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       #Post#: 1831--------------------------------------------------
       Re: The Colonial roots of Hating on Muslims, & of Muslim
       Nationalism
   DIR By: guest5
       Date: October 28, 2020, 1:49 am
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       Are a majority of French people sympathetic to the dangers of
       Islamophobia?
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       > Senior research fellow at the French National Centre for
       Scientific Research Francois Burgat discusses French president
       Emmanuel Macron’s response to the killing of Samuel Paty and
       whether the majority of the French people are sympathetic to the
       dangers of islamophobia.
       --- End Quote ---
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTFAotm7MvA
       French people are sympathetic to freedom of expression against
       Jews that offends them. They call it a "hate crime" no matter
       how truthful that expression may be. Ponder that for a
       second....
       #Post#: 2152--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Karenism (a.k.a. ethnic profiling by civilians)
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: November 12, 2020, 2:26 pm
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  HTML https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/bay-area-school-board-president-145340232.html
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       > A San Francisco Bay Area school board president has resigned
       from his duties following racist comments from his wife aimed at
       VP-elect Kamala Harris.
       >
       > According to a report from a regional Bay Area NBC outlet, Jon
       Venverloh announced his resignation from the Las Lomitas
       Elementary School District in Menlo Park on Sunday. Earlier that
       same day, his Trump-supporting wife—identified in the report as
       Mehridith Philips Venverloh—shared a number of posts about
       Harris including comments later described as being part of her
       "reprehensible views" not shared by Jon.
       >
       > In a tweet, for example, Mehridith said of Harris "All she
       needs to be qualified is a black [crude term for female
       genitalia]. No brain needed!"
       --- End Quote ---
       If her views are indeed not shared by Jon, he would at least
       divorce her. If he does not do so, there is no reason for us to
       believe he does not share her views.
       #Post#: 2188--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Karenism (a.k.a. ethnic profiling by civilians)
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: November 13, 2020, 11:20 pm
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       Update on the Arbery case:
  HTML https://us.yahoo.com/news/judge-weigh-bond-father-son-060655083.html
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       > BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — The man who fatally shot Ahmaud Arbery
       had previously used racial slurs in a text message and on social
       media, a prosecutor said Thursday as a judge weighed whether to
       grant bond for the defendant and his father.
       >
       > Travis McMichael and his father, Gregory McMichael, have been
       jailed since their arrests in May, more than two months after
       Arbery was slain. The McMichaels, who are white, chased and
       fatally shot the 25-year-old Black man after they spotted him
       running in their neighborhood just outside the port city of
       Brunswick.
       > ...
       > Then prosecutor Jesse Evans asked Langford about a text
       message Travis McMichael had sent him last year that used a slur
       for Black people when referring to a “crackhead ... with gold
       teeth."
       >
       > Langford at first said he didn't recall receiving the message.
       Then after reviewing a transcript of the exchange, he answered:
       “He was referring to a raccoon, I believe.”
       >
       > Evans also cited a photo Langford posted to Facebook last year
       to which Travis McMichael replied: “Sayonara,” along with an
       offensive term for Asians followed by an expletive. Langford
       said he didn't recall that, either.
       > ...
       > “These men are proud of what they have done,” Arbery's mother,
       Wanda Cooper-Jones, told the judge as she asked him to deny them
       bond. “They want to go home because they think in their selfish
       minds that they are the good guys.”
       --- End Quote ---
       And there are 73 million more of them.
       #Post#: 2223--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Karenism (a.k.a. ethnic profiling by civilians)
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: November 14, 2020, 10:50 pm
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  HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/muslim-activist-says-she-removed-233526145.html
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       > Muslim media influencer Amani al-Khatahtbeh claimed Saturday
       she was kicked off an American Airlines flight in Newark, New
       Jersey, because another passenger "felt uncomfortable" following
       a heated verbal exchange at the TSA security line.
       > ...
       > "An entitled white man behind me insisted on cutting me in
       line because I was 'still taking my shoes off,'" she tweeted.
       "When I said he could wait like everyone else, he started going
       off about how he’s 'pre check' and 'first class.'"
       >
       > When she protested to the man and security agents, she was
       told to "cut it out," said al-Khatahtbeh, who launched an
       unsuccessful bid earlier this year to represent New Jersey's 6th
       congressional district.
       >
       > Later, after boarding her flight, al-Khatahtbeh was allegedly
       removed from the airplane because the other passenger "felt
       uncomfortable."
       --- End Quote ---
       Boycott American Airlines!
       #Post#: 2792--------------------------------------------------
       Re: If Western civilization does not die soon.....
