# Are there "Black Karens"?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 26, 2020, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-black-karens/919103 "2020-08-26T23:25:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2020, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-black-karens/919103/12 "2020-08-27T16:31:28Z")

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Right on this board I was not long ago called out and with great expression of incredulity over referring to a black woman “going Karen”. Granted it was by one single member but still another frequent participant, not one of our random drivebyers. And we have already had [an actual thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-term-karen-become-racist-and-sexist/848253) asking if “Karen” does in fact involve a factor of sexism/racial dynamics.

So at least it is true there is a nontrivial number of people who will claim that Karen can only exist from the basis of white privilege and even that it would be wrong to say a black person is acting like a Karen.

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