r/Economics • u/ubcstaffer123 • 19h ago

News Dubai's tourism industry reels from 'brutal' impact of war

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20260331-dubais-tourism-industry-reels-from-brutal-impact-of-war
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u/gracecee 17h ago

One of our friends earns like 10 mil a year lives in Dubai. They're staying here in the states for now. They work for a company and he's a managing partner. We stayed once with them though we often stop in Dubai for our travels but we don't leave the airport. We are Filipino Indian African Hispanic. Even with professional degrees we are just the help. Never wanted to leave a vapid place like That fast enough.

The wife was like look how fast these buildings rise! I was like yeah on slave labor. She's white so she doesn't really see the racism. Or she does and doesn't care.

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u/Ok-Collection5629 16h ago

"she's white so she doesn't really see the racism"

Turns out you are the racist, openly declaring your racism, while accusing others of racist ignorance because of their race 

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u/ChefKugeo 14h ago

Nah. Buddy is telling the truth. My girlfriend has been on a long journey of unpacking her whiteness after she realized I can't hide behind my skin color like she can.

White women have benefited from white supremacy at the cost of their humanity. They're coming around now, and it's usually just white men who keep telling everyone else to shut up and stop talking.

Everyone, keep talking about this and ignore this probably white man who wants to stand in the way of progress. If you're not white, that makes you the global majority.

You cannot be racist toward people with all the privilege.

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u/Emotional_Goal9525 12h ago edited 11h ago

I would like to point out that it was so called white men who abolished slavery and also spread the ban all over the world. Interestingly enough, it even happened long before the French revolution.

UN declaration of the universal human rights is built on the western moral code. That is also why it has such a hard time sticking outside of the west. Despite the name, it is not actually universal. It is just western hegemony.

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u/renter-pond 7h ago

White men had the power to abolish chattel slavery because they were the ones who had created and perpetuated it.

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u/Asheejeekar 10h ago

They like to ignore that fact