#back2brunch!!! scrolling through GFMs is ANNOYING so i'll pretend theyre all fake so i can still feel like a good person for ignoring them

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reblogging because apparently people have taken "dont be born yesterday when it comes to donating to things" & turned it into "it's impossible for real Palestinians to exist on my Cozy Eurocentric Fandom website so they're obviously all EVIL SWINDLING LIARS (butnotforracistreasonsitotallypromise)".

First off, reasonable concern over potential scammers must be rooted less in being worried over someone stealing from YOU, and be more worried about them stealing from PALESTINIANS. Secondly, remember that whomever you align your benefit of the doubt with-- worried about you personally being harmed/ripped off/publicly embarrassed VS. life is always risky but it's important to at least try to do the literal bare fucking minimum of the right thing by reblogging a donation post from suffering human beings whom you have no actual evidence against to claim they're lying-- says almost everything that needs saying about you.

i don't have time to personally vet every dono ask i get so i do rely on sign-offs from a familiar circle of trustworthy-- as far as one can trust any sort of internet stranger-- accounts when i publish the asks i get, which of course isn't fool proof and the lazy obvious scammers from a few months ago have likely learned how to better mimic real palestinians, but at the end of the day, it already feels gross enough having to sniff test people who have lost so much & are so desperate they're resorting to internet panhandling on tumblr dot com, and i'd rather take the risk of possibly getting tricked occasionally while trying to do the right thing than be ultrasuspicious all of the time and never boost anyone ever.