CAREN Act To Stop Racially Motivated Police Calls Proposed By California Lawmaker

Oh, the P word.

But you are priveleged too Starblaze, on your ipad with access to the Internet.

Anybody in Britain is priveleged to have access to clean water, energy, health care.

Even black Americans are priveleged compared to the limbless children I saw in Vietnam and Cambodia.

Privelege is comparative. I'm tired of it being bandied about. Until everyone is prepared to give up their own Privelege then it's meaningless to accuse others of having Privelege.

Why do you think that Starblaze?

There's a lot of privilege showing on this thread

Although I sympathise, while black people are being brutally murdered in public and in our criminal justice system, I think we have to prioritise.

I agree with that 100% GagaJo but I can't see how demonisng and ridiculing a whole strata of society helps with that. It surely just creates more friction and division in an already divided society. And the ridiculous thing is that some of the "white, middle class women" who have been found guilty of clear racial bias against black males, have actually been in their 20s or 30s and so very unlikely to have been called Karen anyway.

Best to keep to specifics of individuals and not tarnish a whole demographic who condemn racism in all its forms.

The brutal murder of George Floyd happened in America. We abhor what happened, but we are powerless to change what happens in America. But I don’t understand the comment that black people are being ‘brutally murdered.......in our criminal justice system.’ Is this happening in the UK?

Although I sympathise, while black people are being brutally murdered in public and in our criminal justice system, I think we have to prioritise.

GagaJo

I got it earlier Maw. I just don't see it the same way as you.

Like the Essex girl jokes, I just think it's not to be taken seriously.

It's a serious issue, though, and deserves a better, more appropriate, name.

Not one which has the potential to annoy other women, antagonise them and distract from the issues.

GagaJo

Getting Angry Grannies Again?
Granny Angers Good And Jolly Others?

We could have a competition
Best answer wins um, er, any suggestions?

One year's free subscription to Gransnet?

I got it earlier Maw. I just don't see it the same way as you.

Like the Essex girl jokes, I just think it's not to be taken seriously.

?She’s got it!
By Jove she’s got it! ?

Getting Angry Grannies Again?
Granny Angers Good And Jolly Others?

So is there a generic descriptor for people who come on a site and use pejorative terms for the demographic it represents, I wonder? ???

Like calling Gransnetters boomers when many are not

Yes Callistemon, it's strange to see what is meant to be a pejorative term for older people, being used to describe those on a site for grandparents, isn't it?

rosecarmel

Callistemon

Why not call them Rosecarmels?

Isn't Carmel in California?

Or simply American -- as previously suggested- Since they are one in the same-

Which suggests all Karens are the same- As well as all African Americans-

I suppose if people have small feet they don't mind habitually sticking them in their mouth ..

I think you've got my point rosecarmel!!

Like calling Gransnetters boomers when many are not.

Being not “bring”

rosecarmel

Callistemon

Why not call them Rosecarmels?

Isn't Carmel in California?

Or simply American -- as previously suggested- Since they are one in the same-

Which suggests all Karens are the same- As well as all African Americans-

I suppose if people have small feet they don't mind habitually sticking them in their mouth ..

. Bring obscure again I fear.

Whoever mentioned Odontipedology?

Callistemon

Why not call them Rosecarmels?

Isn't Carmel in California?

Or simply American -- as previously suggested- Since they are one in the same-

Which suggests all Karens are the same- As well as all African Americans-

I suppose if people have small feet they don't mind habitually sticking them in their mouth ..

An unpleasant trend, Dollymc2

It's derogatory, why give something derogatory a woman's name?
What's that all about?
I remember many years ago having to attend one of those God awful team building events
You had to write down your name and others had to discuss the connotations that your name held
It was rather humiliating
My name suggests a 'fluffy' person
I'm actually not

Riverwalk

Of course it's an important issue which in my opinion is trivialised by giving it a woman's name, rather than a proper legal description!

So you can use an innocuous name to describe a woman who is mouthy, or awkward, aggressive, or blatantly racist?

It's just so sexist!

Absolutely!

Yes.

Any acronym but the name of thousands of innocent women.

Caution Against Racially Motivated Exploitative Libel ?

Caution Against Racially Motivated Episodes of Libel.

Why not call them Rosecarmels?

Isn't Carmel in California?

Oh dear, rosecarmel
How sad.

I am not a boomer nor a Karen!