GoFundMe’s suspension of millions to support protesting truckers in Canada shocked many, particularly when the company initially announced its intention to distribute the money to other charities. It was less of a surprise for those of us who have criticized the company for years over its use of the platform to target and block funds for conservative and libertarian causes. Indeed, the company has revised an old practice known as the “Nag’s Head light” in luring the unsuspecting into what has become a liberal lockbox on funds.
In the Carolinas, locals would sometimes tie a lantern under the head of a horse to lure ships to their doom. Thinking the light was a ship in deep water, the ships would unwittingly sail into the shore rocks where they would be stripped of their cargo. That is how the resort town Nag’s Head, North Carolina got its name.
GoFundMe is the ultimate Nag’s Head operation. It draws conservative and libertarian causes to its shore with promise of being a neutral crowdfunding site. At its creation, the founders pledged to change the world by “disrupting giving” by handing control to average people in supporting others with common values and views.
The easy-to-use technology and need for crowdfunding services quickly expanded the company into a multibillion enterprise. However, it soon became clear that the company was using its control of funds to advance its own political agenda. Worse yet, the company effectively coaxing groups into fundraising campaigns on its site, only to freeze accounts before the money could be used.
In the case of the Canadian truckers protesting Covid mandate, the company perfectly replicated the Nag’s Head Light. It allowed people to donate over $10 million, thinking that they were helping the truckers and presumably not donating to other sites. It then suspended the account and announced that it would distribute the money to other charities in consultation with the truckers. Once the ships crashed on its rocks, it was literally going to salvage the wreckage.
The announcement was breathtakingly moronic and led some to call for criminal investigations. It turns out that soliciting funds for one reason and then using them for another (“better”) cause is considered fraud in some circles. The company quickly backtracked. However, it still refused to allow the donations to go to the truckers. It will return the money. In the meantime, critical time and support has been lost for those who trusted the company.
It is a familiar pattern for the company in allowing people to send money for badly needed support only to lock the funds away at the last minute. The company’s record has moved it well beyond any plausible deniability that it is not using access to donations as a way of advancing its own priorities.
Consider GoFundMe’s freezing of funds for legal defense funds. One would think that funding litigation costs would be unassailable since it is an effort to secure judicial review of the underlying merits of a case or a cause. After all, if a cause is based on disinformation, a court can quickly sort out the truth. Right? Wrong.
GoFundMe froze donations needed to support Kyle Rittenhouse’s legal defense because he was accused of a violent crime. However, that is the point of a trial. He was accused of a crime and he was entitled to a presumption of innocence. However, the media ran false accounts of the story while social media companies like TikTok censored pro-Rittenhouse material. One police officer was fired for simply donating to Rittenhouse anonymously on GoFundMe. Neither the company nor the media came to the defense of Norfolk Police Officer William Kelly. Rittenhouse was, of course, acquitted. Then GoFundMe released the funds after they were no longer needed to support his trial.
The company also suspended litigation funds for accused police officers as well as parents who sought to challenge vaccinate mandates in courts.
When the company blocked the distribution of donations to Rittenhouse, it declared “GoFundMe’s Terms of Service prohibit raising money for the legal defense of an alleged violent crime.” It is a ridiculous policy since defendants have a presumption of innocence and we should all parties being able to present their best cases before independent judges. That includes Canadian truckers, Black Lives Matter, Antifa and other groups facing litigation. Moreover, critics have noted that the company has supported legal funds supporting rioters in various cities as well as an appeal for the 2020 Seattle Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP.)
The hypocrisy of the company on such issues has been flagged repeatedly, including by Tesla CEO Elon Musk.
It does not matter. Like the social media companies, GoFundMe controls billions in funds and has become the very scourge that it was designed to combat. Rather than empower average people, it now operates more like a corporate overlord on what causes are worthy of crowdfunding.
Notably, GoFundMe relied on accounts from the Canadian government to label the truckers as violent despite the fact that the truckers are protesting the government. The protests have been largely peaceful, particularly in comparison to the “mostly peaceful” protests in past summers (by groups allowed to crowdfund by the company). It is the same pattern used by other companies in serving as a conduit of government priorities and policies.
