Do you think the whole Karen meme is becoming problematic?

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I will acknowledge but of course there are some extremely entitled white women out there who love to cause a sense for no reason and think they can get away with it. But to say it's only white woman usually called Karen is kinda racist, sexist and just a full on stupid assumption. All the Karens i know actually happen to be lovely women.

In the video I've shared. You can see this boy is a total brat but no one called him out on it instead he harassed his neighbours and labeled the mum/wife Karen to his followers without them knowing the whole story. I will amit i saw one of this guys videos on a Karen in the wild video before he killed anyone and he did make it seem as if it was all this woman and not him.

I think it's teaching a lot of young people, especially young men but if a white middle age woman is upset or trying to make her point she's isn't be taken seriously and instead disrespected and labelled as a Karen. Im all for people putting these women in their place because obviously they were never when they were younger by their parents and that's why they think it's okay to have a paddy in public and get what they want out of it.

Its not just middle age women either. I was recently shopping in the supermarket and two young boys, i assume who were school friends bumped into each other and started to talk. They weren't doing anything wrong but a middle age man decided they were and started yelling at them and said they were the reason people were getting sick and dying of covid. These boys actually tired to carm the situation but they must have been around 12 to 14 years old up against a fully grown middle age man yelling at them.

Later on one of the mothers of the boys posted about it on my town's Facebook page about the whole thing and instead of people taking her side. She was made fun of and got comments like "shut up Karen"

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People seem to also forget a lot of these women in the viral videos that are shown could possibly be mentally ill and instead of helping them. We are laughing at them which in return won't make anything better. Imagine if your mum wasn't doing well mentally and then all a sudden you see she's a Internet laughing stock for having a melt down in public.

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CuriousCantaloupe

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YES...

I've noticed that a lot of people would just start taking videos of women or people in general who got mad at them and/or are shouting at them etc. They'd claim "Another Karen" blah blah However, many of these videos or posts are taken out of context and most of them are biased. We don't see the entire picture so we don't really know what happened fully. And as it is posted in the internet. Users feast on it and in a simple click a person's life could be ruined. Some are real though but it's the internet, it loves what is crazy and outrageous without checking facts.

Also, everyone wants to go viral. It seems that no one wants to calm down others anymore. No more reconciliation or trying to talk to each other because hey I can just label you a Karen. Also, there isn't privacy anymore these days. Everyone keeps posting their and other people's business online. Personally, i think that this has just made us angrier and hateful as a society.

ps i've noticed that in sites like 9gag more are starting to be more wary and cautious about this so that is cool. 🙂

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Brainsbeforebeauty | 601 opinions shared on Society & Politics topic.

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First... Aggravated manslaughter not murder? See, just one more thing wrong with our court system in this country..
But I agree, this labeling people, insulting people has gotten way too far out of hand...
Unfortunately, it seems to be the norm on social media these days and it doesn't help that when anyone does say it's an issue, people say you're butthurt or triggered... But by the events that transpired with this young man, I think it clearly shows that people that behave that way are the unhinged ones... People need to stop this "It's the internet" or "It's not real life" how tho when it's still REAL PEOPLE behind that computer...
People need to grow the fuck up, start acting like adults, set an example for our youth, learn to conduct yourself online as you would in any other public place, because the internet is a PUBLIC forum and just because your physical body isn't there your words and actions still are and could have a negative affect for impressionable young people who start to think it's the norm or acceptable to talk and behave that way and justify it by saying "everyone else does it, do it can't be wrong"...

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Xcommunicated

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It’s a derogatory term based off of someone’s ethnicity or background. How is it ok? It makes 2 totally different sets of rules. Some derogatory racially charged words are not ok, but others are?

any statement belittling race, ethnicity, gender is just not ok... especially those who want to hold a high standard.

I do understand that others make fun of all and have a good sense of humor. Screaming it out the window as the video show is inflammatory. What happened to manners?
what he did was not accidental.

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Yaaten

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Aggravated manslaughter? No, murder is what this was.

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Puppystarfish23

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I know right. How the hell is stabbing someone to death a sentence for manslaughter

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Puppystarfish23

I know right. How the hell is stabbing someone to death a sentence for manslaughter

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User2300

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The internet has taken away compassion, and humanity. It's all about bullying people no matter what, because it's "fun" seeing others have their lives destroyed.
I really hate it tbh, and I think it's gonna get worse over time.

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msc545 | 4K opinions shared on Society & Politics topic.

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If that boy was a girl you would have written something very different.

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Puppystarfish23

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Lol yeah of course i would of 🤣 utter bs
Puppystarfish23

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How many girls do you know who like speeding around in cars, harassing their neighbours and carry around a stun gun and a knife?

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Puppystarfish23

Lol yeah of course i would of 🤣 utter bs

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Puppystarfish23

How many girls do you know who like speeding around in cars, harassing their neighbours and carry around a stun gun and a knife?

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Squids47

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Ok that kid took it way too far, but most of the time this doesn't happen so I don't really think it was problematic.

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HungLikeAHorsefly | 2.5K opinions shared on Society & Politics topic.

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Oh man, looks like we got a Karen over here

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Puppystarfish23

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omg your so funny 😂😂😂😂😂🙄

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Puppystarfish23

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omg your so funny 😂😂😂😂😂🙄

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ChefPapiChulo | 988 opinions shared on Society & Politics topic.

Yoda

You need to learn how punctuation works. I’m not reading that.

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Puppystarfish23

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You need to learn to not be so ignorant. I have dyslexia
ChefPapiChulo

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So do I. Doesn’t mean you can’t learn proper grammar.
Puppystarfish23

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Weres the grammar mistakes then if you're so offended by it? Let me just go on the none existent edit button g@g has so then you can get over and actually come on this post to answer the questions not to bitch about none issues.
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ChefPapiChulo

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It’s unreadable. It hurts my brain just looking at it.
Puppystarfish23

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Maybe you just can't read because everyone else managed without making a bitchy comment.
ChefPapiChulo

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Maybe
Puppystarfish23

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by the way judging from profile it looks as if most everyday task hurt your brain and probably your stomach too from looking at your cooking posts

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Puppystarfish23

You need to learn to not be so ignorant. I have dyslexia

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ChefPapiChulo

So do I. Doesn’t mean you can’t learn proper grammar.

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Puppystarfish23

Weres the grammar mistakes then if you're so offended by it? Let me just go on the none existent edit button g@g has so then you can get over and actually come on this post to answer the questions not to bitch about none issues.