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The Casteism I See in America and American Tech Companies

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This articles picks anecdotal experiences and brushes to whole of Hindu diaspora, ignoring data and data. Never against any other micro minority, I have seen smearing campaign like these articles. Hindu American foundation’s Suhag Shukla has a very good response to it.

https://mobile.twitter.com/SuhagAShukla/status/1457015150494...

Threaded response : https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1457015150494498816.html

Pew research center poll on caste discrimination among Indians “ However, our survey finds that most Indians don’t perceive widespread caste-based discrimination”

https://mobile.twitter.com/pewresearch/status/14113545586731...

I am not denying of caste based discrimination of past and present but like racial discrimination in USA, minority discrimination and anti semitism in Islamic nations, tribal discrimination in African countries, it is a social problem which is getting solved slowly over a generation and will take one more to full go away. But unlike other micro communities (micro in USA where this publication is from), you never see articles on them. You don’t even see articles on anti semitism by Muslim community. Exaggerating and misleading articles about a micro minority opens then up for hate crimes in USA. The haters feel justified in carrying out their acts. That applies to Muslim community but also applies to Hindu community which is 1/10th of the size of the other one.

> argued that he had gained entry to the Indian Institute of Technology, one of India’s most prestigious universities, only as a result of affirmative action. (India has banned caste discrimination but does hold a certain number of places at public universities for Dalit and other lower-caste applicants.)

How is that not discrimination?

Compensation and/or affirmative action is not discrimination. If someone is actively denied access to resources and opportunities at all levels in the society, then ensuring that systems and process exist to process such access is not a discrimination against oppressors. It's like saying that it's discriminatory to have oppressors stop oppressing people or to ask racists to not be racists.

I think you need to define discrimination before can argue convincingly either way. The broad definition of the word discriminate is just treating different people or things differently, the antonym being indiscriminate (making no difference between people or things). But you seem to be using some other definition.

A technical definition of discrimination such as "never consider X" is deceptively simple. In practice humans are tribal and the biggest tribes have sometimes subtle advantages. Attempts to balance the scales may themselves fit a technical definition of discrimination, but without them human nature tends to grind down members of smaller tribes.

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