Social Media Justice: A "Karen" faces consequences for threatening a Black man with cops
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These two clips are quality. Good to see that the chick in red is pro-choice by her statements.
She could place me under citizen's arrest anytime. 
I would go down on her deep state, too.
People are people. Off topic, but there are a lot of scumbags amongst the younger generations, I assure you. As a twenty something guy, the most rude, entitled, vacuous individuals I encounter tend to be other young pricks in their twenties/early thirties. I acknowledge this is anecdotal, but I very rarely find that older men or women show casual rudeness or dismissiveness like some younger people do. When I was at uni, I found there was a distinct unwillingness to engage in productive intellectual discussion - it’s as though they lack any intellectual bravery or unique thought. As you say, they have a tendency to resort to petty labels to reduce the contents of opposing arguments.
*I acknowledge there are a lot of generalisations here.
The bold sentence had been said by my parents generation, and by my grandparents generation and so on. You are just getting old
Well I’m very much part of the generation Pogue referenced. In the most literal sense, yes I’m getting old(er), but you can’t put my distaste for elements of my own generation down to my age.
OK boomer
I imagine it’s partly to do with blaming millennials for everything. Google article blaming millennials and it’s impressive.
I can understand not liking Karen and ok boomer but Gammon is great, wonderful word.
Basically what i
Crickets....
Not all young people are the same. What you describe is building and running rampant
The trial by media thing, based on clips and no context has simply got to stop.
There’s so much bandwagon jumping. Anti bullying. Until Me Too. Women’s rights. Until statues. Black Lives Matter.
Peak ‘feck this generation’ is the acceptance/endorsement of a guy bullying a woman on camera, for cutting him off in traffic, three blocks away from the worlds ‘Defund the Police’ movement.
This generation is eating itself. I put no faith in the generation to bring society together. Absolute faith in them to make their corner (and in time a majority) of the world better. But they’re as incendiary as Trump at the edges, and instead of course correction, those fringes are being supported.
Their actions fcuking suck, but because they’re on the right team, they’re defended. That’s MAGA. That’s the blue line of the Police. They are becoming everything they hate.
Every generation has to cope with getting stick from people the same age as their parents. I’m generation X, allegedly born slackers. They even made a movie about how all we do is smoke weed and talk about ourselves.
Ironically, the boomers that millennials (and whatever the next lot are called - gen Z?) love to pour scorn on lived through one of the fiercest battles to push back against unfair stereotyping from the previous generation.
Apparently the fella who flew the white lives matter banner at the burnley game has lost his job? I’ve no doubt hes a tube but thats disgusting.
Depends what his job is. If he attracted a huge amount of negative publicity to his company by getting involved with borderline (many would say outright) racist propaganda then his employer has every right to sack him.
If those screenshots of his PMs that were put out are real then it's really not that surprising it's happened either.
Oh boy.
No wonder the US is far from its peak, people don't listen to experts. Hugely concerning.
I think a lot of this is similar to the Dunning-Kruger effect, it's a real shame people resist doing what health officials say.
It's also no surprise US cases continue to rise but of course there are multiple factors why.
I don't see how taking the guy's job off him helps more than it hinders for BLM
In fairness, would you want to work with that guy?
https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/06/25/the-hatred-for-karens-is-out-of-control/
Good read about the whole culture.
Good read about the whole culture.
Well put. Regarding those who want to improve the world, I'm always trying to remind myself that historical changes have often come about throught actions that must have been viewed as over-the-top, even nasty, at the time, like the Suffragettes, for example. So while I'm no fan of vandalism and such, I'm of course hoping that some good will come out of this.
However, while I can see what @Pogue Mahone refers to as progressive values, there is at the same time definitely an authoritarian streak in this whole youth/young adult culture. The number of viewpoints one can have is very narrow. And, as is common in such structures/societies, fear of being the next victim guides their actions. What is the best way of guaranteeing your own survival or standing within the group? Well, make sure you name and shame someone else. And yes, in time they will eat themselves, as most of these will at some point have been shamed, ostracized or decided to take another path in life.
