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The hospitality industry has long been intertwined with a colonial structure of labor, one that draws heavily upon histories of servitude and racialized exploitation. Though hospitality markets itself as a sanctuary of rest and indulgence, the experience becomes a negotiation when your mere existence is viewed through suspicion. This selective hospitality strips away the promise of comfort, transforming it into a form of conditional privilege that could be revoked at any moment if gratitude for merely being allowed in falters.
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The hospitality industry has long been intertwined with a colonial structure of labor, one that draws heavily upon histories of servitude and racialized exploitation. Though hospitality markets itself as a sanctuary of rest and indulgence, the experience becomes a negotiation when your mere existence is viewed through suspicion. This selective hospitality strips away the promise of comfort, transforming it into a form of conditional privilege that could be revoked at any moment if gratitude for merely being allowed in falters.