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Black Girls Code says it turned down $125,000 from Uber
- qubex 9y agoWhoever news of refused donations turn up, I always find myself wondering how news of the refusal broke. I'm assuming that the prospective recipients made some sort of public announcement to the effect that an offer had been made and that aforementioned offer had been refused — presumably, according to my thinking, a unilateral act. As such I'm somewhat nonplussed by the idea of a prospective beneficiary criticising a prospective benefactor for being inherently manipulative, when they themselves would seem to be those harnessing the occasion to make some sort of statement while basking in the reflected limelight. True statements would be made far from the public sphere: anonymous donations that avoid any allegation of being for PR purposes, and silent refusals that don't grab the chance to rub somebody's face in it.