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Dear White People: Where Is Your Home Training?
Videos of White people behaving badly aren’t new, but they are indicative of White rage, insulate White privilege, and are highly dangerous
Viral videos of White people behaving badly are flooding social media, capturing candid moments of incoherent outbursts, racist rants, and full-on physical assaults. So much so that memes and Instagram pages have popped up by the dozens cataloging White women, with only the slightest provocation or no provocation at all, terrorizing people of color or other Whites who support people of color. While some might label these incidents as mildly disturbing and mostly entertaining, the origin of what we are witnessing is deeper than dismissing it as Whites lashing out over being asked to wear a mask. Although White boredom and so-called mask infringement might be contributing factors, what we are really seeing is another side of White rage. Only by understanding this can we contextualize these viral moments of White people who have lost their home training.
Last month, a White woman in Oregon dubbed “Costco Karen” was filmed while sitting in the…
