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Comment by puranjay | Hacker News Reader

Interesting that you bring this up.

I'm Indian and a lot of Indian Hindus I know hold some messed up beliefs. Some of them work at top tech companies as well.

Yet, people don't seem to have a problem working with them. But they do with a guy who rails against diversity.

Why does a brown Hindu man who dislikes muslims, believes in matching horoscopes before getting married, and whose grandparents practiced and benefited from the caste system and who, if you get him drunk enough, might espouse for honor killings and homophobia get a pass?

Why are these "diverse opinions" valued and others are not?

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Because it's not politically correct to hate, denigrate, insult, or deride Non-white people.

Infanticide? Sure, cool. Homophobia because of religion (not Christianity)? We're fine with that. Honor killings? Its a pass. Killing goyim/kaffirs? We're down with that. Have a weird hangup or otherwise cultural thing that's completely disgusting, abhorrent, and/or unethical? It's obviously cultural, and it's OK!

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Wait, you want to talk about something white people do? We can't allow that! That's against our diversity training.

You're fired.

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It's because multiculturalism isn't about learning other cultures, their languages, their histories. Nope. It's about how evil Western culture is. I've sat in those classes, bemoaning how horrible and evil our ancestors were. And the only way to "win" the grade is to regurgitate what's said.

And in avenues like this, "Winning" is silence, and losing is saying anything against the current groupthink with your real name.

>>Why are these "diverse opinions" valued and others are not?

Social acceptance is largely a function of majority vote. Though some social values might be absurd, if the majority feels comfortable doing it, it does get a huge degree of acceptance.

Plus some absurd social values have acceptance for largely cultural reasons. Marriage among castes in India is one such thing. There are so many caste related things you do in everyday life, belonging to different castes can constantly lead to "My X values are better than your Y values" kind of friction. So people keep to their castes.

Horoscopes are one of those "Why take a risk?" kind of basic hygiene related rituals you do before Indian marriages.

None of this makes sense, but the majority of the people are perfectly happy doing it.

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