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4tell0life4
Since: Mar, 2018
2nd Nov, 2019 12:48:09 AM
Ridiculously Average Guy + White Male Lead?
We can never truly eradicate the coronavirus, but we can suppress its threat like influenza
Chabal2
Since: Jan, 2010
2nd Nov, 2019 12:57:34 AM
No, for the population in general.
For example, there was a toothpaste commercial for "teeth so white they can't dance".
4tell0life4
Since: Mar, 2018
2nd Nov, 2019 01:24:18 AM
We can never truly eradicate the coronavirus, but we can suppress its threat like influenza
gropcbf
Since: Sep, 2017
2nd Nov, 2019 10:18:09 AM
That would probably be mentioned in White Men Can't Jump, but I don't see it.
A trope (which I've seen mostly used in self-deprecation by white authors) where middle-class white people are culturally inert, producing/consuming nothing but bland and inoffensive forms of entertainment, media that's Two Decades Behind, or desperately aping other subcultures and ethnicities in a pathetic attempt to shed this image. The use of "vanilla" as a pejorative term often shows up as well.