Spoiled Actress Publicly Frets About ICE Taking Away Hollywood Servants
She must have hit too close to home.
Hollywood actress and self-described “activist” Amber Heard was taking fire from both sides of the immigration debate this week after a now-deleted Twitter post she published on July 3 warning her Tinseltown neighbors that she’d heard a checkpoint had been set up by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement.
The tweet revealed much more about the Hollywood mentality than Heard ever could have intended.
“Just heard there’s an ICE checkpoint in hollywood, a few blocks from where I live. Everyone better give their housekeepers, nannies and landscapers a ride home tonight…” Heard wrote.
Heard deleted the tweet. Unfortunately for her – but fortunately for the immigration debate in the United States – it was captured and posted by other users, like this screen shot from Twitchy.com.
The implication is clear enough: The domestic servants who make the stressful life livable for the Hollywood glitterati are all border jumpers living in the United States illegally.
If a conservative like Hollywood actor James Woods had posted a comment like that on Twitter, liberals would be apoplectic, claiming he had slurred an entire social cast as rife with illegal aliens.
Heard might have thought her status as a bona fide “activist” (it says so on her Twitter bio, after all) would protect her from any backlash. If that’s what she thought, she thought wrong. According to People magazine, Heard took heat from liberals, like one who accused her of trafficking in outdated stereotypes.
One wrote: “hi, amber. i love you so much so i’m gonna say this to you: not all immigrants are housekeepers, nannies and landscapers (not that there’s anything wrong with being one) but this stereotype should have long been eradicated”
Some even thought Heard might have been being sarcastic (as Woods would surely have been) and mocking the Hollywood liberals as only taking an interest in illegal immigration to protect their domestic-servant work force.
Regrettably, sarcasm was not the goal. Heard deleted the post after it was picked up by the gossip web site TMZ, but in a follow-up tweet, defended it as making a “simple statement.”
https://twitter.com/realamberheard/status/1014165879016382464
The problem for Heard is that making a “simple statement” is exactly what she was doing – she just might not have been making the statement she intended.
But conservative Twitter users heard it loud and clear:
https://twitter.com/EuroRaver/status/1014304284693823489
https://twitter.com/tonyb52/status/1014236454526988289
https://twitter.com/Carousilly/status/1014369824795852800
Here’s the thing. In her mind, Heard probably was making a “simple statement.” That the lords and ladies of Hollywood owe it to the lower orders who wait on them, trim their hedges and raise their children to make sure they don’t get caught by the federal government – because those house servants are all illegal aliens, of course.
But the “simplicity” of the statement — the casual racism and assumption of superiority it implies — is exactly what liberals constantly accuse conservatives of.
What conservatives care about in the illegal immigration fight is the rule of law, and whether a country that can’t control its own borders deserves to be called a country at all.
What Hollywood liberals care about — Heard’s Twitter post told the world — is maintaining a work force of domestic servants available to coddle the already-coddled lives of the entertainment world’s elite. Celebrities can post moving, black and white pictures of little girls all they want, but in the end, it comes down to exploitation.
And that message, for liberals, just hit too close to home.
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