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Should have asked undergrads on restricting music concerts as they are big water wasters and polluters. The results would have been interesting


There is nothing uniquely different about caste discrimination than Shia/Sunni divide among Muslims or Han Chinese/non. If you goto Africa, similar fault lines are there. It is social evil which is at verge of extinction in a generation or two, unless provided oxygen by these laws. There isn't a widespread precedence for a law which uniquely targets Indians and them asked to prove their non-caste behaviour. Current anti discrimination laws are good. Still these laws keep getting passed. This is witch hunting.

https://www.hinduamerican.org/all-about-caste


>There is nothing uniquely different about caste discrimination than Shia/Sunni divide among Muslims or Han Chinese/non

Shia/Sunni discriminating against each other is religious discrimination, which is banned in the US. Han Chinese discriminating against non-Han is racial discrimination, which is banned in the US. Indians discriminating against other Indians based on cast is not banned, if they share the same race and religion. The new law aims to remedy this gap.


> It is social evil which is at verge of extinction in a generation or two

Historically this sort of discrimination is incredibly sticky whenever it appears. People teach their kids and their kids teach their kids and so on. Then their neighbors, media, etc... reinforce the stereotypes with stories about said groups. It's incredibly difficult to stamp out because it is so self-reinforcing.


It is social evil which is at verge of extinction in a generation or two, unless provided oxygen by these laws.

I see no reasonable way that a law saying caste-discrimination isn't ok will cause people to start discriminating by caste. I think that's utter nonsense and you're going to have to provide some kind of evidence for such an outlandish assertion.


Copilot should be called The weapon to be consistent with Halo lore


Typing !g is added inconvenience on mobile


Caste is new term to attack and bring down indian community in US. They rely on lack of knowledge about India and Hinduism to peddle such narratives that even thsir Indian reporting community has started distance themselves from these nyt, wapo kind


I am guessing the user is referring to compute heavy nature of these demos to save on disk spwce


The blogpost was delicious. The lekktor was a madcoder technique


I like these kind of old school websites with quirky information


More questions: Will phone manufacturers will be able to sell Android phones in non US supported countries?


Wish these articles would start facing heat for only covering history of certain countries and culture.


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