Woman tries out for title of Worst Karen on the planet

boing
1

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/07/23/woman-tries-out-for-title-of-w.html

…

17 Likes
2

Ho-lee shit. Where to begin.

How can we fast-track the nomination process here?

52 Likes
3

How can we fast-track the eviction process?

49 Likes
4

His patience was amazing. If he was delivering to me, I would’ve given him an extra $20 for combat pay.

67 Likes
5

Think i’ll skip watching the vid, my day is already stressful but i’ll take your word that this isn’t actually a lady but a pile of garbage masquerading as a person.

63 Likes
6

The superhuman patience on display here by the delivery driver is truly humbling. I could not have comported myself with such dignity and poise.

46 Likes
7

Unfortunately for a young black man that kind of stoicism is a basic survival skill in this country. If he’d reacted with the kind of righteous anger one might expect he could be shot dead before he ever got a chance to share the video.

77 Likes
11

I get that. And $20 tip is too little.

That’s why it’s incumbent upon me to make such a neighbor super uncomfortable. Perhaps opening the door for him but telling her that she needs to use her key to enter? After all, I have no idea who she is.

All I can say is that she made me furious while watching the video, so I hope that I would’ve treated her in a similarly appropriate manner.

28 Likes
15

She has a son his age who is badly in need of more therapy if they are still talking to each other.

13 Likes
16

man, i would’ve told her to to get the building manager, then. that was completely ridiculous. i don’t blame him for ending up just being amused by it, because what else can you do? i wish she would’ve just shut up for a second while he was trying to talk to the person who he was delivering to. man!

16 Likes
20

Look, look. Maybe there’s some way I can make it up to you…

4 Likes
21

I had a similar person in a building where I rented. It was an apartment building but had been converted to condos. Apparently she had inherited one and she (…you guessed it!..) was an active participant in the HOA. Not saying I experienced anything to do with race or that she was racist, but my unit’s owner gave me a solid heads up that she was trouble, and I gave minimally worded answers to any of her questions for the year and a half I was there.

18 Likes
25

I’m appalled that this evil creature reproduced.

4 Likes
26

I got about halfway through before I just couldn’t any more.

16 Likes
27

I can’t with yet another Karen right now; will watch later.

30 Likes
31

So much this. She kept using the keypad (and it seemed like the system wasn’t responding to what she was entering). She told him that her name had been removed from the directory, too. I’m not sure she lived there at all, so there’s no way I would’ve let her in the door - especially after the way she’d behaved.

36 Likes
34

Full stop:

RACISM IS NOT A MENTAL ILLNESS; IT IS TAUGHT AND LEARNED.

51 Likes
35

Also maskless. Both the delivery guy and the person opening the door wore masks.

22 Likes
38

karening
karening2000×828 313 KB

21 Likes
39

Agreed, I would also add

Unlike mental illness, a person can CHOOSE to refrain from racist words and actions.

Continuing to equate racism with mental illness is demeaning to those who have mental illness because, among other things, it suggests that people with mental illness just need to choose to stop being so sick.

A person so inclined can commit themselves to “unlearning” racism even if they were raised by neo-confederates and grew up to get swastikas tattooed all over their body. They can’t simply choose to “unlearn” bipolar disorder or schizophrenia without medical help.

39 Likes