[BitWielder1]

It's the American Media who not only fall for it but actively promotes it.

[Bayard]

Simple.

Everyone is a drama queen in their own way. Playing a victim card is easy, that's why its easy. To not be that way takes virtues which a debased and degenerate society does not have.

We'ev stopped seeing the moral quotient as essential to economic and societal success.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Although everyone else on the planet has caught on to the scam, Americans are helping to keep those African email scams alive. Low information types.

[Sans-Culotte]

This is what our politically correct culture has wrought: a pat-on-the-back culture where scammers and con-artists can and do thrive.

The Just-Us Bruthas, Jesse and Al, have made a lucrative living off this kind of thing. I never believed this KFC story from the get-go. Nothing about it even remotely rang true.

[windsorknot]

Why does America keep falling for politically correct con artists?

Why does America keep falling for political con artists?

[chajin]

There is another consequence, whether intended or not: many of us will no longer believe any “victim” story because too many have cried wolf too often. Then, when the actual victim of an actual misfeasance occurs and we turn away because of all the false alarms before, we will be attacked as the cruel and uncaring, which we are always being accused of anyway.

[Star Traveler]

Actually ... it wouldn’t be politically correct to tell that little girl to leave. So that’s how we know it wasn’t true and never happened ... :-) ...

[bonehead4freedom]

When I read a story about the black college student with kkk and racial graffiti with a noose on the door,the lesbian who is attacked in her home alone tied up with dyke scrawled on her forehead, or the muslim who has who is cornered by anonymous white guys with no witnesses and told to leave America or else, and even the homosexual waiter with fag written the the receipt I have one simple rule - What a cute PC sympathy fantasy story to gain attention & donations!

[onedoug]

Just more “Slouching Toward Gomorrah”.

[BBell]

To be honest, a lot of people here fell for it.

[Bigg Red]

Many of those who donated are now hoping Go Fund Me will refund their donations.

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Chortle!

[A_perfect_lady]

I am happy to say I never fall for these anymore. Every sob story that comes down the pike, I think, “Mm hmm.”

[Phillyred]

Because the stories are just so fun to share on Facebook! Then read all the witty replies..

[discostu]

Everybody likes a story with a bad guy, and we like to feel superior. These stories feed both those needs.

[Tx Angel]

Go Fund Me is the first clue.

I have been offended! Gimme some money!

[Nea Wood]

I think we live in a time where all the heroes are victims. When I was a kid, the heroes were brave people, firefighters, cops, cowboys in white hats going after the bad guys, etc. Now who are considered heroes? The black, the gay, the feminist, someone who overcame horrible discrimination and prejudice. Therefore, everybody wants to be a victim. People who are not already in a victim group will do something to make themselves a victim, somehow. I know a woman who got a bunch of tattoos and now complains that people "stare" at her. "They're judging me just because I have tattoos! How dare they judge?! I know I didn't get that job because of the tattoos. People are so hateful and bigoted!" She chose to get the tattoos and totally enjoys being a victim, though she pretends to complain.

Also, I think people fall for these stories because it makes them feel superior. "I'm not like those evil people who complained about the little girl in KFC! If I had been there, I'd have hugged her. I'm such a wonderful person!"