How Selena Gomez’s Breakdown Exposes a Troubling Issue on the Left

Observing celebrities and the activists against deportation can be quite unnerving because, similar to many stances taken by the left, they do so under the guise of “compassion.” They use this notion to justify their actions, portraying themselves as advocates for the poor and oppressed. Somehow, they have convinced themselves that the only obstacles in their quest to improve the world are the affluent and privileged individuals.

Unfortunately, a distorted perspective seems to have taken hold of a significant portion of the American population. The concept of the “poor and oppressed” has shifted from noble individuals in need to encompass anyone who merely resembles a potential victim of “the system,” regardless of their true circumstances. As long as these individuals perceive any inconvenience caused by our societal structure, they become the focal point of the left’s advocacy.

An example in the spotlight is Selena Gomez, who recently had a public emotional moment, shedding tears on camera over Trump’s deportation policies while referring to those facing deportation as “my people.” Contrary to her sentiment, as highlighted in a recent video, the individuals being deported are not actually part of Gomez’s community, unless she considers Haitian and Venezuelan gang members to be her identifiable group.

To be clear, Gomez was born in Grand Prairie, Texas, which I live right next to. Her people are Texans, which are an amalgamation of and mix of people, including, but not nearly limited to, Mexican. In fact, as I say in the video, Gomez’s mother is Italian, but you see no outrage coming from her over the assaults Italian women suffered from their illegal immigration problem. 

But Gomez exemplifies this aforementioned problem on the left, and it begs the question of “Who are your people?” 

The noble leftist will say, “my people are the poor and destitute, the underprivileged and the oppressed. Wherever there is injustice, there shall my heart be.” 

Yeah, okay. 

According to ICE’s annual report, in 2024 the burglaries, assaults, sexual assaults, kidnappings, and murders ranged in the thousands: 

Even looking at these numbers right now, they’re just numbers, but behind these numbers are real people who had families. Real victims with faces and names. These aren’t just statistics, they’re the base number of real suffering. 

Those thousands and thousands are the victims that people like Selena Gomez should be referring to as “my people.” 

Quite a few of these are women and children, but the anti-deportation crowd seems to be unwilling, if not unable, to put these people first in their hearts and minds. While I understand people like Gomez are crying over illegal immigrants who just came here for a better life and even have children here, illegal is still illegal, and the nature of our border opened us up for too much death and destruction. 

She’s crying over illegal immigrants being deported. I’m angry over American people, including children, suffering and dying. 

My people. 

Her people. 

Yet the left seems to give no mind to them. It’s as if they’re too privileged, too American. I have a very simple question for people who give no thought to these victims. 

Were these people worth sacrificing for the act of giving a home to foreign nationals illegally, even if it means we invite unmitigated crime and violence? Are you willing to look the families of the murdered, raped, or kidnapped in the eye and say, “your unimaginable pain is necessary for the dice roll that the person who came here illegally might be upright and good?” 

As it stands, the actions from people like Gomez are a wordless affirmation that, yes, your life, and even the life and safety of your child, are worth losing in the name of a simple virtue signal.

This isn’t virtue, this is sickness. This is willing to sacrifice innocents on the altar of your projection of being a good person. This isn’t compassion, this is spite disguised as pride in one’s heritage and care for the needy. 

Whose side is the left on. Not yours, but I’d venture to guess it’s not even on the side of the people they profess to care about. 

Their side is their own feelings about themselves and how they’re seen to the wider world. So long as they feel like they’re compassionate and virtuous, the world can burn to ashes, blood can flow, and their own nation can erode to death from within, but at least they can say to themselves “I did it in the name of doing right by the underprivileged.” 

What a joke. 

I detest these people. 

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