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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]These videos are really reaching a point of absurdism.

If the woman has a mental disability (and given that she lives in disability house and has a diagnosed issue, I think she does), then her behavior can be explained by that disability.

That doesn't mean her behavior is awesome and we all approve. It just means that her disability goes a long way to describe what otherwise looks like irrational behavior. She has an anxiety disorder that was triggered when someone started filming her, she asked the woman to stop filming her, it escalated. Watching the video with that context, I feel the disability explains the entire thing. Ok, this is someone who is troubled and struggles with appropriate reactions, who was triggered.

But if her behavior is explained by her disability, then ipso facto, she's not a racist Karen. Her behavior isn't okay or allowable, but it was caused by her disability, not racial animus. She was upset about being filmed, period, and I do not think it was the fact that a black woman was filming her that was the issue. She was freaking out over being on camera, and it didn't matter who had the camera.

And if her behavior was caused by her disability, and not racism or a desire to endanger the life of a black woman through a false accusation, then posting this video online and calling this woman a racist Karen is both morally wrong and, also, potentially libelous.

The idea that we would sit around debating the behavior in the videos is silly. We have eyes, we see this woman having some kind of breakdown and sometimes chasing the videographer around the store or trying to slap the phone out of her hands -- all not great! The question is WHY she is doing that, and it turns out it's because she has a mental disability. Case closed. Not a racist Karen incident.

Stop calling people racist just because they interacted with a black person and the interaction did not result in a job offer or reparations or something. People are freaking messy. Yes racism exists but it's not the ONLY thing that exists. [/quote]

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The filmer should not have posted this. It’s clear the woman has mental challenges from how distraught she is. [/quote]

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