https://www.reddit.com/r/southafrica/comments/x5hp10/rant_people_who_use_their_domestics_for_absurd/
Seriously. Reading this shit has me almost in tears. This is not the future we fought for. People should not live like this.
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.
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.
A local politician (although a shitty one sadly) said this and all the :cracker:'s lost their minds.
Was funny and good
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.
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
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 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.
If I remember correctly, wealth disparity between white and black South Africans is actually worse today than during apartheid.
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