You may have already heard.
No, #YouPeople isn't some new feelgood spin-off on Youtube. #YouPeople is the Twitter trend sweeping the nation–nationally!–in light of Anne Romney's delightfully condescending manner of saying that we people need to keep our hands and feet inside the aisles at all times.
More below the orange cumulus.
From "Anne Romney You People Gaffe Goes Viral' via Mashable:
Ann Romney defended her husband’s decision to not release any additional tax records during an interview on Thursday morning, saying that “we’ve given all you people need to know” about her family’s financial records.
The “you people” remark immediately sparked a outpouring of responses on Twitter, eventually leading the #YouPeople hashtag to become a U.S. trending topic.
You've already seen the video, right?
Besides the incredible double standard posed if Romney indeed gets away with not releasing his taxes...
...I submit that her statement also reeks of contemptuous classicism and snobbish, narcissist entitlement. In all reality, I think people's personal finances indicate little about how they manage institutions (so, for instance, a person that has terrible credit and/or high personal debt could still be an effective manager at, say, a bank), but the realities of modern politics decree that political candidates should release information of the sort that you people wouldn't have to.
Now, then. Can we please get back to our cakes?
UPDATE
Apparently, Ross Perot used the phrase at an NAACP speech in 1992, and it did not go down well. At all.
From the LA Times, 1992, NAACP Offers Chilly Response to Perot Speech:
Perot, in his first foray before a black audience, appeared to offend a large number of delegates to the NAACP national convention here by seeming to equate the nation's crime and drug problems with the black community.
The Texan delivered his standard stump speech emphasizing the need to rebuild the nation's economy and job base and urging all Americans to work together toward that goal. But in attempting to tailor the address to a black audience, Perot took what many in the audience considered a number of insensitive missteps.
In discussing inner-city crime and drug use, Perot on several occasions used the expression "you people" or "your people" to describe the offenders and the victims.
Apparently, his use of the phrase was widely perceived to be poor word choice that didn't come from a condescending place, though I'm not sure the same can be said for Romney.
UPDATE X2
On the other hand, it's possible Romney didn't actually mean to say it...
From NYMag:
Sounds more like "We've given all [stumble] people need to know," if you ask us. The letter y definitely makes an appearance in there, but the word you does not. Maybe Romney was going to say, "We've given all you need to know," and decided at the last moment to replace "you" with "people." Maybe she was going to say, "We've given all Yosemite National Park visitors a free Romney bumper sticker." Admittedly, that would be a completely nonsensical thing to say at that moment.
Fine. But if Mitt Romney can remove entire sentences out of adjoining ideas in larger points uttered by Obama, then perhaps adding two letters ("o" and "u") after Anne Romney's "y" is fair game. The suspension of disbelief required to accept that she stumbled by replacing an intended "you" with the word "people" is far lower than the suspension of disbelief required to accept that Obama was talking about people not building there own businesses, instead of his obviously intended idea that people don't build the roads and physical infrastructure on which businesses depend.
But at least Obama's not whining about it ;).