Where I live, even if it's been misogynistically loaded by :reddit-logo: and related communities, "Karens" are very real, both in my neighborhood and where I go to get groceries. They argue, a lot, and are especially confrontational and condescending with employees. They will fight and demand a manager over a difference in cents or a matter of months on an expired coupon, and snap their fingers to get people's attention, lick fingers when handling their money as a performative thing they learned from TV, and it isn't just a women thing. For lack of an agreed-upon term, "Henrys" are roughly the same thing but dress like 55+ year old children, wear flip-flops and cargo shorts and have goatees to go with their thumb heads, and have more direct threats of violence toward employees for the same setbacks.
The other stereotype involves self-described libertarians. I knew dozens, in fact scores, during college, and many never grew out of it. Speaking of growing up, almost every single one of them at some point argued with me, usually unprompted, that age of consent laws are "a social construct" and that "a lot of teenagers, and even children" (their words not mine :desolate: ) "are easily as logical and capable of consent as adults." Lots of them cited how child marriage is common and normal or even that they had ancestors that had child marriages and dared me to say their ancestors were pedophiles (in one case, I did dare say that. Yes, there was a fight). They didn't agree on everything but their desire to violate teenagers was a consistent trait. :epstein:
I’ve met two Israeli Jews in my life. One was a chill lesbian; the other was the most unbearable dude ever; both were anti-Israel. My feelings toward the latter might have been colored by my own liberalism at the time. He had actually gone to prison rather than join the IDF and I think he just didn’t want to waste his time with me. He also stole the girl I was interested in and they were together for years. So actually he was pretty based.
The real challenge is meeting a Jewish boomer (aside from Finklestein) who won’t say that Israel has a right to exist.
Palestinian-American libs also exist.
What is the deal with white people who spend years obsessing over Palestine and nothing else?