As the kid of immigrants, the "Karen is a racial slur" business is hilarious.

My mom named me Karen (and gave my siblings& #39; American names) partially bc she wanted us "to fit in" in white society.

She knew back in & #39;86 that being a "Karen" would give me a sort of privilege.

For the record, when I was a kid I asked my parents to let me change my name legally to "Nicole", (my middle name) but they wouldn& #39;t let me.

And now, y& #39;all white Karens are acting up. Maybe I knew this day was coming.

"Karen" is not, and never will be, the "N-word" for white women.

"Karen" has not been part and parcel of centuries of violence and state-sanctioned oppression.

The N-word was a tool of white supremacy. "Karen" gives the historically oppressed a tool to discuss white supremacy.