the whole Ellen thing? I mean, she's rich so she gets to live in this bubble of privilege and doesn't really have to think about what George W Bush's policies/actions did to other people. I think that's fair. a lot of my friends are of the school of thought that being a centrist or choosing to be indifferent/apathetic about something means you're siding with the oppressor and I can see their point of view, but also... not all the time? I can privately hate someone's guts and their beliefs but not actively do anything about it. most people in my circle do. how many of my friends are actively doing something to combat the oppression they revile? a lot of us just complain about it (I know I do) and maybe that's just fine for now. we can be mad at Ellen for not doing what we wish we could do if we have the money & influence, but at the end of the day our complaining doesn't do nothin', same as Ellen

(shh, I know Ellen is philanthrophic so she is actually doing more than us lowly working class people)

There's two who get a lot of undeserved flack IMO. Paula Deen and Amy Schumer. Paula honestly seems like a nice woman and probably thought she did the right thing by being honest and saying she used an epithet or two when she was younger. I mean who'd have thought, someone from the south in the 1960's using racially charged language? And for that she lost every kind of sponsorship and business deal she had going. The twitter woke-mob can be just as bad or worse as the people and ideas they claim to be against.

Schumer, while admittedly unfunny and just bizarre at times, gets so much, SOOO MUCH hate from pissed off neckbeards whom she dared poke fun of. They even devoted time and resources to artificially lowering her rotten tomatoes score on movies she's featured in. All she did was use the same tactics and language 4chan/Reddit losers use on a daily basis.