A “Male Karen” called an alleged Whole Foods a “communist organization” after employees said they would not ring up his items because he wasn’t wearing a face mask.
The man recorded his own three-minute public freakout. The video was posted to the r/PublicFreakout subreddit on Tuesday by user Capt_Baggins.
The video title says it was filmed in a Whole Foods, but the Daily Dot could not confirm that claim due to the quality of the video and lack of identifiable objects.
Throughout the video, the man says he just needs to feed himself and that the employees need to ring him up.
“Call the police if you need to,” he says in the video. “I just want the world to see a communist organization that is discriminating against people.”
Other users on Reddit—commenting with the understanding that the video was taken inside of a Whole Foods, which is owned by billionaire Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos—pointed to the irony of the phrase.
“As usual, the idiot calling people communists doesn’t even know what communism is,” user randoman99 commented. “Somebody want to tell him the place is owned by one of the biggest, most aggressively capitalist companies in the world?”
The man also never discloses what health condition he has but says he would pass out if he wore a mask.
According to experts who spoke with the Kansas City Star, there are a very limited number of reasons a person would not be able to wear a mask. In June, some anti-maskers even created fake medical cards that cited the Americans with Disabilities act as a reason to be exempt from wearing a mask.
Employees in the video ask the man not to record, as they’re on private property, and tell him they offer curbside pickup and other options.
The man also says he shopped at the store two weeks ago.
“Is the virus more dangerous now?” he asks in the video. “Now all of a sudden five months in I have to wear a mask in your store to get my food.”
Across the United States, the average number of cases has decreased by 11% from two weeks earlier, still bringing the total number of cases per day to almost 60,000 according to the New York Times.
After an employee informs the man that the store policy has changed, he continues to say they don’t care about him and that they need to ring him up.
The video ends with the man walking toward the exit doors, presumably without his groceries.
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*First Published: Aug 5, 2020, 6:59 pm
Trinady Joslin
Trinady Joslin is an editorial intern for the Daily Dot and will graduate from UT with a journalism degree in spring 2022. She is also the Life and Arts Editor at the Daily Texan and an intern at Austin Woman Magazine.
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