I don't have the link because I don't use :reddit-logo: anymore and a friend shared this with me so we could share the mental damage. So I'll share it with my fellow hexbears now.
I don't understand how these people can look at themselves in the mirror and not feel some kind of visceral disgust for hiring, most likely, a black women from a foreign country with no options, to rear their children and clean their house while they're at work.
How do they not see all the extremely obvious historical parallels? How do they not feel like a monster for doing this?
From personal experience, albeit in the US so it may not be remotely similar, if the employer is a chud, its probably just racism and they think non-whites are naturally born to be servants. If they're a liberal, their entire world revolves around them being a good and virtuous person, so they frame it as being an opportunity provider(tm) and fly into a narcissistic rage if you dare question their motivations.
I mean that's true, both examples, but there's definitely a third group of apathetic naive people that literally can't tell the forest from the trees and are really lazy
I like your lib example though, you really do see that one a lot
The real racist ones sure, but the rest are just really naive or actually believe they're providing people with a job opportunity.
Truly the worst kind of people.
That guy in the comments going off about how all South African workers are useless, classic mask off moment Reminds me exactly why I don't use the Reddit anymore
I can't even imagine knowing someone with a full-time gardener. How would you ever take them seriously? If they came to you to vent after having a rough day it would just be like... bro, tell your actual servant.
This includes Frodo Baggins by the way. His gardener had to literally carry his dumb ass up Mount Doom. I gotta say, being a leftist really ruined high fantasy for me.
It's really impossible to take someone really when they have someone to wash their underwear for them like a child, in terms of "employing" a maid/housekeeper/domestic worker.
The conditions for sone South African and foreign labourers are legitimately neo feudal at times, some homes even have "domestic quarters" on their property for the house keepers and gardeners to live in.
And the miners accomodation is abysmal as well.
And listen to how your average upper class South African in the subreddit talks about their fellow humans like this. Disgusting
have you watched the FX show The Americans? it's about deep cover sleeper KGB agents in the US in the 80s, and in the 3rd season, reagan's support of apartheid south africa is a major plot point
No, but I do know about Reagan an his support of apartheid and South Africa in the border wars.
o7 to the anti apartheid forces and Cuba for defeating them. And Namibian independence
Well I think it’s best you keep her as an illegal immigrant post ZEP expiry date cause who is gonna know?
wtf lol
Is the housekeeper/babysitter being exploited by underpayment, or is she prevented from leaving, or something? Are SA's new "hiring of foreigners" laws made to increase protection of migrant labor, rather than to prop up domestic wages? I think I'm missing a piece of context in understanding this.
Xenophobia from white South Africans is funny. My brother in Christ, YOUR ANCESTORS were the savages coming from unknown lands to pillage and murder. You're not the one who has a right to be scared of foreigners in any situation.
as a white south african i can and will say at every point where south africans come up that they're the worst genre of white person followed by the anglo
reminds me of the "Trini To De Bone" episode of Atlanta
Because they should totally send the immigrant back home? Because of nativism? This government is so Trumpian I can't even.
DER TAKIN OUR JERBS!!!!1
