(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 🥶
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.
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...
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.