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[-] Frank@hexbear.net 126 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hundreds of Chinese laundrymen have worked on Britain’s warships since the 1930s, with most hired from Hong Kong to wash and press sailor’s uniforms and officers’ white tablecloths.

Nepalese Gurkhas will replace them due to fears that Beijing could threaten the servants’ families in China to make those on board ships pass on Royal Navy secrets, The Sun has reported.

It is the 21st fuckiung century what in the absolute fuck is this?!

[-] supafuzz@hexbear.net 128 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nepalese Gurkhas will replace them

Why is it so fucking important that the people washing the clothes not be white

Why do the people washing the clothes need to be a specific ethnicity

[-] supafuzz@hexbear.net 54 points 1 year ago

The United Kingdom, a place that never saw a contractor outsourcing arrangement it didn't like, but which still uses a racial caste system for assigning jobs in the navy. I've said it before and I'll say it again, sink that stupid island

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 37 points 1 year ago

Because usually white westerners tend to not be desperate enough to accept such shitty conditions and pay. Unless you’re polish, in which case British people will complain that not enough are slaving away in the UK. Also watch white lotus season 1.

[-] supafuzz@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I expect immigrants are actually doing the laundry via 3 layers of subcontractors for the US Navy too, but it's not like they're stipulating that they have to be specifically Guatemalan or whatever

[-] UnspecificGravity@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

On ships laundry is done by enlisted men or in self-serve laundry facilities. I'm sure they use the 3-layers of graft off the ships though.

The US Navy is culturally very different from the Royal Navy going way back to its inception.

[-] charlie@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

Correct. Through various means.

On the boats sailors do their own laundry, unless you’re an officer in which case your laundry is done by lower enlisted, and lower enlisted is comprised predominantly by minorities. The laundry folks also hustle on the side and will do your laundry if you pay them.

Pulling into port the Navy usually arranges some sort of pier side laundry service ran by whatever ethnic minority is being oppressed in that particular region.

Stateside there are laundry services on bases, and you pretty much nailed how they work.

Yeah, but this isn't a thing where a job is all brown people because they are who is in need of the work, these folks were specifically recruited BECAUSE they were Chinese and they are now replacing them with Nepalese people. These aren't regular jobs in the Navy.

[-] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago

Do you think we could get gammons to oppose this is we framed it as taking jobs from white people

[-] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

The Gurkahs (who serve in the UK due to a 19th century agreement) are also known for being extremely competent special forces and mountain infantry so this is some Stevan Segal in Under Siege bullshit.

[-] usernamesaredifficul@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

they are also massively screwed over with their pensions compared to their British army counterparts. It's straight up bullshit

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