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So there's been a lot of talk about 'Karens' in my timeline over the last few days. I thought I understood what the term meant (an interfering busybody overly ready to call the cops) but I got told here pretty forcefully yesterday that term is actually a synonym for [1/5]
...'white woman' and on the basis of that, some people in my timeline are even defending Central Park dog scandal woman because he got a little confrontational with her after she refused to leash her dog. I'm in a quandary. On the one hand I firmly believe that [2/5]
...self-righteous social media mobbings are bad for the soul, ugly and far too often turn out to be misguided missiles ('So You've Been Publicly Shamed' by Jon Ronson contains many examples, from Justine Sacco onwards). On the other hand, to see dog scandal woman as the [3/5]
...victim, you have to entirely overlook her ugly behaviour in the video clip, for which I think some consequences were genuinely merited. The fact that the Central Park clip went viral just day before that really awful video of Police brutality in Minneapolis [4/5]
...is instructive for those of us fortunate enough not to live in daily fear of Police violence. This thread is similarly illuminating [5/5] https://twitter.com/TWilder86/status/1265424184097685506?s=2.
