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Tipping is a racist relic and a modern tool of economic oppression in the South: Rooted in Racism and Economic Exploitation: Spotlight (www.epi.org)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Read the second paragraph of OP's article. Your arguments do not remotely refute this.

ETA: I agree that the wording could be better, to make it less likely anyone would mistake the claim the way you have.

[โ€“] [email protected] -3 points 4 months ago

I cannot find a single claim of this slavery aspect that doesn't trace back to Saru Jayaraman as a source.

They are a fair wage activist. They have an agenda is getting people to believe tipping is evil. They have no credentials as a historian of any kind.

It's really quite ridiculous how much people want to believe things and me having doubts makes them see me as the fool.