SO1E03: In Defense of Karen

In this episode of “It Will Probably Be OK,” we stand slack-jawed as one of our hosts attempts to defend the indefensible, and halt the Karen uprising in its tracks.

What can we learn from Karen? What does she have to teach us? How do we exorcise the Karenonic demon? When is a Karen not a Karen? And why does Karen Karen?

Mini Topics

• Nick is not going to his 20 year high school reunion and he has no other way to find out what his old highschool buddies are doing with their lives!

• Nkenge reminds us that there is no path from student to citizen for immigrants, so making them take college from their home countries is so much pointless bullying.

Show Notes:

• This is a pretty good look at the internet history of the use of the name Karen as an insult: https://www.vox.com/2020/2/5/21079162/karen-name-insult-meme-manager

• A clip from “Mean Girls.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXovJSCc6M0

• This is, pretty much the Karen epicenter. https://www.reddit.com/r/FuckYouKaren/

• This is a great article about how artists hate the bourgeoisie. https://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/25/books/class-lessons-who-s-calling-whom-tacky-petite-charm-bourgeoisie-artists-view.html #### Personality Disorders

• https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/borderline-personality-disorder/index.shtml'

• https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/personality-disorders/symptoms-causes/syc-20354463

Not a Karen

Here be a small smattering of easy to Google stories about Amy Cooper, the racist who famously called the police on a Central Park birdwatcher and then choked her dog.

• https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/statement-from-amy-cooper-on-central-park-incident-301065492.html

• https://www.forbes.com/sites/jemimamcevoy/2020/07/06/amy-cooper-charged-with-misdemeanor-for-calling-police-on-black-bird-watcher/#1babddfc2828

• https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/27/nyregion/amy-cooper-christian-central-park-video.html

First Published: July 27, 2020
Total Length: 50 min. 43 seconds
Season 1

S01E02: Defund vs. Abolish

About this Episode

In this Episode of It Will Probably Be OK, Nkenge talks through the ideas of defunding and abolishing the police. Additionally, Nick wistfully remembers making those cool S’s, and Gabe derails the whole conversation with so he can talk about the movie “Elf.”

Mini Topics:

• Nick enjoys the television program “Dave” on the FX Network.

• Gabe wants someone to paint his gold house.

Cover art courtesy of Taymazavalley on Flickr, who published this photo on Flickr using a Creative Commons liscence. Cool!

Episode Links

• Abolish Policing – Critical Resistance — Policing is a social relationship made up of a set of practices that are empowered by the state to enforce law and social control through the use of force.

• Abolish the police: What does it really mean? - Vox — “I’m sorry that the fight for justice and inequality could not be more convenient for political timetables, but it isn’t.”

• Download CR's Abolitionist Tooklit — Abolition Now! Ten Years of Strategy and Struggle Against the Prison Industrial Complex; edited by the CR10 Publishing Collective, 2008.

First Published: July 21, 2020
Total Length: 55:15
Season 1

S01 E01: Will it? Will it probably be ok?

In this episode, we discuss the titular question posed by this podcast: Will it probably be OK? Will it? Do we believe that? Is America capable of turning the cultural dumpster fire it was founded on into something that we can all live with?

Mini Topics:

• Gabe talks about his dog and how very very special he is.

• Nkenge tells the story of responding to racists head on.

Episode Links

• BREWS | The Peak

First published: July 16th, 2020.

Season One.

Playtime: 42 min. 14 seconds