Posted on 11/08/2023 7:39:46 AM PST by Twotone
"Slit your wrists," strangers texted me.
"If anyone deserves prison rape, it's you," people I had never met called me to say.
"The noble thing to do is to remove yourself from society...so please kill yourself."
I'm Amy Cooper, but you probably know me as "Central Park Karen." You may not know my name, but you probably know my story—or at least the two-minute version of the story that was broadcast all over the world without key facts or context.
Everyone believed and amplified one story: That a white "Central Park Karen" called the police on an innocent Black man, a bird watcher, because of the color of his skin.
Today, I want you to read and understand the whole story. Not just what the media told you. And after you assess both sides—please tell me—was my never-ending cancel-culture sentence a just verdict?
On May 25, 2020, in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, when anxieties ran high, I took my dog—whom my life revolved around—for a walk.
I visited Central Park in the morning, during the hours when dogs were allowed off-leash. On my way home, I chose to take an unfamiliar path, landing in "the Ramble," a secluded area of Central Park.
Seconds later, I heard a voice boom: "Get out of here. You shouldn't be here." I saw a man who began yelling at me that my dog should be on his leash.
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this is what happens when you take advantage of people's good will and pull off these ridiculous accusations....
You seem never to have been falsely accused. You are indeed fortunate.
Do you remember how Kavanaugh was criticized for sounding angry when those false accusations were leveled against him? Look at Trump and all the people snapping at his heels.
Three other people came forward saying the man in the park had behaved similarly to them.
This woman will never be able to get her life back because she will never be able to speak in a way and with the words that will accord with the standards of people like you, because there is simply no way to do it.
I have been. I don’t think that anyone escapes it.
Those cancel culture bullies are wrong and way out of line.
However, it sure seems like she’s dealing with other baggage in her life. It’s just the sense I got from the whole tone of the article.
“You are a slender female & there’s a big black dude harassing you. Are you sure you feel safe just “walking away” or will he come up behind you & do something?”
Yes, I’d walk away immediately and quickly! Distance is everything in that situation. I can walk and look back every few seconds, and I can hear, and my dog will warn me by reacting. Walk away, run away, don’t stand there arguing with a nut when no one else is around!
She said she had other “baggage,” having been sexually assaulted.
And everyone has baggage.
If she is only coming out with this now, maybe the parent she was caring for recently died and she now feels free to fight.
But now we are just speculating, on the basis of personal impressions and what might be, so I think there is not much more to be said.
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