Sr Manager at Google Resigns After Dalit Activist Disallowed from Giving Lecture

Re:Sr Manager at Google Resigns After Dalit Activist Disallo... by thghtihadanacct on Friday June 03, 2022 @07:25PM (#31615058)

I hear ya ... and I am not excusing it since im blinded and immune to it. I am saying tho, that it also isnt enforced here anymore than sharia law or the jewish or other hindu/religious law. It will never hold up in court. I feel strongly (im always open to being wrong) that part of coming here (USoA) is freeing yourself of those burdens (we got our own problems that you gotta deal with now). I dont burden myself with that knowledge as I find it useless. If someone drags it here with them they need to understand its their baggage.

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Re:Sr Manager at Google Resigns After Dalit Activist Disallo... by kelnos on Friday June 03, 2022 @08:03PM (#31615379)

I feel like you're making comparisons that aren't really apt. Attempting to enforce sharia law in the US in some communities is quite a bit different (and more difficult) than quiet, difficult-to-prove workplace discrimination.

> If someone drags it here with them they need to understand its their baggage.

If you're a low-caste Indian working in the US, and your high-caste boss discriminates against you, I think you'd feel pretty pissed at someone trying to claim that you're dragging your baggage with you. It's the high-caste boss that's doing the dragging.

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Re:Sr Manager at Google Resigns After Dalit Activist Disallo... by baruch on Friday June 03, 2022 @07:39PM (#31615191)

I have no beef in this, I'm not living in the US and not Indian or south Asian.

The thing that is the issue, again from the little I read, is that such discrimination is brought by other Indians on the Dalit and it's most defyingly bit something they want imported. I didn't figure or yet what is wanted and how but it's not like this is sintering you can blame them for.

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Re:Sr Manager at Google Resigns After Dalit Activist Disallo... by orwin on Friday June 03, 2022 @09:14PM (#31615827)

I've heard of caste discrimination during my second internship (in Europe, not in the US), so quite early in my career, from a "Yada"(??? Correction would be welcome here), concerning another collegue who came from a lower caste and how he was "lucky" not to be in the US or working with a "Bramin" or another elitist caste.

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Re:Sr Manager at Google Resigns After Dalit Activist Disallo... by belltaco on Friday June 03, 2022 @09:22PM (#31615868)

Probably this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yadav

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Re:Sr Manager at Google Resigns After Dalit Activist Disallo... by quantified on Friday June 03, 2022 @08:06PM (#31615405)

Well, that is the point of the talk and the resignation, it is their baggage.

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