Alex Salmond is using crowdfunding to signal his power. That’s wrong | Suzanne Moore

The message being sent out is that what happens to women is always less important than the reputation of ‘great’ men

One of my recent donations to a crowdfunding page was in memory of a friend’s spouse for research into a rare form of cancer. Another was to keep a local community centre going, and a third to help someone with huge medical bills in the United States after an accident.

I am not here to talk about my altruism, but to explain how I and many others treat crowdsourcing. The fact that Alex Salmond, the former leader of the Scottish National party, is using crowdfunding to pay his legal costs for a judicial review into the Scottish government’s handling of sexual harassment claims against him, is somewhat gobsmacking.

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