Globalize the KAREN Intifada
By Jett Cross
January 12, 2026
There’s a pattern showing up again and again in footage, arrests, and violent confrontations that no one seems willing to call out honestly. It all centers around ugly, obese, unkempt white liberal women. We’ve got a Karen Intifada on our hands. Let’s get into it.
For years, we had no problem dissecting the supposed toxicity of white men. Entire industries were built around diagnosing it, policing it, and treating it as some social emergency. Meanwhile, another pattern was forming right under our noses. The same unhinged, bossy women who once enforced COVID rules on total strangers, reported their neighbors for having a BBQ, and publicly shamed anyone who wore their mask wrong are now escalating their behavior toward law enforcement in a way that is so unhinged and dangerous, they’re getting themselves killed.
The confrontations all look the same. The angry, antagonistic tone is the same. And the entitlement is off the charts. What started as some twisted moral enforcement has turned into hysterical defiance, screaming matches, physical obstruction, and in some cases extreme violence. These batshit crazy white women behave as if authority doesn’t apply to them, even when face-to-face with armed officers trained to respond to threats.
That shift didn’t happen overnight. It followed years of cultural reinforcement that rewarded outrage, excused aggression, and painted confrontation as some moral virtue. When someone is told long enough that their anger is righteous and their behavior is protected, boundaries blur into nothing. And eventually, the behavior needs to test harder limits. It needs to push more and get braver.
The question worth asking is why this specific “Karen” demographic has moved from social enforcement to physical confrontation with law enforcement and what has taught them this is perfectly acceptable.
During COVID, public shaming, rule policing, and confrontation were celebrated by the media as a form of civic virtue. For these unseen, ignored women, identity and status became tied to being “rule enforcers.” This is why conflict and aggression stopped being a last resort and started becoming their entire purpose. They were seen now, even revered and feared. For the first time, these frumpy wallflowers felt in control. They made a name for themselves by challenging “granny killers,” preferably on camera.
And while this was happening, these Karens were told over and over that their anger was justified and their behavior was protected. Media, institutions, and social platforms reinforced the idea that escalation carried no real cost. It was virtue. It didn’t take long for all boundaries to dissolve. And soon, what started out as social enforcement turned into physical confrontation, because confrontation has also been normalized as righteous behavior against the left’s political and social enemies.
Now we have groups of belligerent Karens confronting ICE officers with a full-blown screaming-mimi agenda. They have no clear demand, just a “good vs. evil” cosplay fantasy, similar to the COVID mask days but kicked up several notches. These Karens now genuinely feel empowered. They’re no longer taking on some jerk without a mask at Home Depot. They’re confronting armed “toxic males,” daring them to pull the trigger and turn them into a CNN martyr.
https://www.cypher-news.com/2026/01/globalize-the-karen-intifada/