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It's wild how "Karen" started out as calling out racism and now it's just a way for sexist people to shame women for not performing gender roles. (hexbear.net)

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Good women are young, quiet, have pretty long hair (never dyed a unnatural colour though!) and never speak up about being mistreated, ever. You want to complain about a genuine problem? Sorry, you're a Karen. Ask people to social distance? Karen. Nicely tell people to please be quiet during a movie? Karen. Ripped off by corporate greed and want a refund? Karen.

Be silent, be feminine and behave, woman.

It sucks because it actually used to describe real harrassment that black service workers experience. Now it's just "Mouthy mom aged women with short dyed hair"

I've even seen a male black service worker be called a "male Karen" I shit you not.

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[–] OldSoulHippie@hexbear.net 46 points 3 days ago (2 children)

To the same end, "Fake News" was a term used heavily by liberals in response to the enshitification of right wing news around 2015. When Trump first started gaining momentum, there were a bunch of news stories that got amplified that were completely made up or used dodgy means to exploit statistics and stuff. The right started shouting it back to everything they didn't like and now it's theirs.

[–] Gosplan14_the_Third@hexbear.net 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Pretty sure the term was popularized by Trump himself, who called a journalist "you are fake news".

The liberals then used it to basically replace previously common used words like disinformation, propaganda or simply hoax, to describe right wing slop of questionable veracity. While the right wing itself kept using it to claim liberals were the ones lying.

[–] OldSoulHippie@hexbear.net 6 points 3 days ago

I can believe that. The chain of custody is weird with stuff like that. I was mostly aware of it because we listened to not at work and I used to hear the host pretend to call people out with that term

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 6 points 3 days ago

before that "fake news" was the daily show with jon stewart