When friends of Eric Dane and James Van Der Beek organized GoFundMe campaigns for their families, the backlash was swift and predictable. Comment sections filled with variations of the same accusation: Why are we giving money to elites? Aren’t they rich? Isn’t this absurd?

The word elite is thrown around as if it is a fact.

It isn’t. What I’m about to tell you, may come as a shock and I may not have all the perfect words but please read on anyway.

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