Kroger Karen is racist!

I can't believe what qualifies as news these days and this is a prime example not just of bad journalism but also dangerous journalism because there is no reason at all for this to be showcased all around the internet for any other reason than to add a little more gasoline to racial tensions.

It's a story about an argument between a couple of people at a grocery store where one of the people is made to look foolish on the internet. I do not know that full story but there were some kids, some Gatorade and a woman following another woman out to the parking lot and then refusing to get out from behind her car and blocking her is using her own body and her child as well.

This is stupid, and the woman who is doing that is definitely in the wrong but here is the problem I have with this: This isn't news. This isn't important. These people in Detroit could probably have sorted this out on their own without involving an international audience.

At first, this extremely stupid story was simply restricted to people making dumbass racist comments on youtube but then a couple of "news" websites such as heavy.com picked up the story. This is still ok at at this point because Heavy.com isn't exactly a super serious website and mostly they focus on pretty light-hearted and funny stuff. So everything is still ok at this point. Most people probably wouldn't have even heard about it and even if they did they wouldn't pay it much mind.

But then one of the true heavy hitters of gaslighting and poking racism with a stick until something happens kicks in to make a mountain out of a molehill as usual.

Yahoo news can be counted on to have a whole mess of trash articles all compiled in one easy-to-access list. It is a virtual treasure trove of dumb-news that frequently features such wonders of journalism as The Daily Beast, Salon, and Vanity Fair. Publications that really wont write about anything unless it is either about Trump, or about how white people are bad!

Despite the fact that Yahoo News is obviously in the business of Trump-hating and race-baiting, they have a very large audience and this is where the story on Kroger Karen because really dumb and can only result in people getting more on edge with the impending race war.

There is no journalistic merit to covering this story, there is no story here - people act foolish all the time but here is the main problem I have with it. Imagine, just for a second if this was a video about a white woman being harassed by a black woman and her kids? What would the media reaction to that be? Can you guess? Because I already know the answer.

Basically, if you flipped the races of the two people involved in this "story" it would have been considered "racist" to even film it, or talk about it, let alone make articles about it. This sort of double-standard has to stop (but I know it wont) and that is the main reason why this non-story ranks about mid way up on the line on the scale of ....