Selena Gomez gets Twitter backlash for remaining quiet on 'Black Lives Matter' push

[Teh One Who Knocks]

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Selena Gomez tried to support BFF Taylor Swift during her ongoing feud with Kim Kardashian and Kanye West, but learned that sometimes Twitter will give a harsh dose of reality about thinking before tweeting.

The singer took to social media to defend her “Bad Blood” pal earlier this week, writing: “There are more important things to talk about … Why can’t people use their voice for something that f***ing matters?”

There are more important things to talk about... Why can't people use their voice for something that fucking matters?

— Selena Gomez (@selenagomez) July 18, 2016

However, her good intentions received almost immediate backlash from fans that slammed her for not publically speaking on social issues affecting the country, most notably the Black Lives Matter movement.

“Good question! Why haven’t you or Taylor not said a thing about #BlackLivesMatter or police brutality?” one fan wrote to her.

Good question! Why haven't you or Taylor not said a thing about #BlackLivesMatter or police brutality? https://t.co/p5RkwnU0l9

— jon (@prasejeebus) July 18, 2016

Gomez responded – and then deleted – with: “Oh lol so that means if I hashtag something I save lives? No, I could give two f---s about 'sides.' You don't know what I do.”

Baby girl @selenagomez did you hit 'delete' by accident? Don't worry, I took a screenshot for ya pic.twitter.com/OU0os8siQ4

— jon (@prasejeebus) July 18, 2016

Another person wrote: “Kim Kardashian even spoke about #BlackLivesMatter. Selena Gomez haven’t mentioned about the Latino lives that have been murdered by Police.”

One even mentioned Gomez’s late friend, Christina Grimmie, who was shot and killed by a deranged in June.

“As a Texas native and a friend of Christina Grimmie, why haven’t you expressed concerns about GUN CONTROL?” the person wrote, while another one said, “You literally have no room to talk when you have a huge platform and all you do is post pictures and take fake sips of Coke @selenagomez.”

This was in reference to Gomez’s ad for Coca-Cola, which is the most-liked photo on Instagram.

[RBP]

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Selena needs to rant on social media like all the other Hollywood types do about everything

[RBP]

Yes, because that self-loathing white race-baiter is brilliant.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Yes, because that self-loathing white race-baiter is brilliant.

#HateSpeech

[Teh One Who Knocks]

I just went back and looked at that idiot's tweet, he used a double negative. Selena should have just been a grammar nazi and jumped on him about that instead