California moved closer to becoming the first U.S. state to ban caste discrimination after a bill to outlaw the practise passed the California Assembly late on Monday.
U.S. discrimination laws ban ancestry discrimination but do not explicitly ban casteism. California’s legislation targets the caste system in South Asian immigrant communities by adding caste to the list of categories protected under the state’s anti-discrimination laws.
The bill was introduced and authored by state Senator Aisha Wahab, an Afghan American Democrat, in March. An earlier version of it passed the state Senate before undergoing revisions.
Good. It’s ridiculous that particular horrible cultural practice in India gets carried over to the so-called “land of the free.” Hopefully this will make things more free for Indian-Americans who would be considered of lower castes in India.
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TIL this has been legal the whole time
You are pretty much allowed to discriminate for any reason UNLESS it is explicitly forbidden.
More generally anything not explicitly prohibited by law is allowed in the US legal system.
Apply this to police and their families. They treat everyone else like they are trash.
They gonna do anything about the culture of indians only hiring other Indians?
