The video of second incident shows the woman’s license plate, and she’s adamant that “she doesn’t care about being filmed or her rants being posted on FB.”
I don’t approve of doxxing, but I also have no sympathy for the all negativity that horrible excuse for a human being has actively invited into her life.
She needs to be stopped, but by the right people who can help solve the problem. Crowd-sourcing the clues should help get authorities to the right person sooner, as long as it doesn’t doxx a handful of innocent strangers in the meantime.
The real value of these videos is preventative: they’re a warning to all the others who haven’t yet been recorded saying and doing racist things in public. Hopefully, this level of scrutiny will bring most of them around to the realization that they don’t want the aggravation in their lives, and so will learn to keep their bigotry to themselves. Doesn’t mean it goes away, but at least being in public will be less threatening to their victims.
Who was it said “There isn’t more racism, it’s just being filmed now.” ?
They weren’t wrong.
You’re right. “Dirt Nap” would have been more appropriate.
Oh, I don’t know if it’s true, but it’s funny! They do have a sort of animosity, though.
May be addressed later in the thread but the symptom is that more people feel free to express their racist thoughts openly and aggressively. Her underlying racism is the problem.
I was thinking about “symptom control” and the thing is I think symptom control matters. If we use an illness metaphor for racism then symptom control would still be important because while it isn’t a cure it is a treatment that reduces suffering for the patient. Putting social pressure on people to be less shitty to others is a valid tool for improving overall social health.
If racists don’t feel empowered to behave like this in public anymore,
then they won’t be modeling the behaviors for other people, spreading the virus, so to speak
Please stop using the name Karen in media, social and otherwise. In honor of my favorite cousin, a very lovely person born in the early 60’s who happened to be named Karen, could we instead just keep applying the words “racist asshole” where earned and leave poor karen out of it?
Every time I see Karen or karen used this way, i cringe and my heart is crushed just a little bit. Feels like a shitty thing to do to all the lovely people actually named Karen.
Wait, you actually KNOW someone named Karen? And they’re not a racist jerk? Oh, well then. That makes all the difference.
It’s not the term I would have picked either but it’s not like this hasn’t been done to perfectly normal names before. Just ask any guy named Dick.
How do you think the Karen tribe feel, gathered around their Twitter account all excited, “We’re trending again!” but every time…
I’m related to a Karen. She’s tough enough to handle it. All this handwringing I see on behalf of Karens, all the clutched pearls scattering onto the tracks… for what purpose, I wonder.
Unfortunately, in the twitter thread of the 2nd incident posted above, we learn that this has been going on for years. And in 2018 or 2019 she physically attacked an Asian woman in a mall, who’s husband had to pull Karen off her to get her to “stop punching my wife in the head.” They filed a police report with Torrance PD and never heard anything.
We are currently living in a brief interregnum where video can make a huge impact. We need to make best use of that as we can. As deep fakes get better, I fear this will cease to be true and we will be back to “if I didn’t see it personally, it didn’t happen” which is how assholes got away with this for so long.
Me too. I’m sure she’s fine with calling out racism, even if it means using her name.
I also have a lovely cousin named Karen and she fully approves of this use of “Karen.” So they cancel out…
