Deluge Of Racist Comments Prompts Organizers To Shut Off Comments On Darren Wilson Fundraising Site

[Cali_Democrat]

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]

1. Hmm. " primitive savages". I see Frank Solich and his gang of mentally challenged third graders

have found another thing to bash.

They make RimJob & Company look like....

Well never mind, they don't.

[blm]

18. The same football coach Frank Solich fired for getting a coed pregnant(twice)?

.

[Cali_Democrat]

2. ...

[La Lioness Priyanka]

3. what a huge surprise.

[tblue37]

4. I hope someone got some screen shots, because these folks

insist that they and their supporters are not racist at all.

[calimary]

10. There's one in the story.

Shining examples.

[2naSalit]

5. Why

the hell did he have a gofundme page in the first place? A little odd, no?

[sheshe2]

6. "Darren Wilson supporters are racist? Who knew?!?! "***sarcasm***

Ya, who would have thunk it, Cali_Democrat.

Yes, shut that gawd awful crap down!

[Cha]

7. "Racism"?! Rand Paul doesn't think it's about

racism in Ferguson MO..

The Inanity of Rand Paul's quote on Ferguson, MO..

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025439015

thanks Cali

[freshwest]

11. Oh, the oracle from Texas, er, Kentucky has spoken! We must support his great causes!

[Agschmid]

8. Shocked, I'm sure...

[starroute]

9. I'm already seeing calls on Facebook to boycott GoFundMe

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]

12. guaranteed

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]

13. Everyone who is surprised by this

stand on your head....

[Iliyah]

14. There's one quote that I like very much and I think I read it on DK

"Hands up, don't shoot" - Supporters of Brown
"Shoot" - Supporters of Wilson.

[KittyWampus]

15. meanwhile they wiped the most generic comments off the page. I left something so totally

bland, generic and yet it was deleted.

[blkmusclmachine]

16. Haters gonna hate.

[yuiyoshida]

17. beat me to it...

geeze, I read the messages of the donors. Totally disgusting.

[redruddyred]

19. AMERICA DOESN'T HAVE A RACE PROBLEM

obviously.

[conservaphobe]

20. Let's audit these fuckers.

If they have that much money to dispose to reward a killer, they aren't paying their fair share.