I have been away for most of the year dealing with health issues, so this rant may not relate to the current discussion as I'm not up to date, but I would hope since the majority of you have known me forever now, you'll understand the need to make this post.
I'm of mixed ethnicity. I've that lovely tan olive skin Sarah dreams of in the summer, and absolutely white-passing in the winter. I have been on the right side and the wrong side of colour-ism. I've had the good fortune to have witnessed colourism and racism in various countries (fortunate for the lessons, and for the ability to recognize the lessons for what they were).
I am so bleeping livid that she and Kurt have gotten away with silencing BIPOC twice now. The white privilege is astounding.
In spite of my health problems, in spite of my skin colour, in spite of covid wrecking my world, in spite of the losses of loved ones I've endured and the hardships I have witnessed, I can honestly say that I am privileged. I am white-passing and therefore, privileged. I am alive today, I am educated, I am witnessing society getting wrecked by all the '-isms' that exists and I can recognise that for the horror that it is- therefore I am privileged.
I have the ability to dream of what the future may hold and that in itself is a privilege, where PoC may not even have that.
And I am trying, learning, hoping to be a better ally and not to remain silent as the BLM uprising is showcasing atrocities point blank in our faces.
Yet Sarah, the epitome of health, wealth, privilege and access (to money, to education, to travel, to people, to businesses, access to 1 million people) cannot for 1 second stop to acknowledge her privilege? She just appropriates and oppresses and silences the many voices trying to reach her because she wants to continue to sleep in her perfectly comfortable bubble. WTAF?
She has the audacity to complain about haters, her multi-million $ houses not being perfect, the inconvenience of seeing Kurt's extended family during a pandemic when nobody is seeing their own parents, her child not posing *just so*, her product launches getting delayed... we're in the middle of a pandemic that is at your doorstep. And the atrocities in the US may not be on your doorstep (though Aus has its own issues) but your viewership is based there (hence the desire for her American tour that she has since dropped due to covid). Where's the humanity? Where's your conscience? Where's your gratitude for all that you have and all that you have been gifted?
People are terrified to send their kids to school because of covid, yet they absolutely must because a disproportionate amount of them (majority being PoC) cannot afford to feed their kids and rely on school lunches! Have you stopped to think for 1 second, now that you are a mother, what that choice must be like?
You sit in your $4.5 mill white castle, with your $3k purse, your $6k bracelet and your obedient staff, moaning every single day about how hard your life is. witch, you are entitled and privileged and famous. witch, you are alive and healthy. witch, your immediate family and your partner's family are all around you. witch, you are in a 1st world country. witch, you have the funds and the access to all the education you could ever dream of.
You have a global platform where you can stand up and speak to uplift and empower other people, but you choose to use it victimizing yourself! How? In the wake of Freddie Gray and George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and the countless others- how dare you call yourself a victim? How dare you appropriate twice while the world is on fire?
How dare you make homophobic comments in your 'dressing each other' video and post that horrid word on your scrabble board for all your young viewers to see.
How dare you monetize your grandmother's death and tease it for clicks?
How dare you brag about your new house while your neighbours' houses were burning all around you during the bush fires?
How dare you sit on those donations when your own people were in desperate need, and then block your loyal followers when they asked whether you hand donated their money?!
How dare you call yourself "poor", whilst literally rolling on the floor of your 2nd multi-mill property, during the bushfires when thousands lost all their homes and worldly possessions?
Privilege is not chosen. Ignorance is.
Integrity cannot be bought.
Your silence on the things that matter is deafening.
Your repeated actions of silencing, blocking and doxxing those who are speaking sense and truth shows you for the scum you are.
Incredible that you could use your platform to raise so much awareness, but you opt to use it to line your pockets.
Money will get spent, Sarah, no matter how smart you think you are. And your followers will move on now that your ugliness has been laid bare. Do not underestimate this generation- they will see through your thin veil.
Then what will you have? Yourself and your material goods that you've hoarded? A child who can't connect with you? A partner who is a shell of himself? Ignorant opinions and a victim mentality that nobody will fall for?
You will be left with only yourself, which may seem like a beautiful dream right now, but it's every sane human being's worst nightmare.
It's the bed you made and nobody will feel sorry for you when you have to lie in it. It's karma for all the people you have hurt with your willful ignorance and stubborn choice to spread medical misinformation for monetary gain at the expense of your followers' health.
Your bed Sarah, your making. Think about that and use that platform of yours properly- or just stfu already! We don't need more ignorant bile in this world.
I apologise for the rant that may not be the most coherent. I'm doing the best I can in my circumstances. I am livid that she has swept everything under the rug and I had to let it out.