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Podcast: Honestly with Bari Weiss
Episode: Replay: The Real Story of “The Central Park Karen”
Description: Over the next few days we are going to be replaying some listener favorites from the last year, starting with what was without a doubt our most provocative and popular episode: a re-examination of the Central Park Karen.Amy Cooper was not the internet’s first “Karen” — the pejorative used for a demanding, entitled white woman. But as the Central Park dog walker who went viral for calling the police on a black birdwatcher last year, she quickly became the paragon of the archetype.Within 24 hours, Amy Cooper had been doxxe...