(CW: racism) If you want to know how bad South Africa is doing, read the comments to see rich white people defending having borderline personal slaves 🥶
Seriously. Reading this shit has me almost in tears. This is not the future we fought for. People should not live like this.
Actual human beings referring to someone as “a domestic”
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.
Yeah, seems pretty fucked in and of itself.
what the fuck
human beings
Extremely debatable tbh
:proletariat:
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.
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.
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
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.
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...
We need to do this (CW: death) to the entire country.
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
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.
One of the only good cops besides :dorner:
CW: Death?
Thanks, fixed.
:william-van-spronsen:
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
their domestics
:cringe:
South Africa is a deeply messed up country
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.
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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6NJitdq8Bk
Sorry for the cringe title and description but this is literally the only youtube video I could find thats just the song and not some whiny news report about people singing it.
Some guy from Afriforum just tried to get this declared as hate speech and failed lol.
Thought this was gonna be I've Never Met A Nice South African
I don't want to enrage myself with a reddit argument tonight but I've deployed my tactical upvotes on your posts comrade
After reading that other thread about Singapore a couple of weeks ago and now this one -- what other countries have slavery normalized??