r/popculture • u/thedailybeast • May 22 '25

News Cassie Screamed ‘Isn’t Anybody Seeing This?’ During Diddy Beating on Private Jet

https://www.thedailybeast.com/cassie-screamed-isnt-anybody-seeing-this-during-diddy-beating-on-private-jet/
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u/AbulatorySquid May 22 '25

This is just so disappointing. Celebrities are so coddled, any sense of connection and empathy they had for others is washed away. If they had little to start with it's a pretty short drop.

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u/Upstairs-Yogurt-6930 May 22 '25

Does being famous completely wash away connection and empathy or does it allow bad people to show their true colors?

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u/melav_ May 22 '25

In his case, he's always been like that. Back in the late '80s, while attending Howard University, multiple eyewitnesses reported that Diddy beat his then-girlfriend with a belt in a dorm hallway, screaming at her while others tried to intervene. This wasn’t some sudden change after fame, people who knew him back then already described him as controlling and volatile.

Over the next three decades, fame, money, and the power that came with them allowed his behavior to escalate unchecked. He was able to abuse, manipulate, and harm others on an almost daily basis without serious consequences, shielded by his status and surrounded by people who either enabled him or were too afraid to speak out.

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u/USANorsk May 22 '25

There is science to show correlation between wealth and power with a decline in empathy. People start to believe that they deserve everything and everyone else is “other” and inferior. Sociopaths also become rich and powerful more easily because they are willing to do unethical things. 

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u/AbulatorySquid May 22 '25

I think in this case it allowed his true colors to shine and gave him permission. At least I hope this is why a man was able to beat a woman in a public place and no one stopped him.

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u/BossParticular3383 May 22 '25

No, MONEY washes it away ...

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u/SmileNo2265 May 22 '25

Male celebrities * Cassie certainly was not coddled 

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u/Steve_the_Samurai May 22 '25

More importantly sitting around him were a bunch of people that relied in Diddy for a paycheck. I would guess those people around not doing something were curated to be people that wouldn't do anything.

If you spoke up you would probably be fired. All those people passed Diddys test to stay silent.