{"id":243335,"date":"2021-05-06T05:50:16","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T02:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/why-are-karens-so-angry\/"},"modified":"2021-05-06T05:50:16","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T02:50:16","slug":"why-are-karens-so-angry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/why-are-karens-so-angry\/","title":{"rendered":"#\n  Why are \u2018Karens\u2019 so angry?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4071a2c1d1d\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" 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href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/why-are-karens-so-angry\/#Some_people_say_memes_of_white_women_confronting_people_of_color_provide_a_handle_on_behaviors_born_of_racist_entitlement_while_others_point_to_misogyny_and_economic_disenfranchisement\" >Some people say memes of white women confronting people of color provide a handle on behaviors born of racist entitlement, while others point to misogyny and economic disenfranchisement<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/why-are-karens-so-angry\/#Rich_Benjamin_%E2%80%98Whether_its_your_skin_color_or_the_place_they_reserve_the_right_to_police_you_and_police_your_presence_and_that_implies_that_its_a_white_space\" >Rich Benjamin: \u2018Whether it\u2019s your skin color or the place, they reserve the right to police you and police your presence, and that implies that it\u2019s a white space.\u2019<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-6' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-6'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-6' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-6'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/why-are-karens-so-angry\/#Racial_animosity_and_economic_disenfranchisement\" >Racial animosity and economic disenfranchisement<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/why-are-karens-so-angry\/#The_recent_spate_of_videos_featuring_white_people_confronting_African_Americans_for_innocuous_reasons_comes_at_a_particularly_polarizing_time_in_American_life_as_Black_Lives_Matter_protests_swept_the_country\" >The recent spate of videos featuring white people confronting African Americans for innocuous reasons comes at a particularly polarizing time in American life, as Black Lives Matter protests swept the country.<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-6' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-6'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-6' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-6'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/why-are-karens-so-angry\/#%E2%80%98White_people_feel_safer_acting_antisocially_in_public\" >\u2018White people feel safer acting antisocially in public\u2019<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/why-are-karens-so-angry\/#Names_have_been_used_to_refer_to_such_individuals_mostly_to_allow_for_alliteration_PermitPatti_who_refused_to_accept_that_a_Black_family_was_allowed_into_a_neighborhood_pool_and_BBQBecky\" >Names have been used to refer to such individuals, mostly to allow for alliteration, #PermitPatti, who refused to accept that a Black family was allowed into a neighborhood pool, and #BBQBecky.<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-6' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-6'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-6' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-6'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/why-are-karens-so-angry\/#The_cultural_history_behind_the_name_%E2%80%98Karen\" >The cultural history behind the name \u2018Karen\u2019<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-8\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/why-are-karens-so-angry\/#Some_social_commentators_say_the_virality_of_Karen_videos_ignores_the_reality_that_people_of_color_deal_with_being_policed_by_white_women_and_men_Pictured_The_Womens_March_Los_Angeles_in_January_2018_Source_Getty_Images\" >Some social commentators say the virality of Karen videos ignores the reality that people of color deal with being policed by white women and men. Pictured: The Women&#8217;s March Los Angeles in January 2018. Source: Getty Images<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-6' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-6'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-6' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-6'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-9\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/why-are-karens-so-angry\/#Men_misogyny_and_mental_health\" >Men, misogyny and mental health<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-10\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/why-are-karens-so-angry\/#The_Pride_and_Black_Lives_Matter_movements_last_year_in_Washington_DC_The_larger_official_Pride_events_were_canceled_due_to_the_coronavirus_pandemic_but_people_still_showed_up_to_lend_their_support_for_the_Black_Lives_Matter_movement\" >The Pride and Black Lives Matter movements last year in Washington, DC. The larger official Pride events were canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic but people still showed up to lend their support for the Black Lives Matter movement.<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-6' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-6'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-6' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-6'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-11\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/why-are-karens-so-angry\/#%E2%80%98A_problem_which_is_not_named_cannot_be_solved\" >\u2018A problem which is not named cannot be solved\u2019<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-12\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/why-are-karens-so-angry\/#An_excerpt_from_%E2%80%9856_Black_Men_by_Cephas_Williams_a_London-based_artist\" >An excerpt from \u201856 Black Men,\u2019 by Cephas Williams, a London-based artist.<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-13\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/why-are-karens-so-angry\/#Quentin_Fottrell\" >Quentin Fottrell<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#<br \/>\n  Why are \u2018Karens\u2019 so angry?<br \/>\n<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"article__subhead\" itemprop=\"alternativeHeadline\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Some_people_say_memes_of_white_women_confronting_people_of_color_provide_a_handle_on_behaviors_born_of_racist_entitlement_while_others_point_to_misogyny_and_economic_disenfranchisement\"><\/span>\n  Some people say memes of white women confronting people of color provide a handle on behaviors born of racist entitlement, while others point to misogyny and economic disenfranchisement<br \/>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"column column--full article__content\">\n<div class=\"article__side\">\n<div class=\"container--sticky not-active\">\n<div class=\"cx--next\">\n              <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"js-article__body\" class=\"article__body article-wrap at16-col16 barrons-article-wrap\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-sbid=\"14A9F8DE-CAA4-11EA-864B-8BCE6EA08E75\">\n<div class=\"barrons-article-ad-wrapper\">\n<div data-track=\"barrons-article-ad-wrap\" class=\"barrons-article-ad sticky_item\">\n<div class=\"barrons-main-article-ad-target sticky_target body_ad\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>       Sometimes they <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>roach with a smile. Other times, it\u2019s with the rage of angels. <\/p>\n<p> It\u2019s been nearly a year since Amy Cooper \u2014 upset that she had been asked to leash her dog in the Ramble \u2014 called 911 on bird-watcher Christian Cooper in Central Park, falsely alleging that her life was in danger. <\/p>\n<div class=\"paywall\">\n       But such \u201cKaren\u201d incidents have not gone away. If anything, they have become a depressingly regular occurrence. So regular and unsurprising, in fact, that many of these videos no longer go viral. <\/p>\n<p>In the latest such case earlier this week, a 77-year-old woman, a resident of a retirement community in Wildwood, Fla., was charged with launching a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/woman-charged-felony-yelling-racial-040302634.html\" class=\"icon none\">racial tirade<\/a> against a worker at a Burger King<br \/>\n        QSR,<br \/>\n        <bg-quote field=\"percentchange\" format=\"0,000.00%\" channel=\"\/zigman2\/quotes\/202094900\/composite\" class=\"negative\">-1.22%<\/bg-quote><br \/>\n      \u00a0restaurant after she reportedly became angry over the thickness of the tomato in her bun. She also allegedly hurled the Whopper at the employee. <\/p>\n<p>And last month, Huang Zhu and Ying Huang, immigrants from China living in San Jose,<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7news.com\/racist-rant-san-jose-caught-on-camera-ring-video-stop-aapi-hate\/10485973\/\" class=\"icon none\"> released a video<\/a> of a man banging on their front door, yelling racial slurs, and screaming, \u201cYou brought COVID-19.\u201d The couple said the man scared their 6-year-old twins, and knocked on their door at least 100 times. The man hollered: \u201cI said it\u2019s your neighbor, open the door! &#8230;Communist China!\u201d <\/p>\n<div data-layout=\"inline\n                \" data-layout-mobile=\"\" class=\"\n          media-object\n          type-InsetPullQuote\n            inline\n  article__inset\n          article__inset--type-InsetPullQuote\n            article__inset--inline\n  \"><\/p>\n<div class=\"wsj-article-pullquote article__inset__pullquote \">\n<p class=\"pullquote-content article__inset__pullquote__quote\">\n        <span class=\"l-qt article__inset__pullquote__mark--left\">\u201c<\/span><br \/>\n        An immigrant couple from China released a video in April of a man banging on their front door, yelling racial slurs, and screaming, \u2018You brought COVID-19.\u2019<br \/>\n        <span class=\"r-qt article__inset__pullquote__mark--right\">\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>       In a heartbreaking detail from that night, one of the couple\u2019s children reportedly asked his mother: \u201cMommy, did I do this because I watch too much iPad and he\u2019s here to punish me?\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Terence Fitzgerald has lived with Karen-esque micro-aggressions his whole life, and now he sees his own young sons come face to face with them too. Last year, when his sons were 5 and 3 years old, he was on a weekend bike ride in his neighborhood, a quiet suburb in Southern California with picturesque houses situated amid generous lawns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy oldest loves nature and stopped,\u201d Fitzgerald said. \u201cIt forced us all to hit the brakes because he was leading us on our little adventure. He saw a cardinal and wanted to show me. The bird sat on a branch on the edge of someone\u2019s property.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was one of those occasions a parent remembers: an ordinary moment when he and his family got to escape the rat race, the pandemic, pause and take a breath to enjoy the simple gifts of nature and fleeting childhood. Blink and that 5-year-old will be 15. Blink again, he\u2019ll be 25. <\/p>\n<p>Alas, Fitzgerald remembers that day for another reason. \u201cAll of a sudden, a truck stopped. A white woman rolled down her window and said, \u2018What\u2019s going on here? What are you looking at?