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Caste matters : California Assembly passes anti-caste Bill, soon to make it official state law (www.thenewsminute.com)
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In another significant moment for the movement against caste discrimination in the United States, a Bill to make caste discrimination illegal was passed by the California State Assembly on Monday, August 28, with 50 votes in its favour and only three against it. It was earlier passed by the state's Senate in May this year. With its passage in the state Assembly, California will become the first US state to ban caste discrimination. The legislation will add caste as a protected category under 'ancestry' in California’s Unruh Civil Rights Act, Education, and Housing codes.

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[–] xuxebiko@kbin.social 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They want to keep harrassing, humilitating, and persecuting people because the alternative is to accept that all humans are indeed equal which means their claim to superiority and pure-veg purity is & has been just b.s . It also means they and their casteist friends and their casteist families and their casteist ancestors are sadistic bastards without a shred of humanity.

The Nazis implemented their Ubermensch-untermensch discrimination for only 12 years, India's oppresor uppercastes perfected it thousands of years back. Christianity & Islam fucked up their systemised sadistic game by introducing the idea of equality, educating the oppressed, and offering them a way out of the oppressive Hindu caste system.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Meh

Christen missionaries weren't saying everyone was equal, they were saying Christians were all equal, and they'd go after oppressed minorities because they were most likely to change religions.

Far right religious extremism is the issue, the flavour of religion doesn't really matter.

[–] xuxebiko@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hinduism doesn't say Hindus are all equal. Christianity and Islam do. There are no castes in Christianity or Islam, and that is the reason many from the oppressed castes renounced Hinduism and accepted those religions. It's also one of the many reasons why Hindu supremacists hate those religions.

[–] Jorgelino328@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Right. Christianity and Islam say we're all equal...

Unless of course, you're lgbtq, or a woman, or an atheist, or a member of another religion, or anyone they don't like really.

But other than that we're all equal.

[–] xuxebiko@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Unless of course, you're lgbtq, or a woman, or an atheist, or a member of another religion, or anyone they don't like really.

so does Hinduism. We're discussing caste here though, which does not exist in Christianity and Islam.