I could point out that...
...by framing her comment within a broader geopolitical climate, you are indeed politicising a rather innocent statement, or that...
...you did not so much 'ask' as 'lambaste', or that hers is not 'trash talk' but
legitimate criticism of the pervasiveness of burglaries in Mykonos, or that...
...this is an absolutely precious observation when Mykonos is heavily over-visited by tourists, or that tourism itself is not an altogether innocent industry, or that...
...she never called Mykonos 'unsafe', but even if she did, your logic is analogous to saying that Greenlanders can't criticise French kitchens because they don't have a strong gastronomic identity of their own.
But I'm not: I'm just going to say that you sound insufferably woke, and that the view must be fantastic from such high moral ground.
No, I actually didn't say that and I didn't ask her to comment on politics at all. I pointed out how funny it is for Americans to go and insult another country's safety after yet another shooting.
I said that it was absolutely insensitive and ignorant for a highly influential and affluent person to post like that about a country that has been completely ruined by austerity measures for the last few years, and to top it off with a bikini picture and a lol. Whether we like it or not Gigi is extremely influential and with the whole 'lol Mykonos isn't what you see on insta i got robbed never going back lol here is a pic of me in a bikini' she genuinely has the potential to influence some of her followers' opinions of Greece, a country that is in absolute desperate need of tourist dollars.
Yes, it is legitimate that burglaries occur often in Mykonos, but no more so than in say, Paris. The difference is that Gigi would never dare post that because she would never bite the fashion hand that feeds her. But wow, let's act shocked to our followers that you were robbed in a country where more than a third of residents live in relative poverty, depending on welfare that has been cut by almost half since the GFC (which country did that originate from again? Oh yeah). How crazy that while you're flaunting your expensive boats and bikini pictures, you were pickpocketed by residents of a country that has been largely starved by its government.
She did not call Mykonos unsafe directly, but in saying that it is not what you see on Insta, that she was robbed and never going back, she was directly implying that yes.
You sound extraordinarily privileged. Yes, no shit it is over-visited. Do you know how many residents there that would love nothing more than for the trashy Western tourists to stop visiting and partying there? Unfortunately they know they can never have this, because tourist dollars are literally all that keeps them going.
How bout, if you want to influence your millions of followers' opinions of a country, you don't kick one that is so far down already and has been devastated more than any other country in Europe over the last 10 years.
So no, your last analogy does not apply. There are many countries she could have written this about where it wouldn't have been so inflammatory and she wouldn't be criticised so heavily. There are very few countries who citizens have been crushed as brutally as Greece's since the GFC and no other major world economies recently under austerity measures, something she as an American could never imagine.
You sound insufferable full stop. Sorry for the people who have to listen to your pretentious excuse for everyday English in real life.
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