Originally published at: Uber's diversity officer on leave after hosting events defending Karen's right to Karen | Boing Boing
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I guess they’re going to cancel next week’s “Why is everyone so mean to straight white men?” event now, huh?
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Won’t someone please think about the plight of the white!?
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I hope obviously
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Like Saturn, the Revolution devours its children.
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it’s not obnoxiousness. it’s racism. the article provides evidence from quotes of the employees about the event which lee put on. the snippet in the post above more than captures it
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Please read again:
The invitation reportedly said the event would host an “open and honest conversation about race” and be a time to dig into “the spectrum of the American white woman’s experience.”
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Things only white people say, for $500.
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But workers, according to the Times’ report, said in Slack messages that the conversation felt like a lecture about white women’s struggles and minimized the reasons that people find “Karen” behavior objectionable in the first place.
If you’re not acknowledging that a toxic behaviour exists you’re effectively permitting it.
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That sounds precisely what she was doing there… defending “Karens”…
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as soon as i’m called in to court, i shall do so. my time is top dollar you know.
but here’s a freebie, the reactions of people of color on the staff is the point.
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I guess because they know they haven’t been open and honest generally!
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That painterly style reminds me of Edward Hopper, is it called “The Trolley Problem”?
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Right!? We really cannot talk about the misogynistic applications of “Karen” as a way to demean literally any female authority figure if we aren’t going to talk about how that is still a position of power… And one which can have lethal consequences when it comes to the police. White women’s fear and anger kills.
It needs to be ok to criticize bad behavior in white women. One group of people identifies women who have managerial jobs or short haircuts as bad women. Another group identifies women who get innocent people killed as bad women.
If those two groups feel tit for tat for you though please think about it more 
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That’s a good name for it as any.
Just an AI “sea lion next to a gas lantern” and I picked what I thought looked best.
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Someone must be disappointed enough in BB to add their name to the list
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See also TERFs. “Don’t call them anti-trans bigots, they’re feminists!” is an on-going defense of their toxic behaviour.
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In fairness to the Uber DEI exec, it was an event held during Karen American History month!