YouTube and Twitter have blocked critics of Putin or governments like India. Even the W.H.O. has supported such censorship to deal with what it now calls the “infodemic,” which includes criticism of itself. YouTube and Twitter have blocked critics of Putin or governments like India. In the United States, Democratic leaders (including President Joe Biden) have pushed for more corporate censorship on subjects ranging from global warming to gender issues to election integrity to vaccines.
The inclusion of GoFundMe in this increasingly united front is particularly chilling. As the Supreme Court has repeatedly held, money is a critical part of free speech. You speak through your donations and those funds then support further free speech and associations. As companies like Twitter actively silence dissenting voices, GoFundMe has served as a chokepoint for funds. The result is that many are finding it not only difficult to use social media to voice their views but to use crowdfunding to garner the support of like-minded people.
GoFundMe can clearly redefine itself as a progressive company. It has free speech rights like those who it is seeking to silence. Like many in the media, the company has largely written off half of the country. The problem of the company is when the crowd in its crowdfunding business goes somewhere else.
At first GoFundMe wanted to steal the money to give to some other charity so they could keep their three percent fee ($270,000). Then they said that those who wanted there money back would have to fill out a form to get it. Now they say no form is necessary. Their lawyers must have convinced them that an orange jump suite might be in their future. Let me send a message to GoFundMe. I have contributed to worthy causes in the past on the GoFundMe platform but there will be no such contributions in the future. My three percent that GoFundMe gets to keep is a very small amount but when its multiplied by millions it adds up. GoFundMe’s decision has probably cost them millions of dollars in one day. The sad part about it is that those who need the donations will not get the help they need. GoFundMe doesn’t give a damn about those they say they want to help as long as they can be seen as virtuous among the unwoke. Uncaring and stupid will not get my support.
American Rightwing Media And Notable Republicans Spnsoring Siege In Ottawa
In further signs of how the convoy has been seized upon by the US right, the Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton, tweeted: “Patriotic Texans donated to Canadian truckers’ worthy cause”, and the Texas senator, Ted Cruz, said on Fox News “government doesn’t have the right to force you to comply to their arbitrary mandates”.
Gerald Butts, a former senior adviser to Justin Trudeau, tweeted in response to the comments from south of the border: “For some senior American politicians, patriotism means renting a mob to put a G7 capital under siege.”
Edited From:
“Ottawa Under Siege By Truck Convoys”
Today’s “Guardian”
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Go Fund Me should be commended for cutting off those funds. It appears this siege was exported by ugly Americans.
REGARDING ABOVE
More coverage from today’s Guardian:
The Canadian public has been less supportive. Polling data suggests that roughly a third of the country has a positive impression of the truckers, but that number seems to be falling as the occupation wears on. Canada has one of the world’s highest rates of vaccination against Covid-19, and vaccine mandates remain broadly popular.
Ottawa residents are growing particularly hostile and resentful after days of disruption. A class action lawsuit has been filed, seeking damages of nearly CAD$10m over the incessant horn blaring that has disrupted daily life for the thousands of residents who live near the occupation zone.
With all the masking and all the vaccinations it is now known that the leader of Canada Justin Trudeau has the Covid Virus. It is now known that the vaccinated masked people can still spread the virus. It must be so exasperating for the maskateers to know that they can get the still get the virus from other maskateers. Now with no proof of efficacy they want to vaccinate your two year old. I am three times vaccinated but if I was 25 years old I’d tell the maskateers to put it where the sun don’t shine. Who’s the leader of the land thats made for you and me.
M-A-S K-A-Y M-O-U-S-E
Thinkthrough, if you’re 3 times vaccinated, what are you even arguing about??
What type of protection do you use when its rainin’ fellas?
And you should be commended for showing how utterly clueless and moronic you are.
