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Can you people stop using my mother's name as a slur that means obnoxious white woman? I'm used to this bigotry on Reddit but why is it ok here? I'm so sick of

Can you people stop using my mother's name as a slur that means obnoxious white woman? I'm used to this bigotry on Reddit but why is it ok here? I'm so sick of it.

Dig1t 5y ago
I do agree with you, it would be super frowned upon to go around doing the same thing with common names of other ethnicities. I don't think its right that we're okay with low-key disparaging one race but not another. At one point in time I think people would have considered that to be racist, but I guess that's not a thing anymore.
- kemonocode 5y ago
  You can't help being born black, or being born a woman. However, you can not be an entitled person who abuses their privilege in order to get ahead of literally everyone else, which is the attitude a "Karen" embodies. Sure, I'll concede the name has been picked poorly, but to be honest, I really do not think it's nearly on the same category as racism or sexism.
  - another_sock 5y ago
    ok Tyrone
  - dang 5y ago
    I took the flags off your comment; your point is the kind of thing I meant in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26880612 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26880612 about how society is divided on this category of putdown. On HN, fortunately, we have a simpler playbook than the Big Book of Social Norms Worldwide, which is impossible to make consistent. It's at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, and I think that the rules "please don't call names" and "eschew flamebait" suffice for us all to just avoid the Karen thing here.
    - kemonocode 5y ago
      Sure thing, that's fair. "No name-calling" is pretty clear-cut all things considered. Notice I really haven't used the term myself (or "boomer" in a derogatory way) but it's the sort of thing that admittedly ruffles my feathers. EDIT: Alright, apparently I did allude to someone being a boomer once, but it was fittingly in a generational way and not as gratuitous name-calling.
      - dang 5y ago
        Yes, I noticed that, which is why I don't think your comment should have been flagged.
sarakayakomzin 5y ago
would you like to speak to a manager?
dang 5y ago
If you look at HN comments including "Karen" there aren't that many usages this way: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=%22karen%22&sort=byDate&type=story&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que.... But I agree, we don't need it here. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26880612 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26880612.

Can you people stop using my mother's name as a slur that means obnoxious white woman? I'm used to this bigotry on Reddit but why is it ok here? I'm so sick of it.

Dig1t 5y ago

I do agree with you, it would be super frowned upon to go around doing the same thing with common names of other ethnicities. I don't think its right that we're okay with low-key disparaging one race but not another. At one point in time I think people would have considered that to be racist, but I guess that's not a thing anymore.

kemonocode 5y ago
You can't help being born black, or being born a woman. However, you can not be an entitled person who abuses their privilege in order to get ahead of literally everyone else, which is the attitude a "Karen" embodies. Sure, I'll concede the name has been picked poorly, but to be honest, I really do not think it's nearly on the same category as racism or sexism.
- another_sock 5y ago
  ok Tyrone
- dang 5y ago
  I took the flags off your comment; your point is the kind of thing I meant in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26880612 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26880612 about how society is divided on this category of putdown. On HN, fortunately, we have a simpler playbook than the Big Book of Social Norms Worldwide, which is impossible to make consistent. It's at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, and I think that the rules "please don't call names" and "eschew flamebait" suffice for us all to just avoid the Karen thing here.
  - kemonocode 5y ago
    Sure thing, that's fair. "No name-calling" is pretty clear-cut all things considered. Notice I really haven't used the term myself (or "boomer" in a derogatory way) but it's the sort of thing that admittedly ruffles my feathers. EDIT: Alright, apparently I did allude to someone being a boomer once, but it was fittingly in a generational way and not as gratuitous name-calling.
    - dang 5y ago
      Yes, I noticed that, which is why I don't think your comment should have been flagged.

sarakayakomzin 5y ago

would you like to speak to a manager?

dang 5y ago

If you look at HN comments including "Karen" there aren't that many usages this way: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=%22karen%22&sort=byDate&type=story&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que.... But I agree, we don't need it here. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26880612 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26880612.