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Whoops: Biden Calls Asian Civil Rights Activist ‘Karen Nagasaki’

Tim Meads
Whoops: Biden Calls Asian Civil Rights Activist ‘Karen Nagasaki’
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President Joe Biden made another one of his infamous gaffes on Monday as he referred to a Japanese-American civil rights activist as “Karen Nagasaki” when her actual last name is “Narasaki.”

The president somehow made the unfortunate error despite reading from a teleprompter during a ceremony celebrating a law that will establish a commission to study the creation of a National Museum of Asian American and Pacific Islander History and Culture, according to CNN.

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