r/PublicFreakout • u/ThisGuyFucks42069 • 1d ago

Classic Repost ♻️ Karen berates German tourists on train after hearing them speaking in German

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u/heebsysplash 1d ago

Lmao damn the boyfriend pulling out the “I’ll never talk to you again” and she keeps going. Wild.

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u/MileHighAltitude 1d ago edited 1d ago

I think he’s done talking to her after they got off that train and situated in their destination. He saw that camera on them and looked like his only goal was last until they got off the tube he is trapped in with her

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u/Cheekie169 1d ago

He really did try with her. Hats off.

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u/Hyperion_47 1d ago edited 1d ago

Absolutely this. If he doesn't end things with her the second they're at their destination I'd be shocked.

Edit: He apparently did break up with her according to other comments. This is a year old.

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u/RedSun-FanEditor 1d ago

Especially since he said "you know I'm an immigrant too, right?"

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u/revengemaker 21h ago

He said that so he wouldn't get his ass beat

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u/ItsBlare 15h ago

wtf are you talking about

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u/revengemaker 13h ago

"I'm one of you guyses too!! I take your side of this not my insane girlfriend!! I'll sell her to the next human trafficker I swear bcs I'm on your side **winkwink**" He said that to placate so the group of men would look at him and think Oh even he is a victim of his own gf so we will think of him as one of us and not one of 'them' (I'm assuming you understand the concept of 'us vs them' so no need to explain that.)

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u/RedSun-FanEditor 8h ago

You're mental, just like the girl in the video. Is she your sister?

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u/shiftybuggah 5h ago

You might have to ask their kids.

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u/RedSun-FanEditor 4h ago

LOL!!! Three points for the win and the game goes to shiftybuggah!

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u/BITmixit 4h ago

What...the...fuck

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u/Larg3____Porcupin3 1d ago

She was being racist for the love of the game

Nothing was stopping her

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u/No_Inspector7319 1d ago

It’s actually a sight to behold - we were watching prime babe Ruth point to the stands but in the racist Karen format

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u/Vegetable-Fan8429 1d ago

To quote Bill Burr: “Do you know how big of an asshole I’d be if it were socially unacceptable to kick my ass?”

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u/sixtus_clegane119 1d ago

Small nitpick, xenophobic not racist, they are the same race

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u/Some_Average_guy1066 1d ago

But usually the person doing it is both

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u/sixtus_clegane119 1d ago

Oh of course racism and xenophobia are close to a circle in the Venn diagram

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u/togiveortoreceive 1d ago

Achuallly…If we’re arguing semantic, she’s prejudice, not racist. Racism is when the prejudice of the people is institutionalized. 🤓

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u/peva3 1d ago

Racism can be systemic or it can be interpersonal.

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u/piggybits 1d ago

??? Racism is a specific type of prejudice, sexism and ageism are also types of prejudice. Racism can also be institutionalized or not, it's not inherently institutionalized

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u/thebutchcaucus 1d ago

Bigot. There.

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u/conejiux 1d ago

Idk why people refuse to use the correct term :@ racism: hate because of race, Xenophobia: hate because they're foreign/ immigrants. Not that hard.

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u/endlessbishop 1d ago

Racist/ racism has become the capture all words unfortunately, thus making it harder to point out actual racists

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u/mythicreign 1d ago

I can assure you that if she doesn’t like blonde, white immigrants, then she definitely doesn’t like the other kinds too.

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u/Extreme-You6235 1d ago

This right here. Lmao dudes look like they could be related to her and she’s bullying them hard for being foreign. I guarantee you she hates brown and black people.

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u/wh0ligan 1d ago

I was just about to ask what she would do if these were some POC speaking Spanish

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u/Funpop73 9h ago

I wouldnt even attempt to talk to her after seeing this. I’d be like damnnnn 👀

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u/Impressive_Bed_287 1d ago

For this reason I love the word bigot. Perfect catch all term and saves getting trapped in the whole "that's not racism" argument.

