> HR departments say they can't do anything because caste is not a protected category The whole idea of "protected categories" just sounds wrong to me. The cu

> HR departments say they can't do anything because caste is not a protected category The whole idea of "protected categories" just sounds wrong to me. The current system makes it seem like it's always OK to discriminate, but only these reasons are not OK. It sets the default to "we're all considered unequal before the law except under these circumstances where we are considered to be equal". That's working with a blacklist in world where the number of reasons for discrimination is infinite. It would make much more sense IMO to use a whitelist instead: you may only legally discriminate in these cases otherwise it's illegal = "we're all considered equal except in these cases where we have to be allowed to differentiate". Issues like the current one would be prosecutable without adding another protected category.