Caste matters : In India Dalit Student Attacked for Studying Well, Anti-Caste Groups Ring Alarm (www.newsclick.in)

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A group of high school students broke into the Dalit student’s home and hacked him with a sickle.

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[-] xuxebiko@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In India, caste is a hereditary classification that every Indian is born into. Dalits are severely oppressed and treated as inhumanely as possible by the oppressor upper castes. They are subject to a lifetime of marginalisation, exclusion and human rights violations. To this day, they are subject to systematic and systemised discrimination, marginalisation, stigma and violence in all its forms.

Caste based crimes like this abound in India and caste-based discrimination is rife even among Indians outside India. A few weeks days back in another state Madhya Pradesh, an Adivasi man was urinated on by a Brahmin member of the ruling political party, the BJP.

https://kbin.social/m/worldnews/t/138318/Caste-Matters-a-Brahmin-member-from-the-ruling-party-BJP#comments

In the hierarchical caste system Brahmins are considered as the highest oppressor caste . Dalits are considered as belonging to the lowest oppressed caste.

Laws preventing caste discrimnation, like the one recently passed in Seattle, are essential to ensuing basic human dignity to all, Pro-Hindu groups oppose these anti-discrimination efforts.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/22/caste-discrimination-us-modi-visit-hindu?ref=upstract.com

https://time.com/6146141/caste-discrimination-us-opposition-grows/

https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/seattle-caste-discrimination-proposal-kshama-sawant-indians-in-us-hindus-in-america-2338186-2023-02-22

[-] ruford1976@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

bhakts (nationalists in English) will now try to use whataboutism to say how there is brahmin persecution because they are not treated highly.

[-] xuxebiko@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

They've been crying about Brahmin persecution since forever. Even when they're actively persecuting their victims, they cry about being persecuted, so you can imagine the racket when they have to face the slightest consequence.

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