# Resolved, that using "karen" as a pejorative is off limits **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [July 23, 2023, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-that-using-karen-as-a-pejorative-is-off-limits/987430 "2023-07-23T21:48:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 183
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2023, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-that-using-karen-as-a-pejorative-is-off-limits/987430/183 "2023-07-29T21:56:14Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > And “crackers” is right out! Or maybe not. You think you are pointing out something too silly to happen, but… > [@Use of the word Cracker](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-of-the-word-cracker/713446): > > Is it OK to refer to groups of poor white southern people as “Crackers”? Mr. Glutton seems to think so, presumably based on the idea that some of the people in that group call themselves that. But, more than a few African Americans call themselves, and others, the N-word. Pretty sure calling groups of black people the N-word wouldn’t be allowed on this message board. Why the disparate treatment of the two terms on this message board? [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=181552…](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=18155239&postcount=677) There is also this: > [@The word Shiksa](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-word-shiksa/973444/189): > > It’s much easier to be a gentile than a Jew, so there are old traditions to turn away prospective converts a few times. If she was turned away altogether it’s because they didn’t think she was serious about it, and that’s for her benefit. It would be actively harmful (spiritually speaking, but there are plenny temporal difficulties as well) to allow the conversion of somebody who didn’t intend to follow all the additional rules. But the “Noachide” thing is still really weird, even for a Reform… We have yet to cover fatty fatty boombalatty. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/oTXkPc-7KdY/hqdefault.jpg "Fatty Boombalatty - Hate Speech") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTXkPc-7KdY) --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-that-using-karen-as-a-pejorative-is-off-limits/987430)._