Of course, I may be the last person to have found it. But, unlike white-liberal-yuppie persons, being au courant isn't "where I'm at" (to use an expression that's probably no longer au courant).
P.S. Suggested additions to the list:
- Foreign films (Especially if incomprehensible and/or about angst, suffering, etc.)
- Dressing casually (Especially at fine restaurants. It's a fetish -- like wearing shorts regardless of the temperature.)
- Public schools (For other people's children.)
- Public universities (Très gauche, even if you attended one.)
- Going "green" (As long as it's expensive.)
- Cheese (As in, "I found this wonderful little cheese store.")
- Handymen (As in, "I found this wonderful little handyman." Who's probably not white. But "little" isn't racist, is it?)
- Charity auctions (For buying ugly stuff and feeling good about it.)
- Celebrities (Okay, if they're adopting half of China. But Angelina Jolie's counsel to "stay the course" in Iraq makes one wonder.)
- Europe (Such a civilized place -- if you overlook economic stagnation, unemployment, rioting Muslims, and the tendency to turn to the U.S. when in danger.)
- Britain (Ditto, with smashing accents.)
- Social Security (Good for "little" people.)
- Medicare (Ditto, but avoid doctors who accept Medicare patients.)
- Drug companies (Hate 'em. Where are my tranqs, anyway?)
- Driving rudely (Courtesy is for "little" people.)
- Brand-name products of a superior kind (Très important, as long as they signify good taste -- in an understated way, of course, and not in a way which suggests that one is uncaring about the "little" people who made them.)
- Urban compression (The opposite of "urban sprawl." Also known as cities: dirty, smelly, crowded, crime-ridden, architecturally chaotic places that, for some reason, "deserve to be saved." But why, and at whose expense?)
