Mom Shuts Down Person Calling Her Daughter Working In Fast Food A “Hero”, Says She’s A Slave

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The coronavirus pandemic is setting some people on edge. Especially those who are still working in the real world and are at risk of catching Covid-19.

When talk show host Ellen DeGeneres made a joke about how the coronavirus quarantine is like jail, she made a lot of her fans angry. “One thing that I’ve learned from being in quarantine is that this is like being in jail. It’s mostly because I’ve been wearing the same clothes for 10 days and everyone in here is gay,” she said.

One woman to call Ellen out on Twitter said that the celebrity should try working her daughter’s fast food job without any protective equipment. When celebrity expert Mike Sington told the mother that her daughter is a hero, she lost it and replied that the 19-year-old is a “slave to capitalism” and a “sacrifice demanded by the elites.” Scroll down for Bored Panda’s interview with Mike.

When Ellen DeGeneres made a joke about quarantine being like jail, a lot of her fans got angry at her

Mom Shuts Down Person Calling Her Daughter Working In Fast Food A "Hero", Says She's A Slave

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According to celebrity expert and former NBCUniversal Senior Executive Mike, he got the humor behind the joke, but he knew that Ellen’s joke would backfire on her. “We’ve all seen the luxurious mansions she’s bought, so no one is going to feel sorry for her. Then she equates being gay with being in prison, which I think she thought she could get away with, being gay herself.”

“All that being said, it’s a joke that misfired. She’s involved in many charitable endeavors and gives away millions of dollars. I think people came down on her very hard, but Twitter has a pile-on mentality, and people are obviously stressed out now,” Mike told Bored Panda.

Plenty of people called Ellen out for her “tone-deaf” joke

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Mike says that he believes some celebrities are living in a bubble. “Spare us the shots of you self-isolating in your mansions. Now is truly not the time for this while so many are suffering. Many are on their own now, are bored, they aren’t being shot by the paparazzi, and they want to stay relevant. Currently, they don’t have staff saying you shouldn’t post that’.”

As for why so many people got angry at Ellen’s post, Mike thinks that “they’re literally climbing the walls now stuck at home or working under hazardous conditions.”

“Many celebrities seem entitled and out-of-touch right now, it’s impossible to relate to them under the current conditions. They should just lay low.”

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According to Mike, there should be a new rule where people don’t make any jokes about the pandemic. “I don’t think they should be censored, but use common sense,” the celebrity expert said. “We need entertainment though, so if celebrities want to produce entertaining content for us online, that’s great. The late-night hosts have been particularly adept at this—funny, without being offensive.”

“Also, Ellen’s ‘brand’ is ‘be kind’. She really crossed the line there with her stereotypical prison joke. Some comics could have gotten away with it. She should have known better,” he added.

One woman shared how her daughter who works in the fast food industry is exposed every day

Mom Shuts Down Person Calling Her Daughter Working In Fast Food A "Hero", Says She's A Slave

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Mom Shuts Down Person Calling Her Daughter Working In Fast Food A "Hero", Says She's A Slave

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She pointed out that her daughter isn’t a “hero” but a “slave”

Mom Shuts Down Person Calling Her Daughter Working In Fast Food A "Hero", Says She's A Slave

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Not everyone agreed with the mother’s message. Some people obviously supported her and her daughter. Others thought that the mother was being overly dramatic, shouldn’t use words like “slave,” and said that there’s no real alternative to working for a living.

While a few people also pointed out that her daughter can’t be called a sacrifice for the elites if she’s helping provide fast food to ordinary folks.

However, the mother wasn’t the only person mad at 62-year-old Ellen. Some people said that Ellen’s joke about jail was “tone-deaf,” considering that the US is seeing more and more prison inmates testing positive for Covid-19.

While this “at-home edition” of her talk show was received poorly, Ellen’s previous quarantine videos were much more successful. Ellen’s wife Portia de Rossi is her camera operator and director while their dog Augie is key grip.

This isn’t the first time that celebrities have seen backlashes for what they do in self-isolation. For instance, actress Gal Gadot got quite a bit of heat for posting a video of her and other stars singing John Lennon’s Imagine. Some people pointed out that celebrities singing doesn’t really help anyone.

Here’s how some people reacted to the mother’s comments

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giovanna 4 years ago

This abuse of the word "hero" is beyond annoying. Call someone a hero, and then it seems you can ask them anything: to work in a hospital or in a fast food without protection, to endanger themselves, to go to a war zone and return traumatized and with no health care... but hey, we call them heroes, so that's the best reward.

31points

FurryManiac 4 years ago

YES!! So many people just don’t even want to be called a hero, what they want is to go home to there families and be safe. But just like this woman’s daughter, they get stuck in horrible, stressful, low-paying jobs made even worse by the fact that we are in the middle of a PANDEMIC and they get little to no PPE. And we just say, “well, they’re HEROS” and just think that’s enough compensation for the heartache and misery they’re going through!!!!!!!!!!

17points

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TheReader19 4 years ago (edited)

I hate it when us low paid workers are told how great we are instead of given safety equipment and a proper wage

28points

Freya the Wanderer 4 years ago

The minimum wage has not been raised in the U.S. in over ten years. Meanwhile, the costs of housing, food, clothes, medical care, etc. have all gone up. People have been fighting like pit bulls on angel dust to have it raised to a living wage, or at least above the pathetic 7.25/hr it is. But what happens whenever people scream for a decent minimum wage? The 1%'s stooges belch propaganda about robotized restaurants and $20 tacos. It's easy for them to be snarky when they're not working 60, 70, even 80 hours a week at multiple part-time jobs and still subsisting on beans and rice while wearing thrift-shop clothes.

17points

Tres D 4 years ago

You push for $15 minimum wage and then lose your job thats 100% on you. There shouldn't be a minimum wage at all! You should get paid what your worth. You don't have a right to make enough money as a cashier at McDonalds to buy a house, a car and raise a family! Get real!

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