There are few things more devastating to a white woman than to be labeled a Karen.

A Karen is a woman who gives side-eye to a black patron at the grocery store because she’s waiting for him to shoplift. But a Karen is also the woman who smiles at that same shopper, so he knows that she doesn’t think he’s a shoplifter, and she’s doing her best to approach the world through an antiracist framework.

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