PHILADELPHIA — Candice Bogar changed her name because she didn't want to be called a Karen, but that hasn't stopped the internet from doing so.
Bogar, who legally changed her name in 2021, did not want to be associated with the archetypical name for someone perceived as a white woman of privilege. Yet, that pejorative — and a bigot — are all she has been called on the internet since being mistaken for a woman who spewed xenophobic vitriol at a Hatboro pizza shop owner last month.
"This was hate I've never been exposed to before," said Bogar, 55, the president of the Jenkintown accounting firm Bogar & Associates Inc.
