'Elite Mentality': Twitter Slams Woman Who Joked About House-Help Making WhatsApp Group To Plan Leaves
Classism is deep-rooted and still quite prevalent in India. And, we get many examples served of the same every day of our lives. The debate has once again been raked as recently a woman mocked a domestic worker over WhatsApp group.
The house-help, which the person in question referred to as ‘maid’, created the group for informing her employers about the leaves. The woman is now drawing flak on Twitter after ‘joking’ about it. While doing so would be nothing out of the ordinary for the regular employee, a domestic worker doing so being considered ‘funny’ has been drawing ire on Twitter.
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Kosha, who goes by the username, @imkosha, on Twitter, wrote, “Our maid just made a WhatsApp group of all the houses she works at to update about her leave plans.” While this statement wasn’t even required to be penned on social media, the Twitter user went on to add crying and laughing emojis.
Our maid just made a WhatsApp group of all the houses she works at to update about her leave plans 😭😂
— Kosha (@imkosha) February 22, 2023
The Twitter thread sparked off by this tweet also came under fire for making similarly condescending ‘jokes’ about domestic workers.
‘mai kal nahi aayegi’
— Kosha (@imkosha) February 22, 2023
Didn’t go down well with Twitterati
But, it didn’t go down well with Twitterati. Many users schooled the woman for mocking the house-help over something as basic as WhatsApp. Let’s check out their reactions.
So condescending!
Reeks of privilege!
This also shows why democratisation of technology was necessary. https://t.co/R1yGiPIgUo
— Amit Bhardwaj (@tweets_amit) February 24, 2023
Thread on the arrogance of the privileged and their contempt for the working class. https://t.co/LL72CMVyu5
— Clifton D’ Rozario (@clifroz) February 23, 2023
People talk about dignity of labor and make fun of their maids using something as basic as Whatsapp. https://t.co/1zxdNH8Rbn
— Dibyasundar Nayak (@dibyabttb) February 24, 2023
This elite mentality 🤦🤦
Whats so funny here? Maid is just a another human being and technology is for all humans. It’s not a elite thing anymore. https://t.co/JJBsb2rGDe— நிலா (@Nila_twitz) February 24, 2023
The only correct reaction should have been “smart idea. Makes sense” https://t.co/sTKqzZ6IBu
— rajneesh (@rajneesh49) February 24, 2023
Ahhh, just one of those upper caste things. Yuck. https://t.co/qnSNAyImCW
— jp (@mutta_pupsu) February 24, 2023
“Haha lower income woman made a WhatsApp group to manage her work, *laugh emoji*”….is the gist of this tweet. Yikes https://t.co/8NorUZZUmq
— Sabah (@_sabahgurmat) February 23, 2023
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