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Shaun King is getting destroyed on Twitter rn
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He lawyered up with Benjamin Crump. Definitely a big deal.
Benjamin's brother, on the other hand, is a fucking piece of shit cop who raped a girl while on duty during a traffic stop then tried to call it consensual — allegedly.
Benjamin's brother, on the other hand, is a fucking piece of shit cop who raped a girl while on duty during a traffic stop then tried to call it consensual — allegedly.
I don't understand the controversy if this is what really happened. I know the dude has been accused of doing shady things in the past but in this sitution Shaun King didn't do anything wrong here.
That's how I view it.
People seem to believe that being part of a certain demographic automatically shields you from any & all criticism.
King does good work most of the time, but he's not perfect....which shouldn't be expected anyway. He's human and will make mistakes
I feel like I've never been able to actually understand the controversies around Shaun King because they're always wrapped up in layers upon layers of understood knowledge by people more familiar with the black activist community than myself. Which isn't a bad thing per se, but it makes it challenging to keep track of what's going on, more so even than most twitter drama. In this situation it seems like mistakes were made all around and the drama could have largely been avoided if cooler heads prevailed.
You mean the article from Breitbart? Are we seriously going down the route he's white now? Come on, alt-right started spreading that crap without any kind of research which would show his mother had many partners and kids with many fathers. I don't see how anyone could say he's white. Like come on
Just casually searching twitter, it seems that there is a brewing "war" between 2 factions in this activist field. Just by searching I'm seeing lgbtq and women going against the men side. And I'm just like, why are we fighting each other instead of actual issues
I don't know anything about this specific situation and who's really in the right here, but I've always felt the same about him.
It would solve a lot of his problems if he was transparent about where the money goes ... But, he's not. Not only that, he gets defensive and brings out lawyers any time that someone asks for clarity.
That's not the behavior of an innocent man. If it's all being used appropriately, who cares if someone sees the accounting?
The moment Trump refused to reveal his taxes, we all knew exactly what was going on. Just show the receipts, and all the questions will go away.
That's not the behavior of an innocent man. If it's all being used appropriately, who cares if someone sees the accounting?
The moment Trump refused to reveal his taxes, we all knew exactly what was going on. Just show the receipts, and all the questions will go away.
Ya, responding to someone isn't harassment. One of the most annoying things about woke twitter is people who dogpile anyone who say the wrong thing then play victim when they're simply being responded to.
THAT SAID, Shaun King also personally emails people that criticize him and implies he'll sue them so... that's sus.
That's my general take away.
If you want to be a community leader and role model, there's better ways to handle these situations.
That is a red flag in itself. When high six figure amounts are being raised without seemingly any oversight.
To be fair in response to the bolded, outright claiming he stole fundraised money is not "asking for clarity". I agree that he should be more transparent about his fundraising, but you better have proof if you're gonna make allegations like that.
I'm also grateful for the amount of publicity he's brought to regular occurrences of police brutality, violence against black americans and other issues of systemic racism & injustice — so it's pretty troubling to learn that there's a history of shadiness when it comes to his fundraising.
Also the comments in this thread making light of him being light skinned need to go. I'm surprised there's been no public moderator action against that kinda not-black-enough/race purity bullshit.
Examples "Talcum X" & "Rachel Dolezal brother" — as a white dude, please correct me if i'm misinterpreting.
Examples "Talcum X" & "Rachel Dolezal brother" — as a white dude, please correct me if i'm misinterpreting.
Yeah, the only person I know sharing his shit is white.
The red flag is the rhetoric surrounding what a shady guy he is without having any tangible or concrete evidence of what exactly that is.
No one brings the receipts of Shaun King being a theif. A valid legal defense to libel is the person publishing the assertion is telling the truth. If Shaun King sues, then these defendants can bring the truth out in Court and simultaneously end Shaun's lawsuit and his credibility.
Yet no one has receipts.... Hmmmm. Fuck Clarissa too for cynically insinuating Shaun is biased against Black Queer women
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There are also some activists that frankly come off as jealous of Shaun's popularity. To be fair, he doesn't live in these poor, downtrodden communities while local activists are deep in the trenches and are relatively unknown. Shaun gets a lot of spotlight while living comfortably in comparison.
Yet no one has receipts.... Hmmmm. Fuck Clarissa too for cynically insinuating Shaun is biased against Black Queer women
LOL sorry to break it to you, those posters are Alt-Righters. They're definitely on this board. All the scum permabanned from "thee olde place" got a new start here. They are older now and know what not to say to get swift permabanned.
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There's a mob of Alt-Righters and their sympathizers online who dislike him for obvious reasons, some of them blatantly posting in this thread disingenuously. I wouldn't be surprised if some of them pose as Black people online to fan the flames.
