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Ah, but you may have overlooked the intersection of racism and classism in the United States. It's not shown in the memes, but the person Karen is screaming at

• prepend 3y ago
  I didn’t overlook, I disagree it’s relevant here. The don’t think the color of the person Karen is screaming at is the important part. The important part is that Karen is entitled and is upset that things aren’t the way she likes. I don’t track my meme views, but I expect I’ve seen the meme thousands of times and experienced Karen IRL dozens of times and it’s usually directed toward a person of the same race. For IRL I think it depends on where it occurs (ie, Karens in white areas are more likely to scream at whites). This is pretty minor, but I think it’s important to accurately assign racism where it exists. If everything is racist, then it’s not as important and it’s harder to differentiate racism that is a much higher priority to stop.
• chucksta 3y ago
  How in the world do you know what color they are if they aren't shown. Hell of a leap
• George83728 3y ago
  > the person Karen is screaming at in those memes is usually not white. That seems like an extremely dubious claim. Do you have any racial statistics for customer-facing service sector workers to back that up? In my experience, businesses in most American communities tend to hire young relatively attractive white people for these roles (there is an ageism and racism angle to their hiring, but that's beyond the point being discussed here.)