I think there may be a component of resenting the idea that someone else should even be in a position to judge how hard or not they work. Which, unless you are independently wealthy, a successful entrepreneur, or are content with the life of a penniless drifter, you’re probably going to have a “boss”. You will likely think that boss is an idiot and you will nevertheless still have to kowtow to their whims.
For sure our economy having most “managers” be craptacular at their jobs and with an obviously unsuitable personality for management doesn’t help. Just imagine how different the world would be if you couldn’t be a boss without a license issued by a competent regulator and there were regular checkups by that regulator who’d pull your license if your department was f***ed up…
But it’s the same thing. Where you see a competent authority providing proper oversight and governance, someone else might see yet another “boss”, only in the form of an incompetent and corrupt bureaucrat checking off boxes about an industry they probably don’t know anything about.
Clearly the hard pat is the “competent”. Which is why we don’t have competent bosses as a general rule nor competent bureaucrats nor bureaucracies.
IOW, it’s turtle-brains all the way up (and down). 
In the thread about that word, people made it clear that entitled women like that come in all skin colors.
But overall, the Op post here is pretty much 100% bigoted.
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In the thread about that word, people made it clear that entitled women like that come in all skin colors.
Pretty sure the term “Karen” exclusively refers to an affluent white woman. But sure.
Thank you for contributing nothing to the discussion with your “virtue signaling”.
That’s why libertarianism or the philosophy of Ayn Rand appeals to some people (who often fall into the “Angry White Person” group. They have a belief that people should succeed or fail based on their own merit and ingenuity and the demands of the market.
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Thank you for contributing nothing to the discussion with your “virtue signaling”.
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This is my take on it. I believe I’ve posted this piece elsewhere on the board, but it’s very on point here.
RIGHT WING MEDIA IS THE PROBLEM
Most right wingers, even in this economy, are employed. A lot of them aren’t that crazy about what they do for a living, they feel underpaid and overworked. If they own a business, they wish they were more successful so they could worry less and have more. They pay too much to send their kids to college, then the kids can’t find work and move back home. They never have enough. They can’t have everything they want, maybe they can’t afford the good steak or the good beer unless it’s a special occasion.
In general, they feel they give more than get. They feel undervalued and under appreciated.
The problem is, that’s human grievance, not white grievance. These are emotions that are common to 99.9% to the people on this planet. Everyone feels this way. As you’ve pointed out, our former billionaire President was the most aggrieved person ever. Telephone psychics have been exploiting this for ages.
So has right-wing media.
It’s not your bosses fault you are underpaid, the laws and regulations pushed by the Democrats and “the elites” make it impossible to grow a business. Your boss is a bigger victim than you. He’d pay you more if he could, don’t blame him.
And your prospects have been strangled by immigrants pouring across the Southern border. It doesn’t matter that you’ve never lost a job to an immigrant, illegal or otherwise, or that you don’t know anyone that has. But you know a lot of hard working Americans have lost their jobs to immigrants because Fox News says so. Just like a lot of them have been brutally murdered by these violent criminals breaching our borders. This must be a real problem, because Fox has a segment every night featuring the gory details of the latest illegal immigrant crime.
Welfare queens are buying the steak and lobster you can’t afford with your tax dollars and Fox News found both of them and did a feature on them. The reason your kid can’t get into a good college is because less deserving minorities took his spot. It’s too expensive because your kid is subsidizing some black kids education.
And right wing media keeps doubling down on the victimhood narrative, and doubling down again until we are where we are now. You only lost this election because the Democrats, the enemy of you, the reason for your angst and insecurity, the devil behind the world that doesn’t appreciate you, cheated.
Right wing media IS the problem It’s a drug, and a good portion of the population is addicted. They got sucked in slowly, at first it was news that was slanted, just a little bit, in order to make these people feel better about their lives. Then the drug got stronger and stronger, until now there’s stuff out their that’s nastier than fentanyl.
Look at people like Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell. They may have been conservative assholes all along, but they were quite mentally competent - they were both federal prosecutors. Now they are insane. Literally insane, babbling and drooling about George Soros and commie plots and a massive organized international election fraud plot. And apparently this right wing media induced insanity has affected a large portion of the population.
Like drug addictions, it’s a highly profitable venture for the pushers. Hold your nose sometime and go to the InfoWars website.
The headlines are the typical aggrandizing bullshit (Alex Jones got to visit the moon with Elon Musk, or something) but what is significant is the banner across the middle of the page that says The Globalist Storm is Here, SHOP NOW.
This will take you to the InfoWars Store. It’s not just coffee mugs and tee-shirts. There are hundreds, if not thousands of products — many costing hundreds, even thousands, of dollars. Survivalist stuff, emergency generators and food supply. Spy gear, body armor, furniture with concealed compartments. Nutritional supplements, lots and lots of them. And you can get coffee cups, and a bag of “Wake Up America” Patriot Coffee.
Maybe all the Bloomberg’s and Zuckerbergs of the world should buy up Fox News, or something. I’d really like to see some new version of the Fairness Doctrine come into play, but I can’t see how that would happen.
But it’s a public health crisis, a big one. And the people affected won’t admit they have a problem.
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For the record, I hate the whole “Karen” meme. I feel it’s just a way to shame and shut up women that stand up for themselves. But it’s caught on so strongly I know I’m swimming upstream on that one.
I concur, not to mention being nasty to perfectly nice women who just happen to be named Karen.
What ‘deserved retribution’?
Somewhere inside you, lives the consciousness that women, people of color, and native Americans have gotten the short end of the stick in America ever since the European conquest. It may be a tiny spark of truth which you will never admit to, be I refuse to believe it does not exist.
I don’t believe in retribution, myself.
Or to mention nasty about perfectly nice people who just happen to have been born or identify as women.
I’m not a big fan of it either, because it is a gender stereotype. But it does describe atrocious, irrational, bullying behavior. Not a woman “standing up for herself”.
Um what? Is that the general ‘you’ or was that supposed to be directed at me? And why say retribution is deserved if you don’t believe in it?
Their are definitely male “Karens.” And they tend to be louder and more aggressive to the staff, not to mention the sexual harassment. I don’t know why we had to go with “Karen” when the phrase “Asshole customer” is right there.
Agreed 
An equal opportunity insult. Works for me.
I was referring to what angry white males think, not what I think. Generally people who have abused others are afraid that those others will justifiably abuse them back if they get the chance. They rarely bring that up to consciousness, but it is something that fuels their anger toward their victims. A complicated denialism.
What % of the capitol hill marchers were white? What % were white men? I think in America about 60% of Americans are white and about 30% are white men. But the people who tried to overthrow the government were mostly white men, with some white women thrown in. What about the people marching shouting ‘jews will not replace us’, what % of them were white men?
This stuff isn’t a coincidence. They feel this is ‘their’ country and its being ‘taken away’ because out-groups are growing in both number and power. Feminists, non-whites, immigrants, non-christians, atheists, etc. all being empowered by the left. It fills them with rage as they try desperately to hang onto their sense of status and privilege and the sense of social identity that comes with identifying the nation with people who look and think like yourself.