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Darren Wilson supporters are racist? Who knew?!?!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/22/darren-wilson-racist-comments-fundraising-site_n_5701590.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular
Shut it down, folks.
That was the reaction organizers of the fundraising campaign set up to support Darren Wilson, the police officer who fatally shot unarmed teen Michael Brown, had toward open comments on the campaign's GoFundMe Page.
In the scant week since it was created, the campaign -- the funds of which will be used "to cover potential legal fees, relocation and living expenses of both Officer Darren Wilson and his immediate family," the site notes -- has drawn more than $235,000 in donations, along with a barrage of tremendously racist language.
Commenters referred to the teen as "a common street thug" and black Americans as "aggressive and entitled primitive savages." One donor, who identified himself as a Chicago police officer, offered $50 for Wilson to use toward "a lap dance to ease the mind of the negativity surrounding the incident and beyond."
"Support Officer Darren Wilson" organizers pulled the plug on comments roughly one day into the campaign, according to updates on the campaign page.
madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)have found another thing to bash.
They make RimJob & Company look like....
Well never mind, they don't.
blm
(113,110 posts).
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)La Lioness Priyanka
(53,866 posts)tblue37
(65,499 posts)calimary
(81,527 posts)Shining examples.
2naSalit
(86,841 posts)the hell did he have a gofundme page in the first place? A little odd, no?
sheshe2
(83,953 posts)Ya, who would have thunk it, Cali_Democrat.
Yes, shut that gawd awful crap down!
Cha
(297,799 posts)racism in Ferguson MO..
The Inanity of Rand Paul's quote on Ferguson, MO..
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025439015
thanks Cali
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Agschmid
(28,749 posts)starroute
(12,977 posts)I don't know enough about the site to know if that's deserved or if it's the sort of thing where anybody can sign up without much scrutiny. (Though you'd think that even a minimal level of scrutiny would pay attention to whether somebody was in a position to profit from a possible crime.) But they're certainly catching flak for it.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)they were still happy to see those comments. Comment section shut because they don't want to infringe on the money they will be able to skim from all those donations. They feel the same way as those racist who added gasoline to the burning fire of racial vitriol out there in the land of the free white male and home of the armed. Who are they fooling? No one who knows they are defending a murderer.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)stand on your head....
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)"Hands up, don't shoot" - Supporters of Brown
"Shoot" - Supporters of Wilson.
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)bland, generic and yet it was deleted.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,867 posts)redruddyred
(1,615 posts)obviously.
conservaphobe
(1,284 posts)If they have that much money to dispose to reward a killer, they aren't paying their fair share.