As I understand it Gofundme collects a fee for each ‘donation’. Is that fee grabbed when the donation is made or when it is distributed to the beneficiary? If it is grabbed at the point of donation will that fee be returned as well? Is the potential fraud a “truth in advertising” fraud or a wire fraud or both? I would think that if they had just kept the money and distributed it to some other “charity” that would be a theft. Maybe someone (a state entity, perhaps) should make GFM post a banner that state “we will only distribute funds to those we agree with”.
I did not see this link in previous comments, but it raises a good point about how we analyze political phenomena, so I copy it here in the hope that somebody else also might find it interesting.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/02/06/big-tech-vs-the-working-class/
It is time to drop postmodern analysis and return to old fashioned socio-economic analysis if we want to understand what is going on in Canada and elsewhere. Those critical of the Canadian truckers have sat at home working on their computers for two years while workers in the blue-collar and service industries brought them the food, clothing, energy, and everything else that enabled them to survive. Marx and Engels would have understood that; postmodernists not so much, and those addicted to social media not at all.
Old Man, you’re too old to make any sense of this.
Youre so adorable when you act butch
REGARDING ABOVE:
This is Estovir (Old Man) expressing himself.
BLM:
https://www.blm.gov/about/what-we-manage
A tenth of the USA
Buy Large Mansions
BLM
Like most every other “principled” Leftist, GoFMe quickly caved to public pressure and will return the money to the donors.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/salvadorhernandez/gofundme-freedom-convoy-donation-refund
Go F Me
Perfection!
GoFundMe didn’t cave to public pressure. They caved to a threat from the Florida Attorney General to conduct a fraud investigation of the incident. Had the laughably misnamed US “Department of Justice” threatened the same, they would have laughed since they know Merrick Garland has their back. Unfortunately for them, the state of Florida isn’t corrupt as AG Garland is.
You say potato …
Et al:
I posted this video on a different thread a bit ago.
One of the other legal terms I was trying to think of that also applies to GoFMe case & the Freedom supporting Truckers & Canucks is “Unjust Enrichment”.
Other real stuff below:
Ep. 99: WHAT A WEEK! From Vaccine Mandates to Ottawa, & Other Law Stuffs – Viva & Barnes LIVE
17,676 views
Streamed live 2 hours ago
Et al:
One interesting things I heard on this GoFMe case was 1st GoFMe agreed to fund the group, then for whatever the reason they said the group violated some TOS agreement & stopped taking funds on behalf the group. Then the Catch, GoFMe says their issues of concern have been taken care of & start taking Funds again. Then GoFMe stops again.
The Legal term will shortly come up on how Go FMe screwed up on this problem.
We’ll see what the real attorneys have to say in a bit.
Those Commie/Nazi Authoritarian Globalist in power here in the US & Canada will not quit until they completely destroy the Citizens/Govt workers those leaders Swore an Oath to the Citizens to Protect their Liberties & Freedoms.
Just look at those Globalist Scum below link, just like the Globalist Scum that Pelosi/McConnell, Schemer, McCarty, etc. did before, on after Jan 1/2021.
I do see most Canadian police & military have been as supportive to the Canadian citizens as they can.
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by Brian Shilhavy
Editor, Health Impact News
The Canadian Truck Convoy entered its second week this weekend as protests spread to the other major Canadian cities, including Toronto, Quebec, Edmonton, Winnipeg, among others.
Earlier today, Sunday, February 6th, Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson declared a “state of emergency” in Ottawa which apparently gives police in Ottawa the authority to arrest people trying to bring food and fuel to the truckers.
Global News reported:
https://vaccineimpact.com/2022/in-second-weekend-trucker-convoy-spreads-to-other-canadian-cities-as-ottawa-declares-state-of-emergency/
Embezzlement. Isn’t what Go Fund Me did legally referred to as embezzlement?
I’m not sure of what all the criminal/civil charges are likely going to be from the different govts & the lawyers of all those that give, but GF’ me looks to have Knowing really screwed up.
Looks to me they should already have their lawyers drawing up their BK filing for the court early next week.
