So there& #39;s been a lot of talk about & #39;Karens& #39; 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]

...& #39;white woman& #39; 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& #39;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 (& #39;So You& #39;ve Been Publicly Shamed& #39; 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.">https://twitter.com/TWilder86...