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Re:How Big Tech Is Importing India’s Caste Legacy to Silicon... by iamshs on Friday March 12, 2021 @09:48AM (#26436350)
Racism and caste endogamy is very different... caste is violence given stamp of approval through religion, you cannot escape it. Dalits are beheaded for wearing turban, riding a horse, taking their marriage procession from upper caste street. Moreover, it has present day support of the system in India. Hindu saint who classified the castes through his treatise, Manu Smriti, finds his statue in front of Rajasthan High Court.

News from today: Woman married a lower-caste guy, eloped, families lodged missing person complaint in Police, Police found the married couple and handed them over to their families. Woman's brother beheads his brother-in-law, sister hangs herself.

https://twitter.com/ShoaibDaniyal/status/1370344548535177216

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Re:How Big Tech Is Importing India’s Caste Legacy to Silicon... by UncleMeat on Friday March 12, 2021 @09:59AM (#26436466)
> Dalits are beheaded for wearing turban, riding a horse, taking their marriage procession from upper caste street.

I mean, that sounds precisely analogous to lynching black people for holding certain kinds of jobs, having wealth, or smiling at a white woman.

I know extremely little about India so it is possible that I am entirely ignorant. But the situations you describe here sound like 1:1 matches to racist violence in the US.

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Re:How Big Tech Is Importing India’s Caste Legacy to Silicon... by ziftface on Friday March 12, 2021 @10:49AM (#26437025)
Also, the legal system in America is absolutely racist/classist as well. You could be optimistic and think of that as a holdover from more racist times, but either way it does kind of track with the story the op linked to.
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Re:How Big Tech Is Importing India’s Caste Legacy to Silicon... by dragonwriter on Friday March 12, 2021 @10:52AM (#26437053)
> You could be optimistic and think of that as a holdover from more racist times,

But you'd be wrong, since it involves active, current racism by legislators, police, prosecutors, judges, jurors, and witnesses, among others, not just “autopilot” racism in the way people in the a more racist past set up the system.

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