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Celeb Donations Are About Accolades Rather Than Making A Difference

DarkSkyLady
6 min readMar 29, 2020

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Photo by Danilo Capece on Unsplash

This pandemic in the US is showing a clear delineation between the haves and have nots in our society. We are also seeing who is worthy of saving versus who doesn’t do enough or isn’t educated enough to have an opinion.

Expectations at this point are low for many celebrities to understand there’s a clear difference in the struggles we will experience because of this.

The reason “eat the rich" is spreading on socials is because our celebrities are giving us songs rather than aid and you have some, like Jeff Bezos, so desperate not to dip into their millions that they are asking for contributions from people who are literally out of work! The level of disgust many are feeling is, unless this significantly turns around, going to effect a lot of these celebs incomes when they look for people to buy their albums, see their movies, buy their makeup or clothes after this pandemic passes and realize the crickets they hear is our silent middle finger raised.

So let’s explore our problematic pandemic celebs who seem to be unable to read the room and understand the severity of the current situation.

Mark Zuckerberg

One of the original places online for misinformation, lies and propaganda, Facebook’s creator just kind of shrugs off the…

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DarkSkyLady
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Black/Puerto Rican creative non-binary. Spouts nonsense that occasionally makes sense. they/them

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