Mass fundraiser campaigns for individuals infamous for a range of despicable acts have blown up in the past couple of years. There was the campaign to raise legal-defense funds for Luigi Mangione, the man who assassinated UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson; the campaign to raise money for Karmelo Anthony, the high-school-aged boy accused of stabbing another teenager to death; and the campaign to help Shiloh Hendrix, the woman accused of calling a little boy a racial slur on a playground.
Fundraisers like these usually attract deeply partisan, too-online individuals for whom digital activism is a kind of god. It’s disheartening to read the racist, sexist, murderous comments that tend to litter these platforms — which is why the shockingly sane online response to a recent racist tirade on TikTok is worth highlighting.
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