Digital nomad/influencer gets heat for encouraging people to go live to Bali

[milotic2]

American woman sparks furious backlash for ‘tone-deaf’ viral thread about moving to Bali https://t.co/NA4egB1ucJ
- The Independent (@Independent) January 17, 2021
Influencer Kristen Gray, started a gone viral thread on Twitter on how she started anew with her girlfriend in Bali from LA, showcasing the amazing real estate she scored for the small

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[nomoneyfun]

Black westerners are clearly not above making colonizer moves. To Black people's credit though, at least we gather our own when we're doing wrong like this.

[cbluechicken]

idk, the shade room comment etc make me realize we don't though.

[nomoneyfun]

Black Twitter was eating her up and gathering the Black people who tried to defend the behavior. It was a beautiful sight. I will say, Shade Room commenters have the worst takes of all time. People are consistently colorist, sexist, misogynistic, homophobic, and the loudest capitalists without any damn capital to their name. It is where reason and good sense go to die.

[piratesswoop]

i feel like it’s always two factions when stuff like this happens. the sensible black folks who understand intersectionality and can agree that we get disproportionately reprimanded for stuff white folks get away with but still need to be dragged for anyway because it’s common fucking sense, and the pick me/hotep clowns who think criticizing black people in any way shouldn’t be allowed

the shade room is sadly full of the latter

[quixotomy]

[analievelyn]

It sucks that a lot of valid criticism was paired with anti blackness.

Americans and other ppl from imperialist countries need to stop this shit.

So many people taking advantage of loopholes and low flight tickets especially during the pandemic has been really disheartening to see.

Eta- spelling typos

[nomoneyfun]

The fact that Indonesians jumped out to call her the n-word was not lost on me. She gave them plenty to criticize her for and get her out of Bali, yet they ran to be anti-Black. Like, I can't.

[bodha]

From what I got is Indonesians used the word "ngga" which is slangy/lazy for "no" in Indonesian, and not the n-word.

[goldie3]

It's not. Indonesians themselves said it's false

[elvasle]

it's actually outlawed.

[therearewords]

"The fact that you're trending on Twitter [..] makes me a stan" is just another argument for teaching Media Literacy in schools.