Everyone steps back? The widespread retraction of crowd-funding support for minority creators when migration fear is high
研究2009至2021年Kickstarter上不同族裔的融资差距，发现移民政治言论激烈时，少数族裔的融资缺口翻倍，尤其对西班牙裔创作者影响显著，且撤回行为在自由派和保守派城市同样存在。
We study funding gaps on Kickstarter across multiple ethnic groups from 2009 to 2021. Scaling the concept of racially salient events, we quantify the close co-movement of minority funding gaps in crowd-funding to inflamed political rhetoric surrounding migration. The funding gap for minorities more than doubles in the most inflamed periods compared to baseline. Results are especially acute for Hispanic creators. Distant, mostly white backers are typically important for projects reaching a critical threshold of funding support. Retractions in support for minority creators during tense periods are even spatially, as present in liberal cities as in conservative ones.