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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- backlash-thousands-121576616

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