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Finding Racism Everywhere Is Not Helping Anyone
The social media warriors lit their e-torches and clicked up their pitchforks as they virally marched last week for the annihilation of a white supremacist. Just one little problem — the guy wasn’t one.
Kelly Donahue had just won his third Jeopardy match and held up three fingers on his chest. He’d also held up one finger then two for those wins respectively…but who cares about facts? Let’s get him!
In a Facebook post, Kelly initially explained:
“That’s a 3. No more. No less”
But that explanation wasn’t good enough for the offenda-mob. The national news media picked up on the story and milked it for the profitable harvest that sowing division always reaps.
Kelly Donohue responded with a public statement on Facebook unequivocally condemning “white supremacy and racism of any kind.”
“I absolutely, unequivocally condemn white supremacy and racism of any kind. People who know me personally know that I am not a racist, but for the public at large it bears repeating: I am not a racist and I reject and condemn white supremacy and all forms of bigotry for the evil they are.”
