The Karen meme silences White women

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am a white middle aged woman. Due to the Karen meme I feel like I lost my voice. When there is an injustice, I will hesitate to speak up. Don’t get me wrong, there are certainly a subset of entitled middle aged white women, however, there are other non entitled white women as well who now feel silenced after fighting to find our voice.

You’ll get over it. Now you have a better understanding of how oppressed groups feel. Your views aren’t actually valid.

Do you hear yourself?

Yes, absolutely. Get over it.

Why? Aren't we supposed to speak out against injustice wherever we see it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a white middle aged woman. Due to the Karen meme I feel like I lost my voice. When there is an injustice, I will hesitate to speak up. Don’t get me wrong, there are certainly a subset of entitled middle aged white women, however, there are other non entitled white women as well who now feel silenced after fighting to find our voice.

You’ll get over it. Now you have a better understanding of how oppressed groups feel. Your views aren’t actually valid.

Cool. Let's stamp out oppression with more oppression.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a white middle aged woman. Due to the Karen meme I feel like I lost my voice. When there is an injustice, I will hesitate to speak up. Don’t get me wrong, there are certainly a subset of entitled middle aged white women, however, there are other non entitled white women as well who now feel silenced after fighting to find our voice.

You’ll get over it. Now you have a better understanding of how oppressed groups feel. Your views aren’t actually valid.

Do you hear yourself?

Yes, absolutely. Get over it.

Why? Aren't we supposed to speak out against injustice wherever we see it?

Karens are confused about what constitutes an injustice. Many of them just get irate that a rule isn’t being followed.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am the OP, not a troll. And an example of when I might have spoken in the past but did not recently. I ordered curbside pick up from a local smoothie shop a few weeks ago, before we were in phase 1 opening, the restaurant was advertising curbside Pick-up. I ordered my smoothie online, however, When I drove to the shop to pick it up there are a line of people inside the store to order and a line waiting (Inside as well) at the counter to pick up their smoothies. A year ago if this happened, pre-Karen meme, I would have said something along the lines of aren’t we supposed to be doing curbside? Why is everybody in the store? This time I just walked away.

Good. That means it is working. Because saying something would have been truly obnoxious as it wasn’t your place to do so. I am so glad you are coming to terms with this and getting a better understanding of your place. Know it.

And what is OP's "place" as a middle aged woman? The kitchen? The home? Not seen and not heard? It's this rhetoric that lets us know exactly who we're dealing with when people fling the Karen meme: a misogynist. And PP, you need to learn your place too. The next time you feel like vomiting out some misogyny, post it on 4chan.

Not PP, but this is precisely the type of over-the-top reaction that completely justifies the meme. PP’s place was to pick up her damn order and be grateful that it was getting filled by the employees during a pandemic - not appoint herself the manager of the store or the local health inspector. Sheesh.

FFS. You think OP asking, "Aren't we supposed to be doing curbside" during a pandemic is akin to OP appointing herself the local health inspector? Who's the Karen now?

You.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a white middle aged woman. Due to the Karen meme I feel like I lost my voice. When there is an injustice, I will hesitate to speak up. Don’t get me wrong, there are certainly a subset of entitled middle aged white women, however, there are other non entitled white women as well who now feel silenced after fighting to find our voice.

You’ll get over it. Now you have a better understanding of how oppressed groups feel. Your views aren’t actually valid.

Do you hear yourself?

Yes, absolutely. Get over it.

Why? Aren't we supposed to speak out against injustice wherever we see it?

Karens are confused about what constitutes an injustice. Many of them just get irate that a rule isn’t being followed.

A lot of people in this thread have been educating you about about social justice & misogynistic undertones of the word Karen, yet here you are not listening and still using it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am the OP, not a troll. And an example of when I might have spoken in the past but did not recently. I ordered curbside pick up from a local smoothie shop a few weeks ago, before we were in phase 1 opening, the restaurant was advertising curbside Pick-up. I ordered my smoothie online, however, When I drove to the shop to pick it up there are a line of people inside the store to order and a line waiting (Inside as well) at the counter to pick up their smoothies. A year ago if this happened, pre-Karen meme, I would have said something along the lines of aren’t we supposed to be doing curbside? Why is everybody in the store? This time I just walked away.

Good. That means it is working. Because saying something would have been truly obnoxious as it wasn’t your place to do so. I am so glad you are coming to terms with this and getting a better understanding of your place. Know it.

And what is OP's "place" as a middle aged woman? The kitchen? The home? Not seen and not heard? It's this rhetoric that lets us know exactly who we're dealing with when people fling the Karen meme: a misogynist. And PP, you need to learn your place too. The next time you feel like vomiting out some misogyny, post it on 4chan.

Not PP, but this is precisely the type of over-the-top reaction that completely justifies the meme. PP’s place was to pick up her damn order and be grateful that it was getting filled by the employees during a pandemic - not appoint herself the manager of the store or the local health inspector. Sheesh.

