High profile homophobic bigots like Kim Davis who are portrayed as martyrs on Right Wing hate talk radio and on hate tolerant websites like Breitbart can no longer enrich themselves using GoFundMe accounts due to a recent policy change.
Sorry Kim Davis, GoFundMe’s New Policy Prevents Conservatives From Raising Money For You
By JAMESON PARKER
As we’ve seen a dizzying amount of times, conservatives have used the popular fundraising site GoFundMe to enrich and support people who they believe are on their side of the “culture war” – including officers who have killed unarmed black teenagers, Tea Partiers who got sick after refusing to sign up for Obamacare, and an endless number of bakeries run by Christians who want to discriminate against gay people. Watching these bakers and cops make fortunes (literally) just by “standing up” for conservative values has had the effect that anyone with a conservative point of view and a desire to be flooded with money can milk the conservative GoFundMe cash cow.
On GoFundMe’s end, this has been a PR nightmare. It’s not clear exactly what the site’s creators expected when they set up the page, but it’s hard to imagine they thought they would be faced with dozens of new campaigns set up for killers, racists, and homophobes on a weekly basis. After watching several high-profile conservative faux-victims become millions from exploiting their site, the creators finally announced that enough was enough. In April, they announced that they would no longer certain types of disgusting campaigns from thriving on GoFundMe. More specifically – and this is where Davis gets screwed out of the millions surely waiting for her – the site has a specific policy about criminals:
Campaigns in defense of formal charges or claims of heinous crimes, violent, hateful, sexual or discriminatory acts.
The jailed Davis, held on contempt of court charges, surely fits the bill. (And Davis technically pulls off a rare double disqualification because it’s also a “discriminatory act.”)
Would conservatives have really given Davis millions just for not doing her job? It seems pretty clear that the answer is yes when one looks at how they’ve positioned her as a Christian martyr.
I'm gratified that GoFundMe is no longer helping to incentivise these kind of bigoted and or illegal behaviors. GoFundMe has returned to its intended mission, and not helping Right Wing cranks hit the notoriety jackpot.
Sorry Kim you're not a Martar, you're only an elected official who chose to try and humiliate and shame some citizens needing your assistance. By refusing to do your duty you have set yourself up in judgement of the citizens of your country, something your position as a mere County Clerk doesn't entitle you to do. Maybe some other religious fanatics like Mike Huckabee consider you a martyr, but to GoFundMe, and to much of the country you are just a homophobic bigot.
poetic justice at it's best. i wonder was she banking on this while deliberately defying the law and appealing to that faction of American bigots????? wonder what the next news cycle will bring in the saga of the religious right's freedoms to impose their ideals on others while claiming they are being prevented from doing it to them????????
