like lol if you wanna be a tourist be a tourist but don’t fucking act like anyone who refers to it as a contemporary form of colonialism is doing too much. like i’m sorry but do you really think my family is grateful when you crackers come to visit during the winter? do you really think your presence adds value to their lives? when the govt invests money in ports but not paving the fucking roads anywhere that’s not downtown/vacation home territory? you white losers need to put down ur marx for like half a sec and pick up a small place by jamaica kincaid. the fact that sandals wanted to build an entire resort in tobago where my family lives might sound great for the economy or whatever until you realize that they would’ve closed off several acres of land and made it inaccessible to non-tourists which is fucking insane thing to even propose on such a small island. just because the government is making money off of ur lil excursions and hotel stays doesn’t mean regular citizens are, especially in your fave ‘tropical getaway spots’. Self proclaimed leftists with entire graduate degrees on twitter not understanding that tourism in places like latin america and the caribbean is a form of neocolonialism even in places where the national economy is dependent on it. the fact that he made a step in the right direction should be important now. i’m sure he’s been surrounded by the spewed negativity about gay people a lot of his life, and We All have to deal with our own internalized homophobia consistently throughout our lives. he’s also from utah, the center of mormonism in america. that’s everything you can ask from someone who’s made a mistake. he talked with lgbtq+ people and listened to them. “he’s homophobic” he made an ignorant comment, and when people brought his attention to how it was ignorant and harmful, he openly apologized and showed accountability. you can’t say nathan is being overscored without saying yuma was overscored too.
look at how high yuma kagiyama scored when he fell on one of his five quads. you can’t call that being overscored when he didn’t fall once in his program.
“he’s consistently overscored” he was the only skater who attempted five quads and landed every single one of them. People want to find any reason to be mad at nathan chen winning just bc their faves didn’t win, and it’s pissing me off