It has to happen multiple times for it to be considered harassment under US law.
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I think that’s a new rule of the Internet: There’s always a worse Karen out there.
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She sounds very like Sigourney Weaver. Uncanny.
I walked past the memorial for the victims of the Oslo bombing a few days ago (the one that was perpetrated by the same person as the Utøya massacre) and it struck me how they very skillfully avoided naming the perpetrator. It was all cast into the passive voice. It’s too late of course, the name will live in infamy but at least it won’t be on monuments.
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There is a preponderance of racist encounters with everyone. This is a deeply racist country. They tend to fall into certain broad groups, and upper class white women weaponizing their privilege is common enough that it deserves such a category. Currently we call them Karens. If you’d like to know the history of this flavor of racist encounter, the Code Switch podcast did a recent episode on it that I encourage you to listen to.
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I worry about that with the 2010 Cumbria shootings. My brother’s friend Jamie Clark was one of the people murdered, and I remember Garry Purdham because he was a well known local rugby player, but I could not tell you who else was shot that day. That was only ten years ago.
There were valid concerns that the coverage of the shootings may have inspired the Northumbrian shootings a month later.
Again, I couldn’t tell you the victims, and they deserve better than that.
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Thank you I will listen to it.
It’s a terrible thing, and it’s normal that our minds move on from such sadness. You can’t expect yourself to remember all the names. Tragically there are far too many.
It’s just confusing and saddening, I guess, that our culture tends to want to dwell on the killers, and not the victims. The documentaries about these events are never really about the victims. If studies dwelt on the victims more, the effects of such awfulness, I doubt that people could stomach canonizing the killers as much as they do.
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What I was trying to say is that the racism of that woman is caused by a general assholery.
The other that could be an African American, but could be a Native American or even a tattooed youngster of European descent, because is “different” and having something different it’s a problem for her.
Story heard today: a man was harassing the neighbours and their kids, and eventually got arrested by the Police mobile division for harassment.
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=it&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.torinotoday.it%2Fcronaca%2Fubriaco-stalking-condominio-vanchiglietta.html
Fine. If you’re correct, then the best case scenario is that she’s a racist. It is more than likely that she hates everybody… and she’s a racist.
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