\u2019 I felt this surge of anger rise within me,\u201d he recalled. <\/p>\n<div id=\"cx-membership-tile\"><\/div>\n<p>Fitzgerald, a clinical associate professor of <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a> work at the University of Southern California and the author of \u201cBlack Males and Racism: Improving the Schooling and Life Chances of African Americans,\u201d said he was ready to use a tone of voice his children had never heard before. \u201cBut I looked at my boys and realized that I am their role model and knew I had to control myself,\u201d he says. <\/p>\n<div data-layout=\"inline\n                \" data-layout-mobile=\"\" class=\"\n          media-object\n          type-InsetPullQuote\n            inline\n  article__inset\n          article__inset--type-InsetPullQuote\n            article__inset--inline\n  \"><\/p>\n<div class=\"wsj-article-pullquote article__inset__pullquote \">\n<p class=\"pullquote-content article__inset__pullquote__quote\">\n        <span class=\"l-qt article__inset__pullquote__mark--left\">\u201c<\/span><br \/>\n        \u2018All of a sudden a truck stopped. A white woman rolled down her window, and said, \u201cWhat\u2019s going on here? What are you looking at?\u201d\u2019<br \/>\n        <span class=\"r-qt article__inset__pullquote__mark--right\">\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>        <small><br \/>\n          <span class=\"inset-author article__inset__pullquote__author\">\u2014 Terence Fitzgerald, who had stopped to observe a cardinal in a tree while cycling with his 5- and 3-year-old sons<\/span><br \/>\n        <\/small><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>       \u201cI simply said in the smartest-ass way possible, \u2018A bird.\u2019 I gave them the death stare and the husband said, \u2018Well, all right then,\u2019 as if he was giving me permission to continue on my day,\u201d Fitzgerald recalls. \u201cHe rolled up their window and drove on.\u201d He reminded himself that, in the face of such an intrusion, \u201cThis neighborhood is my neighborhood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> For a moment, he wondered if he had made the wrong decision in moving there. \u201cThere are maybe two other families of color here,\u201d Fitzgerald said. \u201cI told my wife we should have never moved into a development with \u2018Plantation\u2019 in the name.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is an all-too-familiar story of a white person \u201cpolicing\u201d Black neighbors. \u201cKarens\u201d and \u201cKens\u201d have been filmed on smartphones challenging people of color with increasing regularity: \u201cYou\u2019re not allowed to sell lemonade on this street!\u201d Or, \u201cThis is a community pool for locals only. Do you have a pass?\u201d Or even: \u201cWhy are you in this building? Do you live here?\u201d <\/p>\n<p>In an era when the racist practice of \u201credlining\u201d white neighborhoods by financial institutions and real-estate agencies to keep people of color out has been mostly, if not totally, abandoned in U.S. society, such incidents serve as a reminder that white people are not always welcoming to their Black neighbors, whether they white neighbors in question would agree with that or not.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRedlining\u201d housing policies have not been completely erased from neighborhood maps. The term refers to how the Federal Home Loan Bank Board and the Home Owners\u2019 Loan Corporation drew up color-coded maps that designated how risky it was for lenders to originate mortgages in different neighborhoods across the country.<\/p>\n<p>It was a common practice in the first half of the 20th Century, but it was outlawed through legislation in the 1960s and 1970s. Yet many of America\u2019s largest cities, particularly in the northern part of the U.S., remain heavily segregated by race or ethnicity. The practice <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/projects.newsday.com\/long-island\/real-estate-agents-investigation\/?mod=article_inline\" class=\"icon none\">continues to this day<\/a>, and housing in many redlined areas is still <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.revealnews.org\/article\/for-people-of-color-banks-are-shutting-the-door-to-homeownership\/?mod=article_inline&amp;mod=article_inline\" class=\"icon none\">worth significantly less<\/a> than similar homes in a nonredlined neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>Karen (or Ken) videos shed light on racism and ongoing harassment of people of color by white people, sometimes even their neighbors, and this \u201cothering\u201d of people of color is another surreptitious way of attempting to maintain a predominantly white socio-economic power structure, and effectively erecting an invisible white picket fence around their own neighborhoods.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:<\/strong>What the 1921 Tulsa race massacre can teach us about the racial wealth gap in 2020<\/p>\n<div data-layout=\"\n                inline\" data-layout-mobile=\"\" class=\"\n          media-object\n          type-InsetMediaIllustration\n              full-width\n              \n    \n            \n  article__inset\n          article__inset--type-InsetMediaIllustration\n              article__inset--inline\n  \"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"\n        media-object-image\n        enlarge-image\n        renoImageFormat-ZH\n        img-inline\n        article__inset__image\n      \" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.2121%;\" data-mobile-ratio=\"56.2121%\" data-layout-ratio=\"56.2921%\" data-subtype=\"illustration\" class=\"image-container  responsive-media article__inset__image__image\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ei.marketwatch.com\/Multimedia\/2021\/02\/06\/Photos\/MB\/MW-JA207_Rich_20210206160104_MB.jpg?uuid=6cd668ea-68be-11eb-950a-001cc448aede 140w,\nhttps:\/\/ei.marketwatch.com\/Multimedia\/2021\/02\/06\/Photos\/MG\/MW-JA207_Rich_20210206160104_MG.jpg?uuid=6cd668ea-68be-11eb-950a-001cc448aede 540w,\nhttps:\/\/ei.marketwatch.com\/Multimedia\/2021\/02\/06\/Photos\/ZQ\/MW-JA207_Rich_20210206160104_ZQ.jpg?uuid=6cd668ea-68be-11eb-950a-001cc448aede 620w,\nhttps:\/\/ei.marketwatch.com\/Multimedia\/2021\/02\/06\/Photos\/ZH\/MW-JA207_Rich_20210206160104_ZH.jpg?uuid=6cd668ea-68be-11eb-950a-001cc448aede 860w,\nhttps:\/\/ei.marketwatch.com\/Multimedia\/2021\/02\/06\/Photos\/ZG\/MW-JA207_Rich_20210206160104_ZG.jpg?uuid=6cd668ea-68be-11eb-950a-001cc448aede 1260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100px,\n(max-width: 540px) 500px,\n(max-width: 620px) 580px,\n(max-width: 860px) 820px,\n1260px\" src=\"https:\/\/ei.marketwatch.com\/Multimedia\/2021\/02\/06\/Photos\/ZQ\/MW-JA207_Rich_20210206160104_ZQ.jpg?uuid=6cd668ea-68be-11eb-950a-001cc448aede\" data-enlarge=\"https:\/\/ei.marketwatch.com\/Multimedia\/2021\/02\/06\/Photos\/ZG\/MW-JA207_Rich_20210206160104_ZG.jpg?uuid=6cd668ea-68be-11eb-950a-001cc448aede\" alt=\"\" title=\"Rich Benjamin: \u2018Whether it\u2019s your skin color or the place, they reserve the right to...\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"wsj-article-caption article__inset__image__caption\" itemprop=\"caption\">\n<h4 class=\"wsj-article-caption-content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Rich_Benjamin_%E2%80%98Whether_its_your_skin_color_or_the_place_they_reserve_the_right_to_police_you_and_police_your_presence_and_that_implies_that_its_a_white_space\"><\/span>Rich Benjamin: \u2018Whether it\u2019s your skin color or the place, they reserve the right to police you and police your presence, and that implies that it\u2019s a white space.\u2019<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>      <span class=\"wsj-article-credit article__inset__image__caption__credit\" itemprop=\"creator\"><br \/>\n            c\/o Rich Benjamin<br \/>\n          <\/span><br \/>\n  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>       These incidents, others say, merely reveal a more explicit form or racism that permeates neighborhoods, workplaces, colleges and businesses across America. They see it as a generational transfer of white economic power that can express itself as an unfriendly neighborhood committee or a boss that overlooks a person of color for promotion.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, some white feminists argue that the Karen video meme has gone too far, smacks of misogyny and aggressively shames women, rather than men, who may be having a bad day, or suffering from other emotional problems. Others say the Karen narrative trivializes the anger and economic disenfranchisement of a white working class that helped propel Donald Trump to the White House in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Research, however, does suggest that Black people are either mistreated or, at the very least, treated differently based on their race more than white people. Some 65% of Black adults say they\u2019ve been in situations where people acted suspicious of them, compared to just 25% of white adults, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2020\/06\/03\/10-things-we-know-about-race-and-policing-in-the-u-s\/\" class=\"icon none\">according to the Pew Research Center.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2020\/06\/03\/10-things-we-know-about-race-and-policing-in-the-u-s\/\" class=\"icon none\"><\/a>Karen videos \u2014 whether crude or fascinating, alarming or trivial \u2014 can be roughly split into two groups: White people who confront and question people of color, and white people who show antipathy or rage toward authority \u2014 retail and restaurant workers who ask them to abide by social-distancing rules and wear face masks, for example \u2014 or ask to see the manager. <\/p>\n<p>The phenomenon has been around in one form or another for years, but truly went global after the now-infamous standoff in Central Park.<\/p>\n<p>Amy Cooper, dubbed \u201cCentral Park Karen,\u201d called the cops on May 25, 2020 after a bird watcher, Christian Cooper, who is no relation, asked her to put her dog on a leash in New York\u2019s Central Park. \u201cI\u2019m going to tell them there\u2019s an African-American man threatening my life,\u201d she said on a video recording Cooper made on his smartphone. They both left the rambles in the park before the police arrived.<\/p>\n<p>Timing, perhaps, is everything. This happened on the same day that George Floyd, who was Black, died in police custody after a white Minneapolis policeman kneeled on his neck with the full weight of his body for nearly nine minute, sparking nationwide Black Lives Matter protests.<\/p>\n<div data-layout=\"inline\n                \" data-layout-mobile=\"\" class=\"\n          media-object\n          type-InsetPullQuote\n            inline\n  article__inset\n          article__inset--type-InsetPullQuote\n            article__inset--inline\n  \"><\/p>\n<div class=\"wsj-article-pullquote article__inset__pullquote \">\n<p class=\"pullquote-content article__inset__pullquote__quote\">\n        <span class=\"l-qt article__inset__pullquote__mark--left\">\u201c<\/span><br \/>\n        The incident in Central Park happened on the same day that George Floyd died in police custody in Minneapolis.