It is weird to follow this discussion from distance. I am European, white, academic, and middle aged. Sounds privileged, right? As I tell in my peak trans text, I grew up in a religious group led by men and was oppressed in many ways growing up. I also was severely bullied at school because of my background. Falling out of the religious group I ended up with people I should never have had anything to do with. I experienced violence for years.

I have spent most of my life in a country with not that many POC. I have learned about the privilege I have as a white person and I feel nothing but compassion towards POC, who face racism and hate because of their skin. POC here are mostly refugees and they have it rough: severe trauma, lack of language skills, some are illiterate etc. I feel like I am incredibly lucky to have been born here.

At the same time, I feel not so privileged. I am dealing with the trauma for the rest of my life, have lost lot of people when I left the religious group, have had years of struggling without anyone to support me. I made it this far and I am happy for it.

Too bad I will be Karen as soon as I open my mouth. White women are to be seen, not heard. It irritates me a lot at times that “white” seems to mean American people anyway. I am white but I have a hugely different background from the white women in even European countries. There are white women from poor countries coming here to do heavy work at farms. I would not call them privileged just because they're white.

Calling white women Karens is just one phase of the same phenomenom. It is and will be a campaign to ridicule women. As someone already said; it will be another group of women next.