“Never condemn someone for showing empathy for another person.
Watching Selena Gomez… what people dont understand is two things can be true at once.
All of the conservative media pundits answered with, What about the violent criminals?
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Selena Gomez can feel compassion for people being deported.
It can be heartbreaking and she can still not be okay with violent criminals.
Everyone in this country including Selena Gomez would say, Bravo.
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But thats not whats happening and theyre not being open about it, she stressed.
So never condemn someone for showing empathy for another person.
Joy Beharchimed in, Thats right.
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Its not saying that she agrees with that to say she understands the plight of all these people.
Its just a disgusting place were at when we cant even recognize that.
Alyssa Farah Griffinadded that people should feel empathy for both sides.
Of course we are.
The system failed Laken Riley… so be mad at both at once.
Thats something thats perfectly reasonable.
Every nation on Earth deals with this issue.
This is how every country deals with it.
Canada and the U.S. have the largest unguarded borders in the world.”
She previously opened up about her stance on the issue in a poignant 2019 essay forTime.
“Immigration is a divisive political issue.
Its the subject of endless arguments and countless news stories.
But immigration goes beyond politics and headlines,” Gomez wrote at the time.
“It is a human issue, affecting real people, dismantling real lives.
How we deal with it speaks to our humanity, our empathy, our compassion.
How we treat our fellow human beings defines who we are.”
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