People in California need to keep pushing back against the casteist attacks on #SB403 by forwarding the text of #Article15 of the Indian constitution. And point out that the bill is just adding this to the California statutes.
Plain and simple.
Nothing to protest here.
Oh for sure, but then let's have them make it explicit, in the United States, especially California, that they are the side in this debate that pines for a theocratic state as an ideal.
Right now they pretend as if the bill is an attack on Hindus. #SB403
These HAF suhag Shukla types are just pouring a lot of heat into the discourse and very little light.
While it is important to combat their misinformation, we should also be putting them on the defensive by asking if they are also opposed to the Indian constitution. 🤷
Literally just adds 1 word, one more category, very properly defined, to 15 other protected categories.
Only someone dedicated to preserving and defending casteism would have any objection to this bill.
Do read the blue text for sure.
Also random Desi uncles who deal only in rhetorical questions asking "how do they even define caste", read a little.
It's great that they added endogamy as one of the identifying factors of the phenomenon. Caste endogamy is widely prevalent in the South Asian American popn.
- total lack of the words Hindu or Hinduism
- listing India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan, South America, Japan, and Africa, NOT singling out Indians
The debate from the sanghi & centrist side has been so dishonest!
Of course that's just the intro section with declarations.
The actual change to the law is literally just adding the word caste with 15 other protected categories. And the definition of caste.
In a way, I'm glad that sanghis are making such a big hue & cry every time a jurisdiction adds caste to its protected categories.
Cos they rehash the same old jaded arguments black folks, Jews, Muslims, Catholics, queer folks remember being at the receiving end of in the past.
And by repeating the same old Jim Crow era arguments against the civil rights act, but in the caste setting, they just end up convincing Americans, both liberals as well as pro civil rights conservatives, that yeah, caste definitely should be added to discrimination statutes!
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I know that's what they will come in wanting to do.
The nerdy historic govt wonk point I'm making is that Musk-Vivek will find even that privatization thing hard to pursue cos US govt has gotten that treatment for 40 years now!
At age 16, entering 10th standard, I was in fact extremely proficient at the English language. As well as all my friends who joined that coaching class with me.
Because scoring well in 10th Boards English had nothing to do with being good at English.
It was about exam hacking
I don't know how Maharashtra SSC English works now, but at least in my day, the state topper would get like 82 or something. They got 100 in math science but English, even crossing 70 was a big deal.
As as exam setter myself now, that makes no pedagogical sense. At all!
Doing lecture prep for Fall & adding this new story in the product development strategy session. Thought it would make a nice 🧵
Did you know that a lot of calculators & music equipment we have is the result of cigarettes not having filters during world war 2?
Fun story!
Cigarettes back then came like this. A fully white paper tube filled with tobacco that you lit at one end and smoked from the other.
This inevitably meant that you "wasted" some tobacco at the mouth end while throwing it away.
Tadao Kashiyo in WW2 Japan saw an opportunity!
During WW2, cigarettes that mostly came from Allied countries became very expensive in Japan. Especially American & British brands which were sold at a premium on the black market.
Tadao Kashiyo was an engineer who was into fabrication. He created a new product that sold itself.
There is NOTHING in US military remotely resembling Agnipath!
At the 18-22 age, the US military actually wants you to enlist for life if possible. And will happily keep you on for life if you serve honorably.
The short term stints are like Indian Short Service Commission.
So yeah, there exist options in the US military where you sign on for a short stint. And can be deployed. But they'll also send you to college for free.
My brother in law got an engineering degree from UC Riverside by enlisting in the Air Force for a few years. Then left.
Very interesting conversation with a gujarati bodega owner nearby.
"I support Modi but something is wrong in gujarat. There are more gujaratis taking the risky border routes in the last 2 years than the 20 years before, from my observation. And they all say, no jobs in gujarat"
"Until recent years, gujaratis wanting to move either came through family visa or arranged marriage or student visa or at the most, overstay tourist visa. But risking life and limb like this in such big numbers? Modi needs to pay attention to gujarat. It's in trouble."
"the family that froze to death on the Canadian border. They didn't have a bad life in gujarat by any means. So why risk your entire existence? Something is wrong, brother, something is very wrong."
"Wherever you go in this world, you will find a t̶e̶a̶ s̶t̶a̶l̶l̶ great school founded by a Malayalee."
K.T. Behanan was a brilliant Yale educated social scientist & Indian bureaucrat who landed in NYC with his doctor wife & 5 year old son.
Ran straight into systemic racism./1
The year was 1947 & Behanan, a Syrian Christian from Kerala's influential Kovoor clan was a 45 year old superstar in the Babu circles of the brand new India.
He accepted a position for India at the brand new UN, working on education policy with the Trustee Council.
Ironic.
He landed in a New York that was very different from now. "Separate but equal" was still the law.
Schools were openly & emphatically segregated. Brown v BoE was some years away.
By putting idealistic UN in Manhattan, America's mouth had written a check its ass couldn't cash.