Part of the problem - one that I'm kind of surprised DEI people wouldn't be acknowledging - is that we are all "differently online". Many people will be famili

Part of the problem - one that I'm kind of surprised DEI people wouldn't be acknowledging - is that we are all "differently online". Many people will be familiar with the "Karen" meme through the various news stories of a woman calling the cops on a person of color who's neither breaking the law nor acting suspicious. But other people know "Karen" as a stereotypically entitled woman (yes, probably white) likely to demand a manager, a refund, whatever. Nothing explicitly connected with race (except her own). So on the one hand, you have "Karen" as a way of calling out racism by white women. On the other, you have a stereotype of an entitled woman that leans very much on her whiteness but not her own racist behavior. Taking the former interpretation to be some kind of factual truth is ridiculous. There is no official single definition of "Karen", no official alignment on some "wrong vs right kind of racism" axis. It's a meme, an amorphous collection of related ideas that no one owns or is responsible for. I am deeply skeptical about the sudden rise of DEI "professionals" and this story does nothing to relieve it. At a minimum, you have to have empathy with people who don't share your opinion, or whose background leads them to different conclusions. Where is that here?