It seems the Karens are on the loose once again. While we’ve had a spate of various embarrassing incidents lately — from horse-riders to drive-thru customers to scammers — another Karen has reared her ugly head during a car incident recently. In the shocking footage, the Karen verbally abuses another driver, and it’s clear that the expressed aggression is racially motivated. Be warned that the video below does contain profanities that some viewers may find distressing.
Straight off the bat, the video kicks things off with incredibly racist rhetoric. The Karen, who’s sitting in a black 4×4 vehicle, is screaming out her window and giving the couple recording the clip the middle finger. “Speak english, B***h, don’t ya? You cut me off. F***ing videotape that, w***e!” the Karen yells.
She continues: “Collect all the free benefits you can get. Yes, everything’s free in America, huh? Everything’s free in America? No it isn’t. We all f***ing work hard. So when you pull in front of me and almost kill me, and endanger my vehicle that I paid off.” The final words the Karen shouts are hard to discern, unfortunately. Though, it’s clear that she’s extremely irate about the situation.
From what I can gather, it appears that the incident was a mistake and the couple seemingly changed lanes without giving the Karen enough room, which likely forced her to use her brakes. Hence, this is the reason why the Karen yelled, “You cut me off.” during her vitriolic rant. Of course, while this is a common driving mistake that can happen on the road, it isn’t a crime.
In the video, there is some Spanish text that helps give context to the situation that occurred. I’ve translated the text into English down below:
What a horrible day I had today, it was just a mistake, there was traffic and we didn’t see what was coming nearby and since the beast keeps talking, I’m never going to compare myself to a beast like that and start saying horrible things. We all make mistakes.
Today, the clip was shared to Reddit, and the internet pored over the footage before weighing in with their take on the incident. One of the most up-voted comments that came in spoke to how angry and unhappy much of society is right now. “Man people’s lives must really suck. They seem so miserable.” penned one user.
Meanwhile, another Redditor chimed in saying that people like her should be ashamed of her embarrassing behavior. “I am all for making people infamous for their bad behavior. It seems to be the only way that most of them learn that there are consequences for their behavior.” wrote a further commenter. A third netizen agreed with this statement, saying: “The public shaming method has worked for ages. We just have different approaches these days.”
A fourth user concluded: “When you’re fed a hate diet all day.”
It’s unclear whether the police were called to the incident. It is clear, however, that the internet is well and truly behind the victims that were verbally attacked by this irate and racist Karen.
