Another day, another YouTuber was called out for their privilege. Twitter slammed Scottish YouTuber Dale Philip as he gloated about getting back at a poor horseman.
The travel vlogger was visiting Karachi’s Seaview beach when he was ‘cheated’ by horsemen there. Of course, he created an entire vlog regarding his experience. He talked about how the vendor charged him extra as a foreigner. As per Dale Philip, the horseman asked him to pay Rs 5,000 for a ride after agreeing to the ride for only Rs 200.
“It was very quiet, with it being a Friday. As soon as I entered the beach, two guys on horses sprinted towards me. I had planned on taking a horse or camel ride at some point so I negotiated a price of 200 rupees with one of them for a ride to the Chunky Monkey amusement park. He didn’t take me to Chunky Monkey, though. He took me down to the water and then handed me off to another guy on a horse. I felt like I was getting scammed in some way. Maybe they were going to ask for double the money because the second guy was taking me for a second ride or something. He was taking me towards Chunky Monkey, which is where I wanted to go though. As I rode with this guy, I tried to reconfirm the price with him, so there would be no disputes afterwards. He made it clear that 200 was for, what he called ‘one ride’, and that I’d have to pay for multiple rides. I immediately asked him to stop and said I’d walk the remaining distance but he refused to stop. Not only would he not let me get off the horse but did a u-turn and took me back to where I started the ride. I was screaming at him telling him that was not the way I wanted to go but he made the excuse that if he takes the horse back himself without a rider that the two horses would fight. After finally getting off the horse, the two scammers asked me for Rs5,000. As if I was just going to give them 25 times the price that we had agreed. How stupid did they think I was.”
Dale Philip’s vlog led to the horseman being detained by Darakhshan police.
#Arrest | Karachi Police has arrested three horsemen within 3 hour, after a video gone viral on social media. They misbehaved with a tourist Dale Philip at sea view. Arrested accused persons apologizes from the Tourist for his behaviour.@DMCSindhPolice @Daleroxxu pic.twitter.com/9BxJGvaT8n
— Karachi Police (@KarachiPolice_) March 19, 2022
Later the YouTuber gloated about getting back at the vendor with a picture of the horseman on his Twitter. He captioned the picture;
“He tried to earn a living by cheating people, but now he’s living behind metal bars thanks to Karachi Police. Hopefully, he learns there’s no need to cheat foreign tourists. Most will give extra payment if they were shown a good experience and treated in an honest way.”
He tried to earn a living by cheating people, but now he's living behind metal bars thanks to Karachi Police.
Hopefully he learns there's no need to cheat foreign tourists. Most will give extra payment if they were shown a good experience and treated in an honest way. pic.twitter.com/HwdHmGpWqD
— Dale Philip (@Daleroxxu) March 19, 2022
People on social media are not happy with Dale Philip’s tweet and video. Naturally, they called out his entitlement.
Punishing someone beyond the scope of law is in itself an offence. You should also be behind bars with him for violating his dignity guaranteed under Article 14 of the Constitution of Pakistan, 1973. And don’t get me started on history or cheating. Can be problematic. https://t.co/JFgUpXOAeJ
— Muhammad Ahmad Pansota (@Pansota1) March 21, 2022
Many Netizens didn’t mince words calling out his white privilege.
https://twitter.com/BakkarMaybe/status/1505848620670603265
https://twitter.com/AlSafwa__/status/1505814031453536256
Dale Philip has 858K YouTube subscribers. Here he is celebrating the misery of a poor brown person who tried to ‘scam’ a few hundred rupees off him. The video of the ‘scam’ on YouTube has 450K+ views. Mr. Philip is blind to his own privilege & gets a kick out of class warfare. https://t.co/lH1YndQpRj
— Ilhan Niaz (@IlhanNiaz) March 21, 2022
White ppl being white ppl. https://t.co/jMNf91nV9h
— Zebunnisa Burki (@zburki) March 20, 2022
Especially when this white privilege is taking jobs away from people barely scraping by.
Do you have any ounce of shame and humanity left? If tourism means white people treating locals living below poverty line like this, we are better off. https://t.co/Xz9sdIofeC
— Saadia Ahmed (@khwamkhwah) March 21, 2022
https://twitter.com/akkhan81/status/1505526433736794113
The police was able to catch this guy in 3 hours. A man who is already poor and trying hard to make ends meet is being punished for something that’s not even a big deal.
White folks didn’t really have a moral compass either when they were busy colonising & stealing from our land https://t.co/3LHqD2ZBUw— KD (@KhubanDurrani) March 21, 2022
This Twitter user even pointed out a pattern of ‘Karen-like’ behavior with Dale Philip.
https://twitter.com/_ansar_a/status/1505727333478674435
How do you think the other locals will treat foreign travelers, not just vloggers, after such damaging experiences due to social media influencers like Dale Philip? What do you think? Let us know in the comments below.