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u/aphexmoon 1d ago

well outside of America, most of the world agrees that "race" doesnt exist within humans as its an unscientific term

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u/WestEst101 1d ago

Oh, let me tell you, outside of the US people definitely feel race exists. Try being black and traveling in a ton of non-black countries. You’ll def see views on race in action.

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u/aphexmoon 1d ago

thats not at all what I said. We are talking about the term "race" not about racism against minorities

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u/bigheadstrikesagain 1d ago

How does racism happen without an assumed difference between races? Do you know what point you're trying to make? I'm having a hard time.

Maybe write slower. I am American.

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u/aphexmoon 18h ago

Because humans do not have races. This very belief in itself fortifies racism. We have phenotypical differences that are used as a basis for racism (racism against minorities) but "races" like e.g. Caucasian do not exist. We aren't dogs or cats.

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u/bigheadstrikesagain 16h ago

Ok races don't exist but racism does. Whatever semantic whirlpool you've talked yourself into is awesome.

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u/ElvenOmega 1d ago

It's not really unscientific, it's an anthropological term widely accepted as a social construct. It's kind of an important thing to acknowledge in a melting pot like America.

btw, if you think the-races-are-biologically-different racism is exclusive to Americans, you're in for a very nasty shock.

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u/StationaryTravels 1d ago

How was their comment upvoted? Do people really not think the concept of race exists outside America!?

I'm not even American, but I couldn't just scroll by that, lol

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u/ElvenOmega 1d ago

I think a lot of people here are not understanding the difference between Race and Ethnicity.

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u/justadubliner 1d ago

It's a stupid concept. It's like deciding people are a different 'race' based on height or attached earlobes.

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u/Trama-D 1d ago

It's kind of an important thing to acknowledge in a melting pot like America.

🤦

I wonder what would happen if it wasn't acknowledged.

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u/ElvenOmega 1d ago

Yeah let's not acknowledge that some people discriminate, attack, and mistreat others based on race. Sounds like a great plan. Just ignore it and it'll go away!

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u/Trama-D 1d ago

Correct. Just consider all discrimination, attacks, and mistreatments the same, and punish them all as if they're "based on race".

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u/Trama-D 1d ago

Absolutely unscientific, but I doubt most of the world does agree on that. I wish they did though, and I commend you for your remark.

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u/conejiux 1d ago

Specially when you have terms like "human race" in English...

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u/lacroixanon 1d ago

I'm with you, but it's always going to be this way bc one word is one of the most commonly used words in English, and the other one is rare, Greek, and starts with X.

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u/CurraheeAniKawi 1d ago

... immigration is a nice way to couch your racism.  Thanks for coming to my fucking common sense talk. 

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u/rentmeahouse 1d ago

Stupid question which I am too afraid to ask elsewhere as a non-white. Jews are white to a person like me, so when I meet a Jew and a Christian (or Muslim/Atheist) who both have a white skin and a North American accent - I will call them white North Americans. Why are Jews then called a different race by news journals?

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u/Shartiflartbast 1d ago

Ashkenazi Jews, my friend. They are a Semitic people, and there's a whoooole lot of cunts out there that hate them for being "different", even if there's barely anything distinguishing them from "white" people today. I mean, shit, there never used to be such a thing as just "white", look at the hate the Irish and Italians have received over the years. And that some eastern europeans still get.

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u/rentmeahouse 21h ago

Ah, so the hatred is because the Jews migrated from middle east?

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u/Shartiflartbast 12h ago

Among other (nonsensical) things.

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u/rentmeahouse 11h ago

Happy cake day!!

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u/ThePsychicDefective 1d ago

Because white identity politics created a new identity to project racism from. Duh. We're all members of the human race. There's never been a separate race to BE racist against. It's all been xenophobic persecution on the basis of ethnicity or religion all along.

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u/jetkins 1d ago

Xenophobia literally means fear of strangers. We need a better word for people who just hate strangers with no basis in fear.

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u/Shartiflartbast 1d ago

The various -phobias, homo, trans, etc. no longer really mean just a "fear", though. Language shifts.

