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(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 πŸ₯Ά (www.reddit.com)
submitted 2 years ago by aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net to c/the_dunk_tank@hexbear.net
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Seriously. Reading this shit has me almost in tears. This is not the future we fought for. People should not live like this.

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[–] Lussy@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] HamManBad@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Raise your damn kids! Why are they like this

[–] usernamesaredifficul@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

how do they think poor people raise their kids

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Gonna be real with you guys, unless there's retired grandparents nearby, I straight up don't know how people raise their kids.

[–] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

I really, really dislike telling people to kys, but these kind of people might make me rethink it.

Imagine defending this neo feudal kak

[–] Sphere@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Make them work as "domestics" for a bit and see how they would cope.

[–] Sphere@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

:CommiePOGGERS:

[–] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

A local politician (although a shitty one sadly) said this and all the :cracker:'s lost their minds.

Was funny and good

[–] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

saltines are very brittle. fragile, even.

:anti-cracker-aktion:

[–] Tripbin@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Idk wtf a "domestic" is but it sounds degrading as fuck and like a "cleaner" word for slave.

[–] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Because it is. You're supposed to say "domestic worker", but they can't even manage that.

[–] Utter_Karate@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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...

[–] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Welcome to the world of rich :cracker: South Africans! Enjoy your stay!

spoilerPls someone end this misery...

[–] eduardog3000@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Why are there still rich white South Africans in the first place? ANC/MK should have given them the wall decades ago.

[–] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] eduardog3000@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

This just sounds like more evidence that the first thing a revolutionary needs to do with power is a purge.

[–] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If I remember correctly, wealth disparity between white and black South Africans is actually worse today than during apartheid.

[–] eduardog3000@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

:sadness:

[–] emizeko@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

:proletariat:

[–] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Shoegazer@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Actual human beings referring to someone as β€œa domestic”

[–] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] jizzong@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They changed to domestic worker because apparently β€œmaid” 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.

[–] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Well you're supposed to use domestic worker, but that's too much for these people obviously.

Just saying domestic sounds horrible, I agree