fine Dykes move to Bali, gets called a colonizer

[goatmane]

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American woman sparks furious backlash for ‘tone-deaf’ viral thread about moving to Bali
Sirena Bergman@SirenaBergman3 hours agoPeople

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An American woman has sparked heated debate on social media after a thread about her move to Bali went viral.

It seems she may have picked the wrong platform to gush about her new home. While her 20-tweet thread may have worked as an Instagram caption about making dreams come true, over on Twitter people had other thoughts.

The woman in question has since locked her account, but here’s a summary of the thread: after spending most of 2019 out of work, she and her girlfriend decided to try out Bali for six months, where she became a self-employed graphic designer and managed to live in a “treehouse” for just $400, compared to a $1,300 LA studio they were in before. They have now been there for a year, and she says that they are living an “elevated lifestyle” and that Bali was “the perfect medicine” for her physical and emotional health.


She lists the benefits of living in Bali as: safety, low cost of living, luxury lifestyle, queer-friendly, and goes on to share her positive experience as a Black woman with the Black community there. To close out, she links to her ebook Our Bali Life is Yours which helps other people to achieve the same dream. It is currently for sale for $30.

The backlash was immediate, with thousands of replies and quote-tweets, many of which were highlighting the impact that relatively wealthy American migrants have on local communities and gentrification.







Her comments about living in luxury were also labelled tone-deaf, given that Indonesia is Southeast Asia’s most populous nation and its largest economy, yet around a quarter of the population lives just above the poverty line, with almost 10 per cent living in poverty.



American woman sparks furious backlash for ‘tone-deaf’ viral thread about moving to Bali[/SPOILER]

 

[ORDER_66]

Gentrification hits different when white people (Americans) come to your town huh???

 

[Joe Budden]

This is why I side eye you nikkas who go to poor countries and brag about buying p*ssy. Taking advantage of locals isn’t cool. It just shows you ain’t shyt where you from.

 

[goatmane]

angry ppl tweets

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People who are from Indonesia themselves also highlighted how different life is in the country for those without the writer’s American privilege, and the potential damage of encouraging more Americans to move there.

 

[Originalman]

So who is the white man of the bali community now...

I smell a new article from grio.

 

[blockburna420]

Their whole economy is based off tourism

Queenz nikka run you nikkaz

 

[Devilinurear]

Yeah Indonesia is not a stable place. Corrupt as fukk but good luck to them

 

[Originalman]

Like I said before on here even as a black american.

That american dollar, american passport and THAT AMERICAN MILITARY allows us to go anywhere in the world outside america and get a jump up that many of our fellow black folks from other parts of the world aren't able to do.

Also don't think just cause you a black american that you don't benefit from american colonialism when you travel to other countries. Talking about white supremacy/colonalism here in america then benefiting from american white supremacy/american colonialism when traveling overseas is something folks really really and I mean really don't want to talk about.

 

[Biscayne]

They can colonize me!! Amirite fellas?

 

[Benjamin Sisko]

fukk those hater ass c00ns and slopes, black Americans are told to pick themselves up from the bootstraps, I suggest they do the same

No excuses right? Suherto is dead, free economy. Build yourself up.

Edit: same people bytching about those two rugmunchers don’t say shyt about the genocide perpetuated to the Melanesians in East Timor.

 

[Benjamin Sisko]

Like I said before on here even as a black american.

That american dollar, american passport and THAT AMERICAN MILITARY allows us to go anywhere in the world outside america and get a jump up that many of our fellow black folks from other parts of the world aren't able to do.

Also don't think just cause you a black american that you don't benefit from american colonialism when you travel to other countries. Talking about white supremacy/colonalism here in america then benefiting from american white supremacy/american colonialism when traveling overseas is something folks really really and I mean really don't want to talk about.

Black people do NOT benefit from white supremacy abroad

 

[invalid]

People are so negative.

White people have been doing this shyt for hundreds of years and still continue to, but the first chance a motherfukker get on calling out and policing black people on doing the same shyt, they want to all come out like roaches.

Black people have the right to live in any place on this planet. We're humans and we can traverse every area of this planet like the next motherfukker.

If they not calling the police because kids are playing outside where they're residing. Calling the police because people congregating outside of the place where they residing. Trying to rezone school districts to keep neighborhood kids from being educated with their own kids. Then they need to leave them dykes alone. They aren't hurting nobody.

 

[Originalman]

angry ppl tweets

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People who are from Indonesia themselves also highlighted how different life is in the country for those without the writer’s American privilege, and the potential damage of encouraging more Americans to move there.

Twitter is so dumb. Like folks suprised that people in another country aren't happy foreigners moving in their country talking about what a great life. As the people in their country poor as fukk.

So these same twitter folks wouldn't be just as mad if a white women was in an african country who moved from america. Bragging how life is so grand there and how the cost of living is so low for her and she living her best life.

 

[Paper Boi]

so basically this bytch probably lying about how great her life is to sell some of her "books"


another social media grifter.


i doubt her real "business" is that "poppin" either. if rent is only $400, i could go live there for 20 years just off my savings.



another social media lying bird brain.

 

[ORDER_66]

Black people do NOT benefit from white supremacy abroad

The only way we do is that if our money is CORRECT, that's about it!!! If your money aint right then good luck...