As if we don’t have plenty to worry about, people online are arguing online whether or not we should be nice to rich people like Heart Evangelista. The issue, if you want to call it that, started when a Twitter user posted… snarky comments on an article of Heart saying she was hurt when she got called “out of touch” by people online.
I’m not sure what she meant by this, I assume this was during the lockdown when she posted stuff on her personal IG that highlighted her… expensive taste. I’m not going to lie, some of those posts annoyed me as well, not because of Heart’s purported flexing of her material stuff but because pabibo nonsense online annoy me all the time regardless of the poster.
Anyway, before I go on a tangent as I am wont to do during rants, the aforementioned snarky comments by a Twitter pretty much implied Heart isn’t supposed to feel sad about the bad things said about her online because she’s rich.
I’m not a Heart Evangelista fan, I have never been one. The only reason why I even bother commenting about this nonsense is because I am so sick of reading things on the internet in the same vein as this: overtly woke people crapping on every issue (and often non-issue) in the guise of intelligent discourse.
Can Heart’s posts come off as “insensitive” because at a time where the masses are starving, she’s out here showing of her Hermes bag or whatever designer stuff she has in her giant closet? Sure, you can convince me of that. I’ve seen Parasite. But she’s also done her share of charitable works as well, recently she said she’s donating tablets to students who can’t afford to buy them for online classes. Should we get ready for Heart’s impending sainthood because of this act? No, of course not.
I get it, charity isn’t going to upheave the system that inherently disadvantages the poor. It’s more of a band-aid solution rather than a cure to the disease. But it’s better than nothing, is it not? We still cure symptoms sick people feel while we cure the actual disease they’re suffering from, do we not?
I also understand that this (oft justified) hatred for the rich stems from the injustices that come with the divide between the rich and poor. I can’t blame anyone who harbors a deep grudge against the wealthy who, at best, is apathetic to the plight of the poor, and at worst, is directly responsible for the oppression of the lower classes.
I’ve been thinking, though. Can we not simultaneously continue hating oppressive institutions while also appreciating members of the same who help in our plight? I hate the police as an institution for being the ones who abuse the very people they swear to protect, but if an individual officer came to help me in any way or form, I would appreciate them profusely. Will that remove my hatred to the institution they belong to? It won’t, the appreciation just goes to the specific person.
Why can’t we apply the same concept to Heart? Again, I have absolutely no incentive for even giving my opinion on this, but the girl’s… uhhh… heart is pure (at least from an outsider’s perspective; I’ve no reason to doubt her intentions). She just wants to help, and is putting her good intentions into action. We need all the help we can get.
Deep down, I always struggle with the desire to be logical in dealing with things — being woke is necessary — but empathy is just as important when plotting a course of action. Let’s just give Heart a damn break and move on? I can’t believe I made time to write all of this but here we are.
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