first of all, it was the absolute correct take away.
Secondly, taken as a whole your posts are completely incoherent. At times you seem to be praising Trump's reaction to the virus, and talking about how we need to be courageous and start reopening businesses. Then you post a cartoon that rightly shows how reopening businesses would lead to more infections. It can't be BOTH courageous and foolish to reopen can it?
@ml1 - I don't think she can see it. While most of us see those as the main points, and that they form a direct contradiction, I'm starting to think that she sees something different as being her main points.
I think some are “pulling my chain” to use an expression once popular. But, I’ll play along.....
The American citizens, from left:
A senior citizen, an enraged, bullet wearing, assault rifle carrying white man, a woman wearing an American flag dress, demanding she “git” her hair done, and the angry man demanding to get a tattoo.
Ageism, political POV, social, class, and regional slaps at the presumed uneducated.
My point being folks took umbrage over how Cuomo was sketched, but accepted the “red neck versions” of protestors. We see what we believe.
I don't see anything in the cartoon that suggests it's calling people rednecks. Maybe you're the one with the regional prejudice if that's what you saw.
My point being folks took umbrage over how Cuomo was sketched, but accepted the “red neck versions” of protestors. We see what we believe.
I don't see anything in the cartoon that suggests it's calling people rednecks. Maybe you're the one with the regional prejudice if that's what you saw.
Video below is of a New Jersey protest. Except for the guns (which were displayed in Pennsylvania and Michigan, at least NJ has more sane gun laws), this could be the crowd in the cartoon.
My point being folks took umbrage over how Cuomo was sketched, but accepted the “red neck versions” of protestors. We see what we believe.
I don't see anything in the cartoon that suggests it's calling people rednecks. Maybe you're the one with the regional prejudice if that's what you saw.
Video below is of a New Jersey protest. Except for the guns (which were displayed in Pennsylvania and Michigan, at least NJ has more sane gun laws), this could be the crowd in the cartoon.
if we're going to be honest, these protests are some serious white people ****.
if we're going to be honest, these protests are some serious white people ****.
These people have been there all the time. They just come out crawling from under their rock because they feel they have a friend in the White House. Which in reality isn't even true, he is just using them.
Video below is of a New Jersey protest. Except for the guns (which were displayed in Pennsylvania and Michigan, at least NJ has more sane gun laws), this could be the crowd in the cartoon.
if we're going to be honest, these protests are some serious white people ****.
A column, which was in yesterday's Star Ledger, about how it's not "rednecks" but another type altogether:
Karen wants a haircut, but she can’t get one. That has upset her to a remarkable degree. This whole “lockdown” thing has made her life especially trying. Being able to brag to your grandkids that you were part of an historic, communal effort to stem the tide of a deadly plague isn’t sitting well with her, and she wants something done about it.
A “Karen” is usually a middle-class white woman complaining about not receiving the deference or treatment she feels is hers. This often happens in a store or restaurant. She is often upset with a lowly, minimum wage employee who is just trying to survive and who has no say in how the business runs. If you have ever witnessed someone upset over some minor slight, and they now want to “see the manager” you have seen Karen in action.
Crises and plagues can stir up the darkness at the bottom of our society. We like to think we are civilized, but if that veneer should crack just a little, we go crazy and turn into the characters from Mad Max. And don’t give me that, “fifty zillion people die from car crashes and we don’t lock down” nonsense. Car crashes are not contagious. Tens of thousands die from cigarette smoking and second-hand smoke. That’s why you can’t smoke on planes and buses and inside businesses anymore.
The Karen phenomenon is a sub-set of the wider world of white privilege: the idea that certain people deserve better treatment and consideration.
Trump takes the side of the gun-toting ignorant people (see picture of Pennsylvania protest below) instead of the Governor trying to stop the spread of the deadly virus.
The great people of Pennsylvania want their freedom now, and they are fully aware of what that entails. The Democrats are moving slowly, all over the USA, for political purposes. They would wait until November 3rd if it were up to them. Don’t play politics. Be safe, move quickly!
The actual people named "Karen" who I know are great. Why did they pick that name?
As to the term "redneck" why would someone in the northern State of Michigan carry a Confederate Flag to a Demonstration? Men from Michigan died fighting against the Confederacy.
Are they transplanted Southerners or just people who think Michigan picked the wrong side?
There's a historical context to the use of Karen, just as there is Becky and Chad. It's just a way of stereotyping people who often deserve to be stereotyped.
Video below is of a New Jersey protest. Except for the guns (which were displayed in Pennsylvania and Michigan, at least NJ has more sane gun laws), this could be the crowd in the cartoon.
if we're going to be honest, these protests are some serious white people ****.
