Re:Seattle could become the first city to ban caste discrimi...
by lolinder on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @12:20AM
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> Sure maybe saying casteism is the root cause is too much, but denying it is also wrong.
I agree with everything you said, but just a note that OP was talking about sex and caste discrimination as separate things, not conflating them as your parent implies.
From OP:
> The biggest one to me is the sex discrimination across dev and qa
Re:Seattle could become the first city to ban caste discrimi...
by irjustin on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @12:40AM
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This is fair and my response to that was:
> There should be equal ratios of women in Dev vs QA for all races
But it is flawed - it could be easily argued that this group of people are way more sexist than others which could account for that ratios being off vs inherently Caste.
Shouldn't we be talking about it then? Openly? Educating others.
> I hate the caste system
This is where being tight lipped doesn't make sense. It falls under the "it's our problem so you can't talk about it". If it's a bad system then let it be just that, why defend it by not talking about it?
A similar analogy would be police doing brutal/illegal things and defending each other. If you're a cop and you hate that, then being tight lipped about the "internal problems and complexities" only keeps the problems going.
> All women in QA. So what ?... Sure, some of it may be cultural but tieing to casteism is a stretch.
There should be equal ratios of women in Dev vs QA for all races. Sure maybe saying casteism is the root cause is too much, but denying it is also wrong. It's like saying racism is never a factor. It's not 100% the factor, but it's definitely a portion of a problem.
I guess... we should talk about it and learn - and not be afraid.