<br \/>\n        <span class=\"r-qt article__inset__pullquote__mark--right\">\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>       Ciminal charges against Amy Cooper were dropped without a guilty plea in February after she completed a therapeutic program that included lessons on racial biases. The prosecutor in the case, Joan Illuzzi-Orbon, said that Cooper had \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/02\/16\/nyregion\/amy-cooper-charges-dismissed.html\" class=\"icon none\">learned a lot<\/a>\u201d from the 911 call that was heard around the world. The video has been viewed on Twitter over 45 million times.    <\/p>\n<p> The Amy Cooper video may have been unpleasant to watch, but it was not something seen as unfamiliar to many Black men. \u201cI was mortified by the Amy Cooper incident, but struck by a bit of recognition when you have a white person who perceives you to have less rights than they, and they to have more rights than you,\u201d said Rich Benjamin, author of \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Searching-Whitopia-Improbable-Journey-America-ebook\/dp\/B002Q1YDIQ\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1HMLPD3MSNHRU&amp;dchild=1&amp;keywords=rich+benjamin&amp;qid=1591224664&amp;s=digital-text&amp;sprefix=rich+ben%2Cdigital-text%2C155&amp;sr=1-1\" class=\"icon none\">Searching for Whitopia: An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhether it\u2019s your skin color or the place, they reserve the right to police you and police your presence, and that implies that it\u2019s a white space, and the condition for you being there is their comfort,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is prevalent and more common than everyone suspects. It\u2019s not surprising. It\u2019s not new. It\u2019s not rare. The only difference is that this was caught on an iPhone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Benjamin <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a>ed nearly 30,000 miles around the U.S.m and spent time in Coeur d\u2019Alene, Idaho; Forsythe County, Ga.; and St. George, Utah \u2014 the areas with the country\u2019s fastest-growing white populations. \u201cI wanted to see why white flight was happening, and how and why white conservatism was developing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They were different in some ways: Georgia was more Baptist than Idaho or Utah, for example, and Utah was more Mormon than Idaho or Georgia. \u201cAs the country gets more demographically diverse, all kinds of fears on political issues like taxes, so-called national security, public-school funding and immigration are fueled by this fear of white decline,\u201d Benjamin said. <\/p>\n<p>During his travels, from 2007 to 2009, he attended a three-day white separatist retreat with links to Aryan Nations in northern Idaho and in exurban megachurches in the South. \u201cCall these places White Meccas,\u201d he writes in the book. \u201cOr White Wonderlands. Or Caucasian Arcadias. Or Blanched Bunker Communities. Or White Archipelagos. I call them Whitopia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These viral videos of Karens asking people of color to explain themselves are the rust on the barbed wire atop the walls separating some White Americans from people of color. <\/p>\n<p>Karens are the neighborhood busybody who has a problem with the same neighbors, who just happen to Black: Last summer, Fareed Nassor Hayat and Norrinda Brown Hayat\u2019s neighbor in Montclair, N.J., <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QEi0qFZUd1I\" class=\"icon none\">called the police<\/a> demanding to see a permit because Hayat and her husband were building a patio in their backyard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis isn\u2019t just an argument between neighbors when she\u2019s using the power of the state. She\u2019s calling on the power of the state to say, \u2018Hey, I can have a knee on your neck if you don\u2019t submit to me,\u2019\u201d Fareed Hayat told the media after the incident. Several white neighbors came to the couple\u2019s defense, and the next day there was a protest in the neighborhood in support of the Hayats.<\/p>\n<p>Some harassment runs the gamut from legal residency and ethnicity to sexuality. Earlier this month, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=81VJ_n5YBhQ\" class=\"icon none\">this woman<\/a> harassed a Latino gardener in California and, when he asked her to step back because she is not wearing a mask, she repeatedly said, \u201cCan you show me your papers?\u201d She called him \u201cMariposa,\u201d Spanish slang for homosexual. He told her, \u201cI\u2019m Mexican! I\u2019m Filipino! I\u2019m Chinese! You\u2019re funny. You made my day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The other group of Karens and Kens featured in these viral videos direct their anger more broadly, and become upset in public places when the rules don\u2019t bend to their will. Such cases may also raise larger issues about mental health, substance abuse and\/or stress as a result of the pandemic, and be the result of their own frustrations and anxieties in a country that has left a large swathe of white rural America behind.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite the importance of rural communities to the health of the nation overall, federal policy has left many rural communities behind,\u201d according to a report last year by the Center for American Progress, a progressive nonpartisan policy institute. \u201cThough some are thriving, rural areas overall have yet to match the employment levels reached prior to the 2008 recession, and deep poverty persists in many rural communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some people in these videos <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/RealSaleemJuma\/status\/1274809876112261120\" class=\"icon none\">charge store staff at the entrance<\/a>, cough on patrons, or <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/karen-no-mask-videos-tantrums-coronavirus\/?europe=true\" class=\"icon none\">throw their baskets on the floor<\/a> or groceries out of their cart. In one particularly bizarre case that could be attributed to stubbornness or something more serious, \u201cCostco Karen\u201d<br \/>\n        COST,<br \/>\n        <bg-quote field=\"percentchange\" format=\"0,000.00%\" channel=\"\/zigman2\/quotes\/201191698\/composite\" class=\"negative\">-0.74%<\/bg-quote><br \/>\n      \u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=62gcAB9NALg\" class=\"icon none\">sat on the floor <\/a>of a Costco in Hillsboro, Ore., after declining to wear a mask. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m an American. I have constitutional rights,\u201d she said. After requesting to speak to the manager, she sat on the floor. A staff member politely asked her if she would like a chair. <\/p>\n<p>She cut a sad figure, one of pathos rather than someone who wanted to do anyone harm (aside from the very real risk of transmitting COVID-19, that is). In a world where so much is not within our control, this was a defiant \u2014 certainly misguided \u2014 act in which she tried to wrestle some control over her own life. <\/p>\n<p>It is particularly poignant in a world where so much appears to be outside of our control \u2014 the coronavirus pandemic, outsourcing of manufacturing jobs overseas, closure of small, family-run businesses due to retail behemoths such as Walmart<br \/>\n        WMT,<br \/>\n        <bg-quote field=\"percentchange\" format=\"0,000.00%\" channel=\"\/zigman2\/quotes\/207374728\/composite\" class=\"negative\">-0.09%<\/bg-quote><br \/>\n      \u00a0and Amazon<br \/>\n        AMZ,<br \/>\n        <bg-quote field=\"percentchange\" format=\"0,000.00%\" channel=\"\/zigman2\/quotes\/207159039\/delayed\" class=\"negative\">-1.09%<\/bg-quote><br \/>\n       both of which have seen their fortunes improve during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>But such theories may seem overly generous. White women also call other white women \u201cKaren\u201d and they are just as likely to be privileged as not. Take this recent trip to a hairdressers on Madison Avenue, as recounted by Gail, who asked to have her last name withheld. As she was paying her bill, Gail stood at the cash register next to a woman and her dog, who had been running around the salon without a leash. (The salon had a \u201cNo Dogs\u201d sign outside.)<\/p>\n<p>When asked to use her credit card, the woman refused to put it into the machine herself. \u201cI couldn\u2019t possibly do that! I have four assistants,\u201d she said, according to Gail\u2019s account. \u201cMy assistants do that for me.\u201d The woman also complained about having to practice social distancing and wear a mask. But Gail seemed excited to tell the story. \u201cIs she a Karen? I think I met a Karen!\u201d<\/p>\n<div data-layout=\"\n                inline\" data-layout-mobile=\"\" class=\"\n          media-object\n          type-InsetMediaIllustration\n              full-width\n              \n    \n            \n  article__inset\n          article__inset--type-InsetMediaIllustration\n              article__inset--inline\n  \"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"\n        media-object-image\n        enlarge-image\n        renoImageFormat-ZH\n        img-inline\n        article__inset__image\n      \" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.2121%;\" data-mobile-ratio=\"56.2121%\" data-layout-ratio=\"56.2921%\" data-subtype=\"illustration\" class=\"image-container  responsive-media article__inset__image__image\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ei.marketwatch.com\/Multimedia\/2020\/07\/13\/Photos\/MB\/MW-IK291_peak_k_20200713081708_MB.jpg?uuid=c5bea694-c502-11ea-aeeb-9c8e992d421e 140w,\nhttps:\/\/ei.marketwatch.com\/Multimedia\/2020\/07\/13\/Photos\/MG\/MW-IK291_peak_k_20200713081708_MG.jpg?uuid=c5bea694-c502-11ea-aeeb-9c8e992d421e 540w,\nhttps:\/\/ei.marketwatch.com\/Multimedia\/2020\/07\/13\/Photos\/ZQ\/MW-IK291_peak_k_20200713081708_ZQ.jpg?uuid=c5bea694-c502-11ea-aeeb-9c8e992d421e 620w,\nhttps:\/\/ei.marketwatch.com\/Multimedia\/2020\/07\/13\/Photos\/ZH\/MW-IK291_peak_k_20200713081708_ZH.jpg?uuid=c5bea694-c502-11ea-aeeb-9c8e992d421e 860w,\nhttps:\/\/ei.marketwatch.com\/Multimedia\/2020\/07\/13\/Photos\/ZG\/MW-IK291_peak_k_20200713081708_ZG.jpg?uuid=c5bea694-c502-11ea-aeeb-9c8e992d421e 1260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100px,\n(max-width: 540px) 500px,\n(max-width: 620px) 580px,\n(max-width: 860px) 820px,\n1260px\" src=\"https:\/\/ei.marketwatch.com\/Multimedia\/2020\/07\/13\/Photos\/ZQ\/MW-IK291_peak_k_20200713081708_ZQ.jpg?uuid=c5bea694-c502-11ea-aeeb-9c8e992d421e\" data-enlarge=\"https:\/\/ei.marketwatch.com\/Multimedia\/2020\/07\/13\/Photos\/ZG\/MW-IK291_peak_k_20200713081708_ZG.jpg?uuid=c5bea694-c502-11ea-aeeb-9c8e992d421e\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"wsj-article-caption article__inset__image__caption\" itemprop=\"caption\"><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<h6><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Racial_animosity_and_economic_disenfranchisement\"><\/span>Racial animosity and economic disenfranchisement<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h6>\n<p> Can police officers be Karens and Kens too? While white women have been filmed for vehemently refusing to wear masks during the pandemic, Black men have even been targeted in stores for wearing them. A year ago, Kam Buckner, a member of the Illinois state legislature, was stopped by police after leaving a store while wearing a mask. <\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/face-mask-masks-kam-buckner-illinois-state-representative\/6156129\/\" class=\"icon none\">Buckner told a local news station<\/a>: When it was clear he had bought the items in his possession, the uniformed officer in question told him, \u201cPeople are using the coronavirus to do bad things. I couldn\u2019t see your face, man. You looked like you were up to something.