Originally published at: Racist Karen embarrasses friends as she abuses Uber driver: "Go back to Asia" | Boing Boing
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This appears to be a dude who values the possibility of getting laid significantly more than racist behavior or the lack of moral integrity of his date.
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In before the first oh-so-concerned citizen rushes to decry the use of the name Karen as a nickname for over-privileged White women who weaponize their White privilege.
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Vibe I’m getting:
Long history with the Karen (possibly in a relationship). All 3 of them have been drinking.
This will put stress on whatever relationship the fella had with the Karen.
Guy is at least attempting to do the right thing. If I am in a similar situation with someone I’ve known for a long time, I probably would also do damage control instead of totally bailing (at first). If this was just a date situation, totally different calculus. (Listen, it’s been fun, but Imma get my own cab.)
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Has it ever happened that a POC has suddenly started berrating a random white driver in this way, screaming about how honkeys and crackers are ruining the country and should go back to Europe?
I really can’t imagine that ever happening, except as a parody of white people.
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Drunk Trumpers - you can dress them up, but you can’t take them out.
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There’s a vid somewhere of a woman of color* acting an ass towards the driver, as well as a different vid of gay Latino dude* being a jerk to his respective driver - but acting a fool like this seems to mainly be the purview of those who lack melanin.
*Both assholes in question faced negative consequences from their shitty behavior; the woman was banned from both Uber and Lyft, and the man was fired from his job.
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“I apologize to anyone whose feelings may have been hurt. This is not who I am.”
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Looks like they were at a wedding or some kind of formal event where women would be holding bouquets of flowers. She could literally be a sister or aunt for all I know. Personally, I’m not going to hold a sexist expectation that as a man he’s somehow responsible for controlling the behavior of women around him for good or ill nor that expectation of sexual gratification is the only reason a man might be in an uber with a couple of women. He’s not responsible for her drunk racist outburst.
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Yeah, any group of people has its share of assholes (and racists), but its the entitlement of claiming ownership of a whole damn country/continent and telling a stranger to leave that seems uniquely white
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I hear ya.
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“I’m gonna get these broads out of your way”
I feel for him, but 
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Yeah, the sympathy really should be reserved for the driver.
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Absolutely, and it’s a sense of entitlement that also includes thinking of cops as good guys who would never harm you. Which is a mostly realistic sense, as exemplified by @Melizmatic’s story summaries above.
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I wasn’t sympathizing with the guy so much as speculating about his motivations. But, fun fact, human beings are capable of sympathy for more than one person at a time, in varying proportions.
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You can set your watch by it.
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That train is never late.
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Would you really look forward to having that woman become an angry, bitter ex? I think he may now be looking for a less conspicuous exit.
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I mean - he may not have handled it perfectly - but he clearly wasn’t approving and was attempting to both apologize, rein in his associate, and get her to stop.
Kinda assuming a lot that he was in a relationship with her.
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Emphasis on was…
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