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   From: lloydh@invalid.org   
      
   So what?  Blacks say worse shit to white people and other ethnic groups   
   every day.  When they clean their mouths up, everyone else can consider   
   what they say.  Until then, fuck them.   
      
   NOTE CONTENTS: This story contains a term that refers to a racial slur.   
      
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   A video showing a Minnesota woman at a playground last week openly   
   admitting to using a racist slur against a Black child has garnered   
   millions of views. But what's been equally appalling for some is that   
   the woman has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars in crowdfunds.   
      
   In the video, a man in Rochester, a city roughly 90 miles (145   
   kilometers) south of Minneapolis, confronts the woman for calling a   
   5-year-old boy the N-word. The woman appears to double-down on the   
   racist term and flips off the man confronting her with both of her   
   middle fingers.   
      
   The woman, who could not be reached for comment, has since amassed over   
   $700,000 through Christian fundraising platform GiveSendGo for   
   relocation expenses because of threats she received over the video. The   
   fundraising page said she used the word out of frustration because the   
   boy went through her 18-month-old child's diaper bag. The Associated   
   Press has not verified this assertion.   
      
   “I called the kid out for what he was,” she wrote, adding that the   
   online videos have “caused my family, and myself, great turmoil.”   
      
   The flurry of monetary contributions has reignited multiple debates,   
   from whether racist language and attacks are becoming more permissible   
   to the differences between “cancel culture” and “consequence culture.”   
   Many want to see the woman face some sort of comeuppance for using a   
   slur, especially toward a child. Others say despite her words, she does   
   not deserve to be harassed. The confrontation is reminiscent of others   
   from the internet age in which the instigator of assaults or verbal   
   attacks obtained almost folk hero status, while the victim received a   
   tepid show of support by comparison.   
      
   The NAACP Rochester chapter started its own fundraising campaign for the   
   child’s family. The GoFundMe page had raised $340,000 when it was closed   
   Saturday per the wishes of the family, who want privacy, said the civil   
   rights organization. It was speaking on behalf of the family of the   
   child, who the organization said was on the autism spectrum.   
      
   “This was not simply offensive behavior—it was an intentional racist,   
   threatening, hateful and verbal attack against a child, and it must be   
   treated as such,” the NAACP Rochester chapter said in a statement.   
      
   The Rochester Police Department investigated and submitted findings to   
   the Rochester City Attorney’s Office for “consideration of a charging   
   decision,” spokesperson Amanda Grayson said in a statement Monday.   
      
   GiveSendGo did not immediately respond Tuesday to a request for comment   
   from The Associated Press.   
      
   The donations did and did not surprise Dr. Henry Taylor, director for   
   the Center of Urban Studies at the University at Buffalo.   
      
   But shifts in the political and cultural climate have emboldened some   
   people to express racist and bigoted views against people of color or   
   those they consider outsiders. A more recent backlash, from the White   
   House to corporate boardrooms, against diversity, equality and inclusion   
   initiatives have amplified those feelings.   
      
   The racism “hovering beneath the surface" comes from blame, Taylor said.   
   "People are given someone to hate and someone to blame for all of the   
   problems and challenges that they are facing themselves,” Taylor said.   
      
   The volume of monetary contributions in the Rochester case is   
   reminiscent of the surge of support for individuals like Kyle   
   Rittenhouse, Daniel Penny and George Zimmerman. All three men were   
   legally found to have acted in self-defense or in defense of others   
   after the death of a Black victim — except Rittenhouse, who killed two   
   white protesters at a racial justice demonstration against police.   
      
   The support and opposition in these cases has often been split along   
   party lines.   
      
   In the woman’s case, a contingent of supporters just want to fight   
   cancel culture, said Franciska Coleman, an assistant professor of law at   
   University of Wisconsin Law School, who has written about cancel culture   
   and social regulation of speech. For some it can include donating “to   
   everyone who they in quotes try to ‘cancel.’”   
      
   Some people are fixated on how “it just seems too much that this mother   
   of two young kids is getting death threats and rape threats,” Coleman   
   said.   
      
   Conservative commentators have gone online to applaud her for not   
   capitulating to angry internet mobs while acknowledging she used a   
   hateful word. “No one’s excusing it. But she didn’t deserve to be   
   treated like a domestic terrorist,” conservative podcast host Matt Walsh   
   said in a Facebook post.   
      
   There’s an important distinction, Coleman said, between “cancel culture”   
   and “consequence culture.” The latter is about holding people   
   accountable for actions and words that cause injury such as with “this   
   poor child.”   
      
   That is what many people want to see in this Rochester woman’s case.   
   Because a formal system of punishment may not impose consequences for   
   the woman’s racist behavior, “we have to do it informally,” Colman said.   
      
   She and Taylor agree that, in conventional societal thinking, using   
   racist slurs against someone who has frustrated or even provoked you is   
   never acceptable. Those who think otherwise, even now, are seen as being   
   on the fringes.   
      
   But donors on the woman’s GiveSendGo page unabashedly used racist   
   language against the boy, prompting the site to turn off the comments   
   section. Others excused her behavior as acting out of aggravation. There   
   are communities where the racial slur is only unacceptable in “racially   
   mixed company,” Coleman said.   
      
   Social media websites and crowdfunding platforms have helped people   
   around the world speak with each other and with their wallets. It’s   
   intensified by the anonymity these platforms allow.   
      
   “Feeling that no one will know who you are enables you to act on your   
   feelings, on your beliefs in an aggressive and even mean-spirited way   
   that you might not do if you were exposed,” Taylor said.   
      
   https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/woman-called-black-child-slur-raised-   
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