GoFundMe suspends Candace Owens' fundraiser over 'intolerance' policy

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https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/501623-gofundme-suspends-candace-owens-campaign-over-intolerance

GoFundMe has suspended a fundraiser established by conservative activist Candace Owens for a café co-owner who called the late George Floyd a “thug,” saying her campaign violated its policies on “intolerance of any kind.”

Owens had raised more than $200,000 for the Parkside Café in Birmingham, Ala., after co-owner Michael Dykes sparked backlash by insulting Floyd and calling the protesters over his death “idiots” in a text message to co-owner Robert Bagwell.

In a tweet Sunday, Owens screenshotted an email from the platform saying it had been suspended for violating the company’s prohibition on “user content that we deem, in our sole discretion, to be in support of hate, violence, harassment, bullying, discrimination, terrorism or intolerance of any kind.” The funds Owen raised will still be distributed to the business.

Owens, a longtime critic of the Black Lives Matter movement, has cited Floyd’s criminal record and called him a “horrible human being.” President Trump retweeted a clip of Owens making similar comments in an interview with radio host Glenn Beck last week.

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[RhodeIslandOne]

1. Is Candace really a "longtime critic"?

She was supposedly pro BLM until she saw no money in it.

[highplainsdem]

2. When was she pro-BLM?

[RhodeIslandOne]

3. It's possible that was Burlap and Zirconium (Diamond and Silk)

Who DEFINITELY posted BLM videos on their channel until becoming Trump supporters.

But Candace was certainly leaning left at one point.

https://newsone.com/3848636/candace-owens-receipts-con-artist/

Lawsuit With the NAACP

Owens now calls the NAACP “one of the worst groups for Black people,” even though the organization helped her win a racial discrimination lawsuit. In 2007, she accused some white boys of racially harassing and threatening to kill her. Owens claimed the boys were the son of then-Stamford Mayor Dannel Malloy, Connecticut’s former governor. Because of the NAACP, Owens’ family received a settlement of $37,500 from Stamford Public Schools.

Anti-Trump Website

In May of 2018, BuzzFeed reported that Candace Owens was the CEO of an anti-Trump, liberal-leaning website called Degree180. Owens wrote in 2015 that it was “good news” that the “Republican Tea Party … will eventually die off (peacefully in their sleep, we hope).”

Degree180 also talked about Trump’s penis size and him being racist with an immigrant wife.

The site reportedly shut down by the end of 2016 and Owens magically “came out” as a conservative on YouTube a few months later.