"country of a billion people". Oh please, not that tired cliche again. Police verification of employees is standard in India, even for software jobs. Uber as usual seems to be cutting corners, playing fast and loose, operating outside the law. The drivers aren't really 'employees' just 'licensed driving partners' and so Uber has no responisibility.
If this had happened in the USA (" a country of 300 million people") everybody would rightly be looking into how Uber operates and what to fix. But hey some third world country half a world away and it is just people being unreasonable.
And this "numbers" logic is fallacious. Why is the police shooting of an African American causing such ripples in a "country of 300 million people" with millions of police/citizen encounters. Surely the proportion ending in unarmed citizens being shot for no good reason are really really low? Then why all the hoopla? Why are people so outraged?
> If this had happened in the USA (" a country of 300 million people") everybody would rightly be looking into how Uber operates and what to fix. But hey some third world country half a world away and it is just people being unreasonable.
Blah, stop putting words in my mouth. I'm from such a 'third world country', and my gf just returned from her work in India. Let's also ignore the multiple times someone was charged with rape over there in the US (I don't live there, you know). I'm certainly not saying nobody cares because it's India. I'm saying it appears like a single case related to uber in a country of 1 billion (where rape happens every hour) after millions of rides.
> Then why all the hoopla? Why are people so outraged?
Because it's SYSTEMIC, that's my point. It literally, not kidding, literally happens every single day and enough is enough, and it is a consequence partially of some identifiable issues in the police system that they're responsible to fix (and haven't been doing for decades). That's why such a story is interesting. Why is it not interesting if a white person is shot by the police? Because arguably it's not systemic, it's not based on a certain culture, on certain policies. For example if you go to a police station to train them on cultural sensitivity often the first question is 'what do you think if you see am 18yo black kid in a nice car?'. They'll virtually all say 'drug dealer'. And the white kid? They'll virtually all say 'rich daddy'. And they're brutally honest in this. That's literally racial discrimination, as a citizen is seen and treated differently SOLELY based on the color of their skin and such racial profiling it's pervasive in American (police) culture. It's a small example of how systemic the problem is.
But here I DON'T see that as of yet. It looks like a genuine incident that Uber couldn't have done much against. If they screened the driver, he probably wouldn't have been filtered out unless he was going around telling everyone of his rapist tendencies. There's no gender-violent culture or policies we can specifically identify at Uber that should be rooted out but isn't, contrary to howwe can EASILY identify race-biased culture and policies in the American police system that should be rooted out but isn't.
I'm all for extra screening of taxi drivers by the way and think Uber should be doing this and doing it better. No argument from me there. And while I've never used Uber, unlikely I ever will, didn't flag this story, don't like uber, I don't think it's fair to bring this story as if Uber took some huge missteps and caused this rape. It appears to me like an incident.
If this had happened in the USA (" a country of 300 million people") everybody would rightly be looking into how Uber operates and what to fix. But hey some third world country half a world away and it is just people being unreasonable.
And this "numbers" logic is fallacious. Why is the police shooting of an African American causing such ripples in a "country of 300 million people" with millions of police/citizen encounters. Surely the proportion ending in unarmed citizens being shot for no good reason are really really low? Then why all the hoopla? Why are people so outraged?
Yeesh. Some people.