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Caste matters : California Assembly passes anti-caste Bill, soon to make it official state law
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They want to keep harrassing, humilitating, and persecuting people because the alternative is to accept that all humans are indeed equal which means their claim to superiority and pure-veg purity is & has been just b.s . It also means they and their casteist friends and their casteist families and their casteist ancestors are sadistic bastards without a shred of humanity.
The Nazis implemented their Ubermensch-untermensch discrimination for only 12 years, India's oppresor uppercastes perfected it thousands of years back. Christianity & Islam fucked up their systemised sadistic game by introducing the idea of equality, educating the oppressed, and offering them a way out of the oppressive Hindu caste system.
Meh
Christen missionaries weren't saying everyone was equal, they were saying Christians were all equal, and they'd go after oppressed minorities because they were most likely to change religions.
Far right religious extremism is the issue, the flavour of religion doesn't really matter.
Hinduism doesn't say Hindus are all equal. Christianity and Islam do. There are no castes in Christianity or Islam, and that is the reason many from the oppressed castes renounced Hinduism and accepted those religions. It's also one of the many reasons why Hindu supremacists hate those religions.
Right. Christianity and Islam say we're all equal...
Unless of course, you're lgbtq, or a woman, or an atheist, or a member of another religion, or anyone they don't like really.
But other than that we're all equal.
so does Hinduism. We're discussing caste here though, which does not exist in Christianity and Islam.
Your argument was that Christianity and Islam preach that we're all equal. I am saying that is not true (Or actually, that it preaches that while simultaneously preaching the opposite). It simply lacks one layer of inequality.
Every layer of equality mattered and matters to those who face that inequality elsewhere.