Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Karen (slang)" in Simple English language version.
"Karen" is associated with the kind of person who demands to "speak to the manager" in order to belittle service industry workers, is anti-vaccination, and carries out racist micro-aggressions, such as asking to touch black people's hair. But a predominant feature of the "Karen" stereotype is that they weaponise their relative privilege against people of colour - for example, when making police complaints against black people for minor or even - in numerous cases - fictitious infringements.
The image of a white woman calling police on black people put the lie to the myth of racial innocence
