{"id":2058295,"date":"2023-10-06T17:07:04","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T21:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/murdered-activists-friends-start-gofundme-but-theyre-not-hustling-for-donations-for-him\/"},"modified":"2023-10-06T17:09:59","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T21:09:59","slug":"murdered-activists-friends-start-gofundme-but-theyre-not-hustling-for-donations-for-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/murdered-activists-friends-start-gofundme-but-theyre-not-hustling-for-donations-for-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Friends of the slain activist launch GoFundMe, but not seeking donations for him."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmurdered-activists-friends-start-gofundme-but-theyre-not-hustling-for-donations-for-him%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2058295&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Friends of\u2063 Murdered Activist Start GoFundMe, But They&#8217;re Not Hustling for Donations \u2064for Him<\/h2>\n<p>There are few things more ghoulish than attempting to profit (financially or otherwise) off of someone\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t matter\u2062 if you\u2019re trying to \u2064make a buck or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-david-hogg-forcibly-removed-house-hearing-rage-fueled-outburst\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">push a policy<\/a> \u2014\u2063 taking advantage of a tragedy is despicable.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, when most people engage in this abhorrent behavior, at least they have the \u2064facsimile of decency to\u2062 pretend like their profiteering is for some altruistic purpose.<\/p>\n<p>The friends of murdered social justice activist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/sjw-stabbed-death-front-girlfriend-punk-shouts-lookin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ryan Carson<\/a> apparently couldn\u2019t even muster the \u2063effort to put up that pretense.<\/p>\n<p>Carson became an \u200dovernight cautionary tale after the grisly video\u2064 of his murder in New York City went viral online.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><strong>WARNING: The following video contains violence and\u2063 images that viewers may\u2064 find \u200bdisturbing.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BREAKING: NYPost has obtained\u2064 footage of radical leftist NYC activist Ryan Carson being confronted by a black\u2064 male who stabbed him to\u200c death on a Brooklyn street on Oct.\u200c 2. The suspect remains at large. Carson became celebrated\u2064 for his advocacy for\u200d more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-citys-mayor-de-blasio-announces-opening-of-first-drug-injection-sites-gop-congresswoman-calls-move-unlawful\/\" title=\"New York City\u2019s Mayor De Blasio Announces Opening of First Drug Injection Sites; GOP Congresswoman Calls Move \u2018Unlawful\u2019\">drug injection sites<\/a>. He\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5POEjMuWY2\">pic.twitter.com\/5POEjMuWY2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Andy\u200d Ng\u00f4  (@MrAndyNgo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrAndyNgo\/status\/1709316120660812049?\">October 3, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In \u2064the\u200c viral video, Carson and his girlfriend are accosted by a random stranger on the streets of Brooklyn\u2062 early Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The man then proceeds to\u200d fatally stab Carson.<\/p>\n<p>A suspect, 18-year-old\u2064 Brian Dowling, was arrested on Thursday and charged with\u2064 murder, \u200daccording to the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/10\/05\/suspect-18-arrested-for-random-stabbing-of-nyc-activist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a horrific tragedy all\u200d around, made all the worse by the fact that \u200dCarson appeared to\u2062 be a victim\u200d of the very views he espoused \u2014 views\u200b that can generously be described as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/previously-convicted-felon-arrested-connection-baltimore-tech-ceos-murder\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">soft on crime<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But today\u2019s not the day to criticize Carson\u2019s beliefs. The man is dead,\u2063 regardless of the circumstances surrounding the tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>His friends, meanwhile, are seemingly intent on capitalizing on \u200bhis\u2064 death.<\/p>\n<p>As news of Carson\u2019s murder began to spread, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/ryan-carson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GoFundMe<\/a> was created by his friends,\u200b and\u200d they chose some interesting verbiage to explain what the donations would be going toward \u2014 namely, themselves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHi everyone,\u201d \u2064the page reads. \u201cWe are a\u200c collective of Ryan\u2019s close friends, \u2063reeling from a brutal loss.\u200b We are asking for your \u200dhelp on behalf\u200b of his partner in easing \u2063the burden\u2063 and\u2062 stress of this horrifying situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>OK \u2014 so far, so good. \u2064They\u200c appear to be collecting \u200cmoney for a woman whose boyfriend was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/senseless-father-three-businessman-killed-career-criminal-police-say\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">murdered<\/a> \u2064 in \u2063front of her. No\u2063 problem there\u2064 whatsoever.