Describing a middle-aged white woman as a “Karen” is borderline unlawful, a judge has said amid a bitter row at a mental health charity.
The slang term, used increasingly since the pandemic, refers to middle-aged white women who angrily rebuke those they view as socially inferior. Sitting in an employment tribunal, a judge has now said that the term is pejorative because it implies the woman is excessively and unreasonably demanding.
The woman who used the term nonetheless was acquitted, though barely. Here is the article from Times of London. And this:
The government’s new Islamophobia definition could stop experts warning about Islamist influence in Britain, a former anti-extremism tsar has warned.
Lord Walney said that a review being carried out by Angela Rayner’s department should drop the term Islamophobia, or risk “protecting a religion from criticism” rather than protecting individuals.
Ministers launched a “working group” in February aimed at forming an official definition of what is meant by Islamophobia or anti-Muslim hatred within six months.
Here is The Times link. British people, it is not just J.D. Vance who is upset. You are embarrassing yourselves with all this! Please stop. Even enemies of free speech think you are going about this in a pretty stupid way.
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