I think it's unfair the name Karen has been appropriated this way. May be different spelling and a slight difference in pronunciation could help differentiate between the good and the nutty - something like Carrion?
Or say, "Would you mind me calling you the first illegal immigrant? Because that's exactly what you are". Hopefully she wasn't a Texas Measles carrying Karen!
I agree wholeheartedly with the message here.
However I have a dear friend Karen in Oklahoma who suffers so much for just having the name her parents gifted her with … and she’s blue through and through! I mean meaningful activist blue.
It’s sad that the Karen thing still persists.
These are the same idiots that think changing the name of an international body of water is akin to syrup and rice and football & baseball teams removing racist stereotypes from their names and logos.
A mate called almost everyone chief (but in the sense of 'boss')
So no problem with it, saying it as a reference to a traditional Indian Chief is clearly an issue though.
SIGN your strike card! SHARE IT ON ALL SOCIAL MEDIA! We need 11 million to make this work! We can do it! We MUST save our country from the ruthless wannabe dictators! If we don't fight like hell, we may not have a country anymore! Sound familiar? Cripple the crooked!!
Lakota, you should have simply explained that you are in a perpetual state of being offended, you seek opportunity to be offended... just like a Karen.
Wow look at this lil ole post. Gave me an idea to write my own 'white words spoken to me book' I have many many many stories. Sad really because I have another book titled the soft spoken words of a white person🤷♀️
While I totally agree with you and the awfulness of everything from the "right", please remember that many of us are named Karen and are nice people. Using my name that way is "othering."
Asian-American friends born in the U.S. and myself are asked (especially in the red states):
“Which country are you from?”
“Your English is very good.”
“Are you here illegally?”
“Did you get into college because of affirmative action/DEI?”
“Did you get your job because of affirmative action/DEI?”
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And I'm sure she was offended. 🙄 The self-willed ignorance is astonishing. As my mother would say, they have no couth.
However I have a dear friend Karen in Oklahoma who suffers so much for just having the name her parents gifted her with … and she’s blue through and through! I mean meaningful activist blue.
It’s sad that the Karen thing still persists.
Got tired of biting her tongue.
One can only hope she
bit her nose
to spite her face.
Great answer💙✌️
“If I can call you Karen and spell it out with 3 K’s”
😂😂😂😂😂
So no problem with it, saying it as a reference to a traditional Indian Chief is clearly an issue though.
Your kinder then me, I would have called her a shithead.
https://generalstrikeus.com/
And then call her "peon."
I'd have punched her out.
But did the stupid trump supporter even understand what a “Karen” is?
“Which country are you from?”
“Your English is very good.”
“Are you here illegally?”
“Did you get into college because of affirmative action/DEI?”
“Did you get your job because of affirmative action/DEI?”
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Would’ve been acceptable as well.