Re:Wikipedians are rebelling against “unethical” Wikipedia f...
by knodi123 on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @04:06PM
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It's fine to accuse a charity of corruption. But when someone uses "woke" in that sense, I doubt that's really what they're trying to convey.
Re:Wikipedians are rebelling against “unethical” Wikipedia f...
by FireBeyond on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @06:38PM
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> However, I will say, it would not be the first time a charitable donation ended up going to lining pockets instead of doing the good it was intentioned for.
That has nothing to do with 'woke'ness though.
Wounded Warrior Project[1] or any other charity with poor ratings, can be candidates for this, including conservative and similar leaning groups. But your comment and examples at least imply, if not necessarily intentional, that this is a trait of 'woke causes', and not an issue across the entire spectrum.
[1] at least before they were forced to do a wholesale housecleaning after having one of the lowest percentages of funds donated to a 501(c)3 that reached or helped their designated recipients.
The BLM scandal and all the mansions is just one of the most recent examples that come to mind.
All of these huge companies and thousands of individual donors giving money to what they believed to be a just cause - only to end up buying mansions and sports cars for the organization leaders.
Another older example was the Red Cross shinanigans in Haiti.
These sort of things erode trust in opaque charitable organizations.