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was ironic, given the resistance among some white people to wearing face coverings. \u201cI have been programmed to show as much of my face as possible and use certain cues to disarm anyone who might have a learned inclination to be suspicious of my very presence,\u201d Buckner said.<\/p>\n<div data-layout=\"inline\n                \" data-layout-mobile=\"\" class=\"\n          media-object\n          type-InsetPullQuote\n            inline\n  article__inset\n          article__inset--type-InsetPullQuote\n            article__inset--inline\n  \"><\/p>\n<div class=\"wsj-article-pullquote article__inset__pullquote \">\n<p class=\"pullquote-content article__inset__pullquote__quote\">\n        <span class=\"l-qt article__inset__pullquote__mark--left\">\u201c<\/span><br \/>\n        \u2018People are using the coronavirus to do bad things. I couldn\u2019t see your face, man. You looked like you were up to something.\u2019<br \/>\n        <span class=\"r-qt article__inset__pullquote__mark--right\">\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>        <small><br \/>\n          <span class=\"inset-author article__inset__pullquote__author\">\u2014 Kam Buckner, a member of the state legislature in Illinois, recounting what a police officer reportedly told him when he walked out of a store wearing a face mask<\/span><br \/>\n        <\/small><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>       \u201cIt is an indictment on the whole of society for creating a climate where this is normal and this is OK,\u201d he added. \u201cI can\u2019t help but think of the dangers that are inherent for a number of Black men who are just adhering to the mask rule and, by doing so, look like they are \u2018up to something.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p> All of this is taking place against a deeply polarized political climate, amid the reverberations of the racially charged presidency of Donald Trump, who repeatedly called COVID-19 the \u201cChina virus\u201d and said there were \u201cvery fine people on both sides\u201d of the 2017 protests over Confederate statues in Charlottesville, Va. that included neo-Nazis and white supremacists.<\/p>\n<p>In a paper published in the Michigan Journal of Race &amp; Law, Chan Tov McNamarah documented a \u201clegion\u201d of white people calling the police on Black people \u201cengaged in mundane activities\u201d during the summer of 2018. <\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/repository.law.umich.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=1293&amp;context=mjrl\" class=\"icon none\">The article<\/a>, \u201cWhite Caller Crime: Racialized Police Communication and Existing While Black,\u201d chronicles a litany of such instances ranging from sitting in Starbucks<br \/>\n        SBUX,<br \/>\n        <bg-quote field=\"percentchange\" format=\"0,000.00%\" channel=\"\/zigman2\/quotes\/207508890\/composite\" class=\"negative\">-0.55%<\/bg-quote><br \/>\n      \u00a0and playing golf to eating in university classrooms.<\/p>\n<p>But explaining why a Karen or Ken questions Black people who are simply trying to go about their day is an attempt to rationalize the irrational, said <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/lindaclemons.com\/files\/biography.pdf\" class=\"icon none\">Linda Clemons<\/a>, the CEO of Sisterpreneur, an organization aimed at empowering female entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChildren are not born that way,\u201d she said. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t come from their core being. It comes from someone who is racist or biased.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Clemons says she tells white-women friends to use their voices to speak up against Karens, Kens and white supremacy: \u201cUse your white privilege to form a human barrier.\u201d This, she argues, will help Black children in school who get overlooked and\/or targeted by teachers, as well as help create more diverse workplaces.<\/p>\n<p>These divisions go back generations, Clemons adds: \u201cThey are coming out of the woodwork. They were already there.\u201d Why, she asks, can\u2019t white and Black workers stand side by side, and fight for the same rights for better pay and working conditions? <\/p>\n<p>There is a history of such action in America. Black and white farm workers fought side-by-side for better working conditions and pay in the 1930s, with the help of the Southern Tenant Farmers\u2019 Union, a federation of tenant farmers, to push for reform of the rights, and the working conditions and pay of sharecroppers and tenant farmers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWomen played a critical role in its organization and administration,\u201d according to the Central Arkansas Library System Encyclopedia of Arkansas.<\/p>\n<p>But politics and government policies got in the way. Laws and practices in the former Confederate states \u2014 such as poll taxes, literacy tests and \u201cgrandfather clauses\u201d \u2014 were introduced to prevent Black people from voting, creating a two-tiered system among the Black and white workers.<\/p>\n<p>Clemons sees the current social climate in the broader historical context of Black workers being scapegoated for white Americans\u2019 economic ills and personal misfortunes, after being exploited as free labor for generations. \u201cThe White House was built off the labor of slavery and on Native Americans\u2019 stolen land,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>White allies have always been there too \u2014 perhaps not in the numbers seen so publicly since the civil-rights protests of 1968, Clemons said. But the most recent Black Lives Matter protests spurred by the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and many other unarmed Black people at the hands of police have galvanized a new generation of white allies, she added.<\/p>\n<div data-layout=\"\n                inline\" data-layout-mobile=\"\" class=\"\n          media-object\n          type-InsetMediaIllustration\n              full-width\n              \n    \n            \n  article__inset\n          article__inset--type-InsetMediaIllustration\n              article__inset--inline\n  \"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"\n        media-object-image\n        enlarge-image\n        renoImageFormat-20200726134648\n        img-inline\n        article__inset__image\n      \" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.2121%;\" data-mobile-ratio=\"56.2121%\" data-layout-ratio=\"56.2921%\" data-subtype=\"illustration\" class=\"image-container  responsive-media article__inset__image__image\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ei.marketwatch.com\/Multimedia\/2020\/07\/26\/Photos\/MB\/MW-IL182_BLMWom_20200726134648_MB.jpg?uuid=fb04ef6a-cf67-11ea-9145-9c8e992d421e 140w,\nhttps:\/\/ei.marketwatch.com\/Multimedia\/2020\/07\/26\/Photos\/MG\/MW-IL182_BLMWom_20200726134648_MG.jpg?uuid=fb04ef6a-cf67-11ea-9145-9c8e992d421e 540w,\nhttps:\/\/ei.marketwatch.com\/Multimedia\/2020\/07\/26\/Photos\/ZQ\/MW-IL182_BLMWom_20200726134648_ZQ.jpg?uuid=fb04ef6a-cf67-11ea-9145-9c8e992d421e 620w,\nhttps:\/\/ei.marketwatch.com\/Multimedia\/2020\/07\/26\/Photos\/ZH\/MW-IL182_BLMWom_20200726134648_ZH.jpg?uuid=fb04ef6a-cf67-11ea-9145-9c8e992d421e 860w,\nhttps:\/\/ei.marketwatch.com\/Multimedia\/2020\/07\/26\/Photos\/ZG\/MW-IL182_BLMWom_20200726134648_ZG.jpg?uuid=fb04ef6a-cf67-11ea-9145-9c8e992d421e 1260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100px,\n(max-width: 540px) 500px,\n(max-width: 620px) 580px,\n(max-width: 860px) 820px,\n1260px\" src=\"https:\/\/ei.marketwatch.com\/Multimedia\/2020\/07\/26\/Photos\/ZQ\/MW-IL182_BLMWom_20200726134648_ZQ.jpg?uuid=fb04ef6a-cf67-11ea-9145-9c8e992d421e\" data-enlarge=\"https:\/\/ei.marketwatch.com\/Multimedia\/2020\/07\/26\/Photos\/ZG\/MW-IL182_BLMWom_20200726134648_ZG.jpg?uuid=fb04ef6a-cf67-11ea-9145-9c8e992d421e\" alt=\"\" title=\"The recent spate of videos featuring white people confronting African Americans for innocuous reasons comes...\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"wsj-article-caption article__inset__image__caption\" itemprop=\"caption\">\n<h4 class=\"wsj-article-caption-content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_recent_spate_of_videos_featuring_white_people_confronting_African_Americans_for_innocuous_reasons_comes_at_a_particularly_polarizing_time_in_American_life_as_Black_Lives_Matter_protests_swept_the_country\"><\/span>The recent spate of videos featuring white people confronting African Americans for innocuous reasons comes at a particularly polarizing time in American life, as Black Lives Matter protests swept the country. <span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>      <span class=\"wsj-article-credit article__inset__image__caption__credit\" itemprop=\"creator\"><br \/>\n            AFP via Getty Images<br \/>\n          <\/span><br \/>\n  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<h6><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%98White_people_feel_safer_acting_antisocially_in_public\"><\/span>\u2018White people feel safer acting antisocially in public\u2019<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h6>\n<p> In the 21st-Century U.S., a different set of economic and social fissures have emerged. President Trump has long identified his white, blue-collar base as \u201cthe forgotten people,\u201d those who feel they\u2019ve been left behind. Globalization and technological advancement have hit manufacturing jobs in many of the pivotal states won by Trump in 2016. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer,\u201d Trump said in his election-night victory speech. The president-elect may have been paying uncredited homage to a 1932 speech by President Franklin D. Roosevelt that vowed help for \u201cthe forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Given the resentments aired in Karen and Ken videos, they appear to be divided along political lines. FDR\u2019s New Deal in 1933 provided federal support to African-Americans and, by the mid-1930s, most had cut historical ties with Republican Party.<\/p>\n<div data-layout=\"inline\n                \" data-layout-mobile=\"\" class=\"\n          media-object\n          type-InsetPullQuote\n            inline\n  article__inset\n          article__inset--type-InsetPullQuote\n            article__inset--inline\n  \"><\/p>\n<div class=\"wsj-article-pullquote article__inset__pullquote \">\n<p class=\"pullquote-content article__inset__pullquote__quote\">\n        <span class=\"l-qt article__inset__pullquote__mark--left\">\u201c<\/span><br \/>\n        Furloughs, layoffs, the stress of lockdowns and re-emergence of Black Lives Matter has left many Karens and Kens feeling insecure and threatened.<br \/>\n        <span class=\"r-qt article__inset__pullquote__mark--right\">\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>       Facing discriminatory labor laws and practices, they threw their support behind Roosevelt and joined with labor unions, farmers and progressives. FDR\u2019s 1936 reelection in a landslide shifted the balance of power in the Democratic Party from its Southern bloc of white conservatives to a more diverse field.