Tom Ritchford
1 min readJun 23, 2020

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You know, I probably agree with all your politics. But I had to stop reading here, because you endless use of this childish slur is just really annoying and adds nothing.

I’ve known a bunch of people named Karen. The one I know best is a single mother and union organizer. She is the exact opposite of the Karen meme. None of the others seemed to have anything to do with this insult, either — including the black woman named Karen who worked in healthcare and seemed very nice in the short time I spent with her.

Why is it OK to use people’s names as an insult? I don’t see it at all. And the collateral damage is just unacceptable.

Why not AWW — asshole white woman? No one’s going to be given the name Asshole White Woman at birth, are they?

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