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BlueWaveNeverEnd

(13,795 posts) Thu Dec 11, 2025, 12:08 AM Dec 11

$130,000 has been raised for the racist Cinnabon employee

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/us/cinnabon-fired-worker-video-racial-slur.html

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Cinnabon Worker Was Fired for a Racist Slur. Her Supporters Have Raised $130,000.

On a video that went viral, the worker, who is white, can be seen calling two Black customers an epithet. The campaign to give her money echoes the reaction to a similar incident this year.

When video of an argument between a white worker at a Cinnabon store and two Black customers began to circulate online last week, it seemed to fall into a troubling but familiar genre.

The employee at the northern Wisconsin shop can be heard calling the customers a racial slur. She makes an obscene gesture. “I am racist,” the worker declares. Cinnabon soon fired the worker, saying her actions and statements were “completely unacceptable.”

But what happened next veered from the way many viral moments of outrage play out online: While many on social media condemned the worker’s words, others leaped to her defense. And for at least the second time in recent months, donors offered money to someone caught being racist. By Tuesday, a campaign for the fired employee, who was not named by Cinnabon, had raised more than $130,000.

That crowdfunding page is hosted on GiveSendGo, a website that says it aims to “share the Hope of Jesus through crowdfunding to everyone who comes to our platform.”

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$130,000 has been raised for the racist Cinnabon employee (Original Post) BlueWaveNeverEnd Dec 11 OP

I'm going to bed now mountain grammy Dec 11 #1

Well, you could wake up in another timeline where Kamala is Mdme President.... electric_blue68 Dec 11 #4

I used to think there were more good people Bettie Dec 11 #2

I don't think so; the Bad ones are Louder. Imho. electric_blue68 Dec 11 #3

I hope you're right Bettie Dec 11 #7

I know. It's horrible. Think of it this way.... electric_blue68 Dec 11 #13

Imagine! Discrimination against Racists! no_hypocrisy Dec 11 #5

Well, at least it was raised by some supposedly religious organization DFW Dec 11 #6

Whatever she gets it won't go far. yardwork Dec 11 #9

Hobby Lobby or Chick Fila come to mind. Liberal In Texas Dec 11 #10

I don't think it's going to work out for her. yardwork Dec 11 #12

Racism is highly profitable in Trumpworld dalton99a Dec 11 #8

Well, that is part of the issue. OldBaldy1701E Dec 11 #11

What Jesus are we talking about ? tsktsk Dec 11 #14

mountain grammy

(28,922 posts)

1. I'm going to bed now

Reply to BlueWaveNeverEnd (Original post)

Thu Dec 11, 2025, 12:12 AM

Dec 11

And hoping to wake up in a different country.

electric_blue68

(26,693 posts)

4. Well, you could wake up in another timeline where Kamala is Mdme President....

Reply to mountain grammy (Reply #1)

Thu Dec 11, 2025, 12:38 AM

Dec 11

Sigh

Bettie

(19,561 posts)

2. I used to think there were more good people

Reply to BlueWaveNeverEnd (Original post)

Thu Dec 11, 2025, 12:20 AM

Dec 11

than terrible ones.

Every day, I come closer to believing the opposite.

electric_blue68

(26,693 posts)

3. I don't think so; the Bad ones are Louder. Imho.

Reply to Bettie (Reply #2)

Thu Dec 11, 2025, 12:35 AM

Dec 11

Bettie

(19,561 posts)

7. I hope you're right

Reply to electric_blue68 (Reply #3)

Thu Dec 11, 2025, 08:36 AM

Dec 11

because right now, it feels like they are everywhere and they are reveling in their cruelty.

electric_blue68

(26,693 posts)

13. I know. It's horrible. Think of it this way....

Reply to Bettie (Reply #7)

Thu Dec 11, 2025, 02:35 PM

Dec 11

There are more Democrats than Republicans. And Democrats are more caring about all kinds of people.

no_hypocrisy

(54,724 posts)

5. Imagine! Discrimination against Racists!

Reply to BlueWaveNeverEnd (Original post)

Thu Dec 11, 2025, 04:54 AM

Dec 11

This is America!

Oh yeah . . . . this IS America.

DFW

(60,027 posts)

6. Well, at least it was raised by some supposedly religious organization

Reply to BlueWaveNeverEnd (Original post)

Thu Dec 11, 2025, 06:23 AM

Dec 11

So they are probably keeping 80% of the money for “administrative costs.”

yardwork

(69,236 posts)

9. Whatever she gets it won't go far.

Reply to DFW (Reply #6)

Thu Dec 11, 2025, 08:44 AM

Dec 11

She's unlikely to be hired by any legit company at this point and I think she's probably too unstable to be useful to Fox News, for instance.

She seems like a very troubled person who couldn't handle a job serving pastries to customers, so her future is grim. And living costs are high with no safety nets. Maybe she enjoyed blaming this all on a couple of random strangers but the sugar high won't last.

I hope she doesn't have kids but I fear she does.

Liberal In Texas

(16,175 posts)

10. Hobby Lobby or Chick Fila come to mind.

Reply to yardwork (Reply #9)

Thu Dec 11, 2025, 08:49 AM

Dec 11

She might become a darling for OAN or Fox.

yardwork

(69,236 posts)

12. I don't think it's going to work out for her.

Reply to Liberal In Texas (Reply #10)

Thu Dec 11, 2025, 08:55 AM

Dec 11

She can't handle customer service. She'll go off on the next customer who looks slightly different from her MAGA ideal. Despite being owned by bigots, Hobby Lobby can't afford to have their customers treated to obscene tirades.

She might make the rounds of hate radio but her fame will be short lived. She's got serious problems and nobody in MAGA land wants to help people. Theirs is a dog eat dog world.