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Karen is a racial slur, or at least fits the definition of one. I suggest wrestling with the irony of what you just typed.
by jquery 6y ago
Karen is a racial slur, or at least fits the definition of one. I suggest wrestling with the irony of what you just typed.
- damnyou 6y agoWhat history of oppression does the term "Karen" have associated with it? The N word and "faggot" both have centuries of violence behind them.
- ALittleLight 6y agoI'm not aware of a time requirement for a term to qualify as a slur. It seems pretty straightforward that "Karen" does qualify though. You generalize the behavior of a group (women, housewives, etc) and describe them with a pejorative. Adult women have a right to complain about things and report things if they think they are illegal. That some number of women may have filed false or exaggerated reports doesn't give you or others license to dismiss everyone of a similar demographic.
- damnyou 6y agoIn my part of the world, the term "slur" necessarily denotes a history of oppression. Yours might be different.
- ALittleLight 6y agoThe defense that "this slur was recently coined" doesn't strike me as that compelling. "Karen" plays on long standing stereotypes of women as hysterical or nagging. The name-as-insult is new, but the stereotypes are not.
- soulofmischief 6y agoI use the term Chad just as often. We're talking about common societal stereotypes and not slurs at all. When you have 8 billion people, you start to see patterns in personalities. Karen is one such observed pattern in modern society. You don't want to die on this hill, bud.
- sukilot 6y agoIt's mildly racist, quite sexist, and terribly Karenist. It's a hurtful term, but useful because it's a shibboleth for trashy people to out themselves.
- soulofmischief 6y agoNo it's not, buddy. Firstly, I'm what you would probably call "white" (two hundred years ago I'd be just another dirty non-white immigrant) and secondly I know more than one black Karen, one of whom fits the Karen stereotype. So no, you're the one being racist by assuming all Karens are white.
- jquery 6y agoI stand corrected. Can you link me to a mainstream media article showing a black Karen? As far as I knew it was directed at white women. A quick Google search shows the search engine itself is suffering from the same misunderstanding about “Karen” I was, so I’m going to kick responsibility for my mistake up the chain. It’s not my slang.
- soulofmischief 6y agoIf you don't want to take responsibility for overreaching due to personal ignorance, that's fine with me. Blame Google. I just don't see why I need to link you a news article to convince you that there are some black people named Karen, and some black people who act entitled, just like any other race or ethnicity. The black Karen I know personally assaulted me while I was disabled and then told all of my friends that I assaulted her in order to further hurt and isolate me and bury the truth, if that's not a Karen move I don't know what is.
- jquery 6y agoI asked for a news article to demonstrate the slang “Karen” being used in a race-neutral way. All the examples I’ve seen online have been white women.