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US police and public officials donated to Kyle Rittenhouse, data breach reveals

theguardian.com

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The scandal here appears to be that public officials used their work emails to make donations.

Other than that, it's just a report that some officials have conservative political opinions. Surprising nobody.

It's hard to overstate how harmful to discourse it is to equate simple conservatism with supporting the killing of people perceived by many further down that side of the spectrum as political enemies, regardless of who was most at fault. That is not just "being conservative", and asserting that it is implies that a conservative can not have a differing opinion on complex situations like these, and therefore contributes to the stereotype of the hateful conservative.

I feel like the actual sandal here is that The Guardian is essentially doxing public employees, using "breached" (is this just a nice way of saying the data was maliciously acquired?) materials, because they have the wrong political opinions.

>The breach, shared with journalists by transparency group Distributed Denial of Secrets, revealed the details of some donors who had previously attempted to conceal their identities using GiveSendGo’s anonymity feature, but whose identifying details the website preserved.

I've never heard of "Distributed Denial of Secrets", but if their modus oporandi is to do things like this I'm having a hard time understanding how they could be considered anything but a bad actor, especially in the current political environment.

The subject is pretty clearly more complex than just "having" an "opinion". That's a pretty common defense with no explicit argument provided - it's often abbreviated to "wrongthink". It's essentially a victim mentality that eschews real consideration.

> because they have the wrong political opinions.

Supporting a double murderer is way more than simply a "wrong political opinion."

Why was this flagged dead?

Also why does this matter? Afaik people are allowed to make donations using any email they want.

It's not Okay to present truth to power. The down votes will flood in because we're not allowed to call it that.

I'm deeply disturbed by people donating to politically motivated murderers. I'm not sure if I think it should be a fireably offense, but I definitely think it's enough for me to hate someone.

I'm not sure if this line is supposed to imply this man might do something with nukes. If so, I don't think this journalist understands how places like Livermore work.

> and another $100 was associated with the official address of Michael Crosley, an engineer at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, a body which is charged with maintaining the US’s nuclear weapons stockpile.

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