Why did Stu Woo of the Wall Street Journal Follow Me to Singapore?

A writer named Stu Woo recently moved from San Francisco to Singapore.1 He got in touch to ask me why I’d also moved from San Francisco to Singapore, and why I’d decided to become a proud Singaporean. We talked about the reasons he and others had moved away from America — the old woman violently shoved out of a Muni bus, the gunshots and molotovs at tech CEO houses, and the simultaneous rise of Hasan Piker’s anti-capitalist far left alongside Nick Fuentes’ anti-immigrant far right. I also mentioned all the positive things that had pulled me towards Singapore, my many posts admiring the country, and my public announcement years ago that I’d moved to Asia.

I am now a citizen of Singapore, a country where my mother tongue of Tamil is an official language, where I can worship at a Hindu temple without insane people denouncing my religion, and where Indian-Singaporeans are full citizens rather than subject to endless racial obloquy. Fundamentally, I voted with my feet for Lee Kuan Yew’s vision of tolerant meritocracy, rather than Kodos or Kang.

As we spoke, Stu Woo volunteered that he personally had no imminent plans to return to America, and indeed might never return. He further acknowledged that millions of centrist Americans had made the same difficult decision to go into diaspora, just like countless liberal Russians, capitalist Chinese, and secular Iranians…because they loved their people, but not their governments.

But — and you might see where this is going — Stu Woo didn’t think it was relevant to include his own decision to go into diaspora, or that of millions of other Americans, in his upcoming Wall Street Journal hit piece on me. The thrust of his questioning, as you’ll see, was to make me look like an odd duck who’d done something weird…as opposed to an early adopter that Stu had literally followed to Singapore. I’ve redacted some of the personal info that Rupert Murdoch’s employees were planning to use in their corporate doxxing attempt, but see the red…