Thread by @FShirin

My mind was still wrapped around the Cannoli Karens when I watched #WhiteTiger on @netflix last night. What a timing! It is a painful movie to watch.. a must watch though!
Here are some of my thoughts..

Wealth is not and should not be an inherent privilege. If it becomes so, then the society it breeds is unfair, unjust, unhealthy and offensive to the very existence of the unprivileged or underprivileged. The perspectives the mindset of “masters and slaves have their respective

places that are there for a reason” gives, is warped and regressive.
Please watch the White Tiger on Netflix. It’s a very poignant story on the subject. The novel must be incredible as the grip of the movie is in the narration of his own story by Balram, the main character.

It depicts a good picture of how the society back home promotes this deep divide of haves and have nots, the rich person/ masters’ thinking of نیچ ذات کی جگہ یہی ہے۔۔ یہ خدمت ہی کرنے کیلئے بنے ہیں ۔ بس ان کا خیال رکھو مگر سر پر نہ چڑھاؤ

and how the poor have this ingrained into their minds that they are there to please the masters, and that is the very meaning of their existence. Hence the concept of loyalty مائی باپ۔نوکر، ڈرائیور بیچارہ غریب آدمی -چوہدری مزارع کا خیال رکھے گا اور وہ نسلوں تک وفادار رہے گا crap!

One does see a stark difference in the society here. We own a small business, our practice here & we realize it all the time that our employees neither except any favors from us nor want us to expect any favors from them. They want to be treated fairly for the work they do,

and not as ‘family’, nor a ‘friend’. They come to work, get paid & life goes on. The only expectations are thru the employer-employee relationship, which also comes with responsibilities. ‘Charity’ is not welcome. ‘Bonuses’ are. Hence the inequality, and it is a wide gap here too

but here is no fish-eyed lens of relativity to see such concepts of ‘loyalty’ or ‘I see you as my family’ etc.

People can be rich, they can be poor but they should not be ‘classified’ on this basis. It is suffocating, a rooster-coop as Aravind Adiga rightly puts.

Class system sucks!! Let us all the privileged ones among us, change the minds of the less fortunate, but for that we have to change our minds first.

White Tiger depicts what is exactly WRONG when the Cannoli owners issue an apology saying their employee is like “family and this was a banter”
IT WAS PRIVILEGE MISUSED, THRASHED UPON THE FEEBLE, THE LESS PRIVILEGED
What a pathetic ‘class’ we have become. What painful privilege!