Not individually but as a function of society. These people keep standards high, even the ones who are unreasonable. I don’t like them and I would hate to deal with them but in contrast they make reasonable people appear reasonable. If there were no Karen’s you might get attitude for asking for a clean spoon. So have some appreciation for these horrible people.

  • xuxebiko@kbin.social
    3·
    1 year ago

    The karen/ ken meme and term became popular as a way for people of colour, particularly black Americans, to satirise the class-based and racially charged hostility they often face.

    They protested against racist and privileged bullying that threatened them with police action, their kids with jail, and low-wage service people with losing their jobs, by poking fun at the bullies and publicly calling out the bullying behaviour. POC victims of bullying didn’t threaten their bullies or become violent towards them or wave a gun in their faces, but just publicly calling their bullies karen/ken is too much for the karens/ kens and their enablers to handle.

    People who say calling out bullies is bullying are not against bullying, they’re pro-bullying and are against consequences to bullying.

    ps : remember to wipe front to back .

      • xuxebiko@kbin.social
        2·
        1 year ago

        Karen is a slang term used as an antagonistic female character in memes. “Karen” is generally characterized as an irritating, entitled woman, sometimes as an ex-wife who took custody of “the kids.” In 2020, the term was broadly applied to a swath of white women who had been filmed harassing people of color, including dialing the emergency services on them for no criminal reason.

        source : https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/karen

        Ffs, at least know the meme you’re talking about.

          • xuxebiko@kbin.social
            1·
            1 year ago

            It’s not bullying, because it calls out racist bullying by the privileged, the karen/ ken meme is POCs choosing satire as a way of reacting to class-based and racially charged hostility.

            Did you not read the meme or even the quick excerpt I copy-pasted? Here’s the shorter version.

            In 2020, the term was broadly applied to a swath of white women who had been filmed harassing people of color, including dialing the emergency services on them for no criminal reason.

            If you refuse to get it, then I can’t help you.

            • jampacked@lemmy.world
              1·
              1 year ago

              but you used a given name is the point, how do you not understand that? there is a right way, and a wrong way, this is the wrong way bc you think other people are more important so its okay to bully someone else.

              • xuxebiko@kbin.social
                1·
                1 year ago

                Writer Karen Geier responded to Amy Bindel who said the karen meme was women-hating saying, “As the only Karen replying to you: No. If you have a problem being called ‘a Karen’ then don’t be one? I don’t call the police on people or ask to speak to the manager. Very simple!”