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This Soundarajan is a known anti-India baiter. She also trolled Twitter and its CEO for his caste [1]. Google did the right thing by keeping her out. [1] http
by throwaway_1928 4y ago
This Soundarajan is a known anti-India baiter. She also trolled Twitter and its CEO for his caste [1].
Google did the right thing by keeping her out.
[1] https://twitter.com/dalitdiva/status/1465358123640655875 https://twitter.com/dalitdiva/status/1465358123640655875
- DigiDigiorno 4y agoanti-India? Do you mean anti-highest-Indian-caste or something? both the OP and your citation are her complaining about a tech CEO being Brahmin and avoiding the caste conversation...
- throwaway_1928 4y agoWhy is the Indian American CEO obligated to discuss caste? Must the Jewish founders of the FAANG companies share their views on the Israel-Palestine conflict?
- healsdata 4y ago> "If he can make passionate statements about Google’s (diversity equity and inclusion) commitments in the wake of George Floyd, he absolutely should be making those same commitments to the context he comes from where he is someone of privilege," she added.
- civilized 4y agoAny corporate leader of any identity should be able to condemn any kind of bigotry that may be occurring at their company. The targets of bigotry have a right to know the leader has their back. It doesn't depend on the identity of the leader, the perpetrator of the bigotry, or the target of the bigotry. And this is not a request to comment on events in distant lands.
- DigiDigiorno 4y agoYou are changing the topic of your own conversation... reread our messages and try again.
- the_only_law 4y agoIs the Israeli-Palestine conflict happening in their office? I’d certainly hope the CEO would say something if their Israeli employees and Palestinian employees started firing rockets at each other on work time.
- ummonk 4y agoIt's not even certain that he's Brahmin. The Saiva Vellalars (a lower caste group) seem to believe he's one of them.
- DigiDigiorno 4y agoI don't think anything exists on the English language internet about that. (I doubt Saiva Vellalars hangout there, but I also have no idea who they are.) Wheras so many people insist he is Brahmin that if you enter "google CEO caste" into Google search, the algorithm spits out "Brahmin" (this is more of an amusing detail)
- civilized 4y agoAdvocating for the condemnation of casteism is only anti-India if you think casteism is an essential property of India that cannot and should not be changed. Do you think casteism is an essential property of India that should not be changed, throwaway_1928?
- throwaway_1928 4y agoIndia itself condemns casteism by, among other things, granting 60% job reservations ("affirmative action") to its 'lower' castes. Does the US condemn the mass murder of and continent-sized land theft from Native Americans and the mass kidnapping and centuries-long enslavement of Africans by granting them 60% of all jobs at every level of government?
- civilized 4y agoThis has nothing to do with the original topic. Why can't a Brahmin in the US condemn casteism? Why did you say it's anti-India to ask for that? And why do you pivot away to a different topic when asked these questions? As you say, India has acted more resolutely against casteism than the US has against racism in some ways. So it should be incredibly easy for someone coming from that background to condemn casteism. If they didn't, it would be anti-India. Americans do not fight racism as hard as they should, but almost all of them find it extremely easy to condemn racism. Not sure why it should be different for a US Brahmin and casteism.
- colinmhayes 4y agoI certainly don't think people calling for that are anti-American,