<\/p>\n<p> The most recent spate of videos featuring white people confronting Black people for the most innocuous reasons \u2014 and seeing red when they\u2019re asked to socially distance by a store employee \u2014 comes at another polarizing time in American life, as Black Lives Matter protests sweep the country. <\/p>\n<p>Lillian Glass, a Los Angeles-based communications and body-language expert and author of \u201cToxic People: 10 Ways of Dealing With People Who Make Your Life Miserable,\u201d says the rage displayed in these videos is displaced, and likely originates with a combination of multiple other personal and financial problems.<\/p>\n<p>Furloughs, layoffs, the stress of lockdowns and the re-emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement has left many Karens and Kens feeling insecure and threatened, Glass observes. \u201cIt\u2019s like the perfect storm,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Fitzgerald, the USC social-work professor, contends fear fuels their fire: \u201cPeople who have historically lived in a place of privilege and safety are being told a couple of jarring things that have shaken them to their core,\u201d he said. \u201cThey are not safe. There is a new social-justice power pushing them to look in the mirror.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are being told that the supposed fake media and the misguided liberals are to blame for the current state of social and economic turmoil,\u201d he adds. \u201cThese in fact are the same people, along with people of color, who are challenging their long-held beliefs of white superiority.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>To Aram Sinnreich, an associate professor of communication at American University in Washington, D.C., \u201cthe more interesting dimension of this is the question of <em>who <\/em>is getting angry about masks.\u201d Or put another way: Why are these people refusing to abide by store rules nearly always white?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s assume that almost everyone is feeling an unusual level of anxiety with a pandemic, record unemployment, political and social instability, and climate change,\u201d Sinnreich said. \u201cWhy do some people feel empowered and entitled to act on this anxiety by publicly defying mask-wearing regulations?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhite people in this country are less accustomed than people of color to having their public behavior subject to regulation, scrutiny and critique,\u201d Sinnreich added. \u201cThat\u2019s the purpose of whiteness, after all. So the enforcement of rules like this may come as more of a shock.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s easier for some Americans than others to let loose, and break mandatory mask rules, he said. \u201cWhite people feel safer acting antisocially in public because there is less of a pervasive threat of injury or death as a result, he said, whereas \u201ca Black person can get killed for jogging or for <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2019\/10\/13\/fort-worth-police-officer-fatally-shoots-woman-her-home-while-checking-an-open-front-door\/\" class=\"icon none\">opening their front door<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<div data-layout=\"\n                inline\" data-layout-mobile=\"\" class=\"\n          media-object\n          type-InsetMediaIllustration\n              full-width\n              \n    \n            \n  article__inset\n          article__inset--type-InsetMediaIllustration\n              article__inset--inline\n  \"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"\n        media-object-image\n        enlarge-image\n        renoImageFormat-ZH\n        img-inline\n        article__inset__image\n      \" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.2121%;\" data-mobile-ratio=\"56.2121%\" data-layout-ratio=\"56.2921%\" data-subtype=\"illustration\" class=\"image-container  responsive-media article__inset__image__image\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ei.marketwatch.com\/Multimedia\/2020\/07\/27\/Photos\/MB\/MW-IL230_karen__20200727103253_MB.jpg?uuid=0e7ef80c-d016-11ea-b953-9c8e992d421e 140w,\nhttps:\/\/ei.marketwatch.com\/Multimedia\/2020\/07\/27\/Photos\/MG\/MW-IL230_karen__20200727103253_MG.jpg?uuid=0e7ef80c-d016-11ea-b953-9c8e992d421e 540w,\nhttps:\/\/ei.marketwatch.com\/Multimedia\/2020\/07\/27\/Photos\/ZQ\/MW-IL230_karen__20200727103253_ZQ.jpg?uuid=0e7ef80c-d016-11ea-b953-9c8e992d421e 620w,\nhttps:\/\/ei.marketwatch.com\/Multimedia\/2020\/07\/27\/Photos\/ZH\/MW-IL230_karen__20200727103253_ZH.jpg?uuid=0e7ef80c-d016-11ea-b953-9c8e992d421e 860w,\nhttps:\/\/ei.marketwatch.com\/Multimedia\/2020\/07\/27\/Photos\/ZG\/MW-IL230_karen__20200727103253_ZG.jpg?uuid=0e7ef80c-d016-11ea-b953-9c8e992d421e 1260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100px,\n(max-width: 540px) 500px,\n(max-width: 620px) 580px,\n(max-width: 860px) 820px,\n1260px\" src=\"https:\/\/ei.marketwatch.com\/Multimedia\/2020\/07\/27\/Photos\/ZQ\/MW-IL230_karen__20200727103253_ZQ.jpg?uuid=0e7ef80c-d016-11ea-b953-9c8e992d421e\" data-enlarge=\"https:\/\/ei.marketwatch.com\/Multimedia\/2020\/07\/27\/Photos\/ZG\/MW-IL230_karen__20200727103253_ZG.jpg?uuid=0e7ef80c-d016-11ea-b953-9c8e992d421e\" alt=\"\" title=\"Names have been used to refer to such individuals, mostly to allow for alliteration, #PermitPatti,...\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"wsj-article-caption article__inset__image__caption\" itemprop=\"caption\">\n<h4 class=\"wsj-article-caption-content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Names_have_been_used_to_refer_to_such_individuals_mostly_to_allow_for_alliteration_PermitPatti_who_refused_to_accept_that_a_Black_family_was_allowed_into_a_neighborhood_pool_and_BBQBecky\"><\/span>Names have been used to refer to such individuals, mostly to allow for alliteration, #PermitPatti, who refused to accept that a Black family was allowed into a neighborhood pool, and #BBQBecky. <span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>      <span class=\"wsj-article-credit article__inset__image__caption__credit\" itemprop=\"creator\"><br \/>\n            Source: MarketWatch photo illustration\/iStockphoto<br \/>\n          <\/span><br \/>\n  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<h6><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_cultural_history_behind_the_name_%E2%80%98Karen\"><\/span>The cultural history behind the name \u2018Karen\u2019<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h6>\n<p> The Karen phenomenon, meanwhile, has jumped from the social-media peanut gallery to the halls of power. In October, San Francisco\u2019s Board of Supervisors unanimously voted to pass the Caution Against Racially and Exploitative Non-Emergencies (CAREN) Act to make fabricated, racially-biased emergency calls to 911 illegal.<\/p>\n<p>Supervisor Shamann Walton, who proposed the order in July and who is Black, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2020\/10\/21\/san-francisco-officials-let-people-sue-over-racist-911-calls\/6003612002\/\" class=\"icon none\">told the press<\/a>: \u201cWe don\u2019t want what happened to Emmett Till in 1955, or the long history of false accusations of Black men and boys in this country, due to weaponizing law enforcement, to threaten, terrorize, and sometimes even kill them, to ever happen again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You may wonder why these videos\u2019 subjects are called Karen. The name\u2019s popularity peaked in the mid-1960s, and given the demographics of the U.S. 60 years ago, one theory is that people named Karen are now mostly middle-aged and white. <\/p>\n<p>The apparent genesis of the name\u2019s pejoration was a low-key and, likely, sexist viral post some years back joking that there\u2019s no such thing as a youthful Karen \u2014 that Karens arrive on the scene fully formed, grasping onto anti-vax conspiracy theories and usually demanding to see the manager. <\/p>\n<p>There is some agreement that the name Karen is associated with white women. Karen Attiah <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2020\/04\/28\/karen-memes-jokes-arent-sexist-or-racist-let-karen-explain\/?arc404=true\" class=\"icon none\">wrote in the Washington Post<\/a> that, as a kid in South Dallas in the 1990s, she introduced herself to other Black kids at the mall. \u201cOne of them raised an eyebrow and looked puzzled when I told him my name. \u2018You don\u2019t look like a Karen,\u2019 he said. \u2018That\u2019s a white lady\u2019s name.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<div data-layout=\"inline\n                \" data-layout-mobile=\"\" class=\"\n          media-object\n          type-InsetPullQuote\n            inline\n  article__inset\n          article__inset--type-InsetPullQuote\n            article__inset--inline\n  \"><\/p>\n<div class=\"wsj-article-pullquote article__inset__pullquote \">\n<p class=\"pullquote-content article__inset__pullquote__quote\">\n        <span class=\"l-qt article__inset__pullquote__mark--left\">\u201c<\/span><br \/>\n        \u2018White people in this country are less accustomed than people of color to having their public behavior subject to regulation, scrutiny, and critique.\u2019<br \/>\n        <span class=\"r-qt article__inset__pullquote__mark--right\">\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>        <small><br \/>\n          <span class=\"inset-author article__inset__pullquote__author\">\u2014 Aram Sinnreich, an associate professor of communication at American University in Washington, D.C.<\/span><br \/>\n        <\/small><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>       \u201cMy mother, who grew up in Nigeria, named me Karen precisely because she wanted me to blend into white American society and face fewer problems in life than I would have with a foreign or a \u2018black-sounding\u2019 name,\u201d Attiah wrote. \u201cBeing a Karen has probably given me some advantages.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> This is not the first time white people, possibly arrogant white people, have been given such sobriquets. In the 19th Century, African Americans called condescending white men and women, as well as slave owners and their wives, Mister Charlies and Miss Anns. It was a covert and safer way of discussing their behavior. <\/p>\n<p>In fact, James Baldwin wrote a 1964 play titled \u201cBlues for Mister Charlie.\u201d It was loosely based on the case of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old African-American from Chicago who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after he was accused of offending a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in her parents\u2019 grocery store. Bryant recanted that accusation decades after Till\u2019s murder.<\/p>\n<p>Even some white suffragettes have been identified as having Karen-esque tendencies. \u201cIn America, both the women\u2019s-rights movement and the black-rights movement had their roots in the abolitionist organizations of the early 1800s, and they shared many members, goals and methods,\u201d according to \u201cOn Account of Color and Sex,\u201d a extensive analysis of that period by historian Whitney Sampson. <\/p>\n<p>That all changed. \u201cBy the late 1860s, the leaders of the two movements disagreed completely on the relationship between their movement and the existing political structure, particularly the Republican Party,\u201d she added. \u201cThey also held divergent opinions on why other women or Black people need to vote, and when enfranchisement should occur.