Seriously. Reading this shit has me almost in tears. This is not the future we fought for. People should not live like this.
They changed to domestic worker because apparently "maid" was too dehumanizing.
It's not much of an improvement.
Almost like it's the system itself and window dressing with different language changes almost nothing.
They changed to domestic worker because apparently “maid” was too dehumanizing.
It’s not much of an improvement.
Quite the opposite in my opinion. Maid is at least a word that is exclusively used for humans. The first thing that comes to my mind when I hear the word domestic is this.
Well you're supposed to use domestic worker, but that's too much for these people obviously.
Just saying domestic sounds horrible, I agree
Would love to see a South African version of Parasite just to really drive it home.
Would like to abolish domestic work more. People can clean their own bloody homes, ne
totally. I understand it when really old, disabled people hire cleaners to come out or home health aids. but I've seen way too many able bodied rich fucks do it.
I have no respect for that. I knew a lib couple in their 40s that hired a very poor old lady in her 60s to clean their house once a week. I wanted to beat their asses, but I settled for telling them that if I hired some woman my mother's age to clean up after me, my actual mom would disown me.
Yeah disabled and elderly people need assistance, but able bodied adults doing this really make me feel sick/weird inside
An elderly relative of mine works a few hours a week doing laundry and cooking for a fancy old-money family. My relative is awestruck at how fancy yet friendly these people are but from the stuff she tells I sense that she also sees them as helpless children who would be wearing dirty rags, had she not been around to mother them and make sure their clothes were neat and their tablecloths folded correctly.
Sorted by controversial and something like three of the top 10 responses are "judge much?", "virtue signal much"?, "entitled much?" At least vary your responses on your sockpuppet accounts.
I hate Reddit so fucking much.
My favourite was calling the OP a "Karen" for calling the behaviour and abuse out.
I don't know about you, but for me hiring someone to do all your household chores and look after your kids in public is probably the most "Karen" thing ever.
Also the people justifying having a neo feudal slave by saying "we give them free WiFi and take them on holiday with us" was just too much for me. Zero self awareness.
Wow, they let them serve them EVEN on holidays?! Luuuuucky! I'm so jealous, here I am occasionally having holidays off of work like some sort of sucker
My least favourite was the guy doing the whole "brining civilization to the poor Africans" trope by saying it was fine to take them on holiday with him because "it was the first time she was on an airplane".
:gulag:
We should honestly abolish this from of labour and let the rich look after their own kids and mop their own floors
We should honestly abolish
this from of labour and letthe richlook after their own kids and mop their own floors
I'm not looking to fight but since having kids of my own I've learnt that you get domestic maids whose job is cleaning and then you get nannies whose job is child care. Nannies are paid more and often get sent on courses such as first aid and baby stimulation. Their hours are different and many become part of the family and live in. Yes, many are badly treated but many aren't and if we took away this South African culture then millions would loose their only source of income. You can't judge a situation based on a single encounter.
kill yourself
Gonna be real with you guys, unless there's retired grandparents nearby, I straight up don't know how people raise their kids.
yeah, i have a tough time making sure I eat food then you’ll have psychiatrists with 20 patients and 3 kids. Poor person? It has to be virtually impossible.
i adopted a puppy once and it fucked my life inside and out so hard im still struggling from it 4 years later lol
I really, really dislike telling people to kys, but these kind of people might make me rethink it.
Imagine defending this neo feudal kak
In my head I know these people merely need to :gulag: but in my heart I want to see them get punched in the mouth every time they say or type the word "domestic" to refer to a human being.
Make them work as "domestics" for a bit and see how they would cope.
A local politician (although a shitty one sadly) said this and all the :cracker:'s lost their minds.
Was funny and good
I was at a party and a South African white expat whose family got enough money to pay for his decade of business / property stuff abroad I talked to was saying communism can't work cause then those poor wouldn't work and who would do the job no one else wants to do?
Seems any system is better than capitalism if one would look at him, who didn't work, who will not work and who doesn't do dishes and also left the party in utter chaos instead of putting his plates and glasses / cans into the sink (as you do if you are not do drunk or distracted).
I mean of course they didn't clean up, typical mentality for these folks
Extremely.
"Hurr durr we are superior"
"What! You want us to work the same jobs as everyone else and wash our own dishes? Noooooooo"
Pounding my hands on the table chanting "Pu Yi! Pu Yi! Pu Yi!"
Reading the words "I'm not looking to fight but since having kids of my own I've learnt that you get domestic maids whose job is cleaning and then you get nannies whose job is child care" in the top comment is really something else...
Welcome to the world of rich :cracker: South Africans! Enjoy your stay!
spoiler
Pls someone end this misery...
Why are there still rich white South Africans in the first place? ANC/MK should have given them the wall decades ago.
Well they kind of had a monopoly on everything and compromises were made to ensure a peaceful transition of power in a post USSR neoliberal "end of history" world.
