Hollywood actress, Mandy Moore promotes GoFundme asking for donations for extended family members only to get reality check from her followers who she tells to F-off.
The impulse to help others in need would seem to be a natural impulse, except perhaps when those doing the asking are formidably far more secure than the greater public who have of recent have been gnarling their collective teeth at perceived injustices and the glaring ever widening income and wealth wealth divide that defines the U.S.
Case in point, Hollywood actress, Mandy Moore, 40, who came to cause social media upheaval when she took to Instagram on Thursday, Jan. 9, asking her 5.6 million followers to donate to a GoFundme for her brother-in-law and sister-in-law who had ‘lost their home and everything they own’ in the Los Angeles wildfires with just weeks remaining until the arrival of their first child.
Moore, who according to Celebrity Net Worth has an estimated net worth of $14 million and whose own home was significantly damaged by the Eaton Fire, (one of many sub-fires surrounding Los Angeles) but still intact, ignited, presumably without intending to an avalanche of responses, with many overwhelmingly chiding the multi-millionaire actress’ from those ‘less fortunate’ being asked to come to her family’s assistance.
Wrote one social media user: ‘We know many celebrities are worth multimillion and do have disposable income to buy another home or perhaps they already have another home. Asking the middle class or less fortunate for money is not right.’
Wrote another, ‘I truly feel sorry for those impacted by the fires, but the “so called” celebrities that are worth millions have not lost everything. They have the ability to rebuild.’
Reflected another, ‘Fundraisers specifically for celebs and their families will be a hard sell for most of us non-millionaire types. There are over 100 billionaires living in CA today, worth over a trillion dollars. Makes sending $100 from Alabama a hard sell indeed.’
Tempers were further frayed, when Moore responding to the criticism against her sought to remind her followers her intentions were noble and simply a response to a crises (just not the public’s ongoing crises) while seemingly taking aim at those who criticised her for not using her own wealth to alleviate her extended family crises.
‘And people questioning whether we’re helping out our own family or attributing some arbitrary amount of money google says someone has is NOT helpful or empathetic,’ the A Walk to Remember actress wrote. ‘Of course we are. Our buddy Matt started this go fund me and i’m sharing because people have asked how they can help them. We just lost most of our life in a fire too. Kindly F OFF. no one is forcing you to do anything.’
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Lost on Moore is her lack of tact and empathy towards her own followers who many get to live a kind of daily crises (with up to 60% of families in the U.S one pay check away from eviction) and are not afforded the privilege of fame and celebrity in which to use to conveniently negotiate dilemma and economic peril.
Obviously the public understands that they are not required to give, as does Many Moore, and while the Los Angeles fires is a tragedy, this time, the tragedy appears to be affecting almost exclusively society’s most fortunate and well off – who going forward might reconsider popular themes of ‘political’ correctness and being the bearers of society’s moral compass and perhaps going forward demand that those with wealth contribute to California’s underlying infrastructure, so when the next natural disaster hits, there will be funds to help preempt wide devastation. Or simply just ask the public to ‘chip in’ when the very few ultra wealthy as a percentage of their wealth ‘chip in’ very very very little for the greater public. Which is backhand ‘market talk’ – socialism for the rich and survival of the fittest aka capitalism for the rest of us.
As of Friday morning, the GoFundme fundraiser, ‘Help The Goldsmiths Rebuild After Devastating Fire Loss’ had raised $158,057 of a $175K target.
To date the fires have led to 10 dead, more than 9,000 structures damaged or destroyed in L.A. fires as windy weather continues and the tragedy now moves into its fourth day.