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anna Howard Shaw, a white suffragette, turned her back on her Black compatriots in the movement. \u201cYou have put the ballot in the hands of your black men, thus making them political superiors of white women,\u201d Howard Shaw said. \u201cNever before in the history of the world have men made former slaves the political masters of their former mistresses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In recent times, other names have been used to refer to such individuals, mostly to allow for alliteration \u2014 #PermitPatti, who refused to accept that a Black family was allowed into a neighborhood pool, and #BBQBecky, who called the police on a Black family having a barbecue.<\/p>\n<p>Pop culture has made some names stick: Sir-Mix-A-Lot\u2019s \u201cBaby Got Back\u201d in 1992 featured a \u201cBecky\u201d who sounded like a stereotypical Valley Girl, while \u201cKaren\u201d surfaced in Dane Cook\u2019s 2005 stand-up routine \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=J_kg0W3AeIU\" class=\"icon none\">The Friend Nobody Likes<\/a>.\u201c \u201cEvery group has a Karen &#8230;\u201d Cook said. (To be fair to Cook, he also said his friend group had such a person named Brian.)<\/p>\n<p>Whether they\u2019re called Karen and Ken or Becky and Brian, social commentators say the names provide a handle on behaviors born of entitlement, privilege or disenfranchisement and\/or rage. In other words, such run-ins with Karens and Kens are not always \u2014 explicitly, at least \u2014 related to race.<\/p>\n<div data-layout=\"\n                inline\" data-layout-mobile=\"\" class=\"\n          media-object\n          type-InsetMediaIllustration\n              full-width\n              \n    \n            \n  article__inset\n          article__inset--type-InsetMediaIllustration\n              article__inset--inline\n  \"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"\n        media-object-image\n        enlarge-image\n        renoImageFormat-ZH\n        img-inline\n        article__inset__image\n      \" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.2121%;\" data-mobile-ratio=\"56.2121%\" data-layout-ratio=\"56.2921%\" data-subtype=\"illustration\" class=\"image-container  responsive-media article__inset__image__image\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ei.marketwatch.com\/Multimedia\/2020\/07\/28\/Photos\/MB\/MW-IL269_femini_20200728081217_MB.jpg?uuid=94776b28-d0cb-11ea-aa35-9c8e992d421e 140w,\nhttps:\/\/ei.marketwatch.com\/Multimedia\/2020\/07\/28\/Photos\/MG\/MW-IL269_femini_20200728081217_MG.jpg?uuid=94776b28-d0cb-11ea-aa35-9c8e992d421e 540w,\nhttps:\/\/ei.marketwatch.com\/Multimedia\/2020\/07\/28\/Photos\/ZQ\/MW-IL269_femini_20200728081217_ZQ.jpg?uuid=94776b28-d0cb-11ea-aa35-9c8e992d421e 620w,\nhttps:\/\/ei.marketwatch.com\/Multimedia\/2020\/07\/28\/Photos\/ZH\/MW-IL269_femini_20200728081217_ZH.jpg?uuid=94776b28-d0cb-11ea-aa35-9c8e992d421e 860w,\nhttps:\/\/ei.marketwatch.com\/Multimedia\/2020\/07\/28\/Photos\/ZG\/MW-IL269_femini_20200728081217_ZG.jpg?uuid=94776b28-d0cb-11ea-aa35-9c8e992d421e 1260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100px,\n(max-width: 540px) 500px,\n(max-width: 620px) 580px,\n(max-width: 860px) 820px,\n1260px\" src=\"https:\/\/ei.marketwatch.com\/Multimedia\/2020\/07\/28\/Photos\/ZQ\/MW-IL269_femini_20200728081217_ZQ.jpg?uuid=94776b28-d0cb-11ea-aa35-9c8e992d421e\" data-enlarge=\"https:\/\/ei.marketwatch.com\/Multimedia\/2020\/07\/28\/Photos\/ZG\/MW-IL269_femini_20200728081217_ZG.jpg?uuid=94776b28-d0cb-11ea-aa35-9c8e992d421e\" alt=\"\" title=\"Some social commentators say the virality of Karen videos ignores the reality that people of...\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"wsj-article-caption article__inset__image__caption\" itemprop=\"caption\">\n<h4 class=\"wsj-article-caption-content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Some_social_commentators_say_the_virality_of_Karen_videos_ignores_the_reality_that_people_of_color_deal_with_being_policed_by_white_women_and_men_Pictured_The_Womens_March_Los_Angeles_in_January_2018_Source_Getty_Images\"><\/span>Some social commentators say the virality of Karen videos ignores the reality that people of color deal with being policed by white women and men. Pictured: The Women&#8217;s March Los Angeles in January 2018. Source: Getty Images<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<h6><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Men_misogyny_and_mental_health\"><\/span>Men, misogyny and mental health <span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h6>\n<p> Karens and Kens are, one might assume, equally angry with their perception of the state of the world. But while videos of people losing their cool in stores and on airplanes feature both men and women, Karens <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/abc11.com\/spirit-woman-makes-outburst-on-airlines-flight-plane\/3691558\/\" class=\"icon none\">make the news<\/a> more often than Kens. People also appear to choose to film and\/or share Karens on Twitter, Facebook<br \/>\n        FB,<br \/>\n        <bg-quote field=\"percentchange\" format=\"0,000.00%\" channel=\"\/zigman2\/quotes\/205064656\/composite\" class=\"negative\">-1.05%<\/bg-quote><br \/>\n       and Instagram. <\/p>\n<p>These videos are disturbing and chilling, but also mesmerizing and fascinating \u2014 they can rack up tens of millions of views online. Fitzgerald says the virality of Karen videos ignores the reality that people of color deal with being policed by white women <em>and <\/em>men, and are effectively told they\u2019re occupying what they regard as <em>their <\/em>space. \u201cAs people of color, we have equal negative experiences with both,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>So why do videos of Karens get more clicks than those featuring men? Because these scenes take place in clothing stores and supermarkets, places where women still go more than men? Is it connected to <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rti.org\/insights\/myth-female-hysteria-and-health-disparities-among-women\" class=\"icon none\">the toxic myth of female hysteria<\/a> that still permeates society, whether at the workplace or the doctor\u2019s office? Or is it a twisted fascination with seeing women \u201cmisbehave\u201d in the context of \u201cgood girl\u201d and \u201cladylike\u201d patriarchal stereotypes?<\/p>\n<div data-layout=\"inline\n                \" data-layout-mobile=\"\" class=\"\n          media-object\n          type-InsetPullQuote\n            inline\n  article__inset\n          article__inset--type-InsetPullQuote\n            article__inset--inline\n  \"><\/p>\n<div class=\"wsj-article-pullquote article__inset__pullquote \">\n<p class=\"pullquote-content article__inset__pullquote__quote\">\n        <span class=\"l-qt article__inset__pullquote__mark--left\">\u201c<\/span><br \/>\n        Karens, arguably, are no angrier than their male counterparts. On Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, we see their anger more than Kens because people choose to film and\/or share them.<br \/>\n        <span class=\"r-qt article__inset__pullquote__mark--right\">\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>       Meghan Murphy, the founder and editor of the Feminist Current magazine, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.feministcurrent.com\/2020\/06\/23\/the-karen-becky-meme-has-officially-gone-too-far\/\" class=\"icon none\">wrote in a recent edition<\/a> that Karen memes and videos have \u201cofficially gone too far.\u201d She wrote: \u201cThis connects to sexist tropes that claim women use their emotions, vulnerability, and tears to manipulate men.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> \u201c\u2018Becky,\u2019 which originated as a means to refer to basic white women \u2014 the Uggs-wearing, Starbucks-buying, pumpkin spice-loving kind \u2014 [is] probably young, probably blonde, probably not working class,\u201d Murphy wrote. \u201cLike \u2018Karen,\u2019 I never found this to be particularly offensive, as I had little desire to defend boring people who love Starbucks, but what was once a joke has become something much more egregious.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She cites, as one of many examples, a male driver who identified a woman he described as a \u201cKaren\u201d and \u201cthen <em>followed her home<\/em> and filmed her as she melted down into hysterics, posting the video online.\u201d Her \u201ccrime\u201d? She flipped him off. The man who filmed the video, who is Black and gay and in his 20s, describes himself on his own website as \u201cmore than a viral video star.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The man included her license plate in his video. It has been viewed more than 11 million times, and he is now selling T-shirts online based on the incident. <\/p>\n<p>It makes for uncomfortable viewing. The woman tells him to leave her alone. She cowers at the back of her car, attempting to hide her license plate. She screams about what is perhaps now regarded as the ultimate way to bring instant infamy to a white woman who makes a mistake or loses her cool in public: \u201cHe wants to call me a Karen and put me online!\u201d <\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Twitter said it doesn\u2019t consider car license plates to be private information under its private-information policy and, while the apartment complex is visible in that video, there isn\u2019t a visible address, so it\u2019s not something it would take enforcement action on. The company declined to comment on the alleged harassment of this woman in the video. <\/p>\n<p>Many such videos lack context, and we often don\u2019t get to see what happened immediately before the video started, Murphy said. \u201cWe all know social media leaves little room for nuance, and far too many people enjoy a rage reaction over asking questions or considering they may not know the full story,\u201d she said. \u201cThe truth is that, today, people\u2019s lives can be destroyed in an instant, via a viral post. And our culture is wielding that power with very little care.\u201d<\/p>\n<div data-layout=\"inline\n                \" data-layout-mobile=\"\" class=\"\n          media-object\n          type-InsetPullQuote\n            inline\n  article__inset\n          article__inset--type-InsetPullQuote\n            article__inset--inline\n  \"><\/p>\n<div class=\"wsj-article-pullquote article__inset__pullquote \">\n<p class=\"pullquote-content article__inset__pullquote__quote\">\n        <span class=\"l-qt article__inset__pullquote__mark--left\">\u201c<\/span><br \/>\n        \u2018This dual oppressor\/oppressed identity often becomes a root of tension when white women are challenged to consider their white privilege by women of color.\u2019<br \/>\n        <span class=\"r-qt article__inset__pullquote__mark--right\">\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>        <small><br \/>\n          <span class=\"inset-author article__inset__pullquote__author\">\u2014 Mamta Motwani Accapadi, who works in higher-education administration, writing in her study, \u2018When White Women Cry\u2019<\/span><br \/>\n        <\/small><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>       Some who see the Karen and Ken videos and memes as necessary and revealing do acknowledge the sexist element of focusing on white women over white men. \u201cWe live in a sexist society, so of course any kind of public shaming will have a gendered element,\u201d Sinnreich said. <\/p>\n<p> Men and women express violence differently, he added. \u201cMen may be more likely to start a physical altercation, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bjs.gov\/content\/pub\/pdf\/fvv.pdf\" class=\"icon none\">to engage in domestic abuse<\/a> or to vandalize property. It may be that calling the perpetrators of these incidents by the gendered term Karen is a tacit acknowledgment that the form of \u2018acting out\u2019 they are engaging in is one that is more frequently designated as an appropriate or expected form of anti-sociality for women.