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Re:Caste discrimination in some of Silicon Valley's richest ... by pkphilip on Saturday October 31, 2020 @04:05PM (#24954757)
The total population of brahmins is less than 6% in India. People from other castes - especially the tribals and the dalits (more than 40%), experience caste oppression regularly.
Re:Caste discrimination in some of Silicon Valley's richest ... by jelliclesfarm on Saturday October 31, 2020 @04:16PM (#24954850)
Are you saying 6% of the Brahmins are oppressing 40% of the remaining population?

Source?

[..] India is home to over 200 million Dalits. According to Paul Diwakar, a Dalit activist from the National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights, "India has 600,000 villages and almost every village a small pocket on the outskirts is meant for Dalits."[..]

Indian population is 1400 million

Re:Caste discrimination in some of Silicon Valley's richest ... by pkphilip on Sunday November 01, 2020 @10:14PM (#24964526)
You do realise that just a few thousand British controlled the entire nation of India for 100s of years, right?

Presenting you some data on how this works: https://paa2015.princeton.edu/papers/153481

Just consider the Indian judiciary. The vast majority of judges are brahmins when they constitute just 5% of the population of the country.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/ravikiranshinde/one-too-many-mishra...

As for the undertrials and those in prison, the vast majority are from lower castes. https://www.newsclick.in/how-caste-plays-out-criminal-justic...

Re:Caste discrimination in some of Silicon Valley's richest ... by jelliclesfarm on Monday November 02, 2020 @01:58PM (#24971678)
It is impossible to have a fact based discussion with you. Your arguments so riddled with logical fallacies that it would take me hours to tease everything out with definitions and explanations. I find myself facing a poverty of time currently and in the near future to be able to engage you further. Thanks for the discussion so far. Have a nice day.
Re:Caste discrimination in some of Silicon Valley's richest ... by newen on Saturday October 31, 2020 @05:43PM (#24955431)
Aristocracy is France was around 10%. There are plenty of upper caste Indians (around 18% to 30% total depending on how you count it) who benefit from this societal structure.
Re:Caste discrimination in some of Silicon Valley's richest ... by jelliclesfarm on Saturday October 31, 2020 @06:11PM (#24955615)
Ok. The original comment said Brahmins are oppressing the Dalits.

What has this got to do with the French? ‘Upper classes’ are not all aristocracy. I think you are confused.

Re:Caste discrimination in some of Silicon Valley's richest ... by newen on Saturday October 31, 2020 @06:27PM (#24955718)
I’m not confused, thanks. I’m saying a small population can easily oppress a larger population, especially with consent and cooperation from other populations.

Numbers from here or wikipedia https://www.statista.com/statistics/1001016/india-population...

Re:Caste discrimination in some of Silicon Valley's richest ... by jelliclesfarm on Saturday October 31, 2020 @06:49PM (#24955835)
Entirely irrelevant here.

Unless you are stating that Dalits are a larger number than a smaller population of Brahmins.

And that the latter is oppressing the former?

In which case: source?

Thanks.

Re:Caste discrimination in some of Silicon Valley's richest ... by newen on Sunday November 01, 2020 @08:21AM (#24959317)
You’re just saying random things in an aggressive manner without making any sense.
Re:Caste discrimination in some of Silicon Valley's richest ... by jelliclesfarm on Sunday November 01, 2020 @06:56PM (#24963639)
No. I am merely asking for the source of pretty specific numbers.

Once again: source?

Re:Caste discrimination in some of Silicon Valley's richest ... by pfiwxruxta on Saturday October 31, 2020 @06:05PM (#24955587)
So what is it - 6% or 30%? And where's the source?