Thought to emerge from Black social media, a ‘karen’ is a pop-culture memetic device for a person, typically but not exclusively white, middle-class, and initially a woman, who demands absurd remedies or makes vexatious complaints about real or perceived inconveniences, however minor or biased, and sometimes actively racist. In their paper exploring the karen phenomenon and its Schroedinger nature of reflecting both privilege and vulnerability, scholars
I think it’s pretty easy to convince a vulnerable, dependant person that his or her life is no longer worth living, is no longer worth the trouble and expense. Well, you wouldn’t want to be a burden, now would you?
The brutal economics of neo-liberalism, with the faux-empathy of ‘karenism,’ means that many elderly or disabled will now be put to death, under the smiling face of a machinery of death that just sees them as surplus persons. And this is Canada?! Is this really Canada?
I think it’s pretty easy to convince a vulnerable, dependant person that his or her life is no longer worth living, is no longer worth the trouble and expense. Well, you wouldn’t want to be a burden, now would you?
The brutal economics of neo-liberalism, with the faux-empathy of ‘karenism,’ means that many elderly or disabled will now be put to death, under the smiling face of a machinery of death that just sees them as surplus persons. And this is Canada?! Is this really Canada?