{"id":234718,"date":"2020-11-17T09:43:53","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T15:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=234718"},"modified":"2020-11-16T21:14:53","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T03:14:53","slug":"melissa-mccarthy-rescinds-donation-anti-sex-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/melissa-mccarthy-rescinds-donation-anti-sex-trafficking\/","title":{"rendered":"Actress Melissa McCarthy rescinds donation from anti-sex trafficking org rumored to be pro-life"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Actress Melissa McCarthy this week retracted and\u00a0apologized<\/a> for a $20,000 donation HBO Max gave to an anti-sex trafficking organization in honor of her 20 Days of Kindness campaign. That organization,\u00a0Exodus Cry<\/a>, is an independent non-profit with consultative status at the United Nations. According to the group, it “exists to combat sex trafficking and all forms of commercial sexual exploitation both domestically and internationally.”<\/p>\n

But for McCarthy, there was a problem. “It has come to our attention that our 20 Days of Kindness, which is something \u2014 a kindness up that we started to kind of shine a light on 20 great charities \u2014 had one in there that, there’s no other way to say it, we blew it,” said<\/a> McCarthy in an Instagram video. “We made a mistake and we backed a charity that upon proper vetting, stands for everything that we do not<\/em>.” (emphasis added)<\/p>\n

McCarthy is referring to attacks against Exodus Cry for allegedly “campaigning against women’s rights” and being “anti-LGBTQ+.” According to the organization, a major source of those attacks is coming from supporters of Pornhub, a pornographic video sharing website, and the largest pornography website on the Internet, owned by MindGeek<\/a>. It includes professional and amateur pornography, and users can upload videos of their own \u2014 which are unable to be verified for the age or consent of the individuals in them. Exodus Cry addresses<\/a>\u00a0these attacks on its website, writing:<\/p>\n

Those who are aligned with Pornhub and MindGeek have been spreading disinformation regarding an \u201capplication\u201d that they are claiming is evidence of Exodus Cry being anti-LGBTQ+, however, the application they are using to make this claim is one that is clearly titled as a \u201cchapter application.\u201d There is only one Exodus Cry and Exodus Cry does not have chapters. Therefore a \u201cchapter application\u201d has no relevance to our organization\u2019s work.<\/em><\/p>\n

Pornhub vs. Exodus Cry<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 2020, Pornhub was caught<\/a>\u00a0hosting video that featured a 14-year-old sex trafficking victim \u2014 not just one, but 58 videos<\/em> that showed her rape and sexual abuse. The victim had been kidnapped, raped, and assaulted on camera for 12 hours, yet\u00a0she had to beg<\/em> Pornhub for months, threatening legal action, to have the videos of her torture removed.<\/p>\n

Pornhub has also featured images of a toddler being sexually abused.<\/p>\n

Exodus Cry is working to hold Pornhub accountable<\/a>\u00a0and shut the site down, which makes it unsurprising that supporters of Pornhub would spread misinformation about Exodus Cry in an attempt to silence the organization. Pornhub makes a fortune from the sexual exploitation of women and children.<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0The link between sex trafficking, abortion, and Planned Parenthood<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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