Re:Put tiny businesses back into residential neighborhoods
by TeaDrunk on Sunday July 26, 2020 @07:59PM
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I’m arguing that the idea of a karen is not new, sorry to be unclear.
Re:Put tiny businesses back into residential neighborhoods
by bbarnett on Monday July 27, 2020 @07:26AM
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_slurs
Slurs are not new. And as I mentioned, what you showed were not Karens, but 'white women who act poorly in certain ways'.
"Kaben" has unique connotations, a specific meaning. While I agree that "white women have had slurs" before 'Karen', I'm going to have to disagree that it's germane here.
The above NPR, states that a Karen is a new label, started in the 2010s (which is just last year, even). It also shows how the Karen label is different from other, prior labels.
It delineates how a Becky is different, a "Miss Ann" is different.
We've historically had labels like this for people, which are racially linked. But this is 2020, this is a NEW label, and other NEW labels keep popping up.
We need to collectively STOP this. No more racist, sexist, ageist, anything-ist labels. It's all wrong.
(Not saying you were defending label use... just clarifying my position)