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Wanted: Women of Color
Why is that a problem?
It’s hard to look at current anti-“Karen” sentiment and not see striking parallels with #MeToo. White female entitlement may not typically have the decimating potential of sexual assault (unless the former leads to a Black man in a coffin), but both, in a sense, represent days of reckoning following decades — no, centuries — of privilege.
#MeToo was the first time men had to answer en masse for their deplorable treatment of women. And from the moment Amy Cooper, aka “Central Park Karen,” became an emblem of an often overlooked branch of White supremacy, White women have had to answer en masse for the privilege and entitlement they’ve long enjoyed and often wielded over minorities, particularly Black men and women of color.
Now, with an incident involving another White Amy, “Karen”-ism and cancel culture once again have collided. In the case of Amy Roost vs. Senti Sojwal, to the victor (Sojwal) has gone the spoils of public support, while the loser (Roost) has been left licking her wounds and being painted by some — including herself — as an undeserving…