FFS. You think OP asking, "Aren't we supposed to be doing curbside" during a pandemic is akin to OP appointing herself the local health inspector? Who's the Karen now?

You.

There you are, Karen! Welcome back.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am the OP, not a troll. And an example of when I might have spoken in the past but did not recently. I ordered curbside pick up from a local smoothie shop a few weeks ago, before we were in phase 1 opening, the restaurant was advertising curbside Pick-up. I ordered my smoothie online, however, When I drove to the shop to pick it up there are a line of people inside the store to order and a line waiting (Inside as well) at the counter to pick up their smoothies. A year ago if this happened, pre-Karen meme, I would have said something along the lines of aren’t we supposed to be doing curbside? Why is everybody in the store? This time I just walked away.

This.... is what you want to call being silenced?!

oh. my

god.

+1. This must be a troll post

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Middle aged white women have been hated since forever.

The only social currency white women have is their sexual attraction to men. When that goes, society wants to push them off on an ice flow. Since we can't do that, we tell them to STFU and stand quietly in the corner where their aging body and appearance won't offend anyone's eyeballs.

Tell me I'm wrong.

+1
This is it.

White women have huge social currency as mothers, teachers, entertainers, physicians, engineers, etc.

Imagine if every white woman in America decided to openly support the BLM movement because they realize that racism is a sickness infecting their students.

Imagine if every white woman in America decided to boycott companies supporting politicians who are creating the greatest wealth inequity in history.

They have power and many are wasting it.

Ah, but that’s the rub. I’m 11:02. You can’t demand that white STFU and disappear then ask for their support.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a white middle aged woman. Due to the Karen meme I feel like I lost my voice. When there is an injustice, I will hesitate to speak up. Don’t get me wrong, there are certainly a subset of entitled middle aged white women, however, there are other non entitled white women as well who now feel silenced after fighting to find our voice.

You’ll get over it. Now you have a better understanding of how oppressed groups feel. Your views aren’t actually valid.

Do you hear yourself?

Yes, absolutely. Get over it.

Why? Aren't we supposed to speak out against injustice wherever we see it?

Karens are confused about what constitutes an injustice. Many of them just get irate that a rule isn’t being followed.

Again, get over it. We aren’t going to stop using it. It’s very use confronts an injustice.

A lot of people in this thread have been educating you about about social justice & misogynistic undertones of the word Karen, yet here you are not listening and still using it.

[Anonymous]

Yeah no. I reported a black lady for stealing from trader joes last week. She was shoving things into her bag and I asked he if she was going to pay for that. She started yelling and filming. Trader joes intervened and called the police. When someone is doing something wrong I don’t care what color you are, I’m speaking up.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I was SILENCED at the Smoothie King! Now the world will not hear my voice!

I know, right? People are out here dying and she's upset that people didn't follow the proper curbside procedures at the Smoothie King.

The reason for the curbside procedures is to prevent people from getting COVID and ... dying.

But one week later, it is ok to play in parks, go protest, open up the pools? And grocery stores were ok the whole time? Come on, we have approached the pandemic as a cluster eff country and continue to do so. Seems to me some people just like getting their food brought to them! Notice how Karens always complain about utterly stupid things? That are only important to them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yeah no. I reported a black lady for stealing from trader joes last week. She was shoving things into her bag and I asked he if she was going to pay for that. She started yelling and filming. Trader joes intervened and called the police. When someone is doing something wrong I don’t care what color you are, I’m speaking up.

Karens are also security guards.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yeah no. I reported a black lady for stealing from trader joes last week. She was shoving things into her bag and I asked he if she was going to pay for that. She started yelling and filming. Trader joes intervened and called the police. When someone is doing something wrong I don’t care what color you are, I’m speaking up.

And you never paused to think that maybe she is hungry? Or offer to pay for her food? Why do people steal food? Just for fun, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yeah no. I reported a black lady for stealing from trader joes last week. She was shoving things into her bag and I asked he if she was going to pay for that. She started yelling and filming. Trader joes intervened and called the police. When someone is doing something wrong I don’t care what color you are, I’m speaking up.

I appreciate that you did this but personally would never take the risk in this cultural environment. Anything short of dead bodies I am looking the other way and pretending I didn't see anything, esp. if there is a minority perpetrator involved.

Not worth the risk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yeah no. I reported a black lady for stealing from trader joes last week. She was shoving things into her bag and I asked he if she was going to pay for that. She started yelling and filming. Trader joes intervened and called the police. When someone is doing something wrong I don’t care what color you are, I’m speaking up.

And you never paused to think that maybe she is hungry? Or offer to pay for her food? Why do people steal food? Just for fun, right?

Are you seriously defending a thief? She can go to a f::king food bank and stuff her bag.