Charities Upset Over Chase Facebook Contest 464
ssv03 writes "The New York Times is reporting that Chase Community Giving of Chase Bank recently held a contest on Facebook in which users were encouraged to vote for their favorite charities. At the end of the contest, the 100 charities with the most votes would win $25,000 and advance to the next round to have a chance to win $1 million. Initially, the vote counts for each organization were made public, but two days before voting ended they were hidden, and the final totals have still not been released. While Chase had no official leader board during the voting, several organizations were keeping track of projected winners. Those projections were almost identical to the final results, yet several organizations including Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP), Marijuana Policy Project and several anti-abortion groups were not finalists. They had been performing very well (some within the top 20) until the vote counters were removed. Chase Bank has so far refused to discuss the issue with the organizations. SSDP has spoken out in a press release (PDF) and is calling for a boycott."
Re:Charities? (Score:4, Funny)
I imagine they're in the business of getting you high as fuck, bro.
Re:Charities? (Score:4, Funny)
Silly rabbit. A charity is just a corporation with tax exempt status.
Re:Pro-"Choice" (Score:1, Funny)
During weeks 4 and 5 you also have a tail. Humans don't have tails! Maybe we should abort all babies as monsters!!! Ahahahahahaha.
But seriously, you do.
Re:Pro-"Choice" (Score:1, Funny)
I believe in the right to have abortion but there are still people that hold my point of view that I don't want to associate and yes some have been violent. Just because the other side is dumb enough to go all out and use bombs doesn't make the pro-choice violence right.
A Credit Card company changing the rules? (Score:5, Funny)
Wow, a credit card company changing the rules in the middle of the game.
How Shocking!
Free abortions for minorities. (Score:3, Funny)
As for the anti-abortion, they just *need* to be dragged screaming and kicking into the century of the fruitbat.
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You are 100% right. I think we should start with a comprehensive national program to provide free abortions for everyone who is not of the sinful white race. We would educate all the mothers of minorities that they have rights, provide for them, with a special tax on white people, perhaps, because of their sinful state, to pay for it.
In fact, knowing that our planet is so terribly overpopulated, we could even work to save our beseiged planet and creatively encourage pregnant mothers of minority children to make the correct choices through the use of govnerment aid for her existing children as an incentive.
Re:Good for Chase. (Score:2, Funny)
I don't know... is it really a good idea to fire a guy holding a sledgehammer?
Re:Charities? (Score:1, Funny)
I did not state an argument (however you like to construe it). I stated my opinion - that abortion is a vile, barbaric and unnecessary practice that has no place in a civilised society. I stated my opinion in contrast the above poster's opinion (that you do not have a problem with). To quote, he said:
As for the anti-abortion, they just *need* to be dragged screaming and kicking into the century of the fruitbat.
Re:Pro-"Choice" (Score:1, Funny)
Like anything, both sides are filled with extremist assholes.
When pro-choicers start threatening, murdering and blowing up clinics that refuse to carry out abortions, then you may have a point...
Abortionists have killed millions of babies, far more killings than anti-abortionists have carried out. Abortionists kill for profit. If you are going to compare the actions of two groups that are based on philosophical differences, you can't get an honest appraisal unless you acknowledge those differences.
It all hinges on whether you consider the foetus to be a human child or not. If you do then killing an abortionist is probably no different morally than killing someone who was shooting children in a playground. You would be in the media hailed as a hero worldwide if you did that.
That said, if there was widespread support for this view in the anti-abortion camp, abortion wouldn't last another month in the US. I don't know how many abortion clinics there are in the US, but if even 1% of anti-abortionists decided to blow up a clinic or kill an abortionist this week, it would become next to impossible to find a place to have an abortion next week. Clearly the willingness to kill to stop abortions is not widespread in the pro-life movement. The willingness to kill is universal in the pro-abortion movement.