The other angle to this conversation is how Karen has been argued by some to be a manifestation of the patriarchy and entirely anti-woman. The rebuttals to the popularization of Karen are especially instructive in revealing how white women using the term is bitterly ironic. As Leigh Stein recently noted, “Working on your white privilege is fast becoming the next elite social club.” There are cases of Karen being wielded by other white women in a way that feels like posturing an allegiance to Black people, including Hilary Duff in her recent Instagram caption about “Karens won’t wear masks.” It’s unsurprising that amid the racial justice reckoning, Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility - a 2018 book by a white woman for white women about race - topped the New York Times bestseller list, beating out books by actual women of color. Now that white women have discovered Karen, and the language of racial justice at large, they’ve turned both into self-serving trends. In another recent example, white women co-opted Colin Kapernick’s “take a knee” protests. For example, the #MeToo movement was founded by a Black woman, Tarana Burke, but most of the focus went to wealthy, white celebrity women, and women of color survivors have too often gone unnoticed.
The next century, feminists in the '60s and ’70s drew inspiration from the civil rights movement of their own era while creating the “second wave” of feminism, often critiqued for centering whiteness at the expense of anti-racism. Suffragettes drew inspiration from the slavery abolition movement while leaving out Black women. There is a history of white women using the language and struggles of oppressed communities in this country. Explainers and think-pieces from media outlets appeared, including this real headline: “What Does it Mean to Be a Karen? Karens Explain.” Certainly, it’s an easy retort to use against people who require more than “Okay, Boomer.” However, as is the case with many trends created by people of color, the second white woman caught on, things became less fun. " 'you guys need to do something about all these wet floors over here, you know how these Haitian people are.' To me she was inferring that Haitian people are more likely to sue somebody than another race.What’s interesting is that, within months, Karen has transformed from an inside joke within communities of color into a mainstream phenomenon. She said 'don't worry about it, I'm not black,'" Dagg said. "I heard something she said and walked out of the building and thought about it for a second and walked back inside to the counter calmly and asked her if I heard her correctly, just like I'm talking to you, no attitude. In the video, 23-year-old Colleen Dagg is involved in a confrontation with a white woman in a teal dress, identified by Coral Springs Police as 39-year-old Summer Cortts.ĭagg, who is also white, told NBC 6 Friday that the other woman said something racist about Haitians. The video that shows the altercation in the Coral Springs La Quinta Tuesday night has been viewed more than 500,000 times since it was posted on YouTube Wednesday. A South Florida woman seen in a viral video repeatedly punching another woman who allegedly made a racist comment about Haitians in a hotel lobby is speaking out.
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