There are also some activists that frankly come off as jealous of Shaun's popularity. To be fair, he doesn't live in these poor, downtrodden communities while local activists are deep in the trenches and are relatively unknown. Shaun gets a lot of spotlight while living comfortably in comparison.
I'm pretty sure he's sued white publications for their nonsense also.
No, Shaun just repeated what all the witnesses at the time thought they saw. The witnesses got it wrong because they were obviously under stress and experiencing trauma from seeing a child get shot and killed, so they understandably misidentified a fleeing vehicle. Of course, you knew that already....
please quote the part of the article accusing Shaun, because what you posted clearly doesn't.
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There you have it folks, the word "some" isn't taught in schools anymore.
I have no real clue if the accusations have merit, but even assuming nothing about wasted funds the fact that a lot of these efforts are funneled through his church or are not registered nonprofits is suspect as all hell. Even in a best-case scenario where King's not intentionally siphoning money off that's incredibly irresponsible and begging for money to disappear.
Taking 40% of your donations as a salary as reported by The Daily Beast is also ridiculous for any charitable cause.
Taking 40% of your donations as a salary as reported by The Daily Beast is also ridiculous for any charitable cause.
These posters are alt-right to you?
The way I see it, a shady Shaun King would be the easiest take down in modern history... and still 3 years of nothing from the detractors. The man is hated by nearly every cop that leans right and knows about him, they would be salivating at the mouth to take him down. He's allegedly stolen 6 figures across state lines yet no police nor Feds have him in cuffs. So either Shaun isn't shady or he's a police informant.
The only criticism I acknowledge is that he isn't in the trenches and gets a lot of fame. That's the media's fault. If he wants to just give talks and write behind a desk and keyboard, then that's fine.
Libel is libel, that journalist let pride cloud his judgment by not admitting what he said was false. This whole thing boils down to "you ain't pull up on White folk like that!!" or in the alternative "a Black should never sue another Black". LOL at Clarissa still.
The only criticism I acknowledge is that he isn't in the trenches and gets a lot of fame. That's the media's fault. If he wants to just give talks and write behind a desk and keyboard, then that's fine.
Libel is libel, that journalist let pride cloud his judgment by not admitting what he said was false. This whole thing boils down to "you ain't pull up on White folk like that!!" or in the alternative "a Black should never sue another Black". LOL at Clarissa still.
No one in particular, though there's obviously a presence on the board.
I'm pretty out of the loop with all of this. One thing that caught my attention though is the idea of labeling King a bully for fighting back against claims he says are false (I have no idea if they are or aren't), and then labeling it as bullying a black/queer woman. That's pretty gross to me, because as far as I know King doesn't have a history of misogyny, racism towards black people (or any racism?), or homophobia. So the person is using these labels to try to impugn his integrity even further and that says a lot about her.
Shaun King may be a total fraud and all of that, but unless there is something I'm missing - which is possible - she looks really bad in my eyes too. Don't just throw around your status as a minority in some way to increase your victimhood if it has absolutely no relevance to the stated wrongdoing.
Shaun King may be a total fraud and all of that, but unless there is something I'm missing - which is possible - she looks really bad in my eyes too. Don't just throw around your status as a minority in some way to increase your victimhood if it has absolutely no relevance to the stated wrongdoing.
Update.
Talks about it in episode 86 of his podcast: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-north-star/the-breakdown-with-shaun-king
Talks about it in episode 86 of his podcast: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-north-star/the-breakdown-with-shaun-king
Feels like this should be its own thread.
Bumping one that's like 9 months old doesn't seem like the best outlet, although, would probably be helpful to link it in the op of a new thread.
Not sure though. *shrug*
I mean..
"This report was authored by Tamika Mallory, Co-Chair of The Women's March and Co-Founder of Justice League NYC; Becky Bond, partner at The Social Practice; Tiffany Hawkins and Allan Boomer, financial experts with Momentum Advisors; Rob Smith, attorney and executive for The Justice Collaborative; David Mitrani, attorney for Sandler Reiff; and Lee Merritt, civil rights attorney — with the support of CPA and tax attorney Richard Bell. "
and... a single instance of something?
I think it needs to be dug into a bit deeper to discredit everything based on ... this tweet?
I prefer not to make threads. But if no one here wants to do it I guess I can.
I think it would be easier to frame the discussion too, as it's sort of conflicting with the thread title, and what we're discussing now are somewhat different discussions, as this one kind of turned into something else as well, so might be better served with a new thread for a more thorough discussion on the subject matter.
I would have offered to do it, but to be honest, I haven't really been following this all that closely, so not comfortable in doing so in your place, otherwise I would. :(