Four years after a racist encounter with a so-called “Karen,” Christian Cooper has earned the ultimate payback: a Daytime Emmy Award for his passionate love of birdwatching. The racially charged incident, which took place in 2020, not only spotlighted systemic racial issues but also paved the way for Cooper’s extraordinary success.
He has action hero vibes about him.
By the way I looked up the Karen, and she’s still playing the victim and claiming Christian was posing a danger to her. She cries that her life has been ruined and she’s “sorry”, and immediately follows that up with a sob story where she’s the victim
Yea i don’t know about this one.
Initially I was on the dudes side and jumped on the ‘lady is a Karen’ bandwagon.
Then I watched the video and I think both were kind of dicks to each other. In the video he straight up baited the dog while she was also being non chalant about the dog being off leash. Maybe it’s a New Yorker thing. I just think a lot of people jumped on the Karen bandwagon really fast.
Same thing happened with the lady with the bicycle and and that time it was later rewealed the guys were actually threatening her.
All I’m saying is online mob mentality has gotten pretty insane lately and I just have turned to being more skeptical in general.
Edit: to the downvote brigade I highly recommend go watch the full video and decide for yourself
2td edit: I rewatched the video because its been a while. Apparently he was scared of the dog but he also said he lured the dog away with treats. Haha ya this guy was actively looking for a confrontation but found a racist Karen. They’re both dicks
3rd edit and I’m done: I think Lemmy (and social media in general) struggles with female perspectives. Is she a narcissistic prick? Maybe. But this convo won’t go beyond that since 90% of the people here are well… Male.
to the downvote brigade I highly recommend go watch the full video and decide for yourself
Yeah it’s obvious she’s weaponizing the police against a guy who she doesn’t like, by knowingly playing directly into the “police will overreact against a black guy” card, and faking panic in her voice. This is violent escalation to a non-violent situation. The faked panic is straight up sociopathic.
People who don’t leash their dogs are assholes, and his response to that was relatively tame.
I don’t see how you can watch this and respond the way you have, unless you’re also the type of asshole who feels entitled to walk dogs without leashes, or generally dislike black people, or are completely oblivious to the social context in which police in New York interact with black people.
I never said she wasn’t a pos. She absolutely is a trash person. I agree. I’m not defending her to be clear. We got that out of the way.
However, it’s not unusual to run into off leash dogs - depending on the park, of course - in a park like setting. Maybe he was having a bad day, but he absolutely escalated by goading her and saying that he would lure the dog with treats.
It’s a weird thing to say.
I’ve had interactions with dog owners all my life, no one has ever said that as a threat anywhere.
Is it as harmful as calling the cops on someone? Absolutely No. Is it possible she panicked? Maybe. Is it likely she’s racist? Seems so (at least to me). Hard to put yourself in the shoes of a woman by herself in a park etc.
Am I trying to equivocatu between the two? No. I’m merely pointing out there could have been other means to deescalate the situation than by threatening to feed something to her dog. This is the part that gets left out of all the clipped vids. Social media ftw.
In my book she’s a piece of shit, for sure. He’s not a saint to me though.
She kept repeating “African American man” over and over. What does that have to do with anything?? She’s clearly a racist piece of shit.
Black ppl are just going to be considered in the wrong no matter what we do. We make up a tiny about of drug users yet we’re more likely to be arrested for it. Make it make sense
Actually I feel a little like you. My problem was that we don’t see what happened before the video. I’M NOT SAYING THIS HAPPENED. I’m merely suggesting a hypothetical.
What if, before the video, the guy said something like, “Hey bitch get your fucking dog on a leash or else I’m going to poison it, then follow you home and bash your head in with a hammer. Here doggy, doggy. Want a treat?”
I don’t know about you but I would definitely understand, in that case, why she would be pretty upset. Again, not saying that happened, only that we really don’t know what happened before the video rolled and therefore maybe shouldn’t jump to conclusions about guilt.
That is so cool!
NatGeo picked him up for a birdwatching show and that show won an Emmy. I’ll have to watch it.
Good for homie
