50 Entitled ‘Karens’ Who Thought They Deserved More Than Everybody Else But Got Shamed Instead

You are very welcome, my friend!

The mistake was too funny to correct it. When was the last time you saw a cat with a manual transmission?

Yep, that was funny AF. First thing I thought of was the cats tail sticking up like a shifter when the cat gets a case of the zoomies.

We Caucasians become blue when cold, red when hot, yellow from fear or green when with sick belly. But black people are the colored ones!

You clearly didn't mean anything by it but saying colored is some s**t straight out of some 1950s separate but equal days. Not kosher.

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I know that, but it seems so bizarre to me that “colored” is super offensive but “person of color” is totally fine. It’s like if we had to say “person from Norway” instead of “Norwegian”, but I understand calling people “colored” is offensive so I don’t use it even though I don’t quite understand why.

In the US, we used to have segregation. “Whites Only” areas tended to be a lot nicer than the “Coloreds Only” sections. So “colored” was/is seen as inferior here. As a result, many people prefer to call themselves People of Color…it’s viewed more like skin tone is just one of many aspects of them and not the only defining characteristic.

This is like when I was in a model UN club and like 2 hours were spent trying to change "underdeveloped countries" to "developing countries" and it had become an ongoing joke between fellow UN-ers for the rest of the year

The usa, although if you say "people of color" you are including everyone who is not white european ( I think). It can get very confusing and I work at not insulting anyone. For a while here they tried African americans ( of course that means screw anyone with Jamaican heritage). If I have to use any term I just say ... black, brown, white, off white and "orange"

"African American" is still fine to say, but it's better to say black, because not every black person in the US is African American. This only goes for within the US, to be clear.

Also, the US (bear with me for this shocking news) is not the only country in the world.

Again, it seems that americans are more offended about this than say the dutch.

Do the Dutch have the same horrific history against black people as the Americans?

Look at South Africa

Tara pretty much every country in history held African/Black, Asian What ever nationality etc., etc. as slaves.

You should probably read up on your history, the Dutch were the ones selling you the slaves a lot of the time.

First of all…. I’ve never bought a slave. Second…. I’m CANADIAN. 3rd…. The colonizer KIDNAPPED and brought them to the Americas. They USA wanted to keep slavery going. I heard they had HUGE WAR there to stop slavery a while back….. hmmmm what was that called????? The USA continued with the atrocities against black people TO THIS VERY DAY, hence why they are most known for it.

Google Zwarte Piet, for an example of casual racism in the Netherlands that still persists.

@Tara Raay. Not as the USA but we did have slavery. Suriname was Dutch and the South African Apartheid is Dutch design (apartheid is a Dutch word) so we are not squeaky clean at all.

It’s how human treated their enemies or any land the conquered. You’re not wrong for using the word “coloured” because you guys don’t have same history with it. But the USA’s history with racism and slavery is A LOT worse. People need to stop freaking out and remember that Murica is not the centre of the universe.

Yes, and actually more recent. South Africa was colonized by the Dutch and had apartheid (segregation laws) until 1991.

That's not really something to be proud of. Maybe deal with your imperialist past.

All my life I have been hearing of these "white" people but as yet have actually seen one.

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Sooo county. Just the usa? Gosh. Shocking.

The UK uses the word black. The word coloured is deemed offensive and has not been used for many years.

Decades actually.

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False.

In the U.K. coloured is considered an offensive and outdated term.

Most countries...

You forget, we're in 2022 now where every single word can be taken with offence. One year it's one name to call people, the next that same word is "offensive". Hmm...

Not a lot of people of color where you live, huh?

Maybe english is just not Caro Caros native language? It isn't for me and I am equally as confused as to how you call people of color in english without it coming of as offensive. (Obviously I know the n-word is a no go). Hell, even in my native language I'm confused..

People of color is just fine…

Mii, it's sort of my first language. I never meant to offend and actually chose coloured but didn't think it through. X

It’s great to learn new things. Not sure why people downvoted you—you admitted you were thinking and now you know. We have all done it.

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No it is not.

Exactly, all people have colour. So why would we call only some of them "coloured" or "of colour", if there are no trasparent colourless people? That doesn't make sense.

Agreed to both of your points. Specificity is always the easiest way to avoid unnecessary confusion whenever possible, and unless someone's objection to a given word choice is so patently ridiculous as to be an obvious trolling attempt, it is far better to offer whatever degree of apology for the unintended offense as is appropriate, make the change, and move on.