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Comment by lannisterstark | Hacker News Reader

> just staying in unoccupied summer homes of rich white friends.

Class divide is not caste divide.

Imagine if you went to the market, and you touched someone, and immediately, their parents/people around them flicked drops of water at them to purify them because they got touched by an untouchable. Do you experience THAT in the US? Do you know how humiliating that is?

You're being absurd at equating the two.

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It’s actually worse. Why are we focusing on caste, which is very isolated, when class divide and class discrimination is a much worse problem. Probably because the upper class who would be adversely affected by any efforts to fix it are the ones in control of driving the agenda. We’re too focused on idealistic feel good politics and not focused enough issues that are affecting most of the nation

Are you seriously alleging that class discrimination is a problem that society is ignoring? Did the 20th century simply not happen?

Basically. Even if they aren’t ignoring it, they aren’t addressing it effectively. Look at rich men north of Richmond. Hard to afford much of anything these days. But oh wait, that’s not the problem, the real problem is some obscure ancient practice from india coming to USA affecting highly privileged and overpaid tech workers.

So are you advocating banning people from having too many friends? Owning summer houses?

I'm just trying to understood how do you think that could work (besides from abolishing capitalism).

This is only partially sarcasm, I do certainly thing that growing inequality is one of the biggest issues today.

And yet, that practice won’t be prevented by this law.

Your “flicking of water” happens to many middle class who go to high end boutique stores. Classism is just an evolved form casteism that has embedded itself into the subconscious so we don’t recognize it as such.

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