Woke Vs. Woke: Uber Places Diversity Boss on Leave After Employees Freak Out over Event on ‘Karen’ Stereotype

“We have heard that many of you are in pain and upset by yesterday’s Moving Forward session,” said Nikki Krishnamurthy, the chief people officer at Uber, in an email to employees. “While it was meant to be a dialogue, it’s obvious that those who attended did not feel heard.”

According to the invitation, the “Don’t Call Me Karen” series of events was created to promote “an open and honest conversation about race.” Employee feedback, however, indicated that rather than engaging in a productive discussion about more general racial issues, the woke mob felt they were being lectured about the challenges faced by white women.

In popular culture, the term “Karen” now denotes a privileged, frequently entitled white woman who is quick to complain to store managers, call the police over minor issues that do not break any laws, or generally inflame tensions in public. Employees believed that by focusing on this term, the event was minimizing racism’s existence and the harm it causes to minorities.

One employee, who wished to remain anonymous, said, “I think when people are called Karens it’s implied that this is someone that has little empathy to others or is bothered by minorities others that don’t look like them. Like why can’t bad behavior not be called out?”