It's Backwards Day For Bigotry -- Endlessly
Joy Reid is a bully.

Erika Sanzi writes at Substack of one of the still-sane people out there -- who nasty Joy Reid has a go at:

A mother speaks at what I assume is a school board meeting (or something like it) and makes a statement with which the vast majority of Americans, regardless of race, would agree.

"Just because I do not want critical race theory taught to my children in school does not mean I'm a racist, dammit."

"Actually it does," quips Reid, laughing.

Reid's decision to play video footage on her national platform of a private citizen she has never met, and label her a racist, is vile.

I can already imagine people looking at this mom, whose life we know nothing about, and thinking she's just another "Karen," the modern day slur for white women who have opinions. It certainly started out to describe white women who sees themselves as "the policewomen of all human behavior" and call the cops on black men who birdwatch in Central Park. Predictably, it has morphed into a lazy way of describing those of us who are white and female and have something to say that they don't like. (One of my sons has artfully adapted it to use on me whenever I tell him "no.")

I did not hear this mother ask that her children not learn about history. Or slavery. Or Frederick Douglass. Or Jim Crow. Or lynching. Or the Tulsa Massacre. I did not hear her say anything to indicate that she holds a single racist view or sees any of her fellow humans as "less than" based on their race or any other immutable trait. I see a concerned mom. And there are countless moms (and dads!) just like her who are black, brown, white, Asian and biracial who would stand right by her side and say the same the exact same thing.

...Reasonable people can and will disagree about what critical race theory is and whether or not it belongs anywhere near a K12 classroom. These are worthy and needed debates to have if and when they are based on the merits of the argument and not laced with ad hominem attacks, mischaracterizations of one another's views and constant shifting of definitions.

I have stood at the microphone of school committee meetings and public hearings many times over the past decade. If I were as concerned as the mom in the video is right now about my own children's school, I'd be doing exactly what she is doing. I hear from parents, grandparents and teachers every day across all demographics who feel exactly the same way she does. They deserve to be heard and respected, as does she.

Unfortunately, treating people you disagree with with respect I guess makes for less "ha-ha-Karen!-taining" TV.

And as a person who despises racism, I really despise the use of "Karen." It only "passes" now because publicly expressing hate for white people has become a form of virtue-signaling.

As I see it: If you don't want to be slurred for whatever group you're in -- and if you are for the MLK way as opposed to the trendy racist "anti-racism" of the present -- maybe don't use the racist "Karen."