I think we need to be wary about caste based discrimination entering the U.S. However, I tried to dig into the actual sources in the article, and the only non-

I think we need to be wary about caste based discrimination entering the U.S. However, I tried to dig into the actual sources in the article, and the only non-anecdotal source in the article was a 2018 survey by a non neutral group. Which could be fine as a starting point, but literally the first substantive content in the report is the following quote: “If Hindus migrate to other regions on earth, Caste would become a world problem” Can you imagine any publication treating a report that begins with a quote like that about another group seriously? For example, basing an article on a report that starts with “If Muslims migrate to other parts of the world, sharia law would become a world problem”. Then I tried to look at the sources quoted in the interview. We start with the “Cisco situation”, where the linked Washington Post article is about the discrimination investigation being voluntarily dismissed by the Civil Rights department (after an apparent 3 year investigation). There are a couple of other “situations” mentioned, with no backing link. We then get a link to the “Google situation”, which involves Google canceling a Dalit speaker after complaints from employees. From just a cursory reading it seems like a bad decision by Google. But, we’re in the middle of a huge multi year argument about “cancel culture”. It would seem to me this has a lot more to do with that than casteism. Either way, 1 instance of a canceled speaker seems thin gruel to suggest that casteism is rife within CA, while we have hundreds of non Dalit speakers being “canceled” for years. I am of the opinion that adding caste as a protected category doesn’t seem like a bad idea at all. But this article, at least, provides little support to the idea that caste based exclusion is a problem beyond a couple of isolated incidents.