   DIR By: guest5
       Date: December 9, 2020, 9:22 pm
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       Here's why employees accuse Google of silencing AI researchers
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       > Google sacked artificial intelligence scientist Timnit Gebru
       over an academic paper that called out racial discrimination in
       its AI systems. Here is how the incident created outrage within
       the company and beyond.
       --- End Quote ---
       
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt5CUCfEkWM
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       Re: Karenism (a.k.a. ethnic profiling by civilians)
   DIR By: guest5
       Date: December 14, 2020, 12:35 am
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       Kens and Karens: A Tribute to Unnecessarily Calling the Cops
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       > Let’s not forget all the Kens and Karens that made this year
       special. Here’s our coverage of white people unnecessarily
       calling the cops on Black people. #DailyShow
       --- End Quote ---
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nci4K-2sXdg
       #Post#: 3039--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Karenism (a.k.a. ethnic profiling by civilians)
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: December 27, 2020, 1:13 am
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       In review:
  HTML https://us.yahoo.com/news/karen-meme-changed-way-americans-060038260.html
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       > The specter of Karen persisted as Black Lives Matter protests
       and civil unrest spread around the country following Floyd’s
       murder and reckonings with racism began to roil institutions,
       toppling careers as well as statues. More than just an amusing
       meme, Karen allowed for a new kind of discourse about racism to
       gain credence in the US.
       >
       > “We as a culture have adopted this stance that white women are
       more virtuous and not complicit in upholding racism in
       particular,” said Apryl Williams, a professor of communication
       and media at the University of Michigan. “They just sort of go
       along with it, but they’re not conscious actors. The Karen meme
       says, no, they are conscious actors. These are deliberate
       actions. They are complicit. And I think that’s why it strikes a
       nerve with people.”
       >
       > Amy Cooper’s Karen status was cemented when she called the
       police on Christian Cooper, a 57-year-old Black birdwatcher,
       after he had asked her to leash her dog in New York City’s
       Central Park. Not content with falsely alleging, twice, that “an
       African American man” was “threatening me and my dog”, Cooper
       put on a play for the 911 operator, changing the register of her
       voice to one of distress and panic as she cried: “I am being
       threatened by a man in the Ramble. Please send the cops
       immediately.”
       >
       > It was through that performance that Amy Cooper took on the
       mantle of an American archetype: the white woman who weaponizes
       her vulnerability to exact violence upon a Black man. In
       history, she is Carolyn Bryant, the adult white woman whose
       complaint about a 14-year-old Emmett Till led to his torture and
       murder at the hands of racist white adults. In literature, she
       is Scarlett O’Hara sending her husband out to join a KKK
       lynching party or Mayella Ewell testifying under oath that a
       Black man who had helped her had raped her. In 2020, she is
       simply Karen.
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       Not an American archetype, but a Western colonial one. We have
       collected here plenty of examples of Karens outside the US, but
       they are all "white" (including Jewish), and it is because of
       this that their false allegations are believed without burden of
       evidence. As a matter of fact, the biggest Karen hoax in recent
       history did not happen in the US at all:
  HTML http://aryanism.net/blog/aryan-sanctuary/the-colocaust/
       But anyway:
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       > Williams defines a Karen as a “white woman surveilling and
       patrolling Black people in public spaces and then calling the
       police on them for random, non-illegal infractions”. She has
       been studying memes about Karen and her predecessors (BBQ Becky,
       Permit Patty, Pool Patrol Paula, etc) for several years, and in
       in the journal Social Media and Society, she traces Karen’s
       historical lineage and makes the case for her societal
       importance.
       >
       > “In the past, Black bodies were controlled in public spaces by
       threats of violence, lynching, and routine, targeted racialized
       terror that dictated who Black people could speak to, where they
       were allowed to live, and in which spaces they were able to
       exist,” she writes. “Presently, the routine act of calling the
       police on Black people in public spaces extends this historical
       practice of regulating Black bodies to maintain White
       supremacist order.”
       >
       > According to Williams, “Becky”, or “BBQ Becky” – the name
       given to a white woman who called the police on a group of Black
       people for using a charcoal grill in Oakland, California – was
       the more common moniker for that kind of white woman before the
       coronavirus pandemic, when Karen took off. But the name is not
       as important as what it signifies. “It’s a cultural shorthand
       and it’s interchangeable with any number of names,” Williams
       said. “If my friend were to call me and say, ‘I had an incident
       with a woman today at the bank and it was a Susan,’ she wouldn’t
       have to say anything else. I would say, ‘What did Susan do?’ and
       I already know what’s coming.
       >
       > “This is a continuation of a historical legacy,” she added.