Imagine the pure Gull of those Go F Me people thinking they could get off consistently on the cheap as Wallst Banks JP Morgan, etc.,etc… LOL;)
Embezzlement and fraud. The next question is how many others have they done this to? How much money has GoFundMe diverted to others because they decided, unilaterally, that the recipient(s) violated their terms and conditions? They didn’t agree to refund the money until several state AGs threatened to intervene.
It’s kinda like BLM…..
Which stands for Buy Large Mansions
Or perhaps conversion. In any event, an investigation into these fraudulent and deceptive business practices is warranted, particularly since the company uses the means and instrumentalities of interstate commerce.
No public policy that treats those who have recovered from Covid as less protected than the vaccinated is based on science.
The CDC study was an outlier. Multiple studies and, indeed, the very design of the vaccine, indicate that naturally-acquired immunity is equal to or greater than that generated by the vaccine. Of course it is. The vaccine does not use live attenuated virus. It produces spike protein. The vaccine generates immunity to that spike protein, alone. It does not recognize any other part of the virus. The advantage is that it’s fast to roll out. Plus, it provides immunity while sparing high risk people, like me, from the actual disease.
The nature of the SARS-CoV2 viral replication produces variants regularly. Any kind of immunity selects for variants that can evade it. The virus doesn’t care what’s stopping it from replicating – vaccine-induced or naturally-acquired immunity. It can either infect a host, replicate, and infect others, or it cannot. Binary.
The vaccine prevented infection very effectively of the wild type, and the fist few variants. Now they have changed enough that the vaccine does not prevent infection, only severe disease. The vaccine no longer protects others, only yourself. That protection will wane as more variants branch off. Any argument that getting vaccinated stops the spread, or protects the community, no longer applies. It’s false.
It’s like mandating the flue vaccine from 5 years ago. Firing someone who recovered from the current strain, because he didn’t get the shot for the strain from years ago. That’s how fast Covid variants emerge. It condenses years of evolution other viruses take, into weeks.
This is why naturally-acquired immunity is an integral part of public health. This is why focusing on treatment protocols is so important.
The vaccine was an important part of the fight, but it’s been twisted into a whip to scourge the unwilling.
But why was it twisted into a whip? It cant be incompetence.
Natacha says that there was an attempt to ban Michelle Obama’s biography from schools. The truth is that one parent in Texas called for a ban of her book and that red state Texas school district declined to do so. https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/diversity-inclusion/592865-texas-school-district-wont-remove-michelle-obama. Once again Natacha fails to tell the whole story. Natacha tries to make it look like it is some kind of movement to ban books by the fascist right when it was one, let me repeat “one” parent who complained about the book. Some of the things Natacha says are out there but this one is really a stretch. I found the link to the story so why couldn’t Natacha post the link so that we could all see it so that we could make our own evaluation. For the dishonest the sin of omission is very often employed.
Yes, I did say that there was AN ATTEMPT to ban Michelle Obama’s book. That’s the truth–the attempt failed, but the point I attempted to make was the degree of outrageousness of these Texas white people to ban anything that even remotely makes a black person appear in a favorable light. Here are the reasons given by this Neaderthal “mother”: in her opinion, the book makes Trumpy Bear look bad;, and, in her opinion, the book might make her little darlings feel guilty about being white.
What I said about AN ATTEMPT to ban the book is not “really a stretch”, but your effort to paint me as a liar is just that. If anyone is “dishonest”, it’s you.
False advertising and fraud. Sue the pants off of them.
If a company wishes to be a crowd funding venue for strictly Democrat-approved causes, then they must state that on their about page.
Most of the media, many people in positions of power in the government alphabet soup, the public education system, academia, and Hollywood are agents of the Democrat Party.
Brown shirts.
If there is an unbiased, or conversation crowd funding site, then let me know. GoFundMe won’t get another dime out of me.
Stinking Fascists.
No, no, Karen-don’t give up just yet. First, let’s all get together and open a GoFundMe account to buy Jeffsilberman an iTune membership.That ole broken record of his is really getting scratchy.
