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WASP started off with a pejorative nuance, it seems to me, but has been accepted so smugly by white Anglo-Saxon Protestants that the term has been appropriated by some people it doesn't fit, for instance Americans of German or Irish descent who may be agnostics of Catholic background.
The universe exists to humiliate Brooks' protagonists, to remind them of the precariousness of everything that they'd smugly assumed was fixed--the steadiness of a job, the permanence of a relationship, the support of a mother, the benign regard of the universe.
(Actually, Syd gets it instinctively, another way in which she's smugly annoying.)
Once more he's taken an issue which he modeled as a silly yes-or-no question, extended the consequences of this answer to ridiculous lengths, and smugly pronounced the conclusions as the only logical result.
Critics say the show, about a Puerto Rican teen gang member and convicted murderer, fails to make its protagonist sympathetic even as it moralizes smugly about racism.