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Though most seniors can agree that they would like to protest the genocide in Darfur, and that they would like to support their class upon graduation, they now have three different campaigns to which they can donate—Senior Gift, Senior Gift Plus, and Senior Gift Plus Plus...
Kafie emphasized that by setting up seniorgiftplusplus.com, he intended to mock Mahan and Terry’s strategy for protesting PetroChina and the genocide in Darfur but not their humanitarian aims...
Furthermore, Adjah said that the entire website demeaned the suffering of the Darfur refugees. “Many people believed that elements of the site had a number of racist undertones as evidenced in examples such as causes #18,” Adjah wrote in an e-mail...
...We’re not trying to belittle the issue in the Darfur, quite the opposite,” Kafie said. “We’re really attacking the means of the gift plus campaign...
...think the trivial tone of the website makes a mockery of the deaths of 340,000 dead human beings in Darfur, the gang rape of countless black women, and the displacement of over 2 million people who now are confronted with the threat of starvation by labeling it as the ‘left-wing cause of the week,’” Terry wrote in an e-mail...