Wednesday, May 27, 2020

Turns out 'Central Park Karen' was an Obama and Buttigieg donor

"Any time anything bad happens, Trump's supporters did it. Nobody's apologizing for that nonsense. The people who got smeared in this instance, for sure, were the Trumpsters. Call it left-skin privilege. Where's the lefty apology on that?"
Image by Mike Harris
Monica Showalter  "A white woman who got into an incredibly stupid altercation with a black man in the wilds of Central Park over her inexplicable refusal to put her dog on a leash as he politely asked and the park rules required, and then threatened to call the cops on him, pretty well did herself in. After getting herself on film in the throes of her episode, and seeing it go viral, Amy Cooper lost her $170,000 a year job at Franklin Templeton, any prospect of employment afterward, her reputation, and even her dog. And sure enough, her lowly dog walker was the one who turned her in. 
"It was rough justice for sure, given what she did, but she knew the rules of living in New York. Tom Wolfe's Sherman McCoy pretty well mansplained it. For being a 'Karen,' or entitled white woman as the annoying term now means, she's now a Sherman. As for the black man, Christian Cooper (no relation), he was unjustly treated, too, given that the woman was trying to call the cops on him and counting on the cops to believe her over him, and she was lying about being 'threatened.' The only creature who got a real scare from that encounter was the poor yelping dog.
. . .  "Leftists pounced on the matter and splatted all over the internet that this foolish woman was a Trump supporter. Here's one of them, per the Independent of London:
"Actually, she was a liberal. Just like everyone else in that picture. She'd voted for Barack Obama twice. She was a big fan of Hillary Clinton. She donated money to the John Kerry and Pete Buttigieg campaigns. She went to the now-left-wing University of Chicago." . . .

More on "Karens" here

What does it mean to be a ‘Karen’? Karens explain
  
"According to a popular meme, Karen is a middle-aged white woman with an asymmetrical bob asking to speak to the manager, who happens to be as entitled as she is ignorant."
What about a "Maxine"?

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