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Respectability isn't as important as not exploiting people, but employers who add workload or responsibilities without increased pay or hiring another employee are being deeply unprofessional?

If you hire someone to paint a room and then demand they paint the entire house and insist they shouldn't get paid more and not hiring more painter is unprofessional behavior from an employer.

Any claim of professional high ground in scenarios like that is the expensive suit version of insisting artists should work for exposure and\or should be grateful you stole their art to earn money from its sale.

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"There's a spectre haunting Europe, and Scooby and the gang are on the case"

Mastodon is cool because you can be like “diarrhea is terrible” and someone will be like “actually diarrhea is good and you’re terrible.”

Dumb white guys are extremely impressed with themselves for wearing shorts when it’s cold

capitalism: *spends trillions maintaining roads with public funds effectively subsidizing car companies*

also capitalism: oh you cant afford 2 dollars for the subway? its youre fault society cant afford public transit, you should work harder

you can't make me watch that

I suggest reading this excellently written article if you'd like some insight in how exactly caste and casteism manifests itself in India today. The piece does a great job of relating these traditional indian social structures to ones more familiar to north american audiences, and also does a great job situating them in present-day politics.
Just declaring our support for marginalized communities isn't enough, it's our duty to educate ourselves on how we can do that. Thanks to @h_tejas for sharing the article in the first place.

https://aeon.co/essays/how-india-deludes-itself-that-caste-discrimination-is-dead

Intersectionality without class awareness is not Intersectionality.