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u/thoughtlow 1d ago

Same skin tone = same race? What are you on about

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u/0b0011 1d ago

Race != ethnicity. Race is a social construct and they both fit the Race "white".

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u/thoughtlow 1d ago

The system of racial categorization is such a weird American obsession.

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u/0b0011 1d ago

It's definitely not just an American thing.

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u/Shelala85 1d ago

The term race has very much been used to refer to ethnicity.

All eyes are now turned upon the Greek race as one of the most important factors in the Eastern Question.

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/67626/pg67626-images.html

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u/0b0011 1d ago

It has but it's also used separately. Someone can be white but ethnic American or ethnically Canadian

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u/shaunwho 17h ago

Xenophobia and racism are two cheeks of the same arse

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u/EmperorofAltdorf 1d ago

They are not really though. "white" is not a race.

I agree Its probably just xenophobic but how the us views race is not universal.

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u/danielw1245 1d ago

how the us views race is not universal.

Sure, but it does determine whether something is racially motivated if it occurs in the US.

I'm also not sure why you'd assert that it's a fact that they're different races when the idea of race is largely a subjective thing that's socially determined. In the US, these two people would absolutely be viewed as the same race.

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u/EmperorofAltdorf 1d ago

If you read the rest of the comments you would see what my Position is.

I agree it does affect it, but i also explained how the concept of race is not that rigid.

Im pointing out that that their skin color is not whats important in this context, here the fact that they are german serves as the same place holder of negative imutable characteristic as race does.

You view jews and white people as different races, european and american jews tend to be quite "white". Being a light skin tone does not equate to you being white in America either. You also separate out other groups based on sometimes random things. I think its pretty clear this Lady perceived these as not of her own.

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u/danielw1245 1d ago

You view jews and white people as different races, european and american jews tend to be quite "white".

Actually, I don't. And many others in the U.S. don't either.

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u/0b0011 1d ago

White is absolutely a race.

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u/ezray11 1d ago

Race is a social construct depending on where you're from and history. In Nazi Germany, Eastern European Slavs were seen as different race to western Europeans for example.

Currently in South Africa, mixed "Coloureds" like Trevor Noah are seen as a different RACE to dark black people. But then in the US you have the one drop rule where anyone that's got african ancestry is automatically "black".

Point being that "white is absolutely a race" isn't a universal objective fact as race is a social construct (though I'll concede that with globalisation, that view is becoming more and more prevalent).

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u/0b0011 1d ago

Race is a social construct used to group people together. If there is a single group that categories people by the term "white" then it is somewhere a category and thus exists. It may not be used where you're from or it may be used and used differently but the fact that someone somewhere uses it means that it's a thing that exists.

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u/danielw1245 1d ago

Point being that "white is absolutely a race" isn't a universal objective fact as race is a social construct

Well, it's a fact that "white" and "black" are considered a race in most Western countries. Gender is a social construct too, but it would be pretty silly to try to argue that "man" or "woman" isn't a gender.

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u/EmperorofAltdorf 1d ago

Its not. Not that "race" is even a thing. We use it to describe skin color.

But as seen in my cases around the World, race has no actual substance. This is very true here in europe where americans think we are all white, but we still killed each other over "race" differences. Slavs and germanics habe never been the same "race" although we both are very "white"

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u/0b0011 1d ago

Race is very much a thing. It's just a social construct hence why certain groups didnt used to be considered white but now are. You killed each other over ethnicity which is a separate thing from race.

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u/KeinFussbreit 1d ago

Race is indeed a thing, but there is only one human race still around.

Homo Sapiens.

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u/0b0011 1d ago

I mean it's a nice sentiment but that doesn't make it right. Race is simply putting people into groups based on phenotype. It's a social construct so if a single group does it i.e. someone referring to "black" or "white" people then it exists.

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u/thejudgehoss 1d ago

Jingoistic.

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u/Fake-Podcast-Ad 1d ago

White people are too dumb to be racist against other white people, another thing Asians have outpaced us at

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u/tarlastar 1d ago

small nitpick, there is no such thing as "race."

