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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
by 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 agook Tyrone
- dang 5y agoI 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 agoSure 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 agoYes, I noticed that, which is why I don't think your comment should have been flagged.