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Throwback Thursday: The 6 Kinds of Karen

Despite the trend to label every entitled white woman as a Karen, research indicates these privileged princesses fall into a much wider range of categories.

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Michael Harriot
Feb 19, 2026
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This article originally appeared on NegusWhoRead on Aug. 6, 2020.

Karen died today. Or maybe yesterday, I can’t be sure.

All I know is that when I was alerted to the existence of a Wikipedia page for the term Karen, I knew it was time to move on. I predicted this would happen. When it found its way into the Caucasian lexicon, I knew “Kare…

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