Context: Blizzard Entertainment has put in their shop a “charity bundle” for Ukraine. I haven’t looked that deeply into it but my thoughts are it’s promoted by Mila Kunis (liberal celebrity) and probably funnels money to the corrupt Ukrainian regime.
While helping the Ukrainian people is obviously not wrong, this company also chose to cut off the Russian people from their services, basically pointing a gun at them and telling them they can only have their treats back when they overthrow their government. So if the Russian people are to be held to account for the alleged problems of their government and collectively punished, why not the Ukrainian people? Seems hypocritical and it is predicated on the denial of Nazism and the fascism of the Ukraine regime.
Source: https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/sub-cancelled-say-no-to-nzism/1639343 (Almost certainly will be nuked soon)
I checked briefly. Looks like it’s going to BlueCheck Ukraine, a charity created last year by another actor to “fast track money to charities”. Could totally do legitimate work, but a charity that exists solely to funnel money to other charities as quickly as possible sets off a few red flags for me.
Not to mention the totally legitimate concern that any money collected for humantarian aid (itself a good thing) could just get co-opted by the government. I would sooner directly support humantarian causes that are explicitly delivering goods that could only be useful to the displaced civilians.