Posted on 09/18/2024 8:58:44 AM PDT by Rummyfan
The new generation of activists are workplace terrors
When Black Lives Matter created the figure of the Karen, it was a sign of that movement’s darker, bullying qualities. What exactly was wrong with a white middle-aged woman who asked to speak to the manager when things were unsatisfactory? The answer seemed to be in the white part and the woman part, and perhaps also in the middle-aged part. In short, the Karen was a racist, sexist, ageist construct, and as a middle-aged white woman myself, who makes her dissatisfaction known from time to time, I felt extra defensive.
But if that original Karen caricatured the wrong person, then there are some modern female types that deserve closer scrutiny. There is the person I like to call the Keffiyeh Karen — the female student with a bare midriff and her head wrapped in the black or red and white patterning of Palestinian liberation, yelling anti-Zionist slogans with manic passion on elite college campus quadrangles and lawns.
In her ready and confident fury, her rudeness, her iron-fisted appetite for confrontation over infractions of what she deems political and moral gospel, the Keffiyeh Karen is related to a broader epidemic of the Gen Z Mean Girl. These Mean Girls have graduated from running the schoolyard to terrorizing the workplace. If there is one type to be afraid of in modern offices, it isn’t the lech or the shouty, hungover male middle manager. It’s the twenty-three-year-old gluten-free vegan graduate, wet behind the ears. We know what these misanthropic misses are capable of — we’ve seen the Phoebes and Annas of Just Stop Oil chuck soup on Van Gogh.
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BTTT
I had a Black friend whose name for the Black version of ‘Karen’ was the ‘African Queen’.
“”””What exactly was wrong with a white middle-aged woman who asked to speak to the manager when things were unsatisfactory? The answer seemed to be in the white part and the woman part, and perhaps also in the middle-aged part. In short, the Karen was a racist, sexist, ageist construct””””
And as usual, many Americans fell for the left deconstructing another element of American culture, simple order and calm, even in a store, and the idea that white people culture of quality and reasonableness was racist and mean, even silly, and to be mocked.
Orwell had them pegged back in 1948.
L
“I’m unhappy. It can’t be me. My parents and teachers always told me how smart and right I am.
It is other people making me unhappy.
It must be strong people.
Strong people are making me unhappy.
They must be destroyed!”
No self-examination with these.
None.
The original “karen” was a white woman with a wedge haircut and a job in her city government. When stopped by police for a traffic violation, she pulled the “do know who I am” nonsense on them ... unsuccessfully. Video of the incident was widely circulated on the internet.
Her actual name is “Karen”.
Lol, the author of this actually is a feminist and a full bore Karen. Unmarried British woman in her mid-40s…
“ What exactly was wrong with a white middle-aged woman who asked to speak to the manager when things were unsatisfactory? ”
lol…. If we have to explain….
Dirty little secret: A lot of black men would rather have a white male leader/president than a black female leader/president.
Let’s hope that theory holds up in a couple months...
My friend was a female. They don’t like the ‘African Queens’ either.
Even prior to the whole "Karen" thing, I thought women wearing that haircut were to be avoided.
Bkmk
BLM did not release the Karen.
It had already commenced attempted social domination of the countryside before BLM learned its name.
It’s the “I’m a total baeioutch” haircut.
Yes, the misspelling was intentional.
The “no grabbable ponytail” haircut...
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