A column, which was in yesterday's Star Ledger, about how it's not "rednecks" but another type altogether:
Karen wants a haircut, but she can’t get one. That has upset her to a remarkable degree. This whole “lockdown” thing has made her life especially trying. Being able to brag to your grandkids that you were part of an historic, communal effort to stem the tide of a deadly plague isn’t sitting well with her, and she wants something done about it.
A “Karen” is usually a middle-class white woman complaining about not receiving the deference or treatment she feels is hers. This often happens in a store or restaurant. She is often upset with a lowly, minimum wage employee who is just trying to survive and who has no say in how the business runs. If you have ever witnessed someone upset over some minor slight, and they now want to “see the manager” you have seen Karen in action.
Crises and plagues can stir up the darkness at the bottom of our society. We like to think we are civilized, but if that veneer should crack just a little, we go crazy and turn into the characters from Mad Max. And don’t give me that, “fifty zillion people die from car crashes and we don’t lock down” nonsense. Car crashes are not contagious. Tens of thousands die from cigarette smoking and second-hand smoke. That’s why you can’t smoke on planes and buses and inside businesses anymore.
The Karen phenomenon is a sub-set of the wider world of white privilege: the idea that certain people deserve better treatment and consideration.
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Karen wants a haircut, but she can’t get one. That has upset her to a remarkable degree. This whole “lockdown” thing has made her life especially trying. Being able to brag to your grandkids that you were part of an historic, communal effort to stem the tide of a deadly plague isn’t sitting well with her, and she wants something done about it.
A “Karen” is usually a middle-class white woman complaining about not receiving the deference or treatment she feels is hers. This often happens in a store or restaurant. She is often upset with a lowly, minimum wage employee who is just trying to survive and who has no say in how the business runs. If you have ever witnessed someone upset over some minor slight, and they now want to “see the manager” you have seen Karen in action.
Crises and plagues can stir up the darkness at the bottom of our society. We like to think we are civilized, but if that veneer should crack just a little, we go crazy and turn into the characters from Mad Max. And don’t give me that, “fifty zillion people die from car crashes and we don’t lock down” nonsense. Car crashes are not contagious. Tens of thousands die from cigarette smoking and second-hand smoke. That’s why you can’t smoke on planes and buses and inside businesses anymore.
The Karen phenomenon is a sub-set of the wider world of white privilege: the idea that certain people deserve better treatment and consideration.
and as usual the comments are awful. They stopped allowing them on nj.com, but you can see the replies to the tweet about the article. The ratio was about 10 to 1 in support of reopening businesses now, and critical of the governor in particular. Nj.com really seems to trigger the state's right wing snowflakes.
There's a historical context to the use of Karen, just as there is Becky and Chad. It's just a way of stereotyping people who often deserve to be stereotyped.
I suspect it goes back to the fact that it was among the most popular names for Baby Boomer girls.
The origins of Karen as an Internet meme predominately date back to an anonymous Reddit user, Fuck_You_Karen, who would make posts ranting about and denigrating his ex-wife Karen, who he alleged had "taken" both his children and, later, his house during divorce proceedings.
Video below is of a New Jersey protest. Except for the guns (which were displayed in Pennsylvania and Michigan, at least NJ has more sane gun laws), this could be the crowd in the cartoon.
So not true. A photo of citizens demonstrating in no way compares to the caricatures in the cartoon. A flag is held (not a crime yet) and a woman Is wearing a flag dress — which was at one time viewed as disrespect. if you did not watch Governor Cuomo's update at noon today, please try to find the full remarks, not just sound bites. The governor, in his inimitable style, realistically presents how and why New York will reopen! He even touches on the point that somewhere, politics became the problem, not a solution.
He stressed the vital fact that it will be the people who have the power to reopen America —by state, by region, city by city. He compared how a valve can open slowly, checking its gauge,
So not true. A photo of citizens demonstrating in no way compares to the caricatures in the cartoon. A flag is held (not a crime yet) and a woman Is wearing a flag dress — which was at one time viewed as disrespect. if you did not watch Governor Cuomo's update at noon today, please try to find the full remarks, not just sound bites. The governor, in his inimitable style, realistically presents how and why New York will reopen! He even touches on the point that somewhere, politics became the problem, not a solution.
He stressed the vital fact that it will be the people who have the power to reopen America —by state, by region, city by city. He compared how a valve can open slowly, checking its gauge,
I the governor of N.Y.!
the only thing in the cartoon that's not in the video is a gun, because NJ has sane gun laws.
the governor of N.Y.!
@ml1 - I don't think she can see it. While most of us see those as the main points, and that they form a direct contradiction, I'm starting to think that she sees something different as being her main points.