Right-wingers attack Womens March co-organizer for posting link to help Harvey victims

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Source: Raw Story

September 2, 2017
Alexander Nazaryan
Posted with permission from Newsweek


Even by the hair-trigger standards of what’s considered offensive on social media, the tweet sent by activist Linda Sarsour on Monday evening was benign, a plea for her 231,000 followers to donate to Hurricane Harvey relief efforts. The tweet included a link to a web page for the Hurricane Harvey Community Relief Fund.

Almost immediately, however, Sarsour became the target of attacks by political opponents who accused her of funneling relief money to a leftist political organization. The outrage spread from Twitter to conservative outlets like The Daily Caller and National Review, whose Alexandra DeSanctis branded Sarsour a heartless dissembler “unable to pass up any opportunity to make a quick buck.”



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Hey Alexandra DeSantis, how much did you give for relief?

And just for your "comments DeSanctis, I donated money in Linda Sarsour name for the relief in Texas, so ....................go * yourself

[marybourg]

1. Time to go back to e-mail. nt

[Not Ruth]

2. Sarsour got it from several sides, I saw it on Facebook as it was happening

She is a controversial figure, even among her fellow liberals.

[OKNancy]

3. not just right-wingers but people who don't like scammers

The money isn't going to help people directly but to a political action committee.
Now, that may be a worthwhile cause but the solicitations were misleading.

[lunasun]

4. Link makes a point that it is a separate fund for Harvey needs

“The money is being spent on immediate needs,” Goodman said, including groceries, cleaning supplies and rebuilding materials. She lambasted critics on the right for what she called “un-American” attacks on her organization.

The organization may be political but the fund is separate.

Would this be like people being upset with a religious group collecting for Harvey ,that group then helping people in TX out with no religious preaching or recruiting involved , and then others complaining about it , by saying they are just scamming and using this money for religious purposes because it's a religious organization ?

[metalbot]

5. This is DU

So if a religious group was doing the same thing, about a third of the responses would be snarky "giant sky fairy" posts asking why sky fairy would allow something like this to happen, another third would be posts about how churches should be taxed for things like this, and the rest would be arguments with people in the first two groups.

It's easy to read malice into the actions of people you disagree with. When people I dislike do bad things, I tend to think that they do those things because they are bad people. When people I like do bad things, I tend to think they do those things because of bad circumstances. Psychologically, this is a really hard trap to get out of.