Rex Kerr
1 min readFeb 3, 2022

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I'm not misleading with statistics. I'm showing that (1) suicide is a non-negligible problem, that (2) there are enough Karens so that we'd expect quite a few of them to die, and (3) that having your name be a slur is distressing.

I made no claim about how many Karens actually are being killed beyond the estimate ("meaning around 90 people..."), and no claim about how the distress is affecting the number of deaths--only that it is plausible that it is a matter of life and death.

Given that the competing claim is that calling people "Karen" is a matter of life and death for black people, without any support for the claim, I think I've not only displayed good faith but gone above and beyond the standards of discourse evidenced in this thread.

Why do you think otherwise? Go back and read my post again. What there is actually absurd? Are you imputing inferences to me that I didn't make? (I did source the 1M Karens number. Feel free to look it up yourself for accuracy!)

In particular, I did not claim that 90 Karens were led to commit suicide. My claim was that it's plausible that it's a matter of life and death. I can edit for clarity if you think it would help, but I'm not going to yet because I want you to have the opportunity to see it unaltered in case you want to rethink what I was actually claiming.

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Rex Kerr
Rex Kerr

Written by Rex Kerr

One who rejoices when everything is made as simple as possible, but no simpler. Sayer of things that may be wrong, but not so bad that they're not even wrong.

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