Without the youth being aware of it themselves, I would argue that their actions contributes to freedom of expression being more under threat than it has been for a long time. Not in the classical sense, that you have no forum for your opinions, but rather the self-censorship that this culture forces upon society. I have little or no interest in debating 99% of current topics, and certainly not on Twitter and its like. But maybe, once in a while, I could have a dissenting or minority opinion. In today's climate, it would probably just remain unsaid. Being guided by a basic courtesy and respect for other people regardless of race, gender, religion, etc, might no longer be sufficient. One poor wording (or an unpopular opinion) could set off a chain event. Now, while I don't think the world loses out on too many golden nuggets by my non-contribution, in turn it will also prevent me from hearing counter-arguments to my own position. When enough people think like me, only the screamers on either side are left.
You think someone who poses for pictures with Tommy Robinson, calls people "p*kis", has an EDL Facebook banner, is in a relationship with a woman who moans about a town being "too foreign" and "They need sending back on banana boats, stinkin b******s", simply misunderstands what BLM is and just needs to be educated with a chat like your dad?
Also his girlfriend was fired from her job too, the company she worked for offered to send her on a race sesitivity course but she refused, which is when they fired her.
Holy fcuking shit no!
Sorry, hadn’t read enough. Deleted my post.
Christ on a bike I’m glad I hadn’t posted that then left my phone for a few hours.
The last thing I read didn’t have any of that additional info and context. He just sounded like an uneducated little englander.
No worries. I think there are a small amounf of people who simply misunderstand, like we've seen in the protest thread, but yeah he doesn't seem like one of them.Well I certainly agree with him on the incident with Karlos Dillard, who really just comes off as an unhinged asshole. With Amy Cooper, I actually feel sorry for her that she is stamped for life over that incident, but her behaviour was sociopathic, she was clearly willing to put him in great danger instead of just putting her dog on a leash. Atm Im more fed up with the general culture where anyone can say all white are people are inherently racist, of course they are only talking about white caucasians and if you disagree with them your racist. That's a statement of immense racial prejudice in itself. It doesn't mean that there isn't racism in virtually every country, it's just if you want to label someone racist, let that be defined by their words and actions and nothing else.
So the woman yelling all kinds of racism in front of the confederate flag is backtracking. . .
Apparently saying she’ll teach her grandchildren to hate people, “isn’t in her character”.
Apparently saying she’ll teach her grandchildren to hate people, “isn’t in her character”.
It might be a good read but I didn’t get further than the byline. Brendan O’Neill is a bad bad person. One of life’s wrong ‘uns. Feck him and feck everything he writes.
Tbh I'm not sure I consider it to even be a good read, it read like it latches on to one incident and drags others in with it whilst making the point that this whole Karen thing is doing that.
There are points I'd agree with him on, but then I find this whole idea of labelling someone a Karen daft to begin with.
Yup, It's how it works, every generation just shits on the next. I was just replying to the 'where does the boomer hate come from'. It's obvious and nothing out of the norm. Plus they stole all the houses and I live in a caravan so feck em
Pogue you're a very bright bloke, don't make me sit here and explain irony to you.
Yup, It's how it works, every generation just shits on the next. I was just replying to the 'where does the boomer hate come from'. It's obvious and nothing out of the norm. Plus they stole all the houses and I live in a caravan so feck em
Pogue you're a very bright bloke, don't make me sit here and explain irony to you.
It’s just that I don’t remember shitting upwards being a thing in the past. Gen X’ers like me barely even thought about the previous generation, never mind sneering at them the way we see now. Boomers maybe called them “squares” and thought of them as uptight? I dunno. Before my time! It probably is the houses/caravan thing but that’s a systemic issue, so it seems harsh when the resentment is aimed at individuals.
This is really disturbing and scary
They're only missing klan uniforms.
Read the responses, the old neighbour also confirms she's a crazy meth head.
But the girl who posted it is white (well that's how she looks on her twitter pic). Were the other black/brown people there? Was she just saying the n-word just to say it? Were they actually moving in a 3am? I don't trust the meth head.
America is a weird place.
Edit: I watched again, I assume she's being racist towards her "man"
TBH Im not really a fan of filming every bitch out there and have them crucified on the social media. In the case of Amy Cooper it was somewhat relevant, but in some other cases with the first woman above throwing a strop about wearing a mask, I don't really think it should be out there.
I don't know, maybe if it happens enough people will learn that these outbursts are not acceptable.