GoFundMe Suspends Candace Owens After She Trashes George Floyd

[CatWoman]

GoFundMe suspended pro-Trump personality Candace Owens from its fundraising platform on Sunday, after Owens raised more than $200,000 on the site for an Alabama cafe whose owner called George Floyd a “thug.”

Owens has become one of the right’s most prominent critics of Floyd and the protests held after his killing, with one video she made highlighting his criminal record going viral on Facebook. Those same remarks appear to have prompted GoFundMe to ban Owens. She later repeated the same attacks on Floyd during a chat with right-wing star Glenn Beck, and that video was then boosted by President Donald Trump.

In a statement, GoFundMe said that Owens, who is black, had spread “falsehoods against the black community.”

“GoFundMe has suspended the account associated with Candace Owens and the GoFundMe campaign has been removed because of a repeated pattern of inflammatory statements that spread hate, discrimination, intolerance and falsehoods against the black community at a time of profound national crisis,” the fundraising platform said in a statement. “These actions violate our terms of service.”

https://news.yahoo.com/gofundme-suspends-candace-owens-she-150636049.html?soc_src=hl-viewer&soc_trk=fb

[Nevilledog]

1. What happens to the donations?

[CatWoman]

2. ....

Owens had been raising money for the Parkside Cafe in Birmingham, Alabama, which has been embroiled in social-media controversy after co-owner Michael Dykes called Floyd a “thug” and described protesters as “idiots” in a text message that was later posted online. In his text message, Dykes also discussed raising prices and charging a “protest tax.”

The cafe has since apologized for Dykes’s tweet. And in its statement, GoFundMe said it would transfer the money Owens raised to the cafe after ending the fundraising campaign.

Owens reacted to her GoFundMe suspension on Twitter, saying it was proof that conservatives live in a “a world that tells us that our very existence is unacceptable.”

[2naSalit]

4. Well, yeah...

That's what we're telling you.

[ZZenith]

5. "...lives in a world that tells us our very existence is unacceptable."

Time to listen to the world, Ms. Owens.

[samsingh]

11. candace owens is a monstrosity. Imagine her having an encounter with one of these racist police?

i bet her tune would change really fast.

she's a disgusting piece of shit.

[keithbvadu2]

15. 'But I'm one of you'

[NYC Liberal]

31. She'd be this woman:

[OnlinePoker]

32. This woman's next court appearance in on Tuesday

So far, just in court fees, she owes $1600.97. Who knows how much she's paid her lawyer since the arrest.

https://www1.odcr.com/detail?court=037-&casekey=037-CF++1900067

[Cha]

7. Candace Owens is a ******* Gaslighting Troll for BLOTUS.. that

may have something to do with her getting Kicked OFF GoFundMe.

[essme]

13. So she just flat out stated that racism is a Conservative Platform-

Anne Coulter isn't even that stupid. That reminds me more of a Limbaugh quote.

[BlueIdaho]

17. The penny finally drops... nt.

[lunatica]

19. LOL!

It’s a good sign that you get it.

[paleotn]

23. Yes.....

the existence of hate filled jackasses IS unacceptable.

[Lock him up.]

28. "a world that tells us that our very existence is unacceptable"??

She should go cry to the cult of white supremacists and "very fine people" neo-nazis and ask them not to shout "n.....rs will not replace us" and beat them up at station services...

The stupid. It burns...

[2naSalit]

3. I think they are returned to the donors?

[Nevilledog]

12. That's what I was wondering. Thanks.

[TheBlackAdder]

25. According to RS, the $200K will be turned over to the restaurant owner--who benefits from this.

[Demovictory9]

6. Candace owens is a black Ann Coulter... throwing flaming pieces of meat to get clicks. Trump retweet

Trump retweeted her attacks on Floyd and racists ran with it, those looking for a reason to discount the premise of the protests.

She's risen high in the ranks of Trumpsters by doing what some POC will do to stand out.

[CatWoman]

8. i can't wait until they diamond and silk her ass

[Cha]

9. Right.. BLOTUS Retweets Shit like COwens.. so he better Not

be having a Gaslighting "talk on race relations".

[Demovictory9]

10. she's getting "you are so intelligent", "truth!", etc... from the racists

so now she's talking about running for office. She doesn't realize she has no constituents. The white racists won't vote for her and black and progressive won't vote for her.

[Cha]

16. Do you know where COwens would run

from if she ran?

If she does I hope she gets clobbered for her racist dumb shit.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

14. Oops

[Hip2bSquare]

18. Don't take candy from strangers!

There are always a few. Make your money candy, maybe one day you can use it to buy back your soul.

[area51]

21. Welcome to DU. n/t

[txwhitedove]

20. Wow, good to know. I was sent that "Floyd is not a Martyr" screed by family this week, who

then got mad cause I only listened a few minutes and said nope, no one I wanted to listen to. Family said, oh you can't listen to another point of view? By then I had googled enough to know Ms Owens was a "sell out" Trumper. Told family that I listen to and read news and opinions from all over the world, and hell no I don't want to listen to her.

[farmbo]

22. Just Watched "Spies of Mississippi" (free on Netflix this week)

... a documentary on Mississippi’s notorious “Sovereignty Commission”’ a publicly funded secretive spy agency which existed for the sole purpose of Infiltrating and forcibly suppressing the Civil Rights movements in Mississippi during the ‘50s and ‘60s.

Sadly, among their paid informants were a handful of disgruntled Blacks seeking to curry favor with the white power structure, or settle scores with local Civil Rights leaders. Records reveal that they even provided tips that led to the kidnapping and murder of the 3 young civil rights workers Chaney, Goodman, and Schwermer in 1964.

History will list Candace Owens In the same ranks as those traitors.

[Nevilledog]

33. Sounds interesting.

[live love laugh]

24. She a damaged human being. Hurt people hurt people. But fuck her. nt

[RestoreAmerica2020]

26. So..what's her shtick? Read she was critical of malevolent45 and gop now she's one of them...wtf

Perhaps she's vying for press secretary. Anyway, found this on her experience with racists while in junior high school..

[In 2007, while a 17-year-old senior in vbhigh school, Owens received three racist death threat voice mail messages, totaling two minutes, that were traced to a car in which the 14-year-old son of then-Mayor Dannel Mallovy was present.[12][13][14][15] Joshua Starr, the city's superintendent ĺmot protect her rights, resulting in a $37,500 settlement in January 2008.[11][16]

wikipedia]

[FreeState]

27. Who is Candace Owens?!

https://m.

[Lock him up.]

30. This should be posted on her Twitter feed relentlessly.

If she blocks the poster(s) account, the posts stay there, and create new accounts to keep posting.

Another RW opportunist

[Owl]

29. Never heard of her.

Guess i’m fortunate for that!