Karen, you smear Leftists as “Brown Shirts.” If that is how you want to play it, allow me to rip a page out of your playbook and call you Trumpists “Black Shirts.”
I’m sure you are aware that Brown Shirts roughed-up people in the streets, but Black Shirts, well, you know….
Trump supporters are Red Flag waving God loving Peaceful Prosperous Patriots. GFY.
*Red shirt wearing, US Flag-waving
The rest of you liberal progressives are the Red Flag waving left-wing fascists.
Good For You!
Indeed! Do you think Jeff thought it meant something else??
GFY? Let me guess. Trumpist?
He’s everywhere! He’s under the bed, he’s in the closet, I just saw him in the mirror. How can one man be in so many places?
Easy. He’s taken up residence the heads of every Dem/lib/progressive out there. Trump has been out of office for over a year and it’s still Trump, Trump, Trump. But, then again, these are the same people who brought us ‘Russia, Russia, Russia, Collusion, Collusion, Collusion, all BS, BS, BS!
Because, because, because that one you worship just won’t go away or shut up. No prior Oval Office occupant ever did that because all prior Presidents who lost the election conceded and honored the will of the American people. No prior POTUS ever went on “Stop the Steal” campaigns to spread a Big Lie about losing an election with absolutely NO evidence. There’s still NO evidence. All of the claims made by Giuliani, Powell and Trump have been refuted as lies, and Giuliani has had his law license suspended for this lying to various courts. Powell is being sued for multiple millions by Dominion for spreading baseless lies about their voting equipment being manipulated by foreign governments. Nevertheless, they still won’t stop. Now, they’re trying to run off Democrats from local election boards so that some future Brad Raffensberger actually WOULD “find” votes, and they’re doing everything possible to try to cheat to get back into the White House so that the one you worship can pardon those who invaded our Capitol.
Trump’s campaign DID collude with Russia to help him cheat. It’s a fact. It’s the truth. Check out Dan Coats’ comments and the report of that Republican Senate committee if you don’t believe me. Trump refused to cooperate with the Mueller investigation, so that they were prevented from obtaining full evidence of the extent of his personal involvement, but there were dozens of guilty verdicts, guilty pleas and sentences. These, too, are facts.
It’s like being in a hall of mirrors, isn’t it? I’m your worst nightmare!
You wish
I was talking about Joe Biden.
I was thinking about you
Are those demon worshiping Satanist & Pedophile supporters at CNN,MSNBC, Wapo, NYT, etc. still on the air & pumping out their propaganda BS?
By all reports I see they appear to be running a triple expanded version of the Communist dictatorship of Nicolai Ceausescu.
Let’s go Brandon & your Iranian Nuke program!
We’ll see.
GiveSendGo is the one to use!
Do not ever donate a penny through the fascist f*cks called GFM.
Off topic:
Story about No Knock Warrants and cop entries. Floor flaps and holes under floor just indide the doors.
If one is asleep and someone breaks in and steps on the floor the flap collapse and the person goes down s deep hole. A camera and light goes on and the video goes onto a website to local news.
The home owner can flip a switch and drop a panel outside the front door and drop some more pigs down. He or she can turn the water on and drown them in the hole.
We have a right to protect our lives and property.
Natacha says:
“Turley is officially a partisan hack, and therefore, his legal credentials have been cheapened.”
I would not say that it is official. A “partisan hack” is a person whose intentions are more aligned with victory than personal conviction. I, for one, have NEVER doubted that Turley has personal as well as professional convictions. First, Turley is a NeverTrumper. To my knowledge, he has never reversed his opinion that Trump is a “carnival snake charmer.” Second, he had the moral conviction to call for Trump’s Congressional censure for his 1/6 speech despite not a SINGLE Trumpist joining him. Third, he has the convictions of his legal profession unlike Trumpists who call the lawful investigations of Trump “witch-hunts.” Turley would NEVER do so and will abide a conviction of Trump in a court of law unlike Trumpists who will heed Trump’s call to take to the streets.
Turley is a “hired gun.” That is his role at Fox News.