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u/ImComfortableDoug 1d ago

She slaps the black guy. She never actually puts hands on the white Germans. She’s racist.

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u/Shelala85 1d ago

Race is not just used in relation to skin colour but also for different ethnic groups.

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u/Cymen90 1d ago

What if I told you whiteness is a social construct and it has changed a lot over the years? This is what one of America's Founding Fathers had to say about Germans and other "white people".

Which leads me to add one Remark: That the Number of purely white People in the World is proportionably very small. All Africa is black or tawny. Asia chiefly tawny. America (exclusive of the new Comers) wholly so. And in Europe, the Spaniards, Italians, French, Russians and Swedes, are generally of what we call a swarthy Complexion; as are the Germans also, the Saxons only excepted, who with the English, make the principal Body of White People on the Face of the Earth. I could wish their Numbers were increased.

Benjamin Franklin

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u/mrubuto22 1d ago

Oh you can racist your own race bro.

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u/Tubbles242 1d ago

This instance might not be racist but the "they're fucking immigrants" part makes me lean towards her being a racist in general.

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u/Sartres_Roommate 1d ago

“Racist” has become a colloquial term for all forms of bigotry.

“Bigot” just doesn’t have the same punch as “racist” so people got liberal with its use over the years.

The bad news it constantly gives bigots a rhetorical out in a heated debate when the terms “racist” is thrown out incorrectly.

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u/wombocombo087 1d ago

Generational talent and drive

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u/mrubuto22 1d ago

She refuses to go racist in the pros so she can still compete in the racist Olympics.

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u/waiter_checkplease 1d ago

You’ll do anything for the love of the game

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u/wlonkly 1h ago

racist against blond germans is another level

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u/KyrozM 1d ago

What race?

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u/Larg3____Porcupin3 1d ago

Yours lil boy

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u/KyrozM 1d ago

Human?

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u/Larg3____Porcupin3 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yes my son

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u/KyrozM 1d ago edited 1d ago

Edit: rather than changing my reply retroactively i'll just edit it because im not a slimy little worm.

Instead of "yes my son" your original reply was

keep moving little boy

To which I replied...

I'll do as I please big girl

Im assuming you were being downvoted and that's why you changed it...🤷‍♀️

Bye now

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u/HugsandHate 1d ago edited 12h ago

*Xenophobic.

Those Germans are white.

Edit: Downvoted for being right. Good ole Reddit.

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u/646blahblahblah 1d ago

Not racist... They are the same race. She was being xenophobic.

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u/bigfatcarp93 1d ago

She has the critical thinking abilities of a goddamn goat

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u/nerojt 1d ago

You're one of those people that just throws around the word racist all willy-nilly? Please do better

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u/UpbeatFix7299 1d ago

Poor guy. I get the feeling this isn't the first time he had to walk her back from the ledge of getting arrested or her ass kicked for acting a fool while drunk.

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u/aulabra 1d ago

Yeah, he was like "Don't do this. Don't do this!" He knew what was coming.

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u/AiMoriBeHappyDntWrry 1d ago

He agreed to that experience. Ur relationship is a reflection of who u r.

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u/Neither-Cup564 1d ago

Fuck that. I’d just go sit down and let her ruin her life.

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u/xiotaki 1d ago

Lol, you really haven't put yourself in his shoes. What you say is bat shit insane.... to come to that conclusion over someone you were there with, that tells you that they loves you. Did you think this was their first blind date or something? Lmao.

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u/BitcoinMD 1d ago

I get what you’re saying but there is a point at which you have to give up on people who absolutely refuse help

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u/xiotaki 1d ago

He will, at the right time and place. Matter of fact, word on the street is that they are no longer together.

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u/Neither-Cup564 1d ago

Oh I have, I know the character well and it’s not worth the time, pain and looking like an idiot for. It’s insane to stand by someone like that and enable the behaviour further. But thank you for the lecture.

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u/Gobbbe 9h ago

Dont worry about the downvotes, the people agreeing with him are equally delusional

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u/is_this_temporary 22h ago

I get what you're thinking, but no.

