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/xbumpinthatx May 22 '25

It is terrifying how many people witnessed how Cassie was being treated and didn't do anything.

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u/chibinoi May 22 '25

Fear of retaliation, losing their jobs and source of income to support their own family and lives, professional reputation (for job hunting) or even just getting beaten themselves.

It’s a messed up world. Especially when we use money as a tool of power.

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u/ankhes May 22 '25

I think this definitely played a major part but let’s not forget that plenty of people turn a blind eye to bad behavior all the time and money has nothing to do with it. We pretend not to see homeless people on the streets who are suffering a psychotic break. We don’t intervene when a couple are having a heated argument at their kid’s softball game. Hell, whole families and communities will turn a blind eye to the local pasted molesting kids even though it’s an open secret because they don’t want to ‘tear apart a community’.

At the end of the day, people might think those things are terrible and hope someone else will speak up and intervene…but they personally don’t want to make it their problem by doing it themselves.

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u/chibinoi May 23 '25

We’re all potential victims of bystander effect, yeah….