Gee JeffSilberman, I thought we were discussing GoFundMe and not getting the funds to the people they were intended for. As usual it’s more important to you to get on your little Turley soap box than to be concerned about the truckers not being able to pay their bills and their children who are not getting enough to eat. Jeff, you have made your mission clear and it has nothing to do with compassion. It has more to do with sadism than compassion. Part of the malady is to have control over those who won’t fight back. JeffSilberman has again accomplished his mission. When he’s having so much fun why should he put the lash down?
TiT,
“People yakkity-yak a streak
And waste your time of day,
but Mister Ed will never speak
Unless he has something to say!”
Like Mister Ed, I am not shy to speak out when I have something to say about Turley. You may presume that if I DON’T speak out against something he has stated, I do not disagree with him. Much of the time, I don’t have an opinion- yea or nay- because I am not sufficiently versed in the facts of a particular story to render a judgement. I do not pretend to be a know-it-all, and I will not venture an opinion unless I can defend it.
In the post at hand, Turley’s complaint would seem legitimate, but I would like to hear the other side of the story as *generally* there are two sides. There are NOT 2 sides to the the argument that the election was stolen, however, for there is zero evidence of massive fraud. Those Trumpists who make that claim are liars.
Does not the majority of go fund me pledges go through a credit card company. If so then cancel the transaction and let GFM reconcile the charges, miss redirecting the purpose of the pledge.
The media says that Trumps staff taped up all sorts of documents that he tore up and they then put them in archives.
Trump needs a paper shredder if he gets back in office.
Gofundme needs to send him one. I’ll donate a penny.
“GoFundMe and the Nag’s Head Light: How Crowdfunding Has Become The Latest Battleground Over Free Speech”
– Professor Turley
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There is no “battleground” over free speech; there is only freedom of speech.
There is a high criminal judicial branch, with emphasis on the Supreme Court, that must have been impeached and convicted long ago for its egregious failure to support the Constitution.
The judicial branch has no power to legislate, modify legislation or legislate by “interpretation.”
Protestations of communists (liberals, progressives, socialists, democrats, RINOs) notwithstanding, freedom of speech is absolute and immutable.
That one does not like freedom of speech, does not nullify freedom of speech.
Freedom of speech includes its inverse, freedom to ignore speech (9th Amendment).
Incitement to riot is constitutional free speech.
Rioting is illegal.
One is wise not to abuse one’s freedom of speech.
Freedom of speech includes shouting “fire” in a crowded theater, wherein individuals are responsible for assessing the situation for evidence of fire, and actual damages are litigated civilly.
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“You can’t handle the truth.”
– Colonel Jessup
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The truth is that Americans enjoy the absolute immutable freedom of speech.
For the Record…..I understand the Good Professor was using the Nag’s Head tale for color to his offering today.
However, Rocky Shores in the Carolinas is a mis-statement….sandy beaches, shallow water, rough seas, and few if any lights ashore….yes.
The Professor meant to say….North Carolina Outer Banks…..when referring to the practice of those wandering lights or those meant to resemble the few fixed navigation beacons.
That the locals did prosper by the bounty that came ashore…..yes.
That they assisted Ma Nature in that….oh for sure!
We in North Carolina tha embrace the old ways…fishing, boat building, self reliance, and enjoying the bounty that nature affords us…..don’t necessarily look down at some of our ancestors.
After all….Black Beard’s ship….the Queen Anne’s Revenge….is just outside the Beaufort Ship Channel…and is offering up many relics of that Pirate Ship.
Ralph Chappell, sand is but rock ground exceedingly fine.
🙂
Ditto us on the Rhode Island shore with a similar salvaging backstory.
Ralph Chappell, it must have been a Democratic gaslight that lured the sailors to davey’s locker.
Perhaps I am a bit naive and uninformed about how this whole Go Fund Me (GRM) thing works.
When I hand a Hundred Dollar Bill to a Salvation Army Bell Ringer and that money is not deposited in the Salvation Army accounting system…..that is a theft pure and simple.
