The mainstream media has found the root cause of the chaos at Delhi Airport - caste. pic.twitter.com/dohsouHEnE
— Ajit Datta (@ajitdatta) December 14, 2022
But the bigger, and more deeply ingrained problem, is that as a deeply caste-riven society, the concept of equality does not come naturally to us. We don’t believe rules apply to everyone equally and everyone is supposed to follow them. We don’t even believe everyone is equal before God, as “VIP queues” at any popular temple demonstrate.
Talk about reach. Fml never was able to use my Brahmin privilege to get into those VIP queues. I guess I'm a chamar after all, where da reservations at?
There are operational reasons for the T3 mess, such as an inadequate number of counters, the holiday rush, and limited security staff. But that does not explain why people insist on making a bad situation worse, by being unruly, unmanageable, and generally unpleasant. A common complaint is that “all kinds of people” can now afford flight tickets, who don’t have the manners and etiquette of seasoned fliers.
We don’t just have a civic sense problem, we have an entitlement problem. We lack a sense of fraternity, of “we are all in this together”. The dominant castes (still overwhelmingly the dominant class) believe they should be able to pay/brawl/brag their way out of a difficult situation, and if in the process, they are making that situation more unpleasant for others, it is not their problem. All the poor civic sense traits we display – jumping signals, cutting queues – are not just to get ahead, they are to overtake, to secure one’s own exit, even if the mess continues forever.
Those darn upper chuds being able to afford flying ruined it all Back when only brave Dalitx and Muzzx flew there never was any issues. Sure 50% of the flights with the latter would spontaneously explode mid air but that's the price we must all pay for true equity
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lol what happened? understaffed? just fly first class or something lol, even business is great
those memories of getting hammered on champagne before my flights
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Airlines are telling people to arrive 3 hours before time lmao. And this is after insane price hikes, a flight home used to cost like 3k now its 10k minimum.
Lol you should apply to be our next MEA.
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oof, but usually i arrive like 2 hours before a flight (unless i fly biz and above where i arrive much earlier ) so it doesn't seem that bad, but of course the culture in india might be different
it's tough man, it takes a certain kind of fortitude to be able to grift off people and sleep soundly at night and unfortunately i don't have it in me
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Wow, you must be really special to be able to fly business or above. The rest of us have to suffer in coach like cattle. But I'm sure you don't care about that as long as you get to your destination on time. It's all about you, isn't it?
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Lmaooo it made the same cattle class joke.
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So what? You're just another unoriginal sheep who thoughtlessly regurgitates whatever joke is popular at the moment. Get a life, and maybe you'll be able to come up with a clever comment once in a while.
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