“She was able to walk up and down the street and have a conversation with a mailman, but somehow be triggered enough by a Black woman to call her the N-word and follow her for blocks. McKnight said questions on social media about Emanuele’s mental health do not negate the racist nature of the incident. Some people say memes of white women confronting people of color provide a handle on behaviors born of racist entitlement, while others point to misogyny, economic disenfranchisement, and even mental-health issues. To read the comments of some white people now making an excuse or defense for this behavior is alarming and gets us to the real problem of this systemic situation.” “This ‘Karen’ went on a rant for more than 4 minutes repeatedly yelling this word and other discouraging names while following a Black woman. “We know Bayonne has a history of racist behavior and we can no longer sit by and make excuses for residents in any New Jersey town to ever be allowed to call someone the N-word,” she added. I thank her for being the strong Black woman that she is to remain calm and reserved during the entire ordeal.” I put myself in Tameka’s shoes and I know it had to take a lot of restraint for her to endure what she went through today. “This behavior is becoming so common now that we simply refer to these racist people as ‘Karen’ and let it go,” she said. New Jersey Assemblywoman Angela McKnight (D., Hudson) noted the ubiquity and near-normalization of these memes. Emanuele had moved from Tennessee to New Jersey in December. “An immigrant couple from China released a video in April of a man banging on their front door, yelling racial slurs, and screaming, ‘You brought COVID-19.’ ”Īnd in Bayonne, N.J., police arrested 60-year-old Claudia Emanuele for intimidation and harassment after she followed 40-year-old Tameka Bordeaux, and was filmed shouting racial epithets at her. In a heartbreaking detail from that night, one of the couple’s children reportedly asked his mother: “Mommy, did I do this because I watch too much iPad and he’s here to punish me?” The man hollered: “I said it’s your neighbor, open the door!.
Last month, Huang Zhu and Ying Huang, immigrants from China living in San Jose, released a video of a man banging on their front door, yelling racial slurs, and screaming, “You brought COVID-19.” The couple said the man scared their 6-year-old twins, and knocked on their door at least 100 times. She also allegedly hurled the Whopper at the employee. Restaurant after she reportedly became angry over the thickness of the tomato in her bun. In the latest such case this month, a 77-year-old woman, a resident of a retirement community in Wildwood, Fla., was charged with launching a racial tirade against a worker at a Burger King So regular and unsurprising, in fact, that many of these videos no longer go viral. If anything, they have become a depressingly regular occurrence.
Whereas if choosing a slow ship with good gun capabilities and a high shield power, a good strategy would be to go in guns blazing for each encounter.But such “Karen” incidents have not gone away. If choosing a fast ship with low shield power, it will be best to outrun a lot of encounters. Depending on the ship used and what equipment is used or where it is placed, it can greatly affect how the game will play out as well as how the game will need to be played. There are also many choices of ships to use and equipment layouts for each that can be tweaked.
These choices can all affect the final outcome of the game, so it is up to the player to make the best decisions at their disposal. There are many decisions that can be made in the game, such as what parts of an enemy ship to target (their shields, their weapons) or where to concentrate your defensive strategies, such as powering up an ion engine to run, or powering up one's shields to stay and fight. Allows for highly strategic gameplay The roguelike game design combined with the huge amount of choices that can be made in both encounters as well as ship management makes FTL a highly strategic game as you never quite know what the game is going to throw at you.