How the 'Karen Meme' Confronts the Violent History of White Womanhood

[The Magistrate]

12. The Flaw In This, Sir

Is the unstated assumption that the views of people who voted differs appreciably from the views of people who did not vote. There is not much ground for that. After all, a sample size of a few thousands, a minuscule portion of the potential voting public, gives a reasonably accurate reading of how the balloting will go. In this instance, you are essentially arguing that a sample size of one in two does not accurately reflect the whole, even though professionals find that a sample size of one in a thousand reliably predicts the actions of the whole. If a little more than half of the white women who voted voted for Trump, which is an accurate statement, there is little reason to suppose the other half would have acted much differently. White men performed far worse than white women in the 2016 election, but the latter's performance was bad enough, and quite disappointing. Whether this owes more to racism or internalized misogyny is a separate question, but in most instances the answer probably echoes the sweet young thing in the commercial's query --- why not both?