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Re:How India’s caste system manifests in Seattle-area workpl... by TMWNN on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @05:53AM (#34879481)
As a non-Indian American, the caste problem seems so endemic that the only solution seems to be to not hire anyone born in India. Their American-born children will, presumably, have overcome the issue.

(Not 100% serious, but not 100% joking.)

Re:How India’s caste system manifests in Seattle-area workpl... by unmole on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @06:39AM (#34879869)
Do you want to keep posting the same comment each time?
Re:How India’s caste system manifests in Seattle-area workpl... by dang on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @02:34AM (#34892754)
Yes, that's egregious and I've added a request to stop to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34892729.
Re:How India’s caste system manifests in Seattle-area workpl... by MPlus88 on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @04:13PM (#34887436)
The majority of them are mediocre anyway so there is no reason to hire them in the first place.
Re:How India’s caste system manifests in Seattle-area workpl... by dang on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @02:35AM (#34892762)
You can't post slurs to HN like this. I've banned the account. Please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re:How India’s caste system manifests in Seattle-area workpl... by dang on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @02:31AM (#34892729)
Please don't take HN threads into nationalistic or ethnic flamewar. We ban accounts that do this. You unfortunately have a history of breaking the site guidelines and we've asked you to stop many times:

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.

Re:How India’s caste system manifests in Seattle-area workpl... by TMWNN on Friday February 24, 2023 @01:03AM (#34921397)
I apologize for reposting the comment. You have warned me about that before and I should have known better.

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.