tbh I suspect it's either performative denial (to continue enforcing the caste system) or not noticing it in their workplace (which may have already managed to

tbh I suspect it's either performative denial (to continue enforcing the caste system) or not noticing it in their workplace (which may have already managed to exclude the lower castes). There's room for both on any given individual of course, but the constant brigading on every mention makes it pretty clearly an intentional attack as a whole.