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- Feb 10, 2019
Black American lesbian writes a Twitter thread (can be found here too) about how wonderful it was to move to Indonesia with her girlfriend and gives tips and tricks to other Americans how to move abroad to other countries and skirt their COVID travel restrictions so they can live like royalty because of the value of the dollar on a third world country. And she's there illegally on an expired Tourist Visa, not paying taxes and used the thread to push her eBook too. Article about it here.
Indonesians tear her a new one for being a wealthy foreigner contributing to the gentrification and colonization of their country that already has massive poverty issues, and painting it as an exotic "Eat Pray Love" location when being LGBT in Indonesia is not accepted by the population at large (and is punished by flogging in parts of it).
Americans then accuse the Indonesians of being racist because the woman they are criticizing is black and say they would keep quiet if it was white people doing it. (Obligatory rich race baiter tweet.)
Indonesians shoot back and tell the Americans to shove their race card and "blacks can't be racist and gentrifiers" explanation up their butts and to hold other black people accountable for the shit they would jump at the throat if it was a white person doing.
I'm surprised she got the pushback she did, but what I'm not surprised by is how the arguments defending her reek of the first world western mentality that encompasses the whole Social Justice movement. The people defending her are saying a very privileged black woman who moved to Indonesia to live like a queen illegally is more oppressed than Indonesians facing poverty and can't be criticized because racism. Never mind her rent, which she called cheap, is around four times the minimum wage in Indonesia.
It's still a bit surreal when the Social Justice movement finds out people they claim to fight for disagree with them, because those people invariably get attacked for not sharing the westernized point of view on the matter and thrown under the bus for the "more oppressed" groups. Funny how the "lived experiences" of the Indonesians complaining don't matter now that they are criticizing an American black woman.
Interesting that gentrification of this kind is bringing in enough money that it might improve the wages of those that do business with LaQueefa Lesbiana, but at the same time could creates a fear of cultural degradation, in the eyes of many of the same people that might potentially enjoy the financial benefits.