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by rhuru 3y ago
Actually a pretty sane and reasonable comment. Why is this not upvoted enough ?
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by rhuru 3y ago
Correct. In fact a lot of castes got SC/ST status because these names had some spelling mistakes when the clerks wrote it down. For example when a clerk read out to another the list of STs, there was one name called "Bhil Meena&qu
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by rhuru 3y ago
Equality Labs was initially setup by a Bangladeshi Muslim to fight "Islamophobia" and to target Hindus in general. Thenmozi joined it much later and became "co-founder". They shared stage with known wanted Khalistani ter
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by rhuru 3y ago
Discriminating in private life and affairs is not just a basic human right but also necessary for the wellbeing of people. Imagine you are not allowed to pick gender on Tinder. Would that be a good example ? These are nor discriminations, t
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by rhuru 3y ago
Yes. They are fundamentally different because they are a super minority and hence any kind of discrimination is unlikely to have any measurable impact. For example imagine people who have tattoo on right hand discriminating against people w
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by rhuru 3y ago
--- So, to lay it out for you: 1) Hypothesis: There is discrimination against OBC in academia 2) Evidence: The near absence of OBC professors in IITs 3) Prediction: This probably affects OBCs outside India as well --- I hope the author is n
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by rhuru 3y ago
Since I worked at Google I can clarify. There are far too many caste grifters in USA pushing an "agenda". Equality Labs for example is an Islamic Organization with a Christian Thenmouzi as its face who talks about "caste&quot
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by rhuru 3y ago
Think of caste system as a set of prejudices about a certain group and it is easy to see how one gets treated. The answer is complex and simple at the same time. The question you need to ask yourself is "Does this person come from a ba
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by rhuru 3y ago
> to me that suggests that the discrimination already happened earlier Indian educational institutes both private and public have around 50% affirmative action to backward classes. Similarly all the educational levels below that can have
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by rhuru 3y ago
OBC is indeed a completely made up category and has no relation to any kind of historic "atrocities". OBCs are > 50% of India's population my some measure which tells you they are extremely powerful in an democracy. They e
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by rhuru 3y ago
This is a big achievement for India. Not just in space exploration point of view but the side effects of such projects are more interesting. Dozens of major private companies focused on making this success making various spare parts includi
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by rhuru 3y ago
Fantastic summary. 1. Immorality of Caste => This debate needs to happen as to why caste is immoral. It did not happen in British times nor it is happening now. I am talking about discussing the more fundamental first principles to be co
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by rhuru 3y ago
I do not disagree with you at all on most of your points except 1 that British are responsible for caste in any way. Even if they were if Indians weren't completely backward and uncivilized 70 years is a good enough time to get rid of
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by rhuru 3y ago
Anti-semitic is a very deliberate choice here. Anti-semitic implies a highly prejudiced hatred against jewish people. The hatred from Brahmins is exactly the same, to the extent that some of the caste grifters literally use Nazi era propaga
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by rhuru 3y ago
> Rebirth being untrue does not imply nothing comes after death. Yes, the best way Vedantists as well as Buddhists scholars explain this is that even if there is no rebirth, you need to understand that a lot of us agonize ourselves in th
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by rhuru 3y ago
$650K is like salary of a medium manager there. This should have beem $65M or so.
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by rhuru 3y ago
Yes. This happened to me as well. I once paid them for something and realized they have been charging the card monthly silently.
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by rhuru 3y ago
I find this sort of defense inadequate and it is often proposed by Hindu apologists who feel a bit guilty about existence of caste. Caste is not a British construct. They did not understand it properly but all evidence suggests that they in
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by rhuru 3y ago
> If it were really true that they revered Buddha, then his special teaching should still be present within the material studied by e.g. Krishna devotees This is not true about Hinduism. It isn't one of those "take all or none&
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by rhuru 3y ago
I learned about when I came across this art. https://www.artic.edu/artworks/142512/buddha-worshipped-by-t...
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by rhuru 3y ago
Note that the claim that Hindus "absorbed" Buddhism and also "put bounty on buddhist's head" is not consistent with each other, only one can be true.
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by rhuru 3y ago
Sadly most people might not even see Nepal as different from India.
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by rhuru 3y ago
Note that none of the key philosophers around that time bothered with the "identity", it is a modern concept primarily driven by politics and exposure to outside religions. So for none of them it was a fork. They all developed on
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by rhuru 3y ago
> To me it looks similar to how Islam included Jesus: making him one of the most prominent prophets, while at the same time denying the core tenet of Christian doctrine (that he'd be the son of god, unus et trinus) One has to look h
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by rhuru 3y ago
> is what was followed by Brahmins to decimate Buddhism. Looks like you deep rooted anti-semitic hatred for Brahmins more than anything else. > No present day Hindu remembers or honors Buddha or his teachings. Well I do ! In fact some
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by rhuru 3y ago
When Siddhartha becomes Buddha under the tree, he is in the state of bliss, nirvana and he has absolutely no need to go back, go back to the human world. But it was Brahma and Indra who request him to do so as per Buddha's own account.
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by rhuru 3y ago
> Previously, the existence of the gods or mythic figures was considered an absolute truth. This is not true in the context of Hinduism though but could be true outside of the Indian area.
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by rhuru 3y ago
The concept of caste has evolved in Hinduism over time. The roots of caste system are in teh concept of Varna and Varna system has its roots in Sankhya. In modern India, the secular law gives special status to castes that have violence pote
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by rhuru 3y ago
Let us see what Amebedkar says about anhilation of Buddhism from India. > Such was the slaughter of the Buddhist priesthood perpetrated by the Islamic invaders. The axe was struck at the very root. For by killing the Buddhist priesthood
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by rhuru 3y ago
Entire body of Upanishads are about questioning Vedas. The repudiation of Vedas isn't new thing that Buddha invented and pretty much part of usual Hindu philosophical traditions. The buddha himself says that very clearly that he is wal

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