The maker of the video, Karlos Dillard — a self-described entertainer and public speaker who is black—claimed that the woman, whom he mockingly addressed as “Karen,” had also used a racial slur.
Dillard’s post was boosted by several black-focused websites, including Essence (“Seattle-Based Karen Breaks Into Theatrics Once The Man She Allegedly Calls The N-Word Starts Recording”) and The Grio (“Seattle Black man films hysterical ‘Karen’ who falsely claims she is being attacked”). But it stirred up some Twitter controversy even in quarters usually sympathetic to the anti-racism cause. People noticed odd details. One poster, a Black Lives Matter supporter, noted that Dillard seemed to be far more concerned about the woman cutting him off and flipping him off than about the supposed racial slur.
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