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I automatically ignore any GoFundMe campaign, after they let the contributions for Darren Wilson continue. Even when donors were making explicitly, unambiguousl
by lukev 12y ago
I automatically ignore any GoFundMe campaign, after they let the contributions for Darren Wilson continue. Even when donors were making explicitly, unambiguously racist comments along with their donation.
If they had a policy of making no judgement at all on their campaigns that might be at least logically consistent, but given that they (by official policy) shut down campaigns related to pro-choice fundraising, it is clear that they have a systematic set of values which I do not share.
Given that a funding platform is explicitly designed to empower activist groups, and that they clearly support a certain racist, conservative type of group to a much higher degree, I believe it to be unethical to support them in any way.
- barney54 12y agoAre you saying that Darren Wilson was racist? Where is your evidence for that?
- lukev 12y agoI don't know about Darren Wilson. My suspicions aren't relevant. Here are some quotes from people who gave him money after the fact: "Waste of good ammo" "He did a great job removing an unnecessary thing from the public" "Wake up white america" "After 60 years of supporting the blacks I give up" "One down many more to go" And that's just a sampling from what was reported on news sites, since the campaign itself was taken down (by the originators, not by GoFundMe itself.)