What GFM tried to get away with is criminal….and both State and Federal Crimes.
Had they done this to BLM, ANTIFA, or the Democrat Party…..do you have any doubt how the DOJ/FBI would be reacting to their conduct?
I believe Soros has his tentacles in Go FCK Me.
Money laundering .
GFM should be eradicated along with the Globalist wanna be gods
Sandra, does that mean what I think it means?
Don’t ya just love when Turley gets all worked up about private companies and his personal version of censorship. But writes or says nothing when red states are trying to legislate what books can be in a library or school. Or what teacher’s can say or not say. Or a political party that censures it’s members for calling out lawlessness within it’s own party.
Your correct mister fishwings there are books that are not acceptable for certain age groups. Let me present an example. https://theiowastandard.com/shocking-images-from-book-gender-queer-which-is-stocked-in-school-libraries-across-iowa/. There’s a difference between a teacher saying something and a teacher indoctrinating the young. Of course indoctrination is part of your plan to further the Father Land. Some say that the kids already know about this stuff. Does this mean that because the kids know about it that we should allow Playboy magazine in every high school library. Sorry if I’m stepping on your dream.
Bet wing nuts is one of those people who claims teachers are barred from teaching about slavery.
One of the books he is referring to is the biography of Michelle Obama, banned in certain Texas schools. The only ones engaging in indoctrination are those mostly white ignoramuses who don’t want their children to feel badly about the history of white people enslaving black people, exploiting people in India and Africa and stealing the lands of Native people in India, America and Australia. This history is shameful, but ignoring the truth of the racism behind this history is immoral and refusing to allow it to be taught is indoctrination.
But, more to the point, Fish Wings is right on the money in criticizing Turley for ignoring censorship by banning books in school, overlooking curtailment of freedom of speech for teachers and the ReTrumplican Party for censuring its own members who actually abided with their oath to protect and defend the Constitution. Turley is officially a partisan hack, and therefore, his legal credentials have been cheapened.
You propose to teach genocidal racist lies by teaching only about supposed wrongdoing by whites. No other race has a better track record.
The pretense that whites were or are somehow worse than other races is a genocidal lie that cannot be legally taught in a public school in this country.
The Texas school was in Katy, Texas, and there was an ATTEMPT to ban the biography of Michelle Obama.
Joe Rogan has ~ 10 million podcast followers, making it the largest podcast audience.
Michelle and Barry are leaving Spotify because, wait for it, Spotify refuses to censor Joe Rogan.
Michelle, thy name is “Legion”.
At home we do not listen to any podcasts. However, the Neil Young Spotify censorship movement has made us consider listening. For all intents and purposes, Joe Rogan is a modern day Gladiator, while the Obamas are envious, insecure emperors with no clothes
Buh bye Barry and Moochelle! Take Harry and Meeghan with you! No one will miss you!
Meanwhile, Rogan has just increased his audience by A LOT. Thanks Neil Young! You all helped take out the trash.
How are you not seeing the difference??? Tax payers ought to be able to choose what their taxed dollars pay for. Legislation is how they do that. A private company accepting donations on the promise that they will give the money to it’s intended cause AND THEN deciding they don’t like the cause and so the money will be redistributed to other charities or returned after the funds been locked up and unavailable for a couple of weeks is basically fraud.
It’s breach of fiduciary duty and conversion as well.
Well well well, you can give money to Black Lives Matter but you can’t give money to the Canada truckers. Here’s a look at what happened to the BLM money. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/01/black-lives-matter-finances.html. Of course, GoFundMe smugly thinks that the are on the right side of history so they can take your money and decide how it should be spent. GoFundMe put the light on the Nag themselves and has caused their own crash upon the rocky shores. It is only fitting that they find themselves at the bottom of a watery grave.
Thinkitthrough, thank you for the link; informative.
Thanks David B Benson. Unlike some others on this blog I try to bolster my opinions with something other than what I just make up in my head. I am certain that you noticed that my reference was from that right wing rag The New Yorker Magazine.
Thinkitthrough, of course.