https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31749192 (June 2022)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31749182 (June 2022)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28409198 (Sept 2021)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24278328 (Aug 2020)
That's not cool. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
Edit: Also, please stop copy-pasting the same comments: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que.... This is particularly abusive when you're copying flamebait.
I don't apologize for the comment itself. It was intended as a provocative, but sincere, way to get people to seriously think about the topic of whether and how much native Indians are discriminating by caste in the US. I really don't know whether and how such discrimination is actually happening. I have read anecdotes that say that it is and is not happening, from both Indians and non-Indians. I guess the city of Seattle has seen enough to say that it is happening and that a legislative remedy is required. If that's the case, is it really worth gaining individual Indians' contributions to this country at the cost of adding yet another cause of ethnic intergroup strife that hadn't existed before? I don't know the answer to that question, but I don't think it's unreasonable to ask.
My comment did not cause a nationalistic or ethnic flamewar (in either place), but perhaps would have in another time or place. Maybe it's asking too much of The Internet(TM) to ever expect that it would not. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I thought the risk of causing such was worth balancing against the possibility of reasonable and useful discussion on a topic that I don't think should be immediately and blanket forbidden to bring up.
(Not 100% serious, but not 100% joking.)