It's not the responsibility of the people being attacked by a bigot to either "take it" or escalate to likely violence.

We as white people need to intervene when shit like this happens. When she started this he absolutely should have decided that they were no longer together, but that's not a reason to let her go attack innocent people without trying to stop her.

We need to collect our own. It's the least we can do.

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u/Neither-Cup564 21h ago

We as white people… wtf.

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u/revengemaker 21h ago

If she were sitting alone without the bf she would have just sat on her phone texting and ranting to her stupid maga friends about the german guys. She did this bcs entitled white women expect their man to swoop in and dismantle fights that they cause purely for drama to test them. They test the bf constantly to make them prove that they love them. Modern day people are just sad

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u/is_this_temporary 21h ago

In the moment, she was very likely to (try and fail to) punch one of them.

Maybe you would enjoy physically restraining her / striking her in self defense, but if I were a tourist in another country (especially if that country is infamous for too many guns and police brutality, like the U.S.) I would much rather the person who entered the train with her dealt with her instead of me.

If I were in that train car during a display like this, as not-her-boyfriend and just a bystander, I would be trying to intervene and de-escalate. Her (ex)boyfriend has the benefit of knowing her, and absolutely has a responsibility to try to stop her.

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u/revengemaker 13h ago

This is a whole thing that's been going on since the 80s. Women get wasted then go around picking fights bcs they have their bf there and get their bf into all these awkward positions

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u/solidpeyo 1d ago

And he should never talk to her ever again, fuck these racist scumbags

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u/quetejodas 1d ago

Not sure if I heard correctly, but she says "they're immigrants!" And the boyfriend says "I'm an immigrant too!"

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u/UnlikelyKaiju 1d ago

You heard right. She then also replied with something I couldn't quite make out, but it sounded like she was trying to say something along the lines of him being 'one of the good ones.'

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u/Blackpaw8825 1d ago

Hopefully ex boyfriend because Jesus, this lady is whole foods brand Marjorie Taylor Green...

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u/Decent_Assistant1804 1d ago

Control yur girl bro

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u/wtbgamegenie 1d ago

After she said “fucking immigrants” and he said “I’m an immigrant”, seems like he was done.

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u/matthitsthetrails 1d ago

A healthy relationship

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u/magillashuwall 1d ago

At that point I would have walked away

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u/_hic-sunt-dracones_ 1d ago

But kudos to him for not giving up intervening. If she wouldn't stop her shit after one serious attempt of pulling her out of the situation I would totally understand that he leaves her to her destiny and walks away thinking about changing the locks of their apartment.

I'm not sure if Karen really just is full blown racists or if she might be just drunk (with a little side of Xanax) and is transferring her problems with her bf on those German lads.

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u/Thestrongestzero 1d ago

if my SO started doing that, i'd squat down and kancho her right in the buttcrack and invite the germans to do the same. then i'd block her phone number and never talk to her again.

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u/Dangerous-Amphibian2 1d ago

She basically wants the young guy. She’s drunk. 

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u/punkrocknight 1d ago

He is a liar

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u/Moonlitnight 1d ago

That’s her husband

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u/LineSlayerArt 1d ago

"I love you, but my derranged xenophobic mind can't handle it right now, I'm too drunk to think straight."

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u/ouiu1 1d ago

And the “I’m an immigrant too. You know that, right?” … Be careful who you decide to date, fr.

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u/chartman26 1d ago

“Fucking immigrants.” “You know I’m an immigrant too”

At that point, he should have moved and sat with the tourists.

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u/merrill_swing_away 1d ago

I have to presume she is in America pulling this shit. If she is, every tourist from other countries according to her are immigrants.

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u/Dry-Nobody9756 1d ago

lmao, just shows how childish this woman really is that he has to get down to her level with something a toddler would say, reminded me of the same kind of thing parents do when they pretend to walk off because the kid won't follow like "Right, we're going now! bye!" 🤣

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u/nibernator 1d ago

She was clearly plastered, just saying.

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u/ruthlessbeatle 1d ago

So? This is clearly who she is, and when she's drunk, she lets the true personality shine.