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Comment by adamsmith143 | Hacker News Reader

This just isn't correct. Not only is it still pervasive in India it actively impacts US Indian immigrants as well.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/big-techs-big-pro...

Untrue. You can get people to complain about anything, that doesn't make it true.

Just want to point out that the unnatural vigor with which HN and other forums reject the idea of Caste Discrimination is telling. If this were White on Minority racism for instance people defending it in this way would be ostracized and most would say that it this type of discrimination is beyond the pale and call for vigorous investigation into the claims.

Instead all we see about Caste discrimination is "it doesn't exist", "it's manufactured", "it's not a problem". It's frankly glaring.

Your intuition is on point. It is very much alive in India.

That is exactly the point I was going to make. Thank you.

That's because people on HN are vastly more familiar with things in their own country, and see and hear abject racism among their own folks. For example, the classic uncle at the Thanksgiving table, or a grandparent.

They have no context of Indian caste system, and only go by some online articles that have their own agenda to make a bigger deal of the caste system in modern day, than it is.

Thank you for reinforcing my point like nothing I say could.

It's funny how folks like you have zero clue or context about the caste system in India yet read a couple of agenda based biased articles and come to nonsense conclusions.

Instead of standing up and saying "I believe all caste discrimination is wrong and any alleged instance of it should be quickly investigated," you instead decided to go into multiple comment chains and simply deny it's existence int he face of numerous firsthand experiences from posters. Good job.

>int he face of numerous firsthand experiences from posters

Like which ones?

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