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe locale may be part of that,\u201d Sinnreich added, \u201cbut so may be the nature of the acting out, such as disrupting normal business processes (checkout lines) and delegating violence by proxy to institutions (calling the cops on a bird-watcher who asks you to leash your dog).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In her seminal article, \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/files.eric.ed.gov\/fulltext\/EJ899418.pdf\" class=\"icon none\">When White Women Cry<\/a>,\u201d semantics scholar Mamta Motwani Accapadi examined the complex relationship to social justice and diversity between white and Black women. She examined awkward moments between Black and white women at workplaces and educational institutions. <\/p>\n<p>What she found: \u201cThis dual oppressor\/oppressed identity often becomes a root of tension when white women are challenged to consider their white privilege by women of color.\u201d That is to say, such conversations between white and Black colleagues about race don\u2019t always go so well.<\/p>\n<p>She cited a case study involving \u201cAnita,\u201d a woman of color, who raised a concern about the lack of support offered to her community from an office where \u201cSusan\u201d worked. Susan began to cry and said she \u201cfelt attacked.\u201d Anita reassured Susan that her comments were not directed at her personally. Instead of discussing the issue of support or lack of diversity programs, the group spent its time consoling Susan. Susan later reported Anita to both of their respective managers. <\/p>\n<p>Stephanie Younger, an 18-year-old activist, says the Karen phenomenon is not misogynistic or sexist. In her essay for the Black Feminist Collective, \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/blackfeministcollective.com\/2020\/05\/02\/karen-memes\/\" class=\"icon none\">The Backlash Against \u2018Karen\u2019 Memes Is Peak White Feminism<\/a>,\u201d she wrote, \u201cWhile white women have the privilege of being called a \u2018Karen\u2019 for enforcing oppression against marginalized people, Black women and girls are labeled as \u2018angry\u2019\u201d because of their race. <\/p>\n<div data-layout=\"inline\n                \" data-layout-mobile=\"\" class=\"\n          media-object\n          type-InsetPullQuote\n            inline\n  article__inset\n          article__inset--type-InsetPullQuote\n            article__inset--inline\n  \"><\/p>\n<div class=\"wsj-article-pullquote article__inset__pullquote \">\n<p class=\"pullquote-content article__inset__pullquote__quote\">\n        <span class=\"l-qt article__inset__pullquote__mark--left\">\u201c<\/span><br \/>\n        \u2018Mental illness has been really something that has not been addressed as a result of this pandemic because what happened to me was scary and it changed my life forever.\u2019<br \/>\n        <span class=\"r-qt article__inset__pullquote__mark--right\">\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>        <small><br \/>\n          <span class=\"inset-author article__inset__pullquote__author\">\u2014 Melissa Rein Lively, the woman who filmed herself tearing down a mask display at a Target, says she regrets the incident<\/span><br \/>\n        <\/small><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>       \u201cWhite women, before you get defensive when we hold you accountable for weaponizing your privilege,\u201d Younger wrote, \u201cremember that Black girls are the ones who are being erased and marginalized.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> The stress and fear of COVID-19 can take their toll. But for every racist encounter, there are other social-media incidents where people act out in public that may have their roots in more complex issues.<\/p>\n<p>Melissa Rein Lively, the woman who filmed herself tearing down a mask display last July at a Target<br \/>\n        TGT,<br \/>\n        <bg-quote field=\"percentchange\" format=\"0,000.00%\" channel=\"\/zigman2\/quotes\/207799045\/composite\" class=\"positive\">+0.38%<\/bg-quote><br \/>\n      \u00a0in Scottsdale, Ariz. and posted it on her own social media, says she spent a week in a mental-health facility after the incident, and is using the public meltdown as a warning to others to seek help for mental health conditions, especially during the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to deeply apologize for my words and actions that took place earlier this month,\u201d she wrote on Facebook<br \/>\n        FB,<br \/>\n        <bg-quote field=\"percentchange\" format=\"0,000.00%\" channel=\"\/zigman2\/quotes\/205064656\/composite\" class=\"negative\">-1.05%<\/bg-quote><br \/>\n       shortly after the incident went viral. \u201cFor the first time ever, I have accepted that I am completely powerless over this condition and have accepted the medical help and professional intervention that is needed to establish mental and physical stability for myself and my family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the last several weeks, I have been working with several doctors to try to piece together what happened and why, and I have learned there are several serious underlying conditions that were untreated and triggered an episode due to extreme stress by the pandemic and everything else going on,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Rein Lively, the chief executive and founder of a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrandconsortium.com\/about\" class=\"icon none\">public-relations firm<\/a>, added, \u201cI will be entering an intensive treatment program to address these health concerns from a mental, physical and spiritual level. I am deeply committed to repairing my marriage, family and personal and professional relationships and pursuing treatment is the first step.\u201d The video has been viewed on Twitter<br \/>\n        TWTR,<br \/>\n        <bg-quote field=\"percentchange\" format=\"0,000.00%\" channel=\"\/zigman2\/quotes\/203180645\/composite\" class=\"negative\">-1.54%<\/bg-quote><br \/>\n      \u00a0over 10 million times.<\/p>\n<p>The very public meltdown led some people online to dub her \u201cArizona Karen,\u201d but it\u2019s also a reminder that mental-health issues are sometimes caught up in the mix, too. <\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/daily-life-coping\/managing-stress-anxiety.html\" class=\"icon none\">Pandemics can be stressful<\/a>,\u201d the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, says. The CDC says fear and worry about your own health and the health of your loved ones, your financial situation or job, or loss of support services you rely on, can all adversely impact your mental health. A recent Census Bureau survey found a surge in depression-related mood disorders during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Health authorities are concerned about the impact of the pandemic and job losses on people\u2019s mental health, and some say it could lead to tragic outcomes. The growing epidemic of \u201cdeaths of despair\u201d in the U.S. is also increasing due to the pandemic \u2014 and another 75,000 more people will likely die from drug or alcohol misuse and suicide, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/wellbeingtrust.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/WBT_Deaths-of-Despair-COVID-19-FINAL.pdf?utm_source=STAT+Newsletters&amp;utm_campaign=b2a419aaec-MR_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_8cab1d7961-b2a419aaec-151875161\" class=\"icon none\">according to recent research<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can prevent these deaths by taking meaningful and comprehensive action,\u201d it said. \u201cMore Americans could lose their lives to deaths of despair, deaths due to drug, alcohol, and suicide, if we do not do something immediately. Deaths of despair have been on the rise for the last decade, and in the context of COVID-19, deaths of despair should be seen as the epidemic within the pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n<div data-layout=\"\n                inline\" data-layout-mobile=\"\" class=\"\n          media-object\n          type-InsetMediaIllustration\n              full-width\n              \n    \n            \n  article__inset\n          article__inset--type-InsetMediaIllustration\n              article__inset--inline\n  \"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"\n        media-object-image\n        enlarge-image\n        renoImageFormat-ZH\n        img-inline\n        article__inset__image\n      \" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.2121%;\" data-mobile-ratio=\"56.2121%\" data-layout-ratio=\"56.2921%\" data-subtype=\"illustration\" class=\"image-container  responsive-media article__inset__image__image\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ei.marketwatch.com\/Multimedia\/2020\/07\/28\/Photos\/MB\/MW-IL271_blm_dc_20200728083129_MB.jpg?uuid=42e1ae92-d0ce-11ea-b80c-9c8e992d421e 140w,\nhttps:\/\/ei.marketwatch.com\/Multimedia\/2020\/07\/28\/Photos\/MG\/MW-IL271_blm_dc_20200728083129_MG.jpg?uuid=42e1ae92-d0ce-11ea-b80c-9c8e992d421e 540w,\nhttps:\/\/ei.marketwatch.com\/Multimedia\/2020\/07\/28\/Photos\/ZQ\/MW-IL271_blm_dc_20200728083129_ZQ.jpg?uuid=42e1ae92-d0ce-11ea-b80c-9c8e992d421e 620w,\nhttps:\/\/ei.marketwatch.com\/Multimedia\/2020\/07\/28\/Photos\/ZH\/MW-IL271_blm_dc_20200728083129_ZH.jpg?uuid=42e1ae92-d0ce-11ea-b80c-9c8e992d421e 860w,\nhttps:\/\/ei.marketwatch.com\/Multimedia\/2020\/07\/28\/Photos\/ZG\/MW-IL271_blm_dc_20200728083129_ZG.jpg?uuid=42e1ae92-d0ce-11ea-b80c-9c8e992d421e 1260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100px,\n(max-width: 540px) 500px,\n(max-width: 620px) 580px,\n(max-width: 860px) 820px,\n1260px\" src=\"https:\/\/ei.marketwatch.com\/Multimedia\/2020\/07\/28\/Photos\/ZQ\/MW-IL271_blm_dc_20200728083129_ZQ.jpg?uuid=42e1ae92-d0ce-11ea-b80c-9c8e992d421e\" data-enlarge=\"https:\/\/ei.marketwatch.com\/Multimedia\/2020\/07\/28\/Photos\/ZG\/MW-IL271_blm_dc_20200728083129_ZG.jpg?uuid=42e1ae92-d0ce-11ea-b80c-9c8e992d421e\" alt=\"\" title=\"The Pride and Black Lives Matter movements last year in Washington, DC. The larger official...\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"wsj-article-caption article__inset__image__caption\" itemprop=\"caption\">\n<h4 class=\"wsj-article-caption-content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Pride_and_Black_Lives_Matter_movements_last_year_in_Washington_DC_The_larger_official_Pride_events_were_canceled_due_to_the_coronavirus_pandemic_but_people_still_showed_up_to_lend_their_support_for_the_Black_Lives_Matter_movement\"><\/span>The Pride and Black Lives Matter movements last year in Washington, DC. The larger official Pride events were canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic but people still showed up to lend their support for the Black Lives Matter movement. <span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>      <span class=\"wsj-article-credit article__inset__image__caption__credit\" itemprop=\"creator\"><br \/>\n            Getty Images<br \/>\n          <\/span><br \/>\n  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<h6><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%98A_problem_which_is_not_named_cannot_be_solved\"><\/span>\u2018A problem which is not named cannot be solved\u2019<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h6>\n<p> But the race-based incidents that have gone viral allow other white people to see what it looks like when racism and white privilege run wilds, which is an every day experience for most people of color, social commentators say. <\/p>\n<p>On the one hand, it makes most folks feel better about themselves \u2014 \u201cThank God I\u2019m not like that!