[Ads-l] New to me - wokescold and wypipo

[Ben Zimmer]

"Wypipo" was the winner of the Slang/Informal category in the 2017 ADS Word
of the Year voting. It was defined on the ballot as "humorous phonetic
spelling of 'white people' used to flag white privilege, cluelessness, or
absurdity."

https://www.americandialect.org/wp-content/uploads/2017-Word-of-the-Year-PRESS-RELEASE.pdf

On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 8:54 PM Peter Reitan <pjreitan at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Ran across two new-to-me words today.
>
> wypipo means "white people," or certain kinds of white people.  It has
> apparently been around for several years.  Urban Dictionary entry dated
> 2016.  In searching for examples, There is also a verb form, "wypipoling,"
> which also dates to at least 2016.
>
> "The 2016 Wypipo Awards," Michael Harriot, theroot.com, December 24, 2016.
> https://www.theroot.com/the-2016-wypipo-awards-1790858299
>
> [Begin excerpt]
> "Not everyone is eligible for these honors. Only the small subset of white
> people called “wypipo”—those who trade in privilege, hate and what our
> panelists call “white people s—t”—are eligible to receive a nomination.
> Without further ado, here are the nominees and winners of the 2016 Wypipo
> Awards.
> [End excerpt]
>
>
>
> wokescold (sometimes hyphenated or two words).
>
> "Don't Let the Woke Scolds Ruin Cinco De Mayo, Tacos, tequila, and
> sombreros are not the path to white supremacy.," Robby Soave, reason.com,
> May 5, 2019.
> https://reason.com/2019/05/05/cinco-de-mayo-cultural-appropriation/
>
> It is defined in the earliest example I could find of the word, a January
> 2 piece by Ben Shapiro.
>
> 2019: The Year of the Wokescolds, Ben Shapiro, Townhall.com, January 2,
> 2019.
>
> https://townhall.com/columnists/benshapiro/2019/01/02/2019-the-year-of-the-wokescolds-n2538337
>
> [Begin Excerpt]
> "Wokescolds are the new representatives of moral panic.  We've seen plenty
> of moral panic before in the United States, from worries about violent
> video games, to concern about allegations of sex abuse at day care
> facilities.  But never have we seen a moral panic of the stunning breadth
> of today's woke moral panic."
> [End excerpt]
>
>

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