Why are there so many recent videos of white women trying to use their privilege as a weapon?

[SouthernCal_Dem]

People refer to them as "Karens" which I don't care to do, but it's pretty obvious that there are a lot of white women who think they can get away with all kinds of shit because of their privileged status.

I think if it weren't for the fact that almost everyone has a video recorder/phone in their pocket, many of these people would've never been discovered.

Millions of Americans didn't know how pervasive this white entitlement mentality was until now.

It's pretty astounding and undeniable.

[SoonerPride]

1. Exactly. The phone video camera revolution.

This exposes all kinds of aberrant behavior that went on forever and is just now being brought into the open.

Police brutality.
White privilege tantrums.
Racist verbal attacks.
Porch thievery (not phone but video doorbells !).

Only now are we coming to grips with how awful a certain segment of our society is.

Sunlight is the best disinfectant. Indeed.

[jpak]

2. A Karen yelled at me for wearing a mask and gloves

In a grocery store parking lot.

I was minding my own business.

I told her told her to "fuck off Karen".

She was offended.

[fleur-de-lisa]

4. LOL! Perfect.

[jpak]

9. This happened today - twice

The first, when making a turn onto Main St

A middle aged Karen yelled something about my mask at me as she was turning on to my street

I didn't have time to respond.

The second time I did.

[2naSalit]

5. ...

[dalton99a]

6. Thank you!

[Voltaire2]

7. I was at the grocery store and a person

picked up some produce, put it right in her unmasked face to smell it, and then put it back on the shelf.

I was like utterly disgusted. What the everloving fuck? I should have said something. Instead I just got out of there as quickly as possible.

Nothing to do with Karens other than people can be clueless dangerous idiots.

[Eliot Rosewater]

11. This goes on a lot, we need to report them to the manager from now on.

these people will kill you if they can

[Voltaire2]

3. It is a symptom of the breakdown we are going through.

In our now highly stratified caste system,
many white people are wallowing in economic uncertainty that would have been unthinkable a generation ago.

Punching down is a great way to make yourself feel less anxious about your own declining status.

The owning class is happy to keep us divided and fighting each other while they continue their looting.

[elleng]

8. Gee, I never knew

'wallowing in economic uncertainty that would have been unthinkable a generation ago.

Punching down is a great way to make yourself feel less anxious about your own declining status.'

[Collimator]

12. Seeing people in my own life directing so much attention to any wrongdoing by a black person. . .

. . . I wish that they would spend a little time really looking inside at what makes them need to do that. Hell, I am insecure down to my toes (which are hairy and make me feel like a hobbit) but I take responsibility for my self-loathing and don't put other people down to make myself feel like a better person. . . Except that, in a way, I am doing that right now, aren't I?

Argghh! Self-hatred is a vicious trap, isn't it? No wonder wise people throughout the ages have advised us to learn to love ourselves. People with a healthy--not overblown--self-regard don't usually go around causing trouble in this world. It's the miserable people who need to make it a miserable world.

[bobbieinok]

10. Woman in 55 got Emmet Till murdered. Believe she later said she lied

White girl in Tulsa bldg 1921 never claimed anything. Was white men who decided they had a 'cause" I think personally some whites wanted an excuse. They wanted the land and businesses of Black Wall Street. And blacks back from fighting in WWI were 'uppity', didn't 'act right'

Also KKK was getting really strong in Tulsa, just like in rest of country. KKKtook over govt on IN in 20s

And see film of massive number of hooded klansmen marching in

DC in 20s

[lettucebe]

13. Two things: married to racists, raised by racist abusive fathers

They are the brainwashed women, thinking taking care of their man is a higher calling. Normal women do not feel threatened by other people

Edit to Add: I realize this post is also racist -- I'm equating white trash women as being a certain way. I apologize but stand by my statement all the same

[cwydro]

14. Did you see the guy with his knee on a friend as a counter protest in NJ?

Why does no one call out these men? What do we call them?

Easier to call out women, right?

[sanatanadharma]

18. He also is a "Not-Caring"

"Not-Caring", pronounced not-caren: either gender, never genius.

[cwydro]

19. Uh, ok, right.

Good lord.

[irisblue]

21. Why do you think they were not called out?

[KentuckyWoman]

15. This crap has been going on a long time.

Cell phones and social media have catapulted bad behavior into world notoriety.

[Skittles]

16. I think Trump has emboldened the white supremacists

and make no mistake, that's what the "Karens" are - people who see themselves as superior to black folk

[mathematic]

17. White women have been pointing to white men and saying "they're worse" for a long time

It's pretty easy to deflect blame. Oh, their husband/father is a racist misogynist and they can't disobey. Look how many racist white men are out there. Etc, etc.

Women can make up their own minds. If they do racist stuff it's not because a man forced them to, it's because they're racist.

Video recorders in everybody's pockets have recently put to bed "bad apple" defenses, whether it's cops or white women. We're seeing so much racist behavior because it's common and people finally have a way to document it easily.

[delisen]

20. Because male privilege is heavily protected status quo

and many people fear systemic change which requires confronting the still overwhelmingly masculine power structural.