You’ve got the wrong ‘Karen’

In reality, it’s about the environment we now live in. It has been created in large part by the liberal media (which turns all conflicts, large and small, into racial issues) and social media, which has helped create a harmful culture of public confrontation. Everyone is trying to record their viral moment, and they seem to be increasingly aggressive as they make the shouting happen.

This now-famous video, apparently recorded by Hill’s daughter, shows Hill yelling at the Wuestenbergs outside of a restaurant because Jillian Wuestenberg allegedly bumped into her 15-year-old child.

“This ignorant woman bumped into a 15-year-old,” says the girl recording Jillian, “and you’re on camera. You’re feeling threatened.”

Jillian stands there, mostly silent, while both Hill and her daughter scream in her face.

Hill then calls Jillian a “dumbass bitch” as Jillian gets into her vehicle. Hill then tells Eric Wuestenberg, “Yeah, I said it. You say something, and I’ll beat your white ass, too.”

Both Hill and her daughter then approach Eric to say, “Do something. Do something,” to which he replies, “Who the f— do you think you guys are? She did nothing to you.”

After a lot more yelling, Eric gets into the driver’s seat of his car with Jillian in the passenger seat and they attempt to back out and pull off, as Hill says, “You’re very racist and ignorant.”

But as the car reverses, Hill appears to walk behind it, presumably to record the license plate number, and may have been bumped. She slams on the car and says, “Bitch, you hit me? I will beat your f—ing ass.”

At that point, Jillian and Eric exit the car, and Jillian says to Hill, “Get the f— away from me,” before pulling out a handgun, cocking it, and pointing it at Hill.

The Wuestenbergs eventually drove off, but they have since been arrested and charged with a felonious assault. They are both reportedly concealed carry license owners.

I fail to see the outrage here — aside from the Hills’ behavior throughout this affair. Jillian Wuestenberg pulled out a gun only after multiple attempts to retreat from a situation where she was being verbally threatened with physical assault over … bumping into someone. And it appears that Wuestenberg brandished her gun only after Hill moved behind her car.

This was over an alleged bump, likely an accident, at a restaurant. That, according to the new rules, merited threats of physical violence and public allegations of racism. The Karen is the one who produced and posted this video to the internet for the sake of shaming and embarrassing an unknown woman who almost certainly meant her no harm.

Somehow, the Wuestenbergs are expected to lay down and let their “f—ing asses” get beaten. It only compounds the injury that Jillian Wuestenberg is called Karen for standing up for herself.

Recently, another woman in Seattle (also white, as it happens) was recorded cowering in hysterical fear and covering up her license plate after a creepy guy followed her to her home and pursued her with his phone, calling her Karen. That was over a supposed road rage incident wherein the man who precipitated the incident claimed that he had been cut off and was given the middle finger by the woman.

But she didn’t threaten or chase him. He went after her with his phone to identify her and her home for the internet mob.

The same goes for the white couple in St. Louis who brought guns outside their house in a gated community after Black Lives Matter marchers broke into their community, allegedly threatening them and making intimidating noises from their front lawn.

Amid all this talk of “defunding the police,” it seems that self-defense is increasingly becoming the only thing people can depend on.

Karen isn’t the person you hate for defending herself. Karen is the person who takes a minor grievance and turns it, with a helpful assist from the media, into a national scandal about race.