GoFundMe has removed a page that sought to raise funds for two Arizona State University students who appeared in a viral video which showed them being harassed for being white.
The video clip shows the students being asked to leave the school’s multicultural center because of their skin color and because one of them had a sticker on his laptop expressing support for police.
“You’re making this space uncomfortable,” the students were told.
After they insisted that the space was a “multicultural” center, they were informed in no uncertain terms that “multiculturalism” means no white people.
“But you’re white! Do you understand what a multicultural space is? It means you’re not being centered,” one of the female students claimed.
One of the white students protested that “white” was part of multiculturalism.
“No! White is not a culture!…This white man thinks he can take up our space and this is why we need a multicultural space because they think they can get away with this shit!” the female student screeched.
“This is the only space that you’re not centered and you’re still trying to center yourself which is peak white cis male bullshit!”
The white students were eventually made to leave, prompting Rep. Paul Gosar to assert that the incident represented a “racist attack on these peaceful students sitting at a study table minding their business” and should be investigated.
However, when a GoFundMe page was set up to support the victims, the notoriously biased fundraising platform banned it and claimed that the page violated its “prohibited conduct policy” which forbids content “in support of hate, violence, harassment, bullying, discrimination, terrorism, or intolerance of any kind.”
This despite the fact that it was clearly the white students who were the victims of hate, bullying, harassment and intolerance.
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