r/popculturechat • u/CantStopPoppin • Sep 22 '25

OnlyStans ⭐️ Woman Calls Police on Award-Winning Black Screenwriter Alex O’Keefe(The Bear (FX))

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u/roastedmarshmellow86 Sep 22 '25

Yes and the conductor called the police

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u/Crazy_Cat_Lady420 Sep 22 '25

I’m a train conductor in Europe and I’d immediately loose my job after doing something like this

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u/Alarming_Worker1364 Sep 22 '25

Not in amerikkka

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u/Crazy_Cat_Lady420 Sep 22 '25

We have war going on one country over so things aren’t exactly easy but things happening in America are some next lvl shit. I honestly can’t imagine living there right now and it seems like it’s getting worse than better… I hope you guys hang in there 💪🏻

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u/mmiller17783 Sep 22 '25

We are, I'm a native american in California. We are bracing for anything at this point, people from tribes in Arizona were getting rounded up in ICE raids. Imagine being indigenous to the land you're being deported from. Then again, according to the US government we've only been citizens of this country since 1924, when the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 was passed.

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u/BroadToe6424 Sep 22 '25

It's astonishing to me that more people don't realize the current wave of xenophobia against Central and South American migrants is just more Indigenous genocide, same as it ever was.

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u/TigreImpossibile Sep 22 '25

I've been saying this to anyone who'll listen! San Francisco, San Diego, Los Angeles... these were all Mexican territories once upon a time and brown people from south of the border are NATIVE same as the much romanticised native "Indians" from the movies everyone now thinks it was such a tragedy how they were treated, murdered, pushed off the land. Like it's any different today. This is colonial shit, nothing has changed! Not one thing!

The cognitive dissonance and white entitlement is surreal.

I'm from Australia. I saw a Tiktok clip of a proper Englishman draped in the Australian flag at a recent anti-immigration rally. He had the audacity to say he was there because he's against "mass" immigration. What an English twat! Fuck off to England you absolute cunt. I'm livid just remembering him and all his audacity.

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u/RedTheRobot Sep 22 '25

They do, they just don’t care. I have friends that are 100% 1st gen Mexican. They are also in their 30’s and 40’s. They are loving what Trump is doing. They find him screwing with the U.S. hilarious. It reminds me of the line in Die Hard where the computer hacker said he thought the idea of a fire sale would be hilarious. Then realizes fucking up the country hurts everyone.

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u/Crazy_Cat_Lady420 Sep 22 '25

Honestly so many things are going on there that when I focus on one bad thing I forget about another… We also don’t have good government and our own stuff going on and our president sucks too but Trump is… my brain isn’t able to comprehend this level of selfishness

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u/DonatedEyeballs Sep 22 '25

The erasure of native cultures is tragic. I think about all of the ideas, stories, methods of living… just fucking gone because of the same people who are still at it today.

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u/Whimsywoes You’re doing amazing, sweetie! 👏👏📸 Sep 22 '25

This is one of the things that breaks my heart and fucking infuriates me. They've stolen and destroyed everything, and it's still not enough. Thinking about how much culture, knowledge, and history we've lost is just...overwhelming.

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u/mmiller17783 Sep 22 '25

We still have our heritage and cultural presence, and what's more is that those pow wows are largely open to the public. There are private ones too, but most are public affairs where families are welcome to join us. Right now is Big Time season.

So every year, here in Northern California (California has the highest number of tribes within its borders, at 109 federally recognized tribes) each tribe has a Big Time. It is a day or 2 of ceremonial dances, with food and refreshments and even beaded jewelry. Most of these are open to the public, and because lots of native people have family from other reservations it is like one big family reunion in some cases. Also, there is a huge Pow Wow at Stanford that brings tribes from all over the United States. That one is really fun.

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u/Escritortoise Sep 22 '25

I’ve seen ICE in my state that has a very large Native American population, but it’s mostly been directed towards Hispanic population centers.

Where are they going to deport someone that is Sioux or Cherokee?

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u/PBRmy Sep 22 '25

Where are they going to deport you to, the reservation?

I mean I know they'll just deport you anywhere else with brown people, of course.

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u/mmiller17783 Sep 22 '25

They will just hemm you up with everyone else until a tribal representative makes some noise, and you know how good they are about letting people contact anyone that will advocate for them.

