The minnesota brutality case like the Karen dog case is striking in its lack of ambiguity unlike past social media videos. I cannot imagine any reasonable context thing we might be missing that would justify the behaviors. Really no room for reasonable doubt that it’s not WYSIWYG
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I can't help thinking of ssc's argument in "toxoplasma of rage" that borderline cases become huge because both sides are willing to beef about them, but not clear-cut ones. Maybe the range of bad behaviour from the in-group that we will accept and defend is increasing?
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The Karening is upon us.
Long overdue.
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Videos like those capture instances when people’s internal justifications for actions don’t align with the majority’s. For many people caught on video this misalignment is occasional, not constant.
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Agreed. Society’s eyes are now a panopticon (store front/🏡 cameras, 4k cell camera 📱’s on every man, woman & child), coupled with an iteratively trained demographic to now 🎥 encounters to capture as much nuance as possible from multiple angles, collectively and singularly.
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The Karen dog case is interesting in that the victim out-smarted the Karen by anticipating her — in other words, he had to have had enough experience (personally or via media) of her behavior type to be able to protect himself. He out-karenned her, used her weapon against her.
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