<\/p>\n<p>That wasn\u2019t the end\u2064 of\u200c the\u2064 sentence, though. Here\u2019s \u200bhow it ends: \u201cso that we can have space and time to grieve, and \u200bremember Ryan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There is a\u200c bit of a \u2062problem with the next sentence, too: \u201cImmediate needs are to offset the costs of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/murdered-activists-friends-start-gofundme-but-theyre-not-hustling-for-donations-for-him\/\" title=\"Friends of the slain activist launch GoFundMe, but not seeking donations for him.\">working class people taking time<\/a> off of work to properly\u200b mourn.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wait, when\u200c did this go from raising \u200cmoney \u201con behalf of his partner\u201d to \u201coffsetting the costs of working class people taking time off of\u2062 work\u201d?<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Ryan Carson was a far-left\u2063 activist who \u200cwas \u200dkilled in Brooklyn a few days\u200c ago.<\/p>\n<p>Now his woke friends are fundraising off \u2063his death to get \u2063off from work.<\/p>\n<p>Commies are \u2062the absolute worst\u200b people.\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sOappTGzOX\">pic.twitter.com\/sOappTGzOX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 End Wokeness \u2063(@EndWokeness) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EndWokeness\/status\/1709955154940764353?\">October 5, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Even if these \u201cworking class people\u201d \u200bdon\u2019t\u2063 have the \u200doption of paid time off, there is something undeniably icky about using a man\u2019s death to raise funds for anything other than\u200c the deceased\u2019s family and \u2063loved ones.<\/p>\n<p>But the \u200dquestionable move appears to have \u2063worked.<\/p>\n<p>Donations on \u200cthe page\u2064 have\u200b blown past the stated goal of $20,000 and currently sit at over $70,000\u2063 \u2014 which \u2063would easily cover\u2064 the costs of a\u200d whole lot of time off.<\/p>\n<p>In the best<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-massive-blow-to-democrats-republicans-won-almost-every-house-race-thats-key-to-redistricting\/\" title=\"In Massive Blow To Democrats, Republicans Won Almost Every House Race That's Key To Redistricting\">-case scenario<\/a>, \u2063perhaps this is all a matter of ridiculously poor wording. Maybe this isn\u2019t quite\u200d the grift it appears to be and\u2064 Carson\u2019s friends just don\u2019t know how to write clearly.<\/p>\n<p>Worst-case scenario?<\/p>\n<p>Well, \u200dthe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uk-may-ease-ccp-virus-lockdown-from-march-foreign-secretary-says\/\" title=\"UK May Ease CCP Virus Lockdown From March, Foreign Secretary Says\">worst-case scenario<\/a> is\u2063 really for\u200d everyone but the people who organized the GoFundMe, because \u200cthey\u2019ll be laughing all the way to the bank.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div class=\"author_subscription_pitch\">.author_subscription_pitch p{margin:5px;}<\/p>\n<p><em><b>A Note from Our \u2062Founder:<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Silicon \u2063Valley and the Big Tech tyrants have \u200cdone everything they can to put\u2063 The Western Journal out\u2062 of business. 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Brown<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Founder of The Western Journal<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/murdered-activists-friends-start-gofundme-not-hustling-donations\/\">Murdered Activist&#8217;s Friends Start GoFundMe, But They&#8217;re\u2063 Not Hustling for Donations\u200b for Him<\/a> \u2064appeared first \u2064on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> How does Valley Beat plan to address the \u2064conflict of\u2062 interest \u2062arising from their\u200c affiliation with individuals engaged in profiteering from a tragedy?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Valley\u2062 Beat\u2062 is committed to \u2064providing\u2062 unbiased, fact-based \u2063news reporting. The opinions expressed in this \u2063article\u2063 are\u2063 the author&#8217;s own and \u2064do not necessarily reflect the views \u200bof Valleys Beat.<\/p>\n<p>There are few things more ghoulish than \u200cattempting\u200c to profit\u200c (financially or otherwise) \u2063off of someone\u2019s death.\u2062 It doesn\u2019t matter if you\u2019re trying to make a buck or\u2062 push a policy\u2014taking advantage of a tragedy is despicable.<\/p>\n<p>And\u2064 yet, when \u200bmost people engage in this abhorrent behavior, at\u2062 least they\u200b have the semblance of decency to pretend like\u2063 their profiteering is for \u200bsome altruistic purpose.<\/p>\n<p>The\u200d friends of murdered social\u2063 justice activist Ryan Carson apparently couldn\u2019t even muster\u2063 the \u2064effort to put up that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Few things are as ghoulish as profiting from someone&#8217;s death, be it financially or otherwise. 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