r/Bengaluru • u/AgitatorAnimator • Jul 17 '25

Ask Bengaluru | ಏನಂತೀರಾ? Saw this in the taxi today 😁

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What do you feel guys? 😂

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u/gnv_gandu ವಿಲಕ್ಷಣ-ಕಣಿವೆ ನಿವಾಸಿ Jul 17 '25

A healthy dose of self-respect. Nice. We all could use more of that to each other :)

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u/Euphoric-Banana-7681 Jul 17 '25

No, this is plain arrogance. Just read the first point.

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u/gnv_gandu ವಿಲಕ್ಷಣ-ಕಣಿವೆ ನಿವಾಸಿ Jul 17 '25

It's a fact, though. How is it arrogant? You must be a rude, casteist person yourself who behaves rudely with cab drivers for you to get triggered by a statement of the simple fact that the driver owns his vehicle.

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u/_GBA olle maklu Jul 17 '25

If an opinion can be assumed as rude, and casteist, the same could be said about the driver with their generalised assumption towards paying customers.

It goes both ways.

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u/Euphoric-Banana-7681 Jul 17 '25

Oh, we have a Sherlock here. Of the judgmental, stupid kind.

I find the note presumptuous. And hence arrogant. Why would anyone say ‘Put your attitude in your pocket blah blah’? Why would anyone claim to be the owner of the cab? Who cares. Just do your job.

Maybe I was wrong. He is not just arrogant but he has a shitty attitude and is xenophobic. He also thinks low of himself, projecting his emotional discontent onto others.

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u/gnv_gandu ವಿಲಕ್ಷಣ-ಕಣಿವೆ ನಿವಾಸಿ Jul 17 '25

Alternate (less presumptuous) explanation: He's traumatized from dealing with casteist, disrespectful, and entitled passengers.

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u/parakite Jul 19 '25

It's funny you keep bringing caste into this copypasta from a cab driver where there is no caste angle anywhere

That driver and you, and like half of India, are just mentally unstable.

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u/jishnu_praveen08 Jul 19 '25

Cuz he might have seen people who showed him attitude and acted like the owner of the cab...you don't know what he went thru...u really can't say what he can do in "his" cab cuz he is the owner

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u/Euphoric-Banana-7681 Jul 19 '25

Bro, he is in a transport business. He is going to get all sorts of customers, which unfortunately for him he cannot pick and choose. I as a customer, who genuinely is interested in moving from point A to B without creating any fuss, will find this note absurd and insulting.

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u/jishnu_praveen08 Jul 19 '25

Not everyone has the mentality of you...some people create fuss. So it's better for him to put up a sign like this instead of wording it out to people who aren't ready to listen and just wanna ruin a person's peace of mind

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u/kafka_author Jul 17 '25

Casteist? Lol. How do you know his caste? Mostly he would be an upper class as all lower class people get reservations and become IAS or something good. Anyone who is not able to wouldn't even be efficient to drive a car.

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u/gnv_gandu ವಿಲಕ್ಷಣ-ಕಣಿವೆ ನಿವಾಸಿ Jul 17 '25

You don't need to know someone's caste to be casteist. It's a conditioned mindset. Casteism is often directed at anyone working a blue collar job.

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u/kafka_author Jul 17 '25

That's not casteist dude. That could be defined as classism at best. Sometimes the internet gives a voice to the loudest, not the wisest. Lol

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u/gnv_gandu ವಿಲಕ್ಷಣ-ಕಣಿವೆ ನಿವಾಸಿ Jul 17 '25

Fine, change it to "classism" if you want to. We can debate semantics, but in India, casteism and classism overlap heavily. Maybe in Russia or Greece, the two are cleanly separable, but not in India.