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CONTENT Note: This story contains a term that refers to a racial insult.
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A video that shows a woman from Minnesota in a recreation courtyard last week openly admitted a racist insult against a black child has obtained millions of views. But what has been equally terrible for some is that the woman has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars in Crowdfunds.
In the video, a man in Rochester, a city of approximately 90 miles (145 kilometers) to the south of Minneapolis, faces the woman for calling a 5 -year -old boy the word N. The woman seems to double the racist term and turns the man who confronts her with her two middle fingers.
The woman, to whom she could not be contacted to comment, has accumulated more than $ 700,000 through the Christian Givinggo fund collection platform for the relocation expenses due to the threats she received about the video. The fund collection page said he used the word by frustration because the child went through his 18 -month -old children’s bag of diapers. Associated Press has not verified this statement.
“I called the child for what it was,” he wrote, adding that the online videos “have caused my family and a great agitation.”
The burst of monetary contributions has revived multiple debates, whether racist language and attacks are becoming more permissible for differences between “canceling culture” and the “culture of consequence.” Many want to see the woman face some kind of deserved for using an insult, especially towards a child. Others say that despite her words, she does not deserve to be harassed. The confrontation reminds others of the Internet era in which the instigator of assaults or verbal attacks obtained almost the state of the popular hero, while the victim received a warm support sample compared.
The Naacp Rochester chapter began its own fundraising campaign for the child’s family. The Gofundme page had raised $ 340,000 when it closed on Saturday according to family wishes, which they want privacy, said the civil rights organization. I was talking on behalf of the child’s family, who said the organization was in the autistic spectrum.
“This was not simply an offensive behavior, it was a racist, threatening, odious and verbal intentional attack against a child, and should be treated as such,” said Naacp Rochester chapter in a statement.
The Rochester Police Department investigated and presented findings to the office of the prosecutor of the city of Rochester for “consideration of a collection decision,” said spokeswoman Amanda Grayson in a statement on Monday.
Givendgo did not immediately respond on Tuesday to a request for comments from Associated Press.
Donations did not surprise Dr. Henry Taylor, director of the Urban Studies Center at Buffalo University.
But changes in political and cultural climate have emboldened some people to express racist and intolerant views against people of color or those who consider strangers. A more recent reaction, from the White House to corporate joints, against initiatives for diversity, equality and inclusion has amplified those feelings.
Racism “floating under the surface” comes from guilt, Taylor said. “People give someone to whom someone already hates to blame for all the problems and challenges that face themselves,” Taylor said.
The volume of monetary contributions in the case of Rochester recalls the increase in support for people such as Kyle Rittenhouse, Daniel Penny and George Zimmerman. It was discovered that the three men acted in self -defense or in defense of others after the death of a black victim, except Rittenhouse, who killed two white protesters in a manifestation of racial justice against the police.
Support and opposition in these cases have often divided along the lines of the parties.
In the case of women, a contingent of supporters only wants to combat the cancellation of culture, said Franciska Coleman, a law assistant professor at the Law Faculty of the University of Wisconsin, who has written about the canceled culture and the social regulation of speech. For some it may include donating “all those who enter quotes try to” cancel. “
Some people are obsessed with how “it seems too much that this mother of two young children is receiving death threats and rape threats,” Coleman said.
Conservative commentators have connected online to applaud it for not capitulating to angry mobiles and recognize that he used an odious word. “Nobody is excusing it. But he didn’t deserve to be treated as a domestic terrorist,” said Matt Walsh, presenter of Conservative Podcast, Matt Walsh in a Facebook post.
There is an important distinction, Coleman said, between “canceling culture” and the “culture of consequence.” The latter is about holding people responsible for actions and words that cause injuries, such as “this poor child.”
That is what many people want to see in this case of Rochester’s wife. Because a formal punishment system may not impose consequences for the racist behavior of women, “we have to do it informally,” said Colman.
She and Taylor agree that, in conventional social thinking, using racist insults against someone who has frustrated or even caused is never acceptable. Those who think otherwise, even now, are seen as aside.
But donors on the Women’s Gagodo page blatantly used racist language against the child, which led to the site to turn off the comments section. Others excused their behavior as acting by aggravation. There are communities where racial insult is only unacceptable in the “racially mixed company,” said Coleman.
Social networks and crowdfunding platforms have helped people around the world talk to each other and their wallets. It is intensified by the anonymity that these platforms allow.
“Feeling that nobody will know who you are allows you to act on your feelings, about your beliefs in an aggressive and even meanness that does not do it if it were exposed,” Taylor said.
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Tang reported from Phoenix. Raza reported from Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
