites aren’t White People (he doesn’t even capitalize the term). … Lander, like many of these writers, traces this group’s values to the 1960s, and there’s clearly a connection between a politics based on “self-cultivation” (to quote the Students for a Democratic Society’s gaseous manifesto, the Port Huron Statement) and what Lander defines as White People’s ethos: “their number-one concern is about the best way to make themselves happy.”