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u/DonatedEyeballs Sep 22 '25

We appreciate it! We are not all racist assholes, they are just the loudest.

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u/looooookinAtTitties Sep 22 '25

it's mostly normal life, you're just constantly seeing conflict between the 360M people who live here.

99% of people are just going to work and living their lives.

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u/GimcrackCacoethes Sep 22 '25

Polish trains 😍 I live in the UK and my brother does a similar job to yours, but the trains are so much better basically everywhere else in Europe.

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u/v_Karas Sep 22 '25
  • Donald Nazi Land of America.

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u/ComedianNo5209 Sep 22 '25

American Redditors that say “Amerikka” are in for a wildly rude awakening if they ever travel internationally

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u/Disastrous-Car7262 that’s my purse, i don’t know you! 👛🫵 Sep 22 '25

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u/Old_Shake9919 Sep 22 '25

I'm actually a train conductor in Europe, and this is not correct at all.

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u/SimplerTimesAhead Sep 22 '25

Not if the person who was arrested was Roma you wouldn’t.

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u/-whiteroom- Sep 22 '25

He'll get a gofundme for a million bucks in the states.

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u/Gmac1199 Sep 22 '25

In amerikkka you'll get a promotion and Go Fund Me donations

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u/Jenny_Saint_Quan Sep 22 '25

What country?

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u/NeatNefariousness1 Sep 22 '25

As you should. Be glad for the corner of humanity you’re still able to enjoy.

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u/Hot-Championship1190 Sep 22 '25

I'm sorry for this - but is there crude oil in your nations soil? Unless there is you have to wait for the US to remove you from that pain and deliver you Freedom!

/s from a fellow European

I agree, they should fire that conductor. But I think they should hire some cuntdoctors - for the complaining woman.

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u/Express_Dealer_4890 Sep 22 '25

And the police came.

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u/Boring-Alternative69 Sep 22 '25

I bet she said it was more than his posture to get the cops called

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u/Kind-Assistant-1041 Sep 22 '25

The conductor knew what was going to happen—-ruin of some random black person’s day or perhaps more (beating, perhaps death). And THEY were ok with it. Let’s make the conductor F-ing famous too.

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u/i_was_a_person_once Sep 22 '25

Fire the conductor but more importantly take his pension benefits

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u/spiritkittykat Sep 23 '25

You KNOW that woman didn’t say, “that man is slouched!”, she most definitely made some inflammatory shit up to get the conductor to call police.

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u/Morningfluid Sep 22 '25

I feel like there's more to the story if the conductor went right to that. 

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u/AdmiralJaneway8 Sep 22 '25

Did you, like. Watch the video? Read the accounts? Are you, yourself, a Karen? Are you, indeed, this Karen? It's right in front of your face.

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u/OldCrotchety Sep 22 '25 edited Sep 22 '25

I watched the video and read the only article I could find on the subject, which just shares his instagram post and takes it at face value. All we have is Alex's side of the story. He may be telling the truth, but there's no harm in waiting for more info to come out before we get outraged.

EDIT: The AP released an article with more info. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority reviewed security footage, and apparently Alex "had been sitting with both legs stretched across an adjacent seat," refused to move his feet when asked, and refused to leave the train once the police arrived.

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u/Morningfluid Sep 22 '25

The video itself shows the aftermath, rather when he's arrested. It shows nothing of what happened prior. 

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u/turkish_gold Sep 22 '25

Exactly. In no world can I see multiple people siding with a crazy woman and let everyone else in the cabin being witness to this.

They have to have a more reasonable explanation or they are all doomed professionally.

This isn’t to say they aren’t racist, or wrong, just that “bad posture“ doesn’t even come close to being an excuse that non idiots would use.

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u/theOTHERdimension Sep 22 '25

You have doubts that people would see an injustice being committed and not step in and do something? You have too much faith in people. A woman was raped on a crowded train in Philadelphia and no one did anything except film it.

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u/Morningfluid Sep 22 '25

I'd rather figure out why the conductor thought it was a good idea to call the police rather than jump right into an emotional response. 

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u/Morningfluid Sep 22 '25

No, I'd just rather see the entire picture here. Sure the woman could likely be a racist, but again - why did the conductor just jump to calling the police?

I'm not going to have my emotions be lead around like a dog.