“Cancel Culture” is that that thing liberals do where they destroy the lives of people they disagree with through boycotts and spastic fits of rage. They claimed their greatest victim this week by taking out a guy whose biggest crime was trying to help sick children. Maybe you heard about that guy who was trying to get some beer money and ended up raising over a million bucks, which he pledged to donate to a children’s hospital? Well, liberals hate him so they wiped him out completely. Good job lefties, the world is now safe from selfless giving.
Carson King is a 24-year-old security guard at a casino in Iowa. Before an Iowa Hawkeyes game, he showed up behind the hosts of ESPN’s College Game Day holding a sign asking for people to donate to his Venmo account so he could buy some beer. Technically he was trying to get money for Busch Light, which hardly qualifies as beer but that’s not the point of the story.
For some reason, King’s sign resonated with people and soon the money began pouring in. All told, he pulled in over a million bucks. For a young guy with a low paying job, that kind of money is life-changing, but King decided there were people who needed it more than him. He pledged to donate everything, except for the cost of a case of Busch Light, to the University of Iowa’s Stead Children’s Hospital.
Busch Light was so touched by King’s generosity that they vowed to match any money he was able to raise. The Company also said they would give King a year’s supply of beer. This is one of those feel-good stories that everybody can enjoy, but apparently liberals are so filled with hatred that nothing moves them.
Everything came crashing down when The Des Moines Register decided to dig into King’s social media history. Why? Because that’s how bad the liberal media sucks, that’s why.
These hard-hitting journalists found a couple of tweets from when King was a teenager that they deemed were racially insensitive:
A routine background check of King’s social media revealed two racist jokes, one comparing black mothers to gorillas and another making light of black people killed in the holocaust. The joke tweets date back to 2012, when King was a 16-year-old high school student.
When asked about the tweets, King was remorseful and thanked the Register for pointing them out, saying they made him “sick.” He has since deleted them.
A routine background check on his social media? These “brave” journalists saw a young guy selflessly giving $1 million to children’s hospital and thought it was prudent to make sure he never tweeted anything racist as a kid?
The thing is, nobody seems to have gotten any screen shots of these tweets nor are they reporting specifically what they said. It’s been rumored that King was tweeting direct quotes of stuff he saw on Comedy Central’s show Tosh.0. Comedy Central is still a thing and Daniel Tosh is still on the air, but Carson King has been canceled:
Anheuser-Busch InBev, Busch Light’s parent company, announced in a statement Tuesday night that they will “have no further association with [King],”
Plus Hollywood Deadspin decided to knock King down a peg by mocking him and suggesting he isn’t truly sorry about some stupid tweets he sent when he was a kid. To them he is an unrepentant racist who must be shunned by decent society.
Virginia governor Ralph Northam had a KKK/blackface picture in his medical school yearbook and admitted to moonwalking in blackface but hasn’t been canceled. Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau spent more time in blackface than whiteface and he hasn’t been cancelled. Joe Biden was against racial integration because he didn’t want black kids to, “rub shoulders with my white child” and he’s the democratic party 2020 frontrunner.
I don’t know what Carson King’s political affiliation is, but clearly he’s not a democrat or this wouldn’t be happening to him. He should probably come out as a liberal but nobody would believe him because a democrat would never give away a million dollars to charity when he could just as easily pocket that money.
