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https://ethicsalarms.com/2025/01/27/abuse-of-celebrity-selena-dumb-gomezs-virtue-signaling/
Abuse of Celebrity: Selena Dumb Gomez’s Virtue-Signaling
January 27, 2025 / Jack Marshall
The video of former Disney star Selena Gomez weeping over the
deportations of illegal immigrants who should be deported is a brilliant reminder that Hollywood makes you stupid. Gomez posted it on her
Instagram which has 424 million followers and I want to kill myself.
Gomez is difficult to understand amid all the sobbing and histrionics,
but here’s the text: “I just want to say I am so sorry… all my people
are getting attacked [by Trump’s deportations]. The children. I’m so
sorry, I wish I could do something, but I can’t, I don’t know what to
do. I’ll try everything, I promise.”
To state the obvious, being subject to law enforcement isn’t being “attacked.” It is breathtakingly obnoxious for Gomez to call illegal immigrants “her people”—she’s an American citizen, and we are her people. Of course she plays the always popular “Think of the children!” card. And the hubris necessary for a B-list celebrity—she was okay in
“The Dead Don’t Die”— to apologize for something she has no power over whatsoever, and to promise to “try everything” to stop it when there is nothing she can do is especially staggering.
“Entertainment Tonight” isn’t much better, saying in that clip that the deportation policy mostly “targets Latinos.” No, you hacks, it entirely targets illegal immigrants.
You can say this weepy virtue-signaling is harmless, but the fact that
an ignorant woman like Gomez has over 400 million followers means that a political, cultural and ethics dunce can influence a dangerous number of people, making them stupid, fearful, and bad citizens. It has always
been thus that our most talented artists (not that Selena is one of
those) usually lack intellectual and critical thinking abilities on par
with their performing abilities. They also tend to be emotionally frozen somewhere between the 6th and 11th grade. There are exceptions, of
course, but social media has given these Dunning-Kruger victims a way to
spread their juvenile politics and poor civics literacy far and wide,
usually infecting the young most of all, and most damaging of all.
Maybe I’ll make a video of myself weeping over this…
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