SF officials to vote on law to stop 911 calls against Black people not breaking the law

I agree with this law. Although the headline reads specifically Black people, it's actually against any race, religion, gender, etc. And I like it. Damn it, if you call 911 on someone not committing a crime just so you can harass them because you don't like what they're doing, you deserve to get sued.

Having said that, it's amazing to me that even when liberals come up with a good idea they manage to eat their own.

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The San Francisco Board of Supervisors will vote Tuesday on the Caution Against Racial and Exploitative Non-Emergencies Act, also known as the CAREN legislation. The name is a nod to a widespread meme using the name "Karen" to describe a specific type of white, middle-aged woman, who exhibits behaviors that stem from privilege, such as using the police to target people of color.

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Personally I LOVE the name. I think it's awesome. But.......

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All 11 supervisors have signed on to the legislation, guaranteeing its passage, despite criticism by some that the name is sexist and unnecessarily divisive.

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Here we go........

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The board received written complaints from eight people -- several named with a spelling variant of Karen -- who support the legislation but object to its name, which they say is sexist and ageist and should be avoided.

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, saying that she loves the name her mom gave her, called it a racist term against white women. And 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 of her first name and said she's 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.

It's as if he "opened the thesaurus and picked some words that would spell the name, when in fact it should be misuse of 911 or racial misuse of 911," she said. "By using the name CAREN, he's just perpetuating a racial divide. Granted it's not a protected class, but it's somebody's name."

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It almost reads like a Bee article.

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