       “We can trace it back to the Reconstruction period when
       vigilante groups were assembled to patrol freed slaves … These
       Karens and Beckys are still serving as that sort of extra-legal
       patrolling. They aren’t actually part of the law, but they act
       as enforcers of it. They extend the legal power, even though
       they have no legal power.”
       > ...
       > Implicit bias offered both an explanation and a justification
       for actions that, to those affected by them, still felt like
       plain old racism. It’s not intentional, the story went; every
       white person must still be granted the benefit of the doubt, the
       assumption of perpetual racial innocence.
       >
       > But as the summer of Karen kicked off, it became clear that
       people of color in America, and especially Black people, were no
       longer prepared to accept the alibi offered by unconscious bias.
       > ...
       > Soon, social media feeds began to fill again with testimonials
       of abuse from people of color, not so much #MeToo as #YouToo.
       You, too, have been racist, the moment of reckoning warned, and
       your co-workers and underlings are not going to keep your
       secrets for you any more.
       > ...
       > “Becky and Karen memes provide a vital social function,”
       Williams writes. “They restore agency to Black communities by
       allowing them to exert a form of justice on perpetrators. In a
       subversion and reversal of power dynamics, Black meme creators
       police White supremacy and explicitly call for consequences.”
       >
       > Of course, any attempt by Black people to assert power against
       white supremacy is instantly met by a backlash, and the backlash
       against Karen memes was practically foreordained. Complaints
       about Karen being sexist were noteworthy mostly for how neatly
       they re-enacted the Karen dynamic. Confronted with evidence of
       their own agency and complicity, some white women responded by
       reasserting their victimhood.
       --- End Quote ---
       OK, so we've brought awareness to the issue. And calling a Karen
       a Karen does not persuade them to stop being one. So now what?
       Answer:
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/firearms/
       Karens may be shameless, but I doubt they are bulletproof.
       #Post#: 3045--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Karenism (a.k.a. ethnic profiling by civilians)
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: December 28, 2020, 10:38 pm
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       And it continues because retaliation is not occurring:
  HTML https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/video-shows-woman-falsely-accusing-black-teen-stealing-phone-she-n1252427
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       > A video showing a woman in New York City falsely accusing the
       14-year-old son of jazz musician Keyon Harrold, who is Black, of
       stealing her phone that she left in her Uber has gone viral.
       >
       > The incident took place on Saturday in the lobby of Arlo Soho,
       an upscale, boutique hotel in New York where Harrold and his
       son, Keyon Harrold Jr., were guests, the hotel said.
       >
       > Harrold shared a minute-long video of the encounter on social
       media on Sunday. In the video, the woman can be heard accosting
       the father and son, yelling, “Show me my phone!” A man in the
       video who identified himself as the hotel manager can also be
       heard asking to see Harrold Jr.’s phone.
       >
       > “Are you kidding me? You feel like there’s only one iPhone
       made in the world?” Harrold said in response.
       --- End Quote ---
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fZAyg_JGbA
       Update:
  HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/soho-karen-attacked-black-teenager-220205827.html
       --- Quote ---
       > The “Soho Karen”, who police said assaulted a Black teen she
       falsely accused of taking her cell phone in a New York City
       hotel on Sunday, has been identified.
       >
       > NYPD sources told the New York Post that the suspect is
       22-year-old Miya Ponsetto.
       --- End Quote ---
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       Re: Karenism (a.k.a. ethnic profiling by civilians)
   DIR By: guest5
       Date: January 29, 2021, 8:12 pm
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       Think we missed this one first time around but definitely needs
       to be on this thread:
       Karen tells NATIVE AMERICAN to "go back where you came from"
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       > smh this karen prob thinks Christopher Columbus "discovered"
       America
       --- End Quote ---
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUHoDBcKlA8
       #Post#: 3948--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Karenism (a.k.a. ethnic profiling by civilians)
   DIR By: guest5
       Date: February 3, 2021, 9:18 pm
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       LeBron Reacts To Atlanta Karen's Meltdown
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t94f1PZLWm0
       You would be hard pressed to find this many trashy people in any
       non-western "third world" country and most of the trashy people
       in those countries are more than likely westernized themselves.
       Westerners clearly excel in degeneracy and stupidity.
       Atlanta Karen's Husband Is EXACTLY What You'd Expect
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwQVenJHboU
       Mark my words Americans, these types of people should have been
       put in ditches a long time ago. Your failure to do so is why you
       eventually lost your nation. Any honest telling of history would
       state the same.
       LeBron James heckled by fans in courtside spat during
       Lakers-Hawks game in Atlanta
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28N-CXTXXFM
       Klan Mom, MyPillow Mike & Courtside Karen Keeping America Great!
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evw0TySlkBw
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