In Which I Recant

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I still think this David Stewart gentleman of Edmond, Oklahoma was out of line. I don’t think it was necessarily racially motivated–having commenter and author Misha Burnett explain he’s been similarly stopped in gated communities too during his work as a locksmith is similarly infuriating and unacceptable.

But I’m recanting my embrace of the term “Karen” as a slur.

It is racist and sexist and it’s designed to get a certain potion of the American male public to turn against the female half of the equation. And like idiots, too many of us go along with it. Including me.

No more. I’m not going to do it.

That woman in Central Park, NYC, who called the cops on the guy who had his dogs unleashed? Not going to call her “Karen.” Also, she was a small, chromatically pale woman alone in Central Park, a place notorious for people like her getting attacked by large, chromatically darker males. Sorry, but she was playing the odds and I don’t think I it was “racist” for her to call the cops on the gentleman of African descent she was having words with. Sl she was highly strung. Should her life have been ruined for it?

No.

I also think what happened to George Floyd was a travesty, in case anyone was wondering. Why kneel on a guy’s neck when he was already cuffed and suspected of trying to pass off a phony $20? The whole thing stinks and it’s weird that the cop knew Mr. Floyd.

In any event, this post isn’t to get into contemporary racial politics. It’s to say I am no longer going to participate in the ritual abuse and humiliation of white women. Or any women, or men, or whomever, just because hateful bigots on the internet want me to.

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