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This article didn’t speak about why people are opposed to it. I’m still clueless on that point.
by recroad 3y ago
This article didn’t speak about why people are opposed to it. I’m still clueless on that point.
- callalex 3y agoIt’s because many Indians still support caste discrimination, which is why this is a problem in the first place.
- catlover76 3y agoThe article does try to allude to the reason, it's just poorly written. Basically, many Hindus feel this is a tort only Hindus can be liable for. For example, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam do not have caste systems--thus, the logic goes, you could never sue a Jew, Christian, or Muslim for this, yet you could sue a Hindu for it. Moreover, many Hindus view it as simply carrying the strong connotation that there is something uniquely wrong with Hinduism that must be legally "fixed" this way. To use an argument nobody in the article or this thread has raised, but which seems to me like one of the strongest ones someone who opposes the law could actually muster, remember those laws in the South banning "Shari'a Law"? Those were clearly anti-Muslim publicity stunts; any practical danger posed by Shari'a Law is already handled by the American legal system. One could see a Hindu feeling that this is an analogous thing that is mainly about singling out Hindus because existing anti-discrimination law should be sufficient.