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Who claimed it was racist and how important is it that it meets 'a' definition of Racism?
Insults tied to identity cause hurt and harm. It would be the first insult in history if it didn't. And for sure "Karen" will be used against people who just happen to be white, female and middle aged. People do bad things.
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It won't. "Racism" against white people (Karens and gammons in your example) is not a thing. At least, it is ENTIRELY different to the racism being called out by this thread and the current movement.
Defining a Karen as a jumped up, middle class white woman, or a Gammon as a furiously bigotted middle aged white man, is not racist. And to insinuate that it is, misses the point and devalues genuine concerns about racism and our systemic racist society.
For something to be a racist statement or act, there needs to be an element of privilege on the side of the actor or the intent to remove of privilege from the recipient. "Karen" and "Gammon" does none of that, except it calls those people given those labels out as the cunts that they likely are.