Do you have anything more factual? This looks to me like it’s mostly people claiming it’s racist because the industry wanted to pay employees less, so encouraged customers to tip. And, since some of these employees were black, IT’S RACIST!
Do you have anything more factual? This looks to me like it’s mostly people claiming it’s racist because the industry wanted to pay employees less, so encouraged customers to tip. And, since some of these employees were black, IT’S RACIST!
I just read many articles claiming the same thing. The general gist of most of them wasn’t as much about it being racist, it was more against the practice of tipping itself. The pattern seems to be, give a brief history of tipping, some acknowleging the European aristocratic origins, then go into how it hurts the employees, and how socially corrupt the practice of tipping is, then they top it off with the whole, “plus it’s racist” without really providing evidence that it was exclusively for blacks. It’s really bad deconstruction. I mean. It’s like deconstructionists aren’t even trying anymore.
It’s a useful formula for useful idiots. Pick a social practice you don’t like, then figure out how you can claim it’s racist. Then shame everyone who does it. I kinda need more than people claiming the entire tipping practice, was exclusively for blacks. Not buying it.
And about tipping being so bad. I dunno. I generally tip pretty well. I’d rather not have to. I think it makes the price much higher than it would be if they just were paid minimum wage. So fine. Let’s get rid of tipping. If they did, I doubt my bill would increas 20%. Reastaurants would have to eat some of that expense.
Do you have anything more factual? This looks to me like it’s mostly people claiming it’s racist because the industry wanted to pay employees less, so encouraged customers to tip. And, since some of these employees were black, IT’S RACIST!
I just read many articles claiming the same thing. The general gist of most of them wasn’t as much about it being racist, it was more against the practice of tipping itself. The pattern seems to be, give a brief history of tipping, some acknowleging the European aristocratic origins, then go into how it hurts the employees, and how socially corrupt the practice of tipping is, then they top it off with the whole, “plus it’s racist” without really providing evidence that it was exclusively for blacks. It’s really bad deconstruction. I mean. It’s like deconstructionists aren’t even trying anymore.
It’s a useful formula for useful idiots. Pick a social practice you don’t like, then figure out how you can claim it’s racist. Then shame everyone who does it. I kinda need more than people claiming the entire tipping practice, was exclusively for blacks. Not buying it.
And about tipping being so bad. I dunno. I generally tip pretty well. I’d rather not have to. I think it makes the price much higher than it would be if they just were paid minimum wage. So fine. Let’s get rid of tipping. If they did, I doubt my bill would increas 20%. Reastaurants would have to eat some of that expense.
Well, before you go around saying it, don’t you think there should be a bit more necessary than just claiming it? Is there a smoking gun? Any empirical evidence? Historical documents? Anything other than suspicions? Otherwise, if we are just making assumptions about various hypothetical motivations, I’ll most suspect the one which requres the fewest assumptions is most likely true.
