The crowdfunding platform preferred by Trump’s alleged co-conspirators is also a hit with neo-Nazis
This is the issue with religious exemptions.
People (mostly rightwingers) will claim anything they don’t like is against their religion.
And since every religion is made up, it’s hard to call them on their bullshit.
Like COVID happened and suddenly millions of people belonged to a religion that forbades vaccines even tho most members were vaccinated for everything else and had their kids vaccinated for all that stuff too.
Lots of right wing extremists use religion as a shield and a sword.
That’s a bit like saying a buffet has a fat people problem. Who else were you expecting?
“GiveSendGo has clearly abandoned its original mission of ‘funding hope,’ instead becoming a tool for the Christian nationalist purveyors of hatred, disinformation, and political violence,” says Rev. Nathan Empsall, the executive director of Faithful America, a national Christian advocacy organization which launched a petition signed by 34,000 people condemning GiveSendGo’s hosting of extremist fundraisers. “As Christians, we are called to stand against authoritarianism and white supremacy, not give them a platform.”
https://time.com/6150317/givesendgo-trucker-convoy-canada-profits/
“As Christians, we are called to stand against authoritarianism and white supremacy, not give them a platform.”
Hasn’t looked that way for the last 8 years or so.
Lost a 0 there…
There’s nothing respectable about this company. Hardcore Christians (evangelicals) in the USA are hateful pieces of shit. I mean, we all know this because we see how they vilify Trans people, but this is even more than I would have suspected. Doing the old both-sides saying you stand for free speech when people are romanticizing violence. Fuck GiveSendGo.
Pohlhaus — who believes that “America was on the side of evil during WW2” — is now building a compound in Maine.
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Co-founder Jacob Wells told the same Canadian parliamentary hearing that GiveSendGo would not ban the KKK from the platform if what the Klan were fundraising for was legal: “We believe, completely to the core of our being,” he added, “that the danger of the suppression of speech is much more dangerous than the speech itself.” (Neither Wilson nor Wells responded to interview requests.) […]
And the head of the thuggish New England neo-Nazi group, NSC-131, is holding a pair of fundraisers for a deceased member who went by the handle “PurePower88.” One donor wrote: “I really wish you were here right now and we can all be smashing every Drag Queen Story Hour in New England.” The campaigns have raised more than $10,000.
You don’t say…
I think they’d call this a feature rather than a problem
It’s not a bug, it’s a feature.
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My eyes are almost widening and my mouth is almost opening from the surprise I am feeling right now, alas, I am not strong enough.
This is what my face looks like right now after reading the headline: (._.)
It’s a feature
Ironic. Hitler despised Christianity as “weak” and blamed it for destroying Western civilization.
I love all the bigotry in this comment thread. Very ironic