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India itself condemns casteism by, among other things, granting 60% job reservations ("affirmative action") to its 'lower' castes.

Does the US condemn the mass murder of and continent-sized land theft from Native Americans and the mass kidnapping and centuries-long enslavement of Africans by granting them 60% of all jobs at every level of government?

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This has nothing to do with the original topic. Why can't a Brahmin in the US condemn casteism? Why did you say it's anti-India to ask for that? And why do you pivot away to a different topic when asked these questions?

As you say, India has acted more resolutely against casteism than the US has against racism in some ways. So it should be incredibly easy for someone coming from that background to condemn casteism. If they didn't, it would be anti-India.

Americans do not fight racism as hard as they should, but almost all of them find it extremely easy to condemn racism. Not sure why it should be different for a US Brahmin and casteism.

I certainly don't think people calling for that are anti-American,

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