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Note the content: this story contains a term which refers to a racial insult.
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A video showing a minnesota woman in a playground last week, openly admitting having used a racist insult against a black child collected millions of views. Perhaps just as viral was a crowdfunding effort that has collected hundreds of thousands of dollars to help women now move her family.
In the video, a man from Rochester, a city at around 90 miles (145 kilometers) south of Minneapolis, confronts the woman for having called a 5 year old boy the word n. The woman seems to double on the racist term and divert the man who confronts her with her two fingers in the middle.
The woman, who could not have been joined to comment, has since raised more than $ 700,000 through the Givedodgo Christian fund collection platform for relocation expenses due to the threats she received on video. The fundraising page said that it had used the word by frustration because the boy crossed the diaper bag of his 18 -month -old child. The Associated Press did not verify this assertion.
“I called the child for what he was,” she wrote, adding that online videos “caused my family to my family, and myself,”.
The wave of monetary contributions has rekindled several debates, to know if the language and racist attacks become more authorized to the differences between “cancel culture” and “culture of consequence”. Many want to see the woman facing a kind of comedian to use an insult, especially towards a child. Others say that despite her words, she does not deserve to be harassed.
The NAACP Rochester chapter began its own fundraising campaign for the child’s family. The GoFundme page had collected $ 340,000 when it was closed on Saturday according to the wishes of the family, who want privacy, the organization of civil rights said. He spoke on behalf of the child’s family, who, according to the organization, was on the spectrum of autism.
“It was not just an offensive behavior – it was a racist, threatening, hateful and verbal attack against a child, and it must be treated as such,” said the NAACP Chapter Rochester in a press release.
The Rochester Police Department investigated and submitted conclusions to the Office of the Rochester City prosecutor for an examination of an indictment, “spokesman Amanda Grayson said on Monday in a statement.
GiveNedo did not immediately respond to a request for comments from the Associated Press on Tuesday.
Some say that the defense of women defends racism
Donations made and did not surprise Dr. Henry Taylor, director of the Center for Urban Studies at the University of Buffalo.
But changes in the political and cultural climate have embraced some people to express racist and sectarian opinions against people of color or those they consider as foreigners. A more recent, from the White House to the Conference Rooms of Companies, against diversity, equality and inclusion initiatives has amplified these feelings.
Racism “hovering under the surface” comes from the blame, said Taylor. “People receive someone to hate and someone to blame for all the problems and challenges they face,” said Taylor.
The volume of monetary contributions in the Rochester affair recalls the wave of support for people like Kyle Rittenhouse, Daniel Penny and George Zimmerman. Rittenhouse, Penny and Zimmerman were rid of the reprehensible acts or legally discovered having acted in self -defense or to defend others – Penny and Zimmerman after the death of a black victim and Rittenhouse after having fatally killed two white demonstrators during a demonstration of racial justice against the police.
Up against “Cancel Culture” persists
In the case of women, a contingent of supporters just want to fight cancel, said Franiska Coleman, assistant professor of law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Wisconsin, who wrote on the cancellation of culture and social regulation of speech. For some, this may include a donation “to all that they are in quotes who try to” cancel “”.
Some people focus on how “it seems too much that this mother of two young children gets death threats and threats of rape,” said Coleman.
Conservative commentators went online for applauding for not having capitulated in angry internet crowds while recognizing that she used a hateful word. “No one excuses her. But she did not deserve to be treated as a domestic terrorist,” said Matt Walsh, conservative podcast animator, in an article on Facebook.
Some fight on the justifications and the consequences
There is an important distinction, said Coleman, between “canceling culture” and “culture of consequences”. The latter is to hold people responsible for the actions and words that cause injuries like “this poor child”.
This is what many people want to see in the case of this woman from Rochester. Because a formal punishment system may not impose consequences on the racist behavior of the woman, “we must do so informally,” said Colman.
She and Taylor agree that, in conventional societal thinking, using racist insults against someone who has frustrated or even provoked is never acceptable. Those who think the opposite, even now, are considered to be on the fringes.
But the donors of the Women’s GiveNendGo page shamelessly used the racist language against the boy, which prompted the site to deactivate the comments section. Others have excused his behavior as acting by worsening. There are communities where racial suspension is only unacceptable in a “mixed racial enterprise”, said Coleman.
Social media websites and crowdfunding platforms have helped people around the world talk to each other and their wallets. It is intensified by anonymity that these platforms allow.
“Feeling that no one will know who you are allowing you to act on your feelings, on your beliefs in an aggressive and even mean way that you would not do if you were exposed,” said Taylor.
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Tang reported from Phoenix. Raza reported to Sioux Falls, southern Dakota.
