"Karen" in my neighborhood
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"Karen" in our neighborhood was the title of a NextDoor.com post this morning, for my neighborhood. The author didn't comment, but posted a picture of this flyer, which has been stapled to every tree in a nearby neighborhood:
Most of the responses were from people cheering on the good deed of outing this Karen in our midst, in the name of social justice and diversity.
Thanks, the left, for this awesome culture you've bestowed upon our country!
For my part, I responded with this:
The "Karen" meme is, painfully obviously, a racist and sexist one. This thread, and the stapled notice, are profoundly stupid and obnoxious.
I thought I would get some push-back but so far I've gotten three "like" reactions and nothing else. I have my picture on my profile there so hopefully someone will approach me as I'm out and about walking my dogs, so we can discuss all things race and culture. I have a lot of educating to do.
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They misspelled bulletin.
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@copper said in "Karen" in my neighborhood:
The police will knock on the door, charge you with bigotry and arrest you, is that it?
I believe that is the idea, but until then, public shaming and economic / social coercion against one's employers to fire you, will have to do.
If you want to know what the left would like the culture to be, consider how high school girls operate their cliques.
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Oh my god they misspelled Latinx
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The thread has now devolved to an argument between two leftist white women, one of whom found the flyer racist and sexist, and the other of whom did some earnest navel gazing regarding how white women deserve to be shamed, and need to do better. After all, many of them voted for Trump. Those statistics don't lie, and thus her race/gender combo needs to be publicly shamed relentlessly, or there'll just be another Trump down the road. The woman who found the flyer racist and sexist, has only the weak defense that she hates Trump, too, and didn't vote for him.
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Has anybody bothered to find out if there ARE illegal activities taking place in that neighborhood?
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With that much diversity I’m sure the answer is yes.
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@lufins-dad said in "Karen" in my neighborhood:
Has anybody bothered to find out if there ARE illegal activities taking place in that neighborhood?
That's off the table.
There was some discussion of food deserts. A leftist male educated us that food deserts are NOT due to crime.
Food deserts don't exist because of "crime". Food deserts exist because of a lack of mixed use communities and fast food restaurants/animal agriculture companies making the salad the expensive option. It is not a lack of grocery stores it's a lack of easily accessible nutrition for cheap.
Education is extremely important.
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@horace said in "Karen" in my neighborhood:
@lufins-dad said in "Karen" in my neighborhood:
Has anybody bothered to find out if there ARE illegal activities taking place in that neighborhood?
That's off the table.
There was some discussion of food deserts. A leftist male educated us that food deserts are NOT due to crime.
Food deserts don't exist because of "crime". Food deserts exist because of a lack of mixed use communities and fast food restaurants/animal agriculture companies making the salad the expensive option. It is not a lack of grocery stores it's a lack of easily accessible nutrition for cheap.
I honestly thought he was mis-spelling 'desserts'. They don't exist because of mean women-folk not buying them. Or so I've heard.
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@george-k said in "Karen" in my neighborhood:
What, they have streets named "Lewis and Clark?"
Racist oppressors!
Actually I live on the third one they named, Tsushima. It's named after a place in Japan, which I assume is racist in some sense that we've yet to determine.
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@horace said in "Karen" in my neighborhood:
I thought I would get some push-back but so far I've gotten three "like" reactions and nothing else.
You sound almost disappointed, Horace.
Virtue signalling is revolting, no matter for which cause and from which direction. If this Karen's position is the prevailing one in the neighborhood, then maybe it's you who are in the wrong place. How is it that his adherents are wrong to push their advocacy and you are morally right to oppose it?
You may be up against a mob. Remember what became of Don Quixote. This from SparkNotes: "In the end, the beaten and battered Don Quixote forswears all the chivalric truths he followed so fervently and dies from a fever."
Two pieces of advice:
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Be like Gandhi: "You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
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Tear down those fecking flyers. If it's reaction you're looking for, that should do it!
Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka
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@catseye3 said in "Karen" in my neighborhood:
Two pieces of advice:
Advice from Cats! I think you should start a thread titled so, and have GK pin it. It would be a hoot! We could ask life questions, or maybe pose hypotheticals, and you could let us know how we should behave.
You could also have panel discussions, invite-only. Maybe Ax could be a regular panelist?
Education is extremely important.
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@horace said in "Karen" in my neighborhood:
Advice from Cats! It would be a hoot! We could ask life questions, or maybe pose hypotheticals, and you could let us know how we should behave.
Much like your intended response toward the pro-Karen memo peeps in your neighborhood? With all that educating you have to do?
But much as I appreciate the compliment, I simply can't contemplate such right now. One of the key players on my team went on the COVID list FIVE DAYS (yesterday) before their game against the Rams, and it looks like he won't be starting. This is very worrisome. I can't be sparing the energy for anything else just now, I am far too frantic. Y'all will just have to muddle along on your own.
Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka
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@catseye3 said in "Karen" in my neighborhood:
@horace said in "Karen" in my neighborhood:
Advice from Cats! It would be a hoot! We could ask life questions, or maybe pose hypotheticals, and you could let us know how we should behave.
Much like your intended response toward the pro-Karen memo peeps in your neighborhood? With all that educating you have to do?
It sounds like your advice was retaliatory. Now that I know that, I will strongly consider not taking that advice to heart.
However, I strongly advise you to base your pinned advice thread entirely on retaliatory advice. I think it'll be gold, Cats. Gold!
Education is extremely important.
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@horace said in "Karen" in my neighborhood:
It sounds like your advice was retaliatory.
No, it wasn't. That's your interpretation.
You are far too quick to take offense, where none was intended -- far too quick to attack. I don't need to deal with that. I give you my word, I will not again address any issue of yours in any manner that can be interpreted as other than impersonal.