Then Mandela's successors got greedy and really screwed up. Ramaphosa (the current president) was supposed to replace Mandela but decided to abandon revolutionary politics, become a capitalist and own McDonalds and the mines instead. This allowed Mbeki, an neoliberal Oxford economics educated guy, to take hold of the ANC, implement austerity measures to make line go up, which messed everything up. Zuma then followed, a corrupt money hungry politician.
This just sounds like more evidence that the first thing a revolutionary needs to do with power is a purge.
Truly the South African pizza hut story
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/south-african-businessman-cyril-ramaphosa-and-mcdonalds-news-photo/110266147
https://www.gettyimages.fi/detail/uutiskuva/south-african-businessman-cyril-ramaphosa-eats-a-mcdonalds-uutiskuva/110266018
If I remember correctly, wealth disparity between white and black South Africans is actually worse today than during apartheid.
lmfao these nazi piglets have fantasies of dying in heroic combat and what actually happens is they wind up splayed out on the dirt whining for an ambulance after murdering a bunch of civilians
im a filthy yank so im not familiar with the intricacies of south african civil conflict but all i know is im glad these nazis got their shit rocked
So these Nazis are the AWB, an Afrikaner Nazi group led by Eugene Terreblanche, that came about during the 70s and 80s because they thought the minimal attempts at reform by the apartheid government towards mixed race and Indian people went too far.
Eugene Terreblanche
man's so racist his last name means "white land" jesus fucking christ
Guy is one of the most vile humans ever.
Here is his interview with a western journalist, just vile. Warning for racism of course
Funny enough they really quickly lost steam after people would be militant in their face.
Entire movement falls apart after three deaths. Colonists can't accomplish anything when they don't have 100 tons of steel in between them and the people they think they're superior to.
Even the "smart" colonizers understood you needed to have compradors among the population you were subjugating to function better. Then again, fascism has a tendency to cannibalize.
The AWB did end up working with the IFP in the end, see Operation Marion. The very cursed "Boer-Zulu alliance"
In November 1993, the IFP signed a solidarity pact with the AWB, with the AWB providing the IFP with military training and agreeing that "Boer and Zulu would fight together for freedom and land should they be confronted by a common enemy"
Yeah I have very little familiarity with South African history. I saw a picture of the guy who killed the three Nazis out of context a few weeks ago and started digging from there. The footage is from this documentary.
Turns out combat against someone who can actually fight back fucking sucks. Who knew?
This was broadcast on national TV and the guy that took out the Nazis was found innocent by the TRC if I remember correctly.
It happened before I was born though, so this is going off of what I learnt in history class and on the internet.
HOLY SHIT ONTLAMETSE MENYATSOE EMOTE NOW
Most satisfying thing I've seen all day. This is how casually and uncaringly all apartheid nazis should be treated.
Something about no excuses for the terror.
I'm just way to down reading this. Zero hope.
I used to work in fine dining in a gated community for billionaire families’ summer homes in the US. This sounds familiar for some reason hmmmmmm
In the global south you only need to be "middle class" to have personal slaves.
Apparently in the comments it's why some people stay here. So they can "live like a king"
:visible-disgust:
I had a lot of people calling them “upper middle class” where I was working too. You should have seen their fucking bills. And then the parasites would leave a “verbal tip” instead of tipping
Well I went in there and shot off some comments, I've done my part, how about you? :im-doing-my-part:
I did, I really don't like using :reddit-logo: but might as well log in for this one
Hey Denel, I need 350.000 R4 rifles, 2.1M 35-round magazines and 175M rounds of 5.56x45mm. Don't ask why - not like I intend to radicalize the SACP and arm them or anything...
Honestly lost faith in the SACP when Blade Nzimande said free university education was economically impossible.
Going to need a lot of radicalisation to get out of ANC electoral politics
My ideas besides just "committing Garry's Mod on all the landlords with my R4" might be too radical- like nationalising mining, reinstating the nuclear weapons/deterrence programme, decommodifying education and housing, nationalising healthcare, banking and mining industry, building HSR between the Big Three, etc.
Nationalising the mines, banks and healthcare is good, HSR would be nice if it's not just Gautrain 2.0 (don't get me wrong the trains are nice just really expensive). Nuclear weapons make sense if we oppose US interests in future.
Still sad they scrapped RDP houses.
Idk wtf a "domestic" is but it sounds degrading as fuck and like a "cleaner" word for slave.
Because it is. You're supposed to say "domestic worker", but they can't even manage that.
Richard Dawkins' brain was properly broken in the colonial fashion by having "the help" present in his formative years. That explains so much.
Did he grow up in apartheid South Africa? Because if so, yeah...
Reading the Silmarillion section about Numenor really puts his anticolonial outlook to the fore.
Yeah, it is standard agrarian socialism takes. But on the other hand the Hobbits, his "ideal" people are a multiracial alliance under more or less anarchist governance albiet with a vestgial gentry.
Does Bilbo have tenants? We never hear about him owning anything but the house.
That's not much better, maybe worse.
No wonder he wore that "we are all Africans" shirt.
