FFS was just reading that San Francisco made making racist 911 calls a crime and called it the CAREN act.
"Vic Vicari wrote that the insensitive use of the name “as a general purpose term of disapproval for middle age white women needs to stop”. Carynn Silva said she loves the name her mom gave her and called it a racist term against white women. Caren Batides asked if the supervisor would want his name mocked.
“Yes, I am named Karen, and I do speak up for injustices on a regular occasion,” wrote Karen Shane. “So could we attempt at coming up with some other acronym that doesn’t vilify a whole group of people named Karen/Caryn/Caren?”
Reached by phone, Shane, who lives in a San Francisco Bay Area suburb and describes herself as a middle-aged white woman, readily pokes fun at her first name and said she is aware that even complaining about it is something that a “Karen” would do. But she feels the supervisor didn’t need to cheapen what she agrees is important legislation.
“By using the name Caren, he’s just perpetuating a racial divide,” she said. “Granted it’s not a protected class, but it’s somebody’s name.”
Walton has dismissed the concerns, saying the legislation does not refer to any individual."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/20/caren-act-san-francisco-racist-911-calls