\u201d or, worse, \u201cThank God I\u2019m not that bad!\u201d \u2014 and laugh at the absurdity of people trying to assert their own perceived power in a very public setting. <\/p>\n<p>But the most ingrained kinds of racism and white supremacy are neither amusing, nor so obvious, and permeate every aspect of culture and society \u2014 from hundreds of years of ingrained economic inequality to the most pernicious social interactions.<\/p>\n<p>Both white and minority communities are struggling with coronavirus-induced job loss and concerns of getting sick, but people of color frequently experience discrimination in jobs, health care and housing, the kind of systemic racism not so easily captured in a four-minute video. Indeed, some encounters with Karens and Kens can be less public displays of emotion and more cat-and-mouse.<\/p>\n<p>Lisa Alexander, the CEO of LaFace Skincare and now known as \u201cSan Francisco Karen,\u201d and her partner, Robert Larkins, walked up to a neighbor James Juanillo last June. They were not happy. Juanillo, who describes himself as a \u201cproud Filipino,\u201d was writing \u201cBlack Lives Matter\u201d in yellow chalk on a gray retaining wall in the Pacific Heights area of San Francisco. With a veneer of chilly politeness, they told him that he was breaking the law.<\/p>\n<div data-layout=\"inline\n                \" data-layout-mobile=\"\" class=\"\n          media-object\n          type-InsetPullQuote\n            inline\n  article__inset\n          article__inset--type-InsetPullQuote\n            article__inset--inline\n  \"><\/p>\n<div class=\"wsj-article-pullquote article__inset__pullquote \">\n<p class=\"pullquote-content article__inset__pullquote__quote\">\n        <span class=\"l-qt article__inset__pullquote__mark--left\">\u201c<\/span><br \/>\n        \u2018Women are judged for being emotional. We\u2019re considered to be difficult when we get angry, whereas men are perceived as being tough and powerful.\u2019<br \/>\n        <span class=\"r-qt article__inset__pullquote__mark--right\">\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>        <small><br \/>\n          <span class=\"inset-author article__inset__pullquote__author\">\u2014 Denise Dudley, author and workplace consultant<\/span><br \/>\n        <\/small><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>       <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jaimetoons\/status\/1271300265170186240?s=20\" class=\"icon none\">Alexander asked<\/a>. \u201cHi, is this your property? I\u2019m asking you if this is your property.\u201d When Juanillo suggested that they didn\u2019t know who lived there, Alexander raised her index finger to her chin apologetically, and said, \u201cWe actually do know. That\u2019s why we\u2019re asking. Because we know the person who does live here.\u201d <\/p>\n<p> There was one not-insignificant problem: Alexander was lying. Juanillo had lived in the property since 2002, and decided to let the absurd and cringeworthy scenario play out. <\/p>\n<p>It was not clear why Alexander or Larkins assumed he did not own the property, nor why they would pretend that they were friends with the owner.<\/p>\n<p>But one theory as to why Alexander and Larkins approached Juanillo is that in a predominantly white, wealthy neighborhood like Pacific Heights \u2014 where the median-priced home is valued at $2 million, according to Zillow<br \/>\n        Z,<br \/>\n        <bg-quote field=\"percentchange\" format=\"0,000.00%\" channel=\"\/zigman2\/quotes\/204413973\/composite\" class=\"negative\">-6.30%<\/bg-quote><br \/>\n      \u00a0\u2014 they incorrectly assumed that he did not live there. Feeling secure in that assumption, they felt confident enough to lie and say they did know who lived in Juanillo\u2019s large home.<\/p>\n<p>Alexander released a statement after Juanillo\u2019s video went viral on Twitter<br \/>\n        TWTR,<br \/>\n        <bg-quote field=\"percentchange\" format=\"0,000.00%\" channel=\"\/zigman2\/quotes\/203180645\/composite\" class=\"negative\">-1.54%<\/bg-quote><span>,<\/span><br \/>\n       where it was viewed more than 23 million times. \u201cI want to apologize directly to Mr. Juanillo,\u201d she wrote. \u201cThere are not enough words to describe how truly sorry I am for being disrespectful to him.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>She added: \u201cI should have minded my own business. The last 48 hours has taught me that my actions were those of someone who is not aware of the damage caused by being ignorant and naive to racial inequalities.\u201d Nowhere in her apology did Alexander use the word \u201cracist\u201d or \u201cracism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One factor that may contribute to the fascination with Karen videos: \u201cEmotional expressions by women tend to come under greater scrutiny than those by men,\u201d wrote the authors of \u201cConstrained by Emotion: Women, Leadership, and Expressing Emotion in the Workplace,\u201d a chapter in the 2016 \u201cHandbook on Well-Being of Working Women.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Women incur social and economic penalties for expressing stereotypical \u201cmasculine\u201d emotions because they threaten society\u2019s patriarchal barriers, researchers Jacqueline Smith, Victoria Brescoll and Erin Thomas wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Denise Dudley, a San Luis Obispo, Calif.-based author and workplace consultant, said women, whether they are white or Black, are encouraged by society to withhold their anger, while men are encouraged to withhold their tears. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWomen are judged for being emotional,\u201d she said. \u201cWe\u2019re considered to be difficult when we get angry, whereas men are perceived as being tough and powerful.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Research has actually suggested that men who get angry are perceived as strong and decisive, while women are more often seen as hysterical. That, Dudley said, could go some way in explaining why Karens seem to trigger more social-media viewers than Kens.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the underlying reasons why some white women and men are captured on video raging against mask mandates and people of color they meet on the street, Dudley says the moniker serves a useful purpose: It allows people to call out entitled, unacceptable behavior. <\/p>\n<p>McNamarah agrees. \u201cA problem which is not named cannot be solved. Violence which is neither acknowledged nor understood cannot be prevented. Hidden pain and undiagnosed injuries cannot be healed,\u201d she concluded in her Michigan Journal of Race &amp; Law paper.<\/p>\n<p>In the most visible cases, social media is a powerful enough tool to bring a reckoning to those who are a public nuisance and\/or call the cops on Black neighbors, or accuse Asian Americans of bringing the coronavirus to the U.S. It provides an important record of the event and often leads to a public backlash, worldwide opprobrium for the Karen or Ken in the video, and financial and professional repercussions for the busybody. Often times, behavior that hurts an individual\u2019s or company\u2019s bottom line is, for better or for worse, what it takes to affect change. <\/p>\n<p>Of \u201cSan Francisco Karen,\u201d Dudley said an empty smile can chill the bones more than an angry word.  \u201cShe was scarier than the other ones,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unlikely that this is the first time that Juanillo had to deal with white people who assume this space is <em>their <\/em>elevator, street corner, department store, swimming pool, public park, Ivy League college, and white-collar job.<\/p>\n<p>Lisa Alexander and her husband walked away, visibly irritated that Juanillo did not acquiesce to their demands to stop what he was doing. Even while filming that testy exchange, Juanillo did manage to keep his cool <em>and <\/em>his sense of humor.<\/p>\n<p>He told his millions of future viewers: \u201cAnd that, people, is why Black lives matter. That\u2019s Karen, and she\u2019s calling the cops, and this is going to be really funny because she knows the people who live here. Personally.\u201d<\/p>\n<div data-layout=\"\n                inline\" data-layout-mobile=\"\" class=\"\n          media-object\n          type-InsetMediaIllustration\n              full-width\n              \n    \n            \n  article__inset\n          article__inset--type-InsetMediaIllustration\n              article__inset--inline\n  \"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"\n        media-object-image\n        enlarge-image\n        renoImageFormat-20210206160557\n        img-inline\n        article__inset__image\n      \" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:69.9473%;\" data-mobile-ratio=\"69.9473%\" data-layout-ratio=\"69.9473%\" data-subtype=\"illustration\" class=\"image-container  responsive-media article__inset__image__image\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ei.marketwatch.com\/Multimedia\/2021\/02\/06\/Photos\/MB\/MW-JA208_faces_20210206160557_MB.jpg?uuid=1b778f0a-68bf-11eb-8354-001cc448aede 140w,\nhttps:\/\/ei.marketwatch.com\/Multimedia\/2021\/02\/06\/Photos\/MG\/MW-JA208_faces_20210206160557_MG.jpg?uuid=1b778f0a-68bf-11eb-8354-001cc448aede 860w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100px,\n860px\" src=\"https:\/\/ei.marketwatch.com\/Multimedia\/2021\/02\/06\/Photos\/MG\/MW-JA208_faces_20210206160557_MG.jpg?uuid=1b778f0a-68bf-11eb-8354-001cc448aede\" data-enlarge=\"https:\/\/ei.marketwatch.com\/Multimedia\/2021\/02\/06\/Photos\/MG\/MW-JA208_faces_20210206160557_MG.jpg?uuid=1b778f0a-68bf-11eb-8354-001cc448aede\" alt=\"\" title=\"An excerpt from \u201856 Black Men,\u2019 by Cephas Williams, a London-based artist.\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"wsj-article-caption article__inset__image__caption\" itemprop=\"caption\">\n<h4 class=\"wsj-article-caption-content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"An_excerpt_from_%E2%80%9856_Black_Men_by_Cephas_Williams_a_London-based_artist\"><\/span>An excerpt from \u201856 Black Men,\u2019 by Cephas Williams, a London-based artist.<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>      <span class=\"wsj-article-credit article__inset__image__caption__credit\" itemprop=\"creator\"><br \/>\n            Cephas Williams<br \/>\n          <\/span><br \/>\n  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>       <em>(This story was published on July 20, 2020, and updated on May 5, 2021.)<\/em><\/p>\n<div data-layout=\"\n                \" data-layout-mobile=\"\" class=\"\n          media-object\n          type-InsetMediaIllustration\n              reno-inset\n              \n              \n              wrap\n  article__inset\n          article__inset--type-InsetMediaIllustration\n                \n                article__inset--wrap\n  \"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"\n        media-object-image\n        enlarge-image\n        renoImageFormat-\n        img-\n        article__inset__image\n            empty-image\n  \" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:%;\" 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Other times, it\u2019s with the rage of angels. 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