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- Emirati vlogger defended domestic workers against Kuwaiti influencer’s statements.
- The vlogger said that the workers are not robots and need time to rest and for themselves, too.
As Kuwaiti social media influencer Sondos Alqattan remains unapologetic over comments about Overseas Filipino Workers’ (OFW) rights, and an Emirati vlogger took the courage to criticize her for such strong statements.
Khalid Al Ameri, who has 1.2 million followers on Facebook, posted a video saying that ‘we are not robots’.
“If I’m not mistaken, every job in the world – barring a few security jobs and military jobs – have a day off. A day of rest, a day to go out, a day to enjoy life,” Khalid said in his vlog.
“We are not robots at the end of the day. We are all humans and expect to have time to rest and time for ourselves,”
Al Ameri proceeded to ask Alqattan, “How would you feel if you worked for someone that didn’t only not give you a day off but disagrees with the very ideology that you deserve a day-off?”
As per Alqattan’s argument that the helpers might run away if their passports will by in their possession, Al Ameri answered that “After listening to your rant, if I work for you, I would run so far away, the CIA won’t be able to find me….I would disappear. I would cease to exist. I would never show my face in this world again, out of fear that you might find me and that you might ask me to work for you again,”
“Believe me, there’s a reason they keep running away from you. Maybe you are that reason.”
The Emirati vlogger ended his video by thanking all the domestic workers for helping families, including his own.
“On behalf of my country, my family, I want to thank every single domestic helper in this part of the world for helping us and for being part of our families,”
Earlier this year, Al Ameri went viral for his blog post thanking Filipino workers in making his country ‘a better place’.
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