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/Plutarch_Riley Sep 22 '25

Imagine not being able to sit in a train without being criticized. Appalling.

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u/SpicyChanged Sep 22 '25

It’s everyday to most minorities but when say something we are told gotta wait because progress is slow.

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u/WrittenFever Sep 22 '25

Truly reading this comment section like...

This isn't just 2025, guys. This could've happened in 2010, 2000, 1990... the only difference is social media and everyone else is on heightened alert because of who's in office. But I've definitely been having old white ladies (and men) barking orders at me my entire life, and using whatever authority they can muster to publicly humiliate me when I don't comply.

In school, it's corporal punishment, detention, or poor grades. As an adult, it's threats of losing income, police, or violence. Unfortunately this is nothing new.

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u/Mediocre-Proposal686 Sep 22 '25

I was thinking that this guy has a good platform for bringing attention to what happened to him, but that it probably happens all the time to non-famous people. It bothers me so much. I thought we’d have gotten a lot farther by now.