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You're saying the caste system was banned - it wasn't. The ancient concept of being untouchable was banned after the British left, not the much more recent caste system, which survives to this day.

What others have been trying to explain to you is that only caste-based discrimination was banned, not the caste system itself.

Because they go on to say that the ban hasn't been very effective, you seem to miss that first point and start arguing that you weren't saying discrimination doesn't exist, which isn't addressing the intention behind what they were saying.

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It was outlawed, and later written into the constitution.

I never said the caste system was abolished or doesn't exist. And I never mentioned 'untouchables'. It seems those replying and refuting anything I say are in favor of the caste system and want to keep it, which is utterly horrible.

If you cannot discriminate against caste, the caste serves no purpose, because you're effectively saying people are equal. But writing anti descrimination laws into the constitution obviously doesn't help society move away from it, especially when its so engrained into elders, or people who live outside the big cities.

> I never said the caste system was abolished

You literally said:

> The caste system was outlawed ages ago.

> It seems those replying and refuting anything I say are in favor of the caste system and want to keep it

This is one hell of a take. How the fuck do you fix something if you keep pretending it's already fixed.

> If you cannot discriminate against caste,

There is no law criminalizing discrimination. People discriminate and face discrimination every single day.

> people who live outside the big cities.

I've lived in the third and fourth largest cities in India and seen discrimination with my eyes.

> You literally said:

In my last comment I said exactly that. Being outlawed does not mean it’s abolished. Something can be illegal and people still do it. People still commit murder and that’s been outlawed for like ever. So it can’t have been abolished if it still exists.

> How the fuck do you fix something if you keep pretending it's already fixed.

At no point did I say it’s a solved problem. My very first comment I said it happens outside the big cities more than the big cities. I never said it doesn’t happen.

You know. I heard a saying once: “people outside America know more about America than Americans know about America” it seems like the same is true here.

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