$130,000 has been raised for the racist Cinnabon employee

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/us/cinnabon-fired-worker-video-racial-slur.html

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Cinnabon Worker Was Fired for a Racist Slur. Her Supporters Have Raised $130,000.

On a video that went viral, the worker, who is white, can be seen calling two Black customers an epithet. The campaign to give her money echoes the reaction to a similar incident this year.

When video of an argument between a white worker at a Cinnabon store and two Black customers began to circulate online last week, it seemed to fall into a troubling but familiar genre.

The employee at the northern Wisconsin shop can be heard calling the customers a racial slur. She makes an obscene gesture. “I am racist,” the worker declares. Cinnabon soon fired the worker, saying her actions and statements were “completely unacceptable.”

But what happened next veered from the way many viral moments of outrage play out online: While many on social media condemned the worker’s words, others leaped to her defense. And for at least the second time in recent months, donors offered money to someone caught being racist. By Tuesday, a campaign for the fired employee, who was not named by Cinnabon, had raised more than $130,000.

That crowdfunding page is hosted on GiveSendGo, a website that says it aims to “share the Hope of Jesus through crowdfunding to everyone who comes to our platform.”

[mountain grammy]

1. I'm going to bed now

And hoping to wake up in a different country.

[electric_blue68]

4. Well, you could wake up in another timeline where Kamala is Mdme President....

Sigh

[Bettie]

2. I used to think there were more good people

than terrible ones.

Every day, I come closer to believing the opposite.

[electric_blue68]

3. I don't think so; the Bad ones are Louder. Imho.

[Bettie]

7. I hope you're right

because right now, it feels like they are everywhere and they are reveling in their cruelty.

[electric_blue68]

13. I know. It's horrible. Think of it this way....

There are more Democrats than Republicans. And Democrats are more caring about all kinds of people.

[no_hypocrisy]

5. Imagine! Discrimination against Racists!

This is America!

Oh yeah . . . . this IS America.

[DFW]

6. Well, at least it was raised by some supposedly religious organization

So they are probably keeping 80% of the money for “administrative costs.”

[yardwork]

9. Whatever she gets it won't go far.

She's unlikely to be hired by any legit company at this point and I think she's probably too unstable to be useful to Fox News, for instance.

She seems like a very troubled person who couldn't handle a job serving pastries to customers, so her future is grim. And living costs are high with no safety nets. Maybe she enjoyed blaming this all on a couple of random strangers but the sugar high won't last.

I hope she doesn't have kids but I fear she does.

[Liberal In Texas]

10. Hobby Lobby or Chick Fila come to mind.

She might become a darling for OAN or Fox.

[yardwork]

12. I don't think it's going to work out for her.

She can't handle customer service. She'll go off on the next customer who looks slightly different from her MAGA ideal. Despite being owned by bigots, Hobby Lobby can't afford to have their customers treated to obscene tirades.

She might make the rounds of hate radio but her fame will be short lived. She's got serious problems and nobody in MAGA land wants to help people. Theirs is a dog eat dog world.

[dalton99a]

8. Racism is highly profitable in Trumpworld

[OldBaldy1701E]

11. Well, that is part of the issue.

Racism has always been profitable.

It is one of the reasons why it has been so hard to get rid of.

[tsktsk]

14. What Jesus are we talking about ?

The reasons people will use to invoke Jesus's name. This will count as blasphemy against this so called religious organization.