Current Events > unhinged trump supporter suspended from GoFundMe for racism

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https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/gofundme-shut-down-candace-owens-104739069.html

GoFundMe suspended the conservative activist Candace Owens from its platform on Sunday after she raised more than $200,000 for an Alabama business whose co-owner called George Floyd a "thug."
In a statement on Sunday, GoFundMe accused Owens of making "falsehoods against the black community," according to The Daily Beast.
The more than $200,000 that was raised for the Parkside Cafe in Birmingham, Alabama, will still be transferred to the bar, however.
"GoFundMe has suspended the account associated with Candace Owens and the GoFundMe campaign has been removed because of a repeated pattern of inflammatory statements that spread hate, discrimination, intolerance and falsehoods against the black community at a time of profound national crisis," the company said in a statement. "These actions violate our terms of service."

Owens, who is black, responded to the campaign being canceled in a tweet, writing that she was "angry that such a blatant form of discrimination is acceptable by GoFundMe."
"There was NOTHING intolerant or violent about raising funds to help a conservative business owner," Owens wrote.
The Parkside Cafe became the center of controversy last week when an employee shared a text sent by a co-owner, Michael Dykes, in which he threatened to hike up prices as part of a "protest tax," according to AL.com.
"We should go up one or two dollars on everything until June 10th. Call it a protest tax because all the idiots that went to the protests are responsible for us not being able to open normal hours," Dykes wrote.
"Any employees that went or are going should resign. Mr. Floyd was a thug, didn't deserve to die but honoring a thug is irresponsible."
Dykes later apologized for his comments in an interview with AL.com, saying he "let everybody down" and "never intended any harm."

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Dykes said he wrote the text after watching one of Owens' videos, published on Facebook last Wednesday, in which she detailed Floyd's criminal history and argued that black Americans should not be holding him up as a martyr.
In the video, she said: "For whatever reason it has become fashionable over the last five or six years for us to turn criminals into heroes overnight. It is something I find despicable."
"George Floyd was not an amazing person," she added. "George Floyd is being upheld as an amazing human being."
On Friday, Owens repeated her attack on Floyd's character on the conservative radio host Glenn Beck's show, saying: "The fact that he has been held up as a martyr sickens me."

Floyd's death on May 25 has prompted almost two weeks of protests against police brutality across the US and in other countries. Floyd was killed following an arrest in which a white officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes while he said repeatedly that he couldn't breathe.
GoFundMe is not the first tech company to take a stand against Trump or his allies in recent weeks. Two weeks ago Twitter moderated one of Trump's tweets about the unrest over Floyd's death, saying the tweet was "glorifying violence."
Trump has since tried to change a law that protects social-media companies from being legally responsible for users' posts.

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like what motivates her to be this way

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RoyalPeach posted...

like what motivates her to be this way

Having autonomy over her own thoughts. No one is required to think along racial and party lines. Usually your racial lines supersede your party lines, though. There aren't too many black conservatives out there.

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Alucard188 posted...

Having autonomy over her own thoughts. No one is required to think along racial and party lines. Usually your racial lines supersede your party lines, though. There aren't too many black conservatives out there.

Except she's a grifter who doesn't believe a word that comes out of her mouth.
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Alucard188 posted...

Having autonomy over her own thoughts. No one is required to think along racial and party lines. Usually your racial lines supersede your party lines, though. There aren't too many black conservatives out there.

no. She has that condition known as deranged donald disorder

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she seems to not understand what these protests are really about. I am not taking a stance on if Mr Floyd was a criminal or not. because I don't know, and because it is irrelevant. that's not why he died. he died because he was black. and it's not just about his death. it's about all the deaths police have caused. she thinks the whole movement should just shut down if she can prove Mr Floyd was a less than perfect person. It's beyond Mr Floyd. and she should know that.

If the money is still going to the bar, then the rest of this is just grandstanding
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Ex-Kefiroth posted...

How is it that horrible people always have so much money lying around to donate towards horrible causes

It's just a shitload of horrible people dumb enough to give their small amount of money away that adds up to a large amount of money.

I do find it funny that conservatives are all about pulling yourself up by the bootstraps and not accepting handouts but do GoFundMes for dumb shit all the time

Anyway, anything bad happening to Owens is cause for celebration tbh. She causes so much damage with every word of bullshit she says.

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Ex-Kefiroth posted...

How is it that horrible people always have so much money lying around to donate towards horrible causes

Because the horrible people are usually the ones with money

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DeadBankerDream posted...

Except she's a grifter who doesn't believe a word that comes out of her mouth.

Machete posted...

no. She has that condition known as deranged donald disorder

I'll take your word for it. I haven't heard enough from her to make any decision one way or another, other than her using typical conservative talking points on societal issues.

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Alucard188 posted...

I'll take your word for it. I haven't heard enough from her to make any decision one way or another, other than her using typical conservative talking points on societal issues.

Imagine if Admiral were a black woman.

That's Candace Owens.

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Imagine if Uncle Ruckus was a young female

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Alucard188 posted...

Having autonomy over her own thoughts. No one is required to think along racial and party lines. Usually your racial lines supersede your party lines, though. There aren't too many black conservatives out there.

Is it really autonomy over your own thoughts when she's just regurgitating whatever talking points conservatives are vomiting out?

Really only seen certain people call out about Floyd's arrest records and they all hold a very common denominator.

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Alucard188 posted...

Having autonomy over her own thoughts. No one is required to think along racial and party lines. Usually your racial lines supersede your party lines, though. There aren't too many black conservatives out there.

Not in her case though. She just followed the money. She flipped from being a leftist to an alt-righter overnight. Not that people never flip like that but it coupled with her tendency to say whichever outrageous thing gets her the most attention leads me to believe shes naught but a grifter.

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BathroomWater posted...

Not in her case though. She just followed the money. She flipped from being a leftist to an alt-righter overnight. Not that people never flip like that but it coupled with her tendency to say whichever outrageous thing gets her the most attention leads me to believe shes naught but a grifter.

Hoping that there are enough people like me - AKA people with short memories - that care to pay attention. Sounds like somebody to be categorically ignored.

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Couldn't she donate the money herself rather than relying on crowd funding?
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My mom sent me that video the other day, but I said I didn't want to listen to a grifter. She called me in a rage, but I couldn't answer because I was at work.
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Alucard188 posted...

Having autonomy over her own thoughts. No one is required to think along racial and party lines. Usually your racial lines supersede your party lines, though. There aren't too many black conservatives out there.

This is a mod, shilling for one of the biggest race provocateurs not named diamond and silk

You know that topic I posted opining on the general mod staffs feelings towards the current unrest Vis--vis the anti black trolling that seems to be allowed to persist, in combination with a lack of a statement of solidarity? Starting to make more sense now


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RoyalPeach posted...

like what motivates her to be this way

It is well profitable.

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Reminder that Conservatives love scamming their own kind. Remember that dude that tried to build a wall for Mexico? He was charging $20 a brick lmao. A brick costs like $.75

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EarlWallingford posted...

This is a mod, shilling for one of the biggest race provocateurs not named diamond and silk

Okay buddy. I'm sorry I never heard of her until three weeks ago, when people all of a sudden started caring about what she had to say.

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I don't like diamond and silk. They are farts. I don't care if their shtick is scamming donalds and they don't mean what they say. Still disruptive and annoying.
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Is it bad that I still wanna smash Candace Owens?

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