Thread by @seshanm

#SeattlePlaysCadteCard
Kshama Sawant, an upper-caste Hindu has got a resolution passed by the Seattle City Council outlawing caste discrimination.

"Seattle has taken a dangerous misstep here, institutionalising bias against all residents of Indian and South Asian origin, all in the name of preventing bias,” said HAF managing director Samir Kalra."

"“When Seattle should be protecting the civil rights of all its residents, it is actually violating them by running roughshod over the most basic and fundamental rights in US law, all people being treated equally,” Mr Kalra said."

""2022 report by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, John Hopkins & the Univ. of PA not only discredited the caste survey referred by Seattle City Council, but it had shown there are multiple reasons;'country of origin', gender &'skin colour'as cause for discrimination"

In India itself caste discrimination was banned in 1948 & that policy was enshrined in the Constitution in 1950.
Many Indian Americans fear that codifying caste in public policy will further fuel instances of Hinduphobia in the US.

Over the last three years, 10 Hindu temples and five statues, including those of Mahatma Gandhi and Maratha emperor Shivaji, have been vandalised across the US as an intimidation tactic against the Hindu community.

It appears that the Woke-Islamo-Left

combine is unable to stomach the success & influence of 4.2 million Indians. Using a mish-mash of the critical race theory to induce an "inherited guilt" first in whites and now among Hindus, is a sport in which discrination DOES NOT HAVE TO BE PROVED BUT SIMPLY INFERRED.

The infamous @PramilaJayapal seems to clambered aboard seeing which way the wind blew.

Madhu T from Ambedkar-Phule Network of American Dalits & Bahujans said this "ill-intended & rushed" ordinance by a "controversial council member" will only harm South Asians/Dalits Bahujans"

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