Chronicling the ongoing intersectional struggle to liberate women — inclusively defined as the legacy kind and the transgender individuals — from the Patriarchy™, one microaggression at a time.
‘We Shall Not Be Moved,’ Redux
A gaggle of anti-ICE Karen witches and warlocks, adorned in blasphemously appropriated clergy attire, descended upon Target headquarters in Minneapolis on January 16 to perform their own adaptation of the Deep South slave hymnal, "We Shall Not Be Moved."
Anti-ICE Karens sing slave hymnal at Target headquarters pic.twitter.com/D03tqN9S38
— Ben Bartee (@BenBartee) January 19, 2026
This is real low-energy stuff.
A lot of these Karens cosplaying as 19th-century chattel slaves yearning to breathe free, following the drinking gourd to freedom, aren’t even standing up.
You can’t have a serious protest for civil rights while seated — excepting, perhaps, Rosa Parks.
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These upper-Midwest liberals, devoid of Social Justice™ dragons of their own to slay, pine to be those African-Americans on that bridge in Selma, getting George Wallace’s dogs sicced on them while singing with righteous indignation “We Shall Overcome.”
Why do they harbor such myopic reverence for the African-American civil rights movement, and such longing to experience their own facsimile, in their hearts, as a vehicle for meaning?
Is it because every February since 1976, after Gerald Ford issued a decree to the effect, an entire month has been devoted to African-American history, at which time everyone remotely involved in society is essentially forced at gunpoint to internalize and parrot the mantra that the greatest accomplishment in human history — the apex of civilization — was George Washington Carver turning peanuts into peanut butter, the inescapable subtext being that the white man, who has no redeeming qualities of his own, is literally Satan for keeping these brilliant and beautiful children of God under their boot for centuries?
‘I just got gassed!’
Three times in the span of a minute and thirty seconds, this anti-ICE Karen uses the term “gassed” to describe either pepper spray or tear gas (she admits she doesn’t know which) deployed by riot police: “I just got gassed… oh my God, I’ve never been gassed before… We just got gassed by the ICE agents.”
Consider the peculiar semantics she uses. It might seem like nitpicking her unique verbal tic, but to my ear, the implication of the specific phrase “gassed” seems obvious.
She wasn’t “pepper-sprayed” or “tear-gassed,” she was “gassed” — you know, like a frontline World War I soldier in the trenches hit with mustard gas or, more to the point, a Jew in Auschwitz.
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These people’s main dilemma — aside from picking which slave hymnal to recite at their Target Selma re-enactment — is that they honestly can’t decide if they’d rather be a Jim Crow-era freedom fighter for equal access to water fountains or a Holocaust victim.
The Jim Crow thing is a little closer to home, and black people are always a very fashionable, heavily favored ethnicity with the left.
On the other hand, the Holocaust is inarguably the more extreme — and hence more desirable — form of oppression to pantomime for maximum victimhood points.
These tough guy minneapolis moms who think they're in some WWII fantasy movie where theyre going to stop ICE and save all the illegal aliens sure do cry alot. pic.twitter.com/AHS1vYIdOd
— Cassandra MacDonald (@CassandraRules) January 17, 2026
