Caste in California: Tech giants confront ancient Indian hierarchy

Re:Caste in California: Tech giants confront ancient Indian ... by tomohawk on Monday August 15, 2022 @07:35AM (#32468355)

Caste is discrimination based on religion. The discriminator views the victim as being less deserving based on religious ideology. The religious ideology insists that a person born to a certain caste deserves it based on something they supposedly did in a past lifetime. It thus excuses the prejudicial behavior as a form of cosmic justice.

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Re:Caste in California: Tech giants confront ancient Indian ... by margalabargala on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @12:43AM (#32479272)

I can understand that this is how those who participate in caste discrimination may justify it to themselves.

But, I do not see how in the US, that claim somehow makes its way around racial discrimination laws, where to someone not sharing that religious belief, it very much appears as though people are simply discriminating based on ancestry i.e. race.

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Re:Caste in California: Tech giants confront ancient Indian ... by tomohawk on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @06:50AM (#32481249)

I do not see why caste based discrimination should be legal given the current law, but high caste people have powerful positions in these important companies. They are politically connected. It may take a while for the case law and EEO machinery to put a stop to it.

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