Throughout these last weeks, I’ve been shocked to see the amount of insensitivity and ignorance of some. More recently, with the number of celebrities asking the average person to donate. That’s right. Celebrities are using their brand new phones and tablets to talk to the millions of unemployed people who barely have enough for themselves to donate to one another.
Words cannot describe just how insensitive and out of touch this is. There is no reason why celebrities worth billions should even think about asking the average, most likely unemployed or furloughed worker to donate to COVID relief funds.
Just as we cannot dictate what they do with their large sum of money, they have no right to dictate what we do with ours.
Between the insensitive viral lip-syncing challenge a few weeks ago, and now petitioning average American to donate while they rest comfortably in their million, sometimes billion, dollar houses, this pandemic has shown just how out of touch celebrities really are to us.
This is not to discount the large group of celebrities who’re starting campaigns or donating to COVID relief funds, because there are quite a few. The stars asking for relief donations from those who are barely scraping by should be ashamed of themselves.
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