Unless you've been living under a rock this last week or so, you've likely seen stories about a group of young women at Ole Miss who were seen making certain gestures in front of a doorbell camera.
As is unfortunately often the case these days, their actions have led to severe social and academic consequences, wildly incommensurate to their actions, that have devastated these women, and will continue to have negative repercussions for the rest of their lives.
They have been on national news all around the country, and have gone viral on social media. Their reputations have been destroyed. Alaina has been forced to withdraw from the University. Their academic and professional lives have suffered a devastating blow that they may never fully recover from. These young women, and their families, have been the target of an absolute torrent of hate, harassment, threats and negative attention. All for making a single, harmless gesture while having some fun on a night out. To an inanimate camera no less.
Alaina explains in her public apology that she had no intentions of hurting anybody. She didn't know who lived in the apartment, let alone know their race. She had no idea that this harmless gesture would be taken as a racist attack, or that anybody would feel hurt, insulted, attacked, or otherwise disrespected by it.
But don't expect anybody participating in this irrational witch hunt to believe or understand any of that. In the name of "social justice," the media and social media have collaborated to unashamedly ruin these young women's lives. Not because they deserve it, but because it feels good to self righteously destroy the lives of people they hate for superficial reasons, and to send social and political messages. The media and social media have unapologetically sacrificed these poor women on the alter of social justice.
The creation of fundraisers in the wake of socially and politically charged current events seems to be a growing pattern of late (and typically not in a good way.) We've all seen fundraisers started by families of convicted felons for reasons many of us consider questionable at best and borderline fraudulent at worst. Somebody commits a crime and is decisively convicted. The family then rolls out the lawsuit and fundraisers hoping to get a payday, and their communities come out in drove to shower them with cash, not because it makes sense to do so, but because they want to make a statement.
On the bright side, there have also been some fundraisers started for very worthy causes, to support people who have been decisively mistreated or hindered by the twisted actions of the modern world (the recent fundraiser to the Red Baron employee harassed by a prankster content creator is one such example.)
In the spirit of cases like the latter, I'm starting this fundraiser to support a women who's life has been unjustifiably ruined, not because she did anything wrong, but because people want to make a statement. The full-scale media warfare that has been waged on this poor woman has been devastating to her and her family. She faces an uphill battle in both the academic and professional world. Please help soften the blow of this catastrophe by supporting her financially.
This fundraiser has a goal of $25,000. Proceeds will be paid directly to Alaina (so long as she accepts,) minus a small percentage for the platform and for those who created and will manage this fundraiser. Please consider supporter Alain and her family. Thank you for your time and consideration.
Terms:
- If Alaina declines to accept the funds raised:
- All donations will be fully refunded to donors. No percentage of donations will be kept by the creators of this fundraise if this occurs.
- If Alaina accepts:
- 95% of the donations from this fundraiser will be transferred directly to Alaina Kunes
- 1% will be donated to the GiveSendGo platform. They offer free fundraising opportunities like this and depend on donations to keep the platform running.
- 4% will be kept by the creators of this fund raiser to cover the time and work it takes to create, monitor, and manage the fundraiser, as well as coordinate with the recipients of the funds.
