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USNo, We Don’t Need to Ban Caste Discrimination - Adding “caste” to New York’s discrimination code will only fuel suspicion and social policing.
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New York State lawmakers recently rejected a bill that would have added “caste” to the state’s anti-discrimination code. Had it passed, it would have made New York the first state—following a failed attempt in California—to enshrine the Indian system of social hierarchy in its law, adding yet another category to the ever-growing list of DEI concerns.
The battle, however, is far from over. Thanks to activists pushing this latest identity category, Seattle has already added caste to its anti-discrimination law, and universities including Brandeis, UC Davis, Brown, Columbia, and the California State University system have added caste to their nondiscrimination policies. While state-level policies have yet to succeed, activists will undoubtedly keep trying.
Activists often kick off moral panics by asserting the existence of a pervasive but difficult-to-measure problem, then demanding a new institutional mechanism to detect and punish it. But just like prior moral panics, there’s little evidence that caste discrimination is widespread—and real evidence that adding it to our laws will make things worse.
Most New Yorkers have probably never heard of caste discrimination. But they are likely familiar with the worldview behind New York’s push to enshrine it—the institutional culture that has spent years teaching Americans to reinterpret ordinary interactions as evidence of hidden oppression. In New York, supporters pointed to alleged cases of workplace harassment, exclusion, and discrimination against Dalits and other caste groups. The claim is not merely that isolated incidents of discrimination are happening, but that an entire hidden, caste-based hierarchy is operating beneath ordinary American life that requires state-level anti-discrimination laws to address.
Before agreeing to a rewrite of anti-discrimination law around supposedly pervasive systems of hidden oppression, a reasonable person might ask a few basic questions. How many Hindu Americans in the United States even identify with caste? How common is caste prejudice in this country, exactly? And perhaps most awkwardly for those pushing these ideologies through universities, corporations, and government institutions: When Americans are taught to see oppression everywhere, does that framework actually reduce prejudice, or does it instead train people to join moral mobs and devour one another over imagined sins?
We wanted to contribute to the debate in a way that did not require pretending to possess mystical insight into invisible systems of oppression. Accordingly, through research at Rutgers University’s Social Perception Lab, conducted in partnership with the Network Contagion Research Institute, we gathered and examined the evidence.
We surveyed more than 1,000 Hindu Americans and found that fewer than one-third of U.S.-born Hindus identified with a particular caste. Social distance—that is, reluctance to interact across caste lines in ordinary social, professional, or personal relationships—between caste groups was generally low. Explicit hostility, as measured by direct questions about attitude toward other caste groups, was also low. The sweeping portrait of a rigid caste hierarchy silently governing American Hindu life, as described by activist groups such as Equality Labs, simply did not appear in the data.
When participants were exposed to anti-caste ideological narratives, their responses were revealing. They became substantially more likely to perceive discrimination in ambiguous situations where no evidence of discrimination had been presented. Compared with participants who read a neutral academic essay about caste, those exposed to caste-sensitivity materials became 33 percent more likely to say an applicant had experienced microaggressions, 16 percent more likely to say the applicant had been harmed in an interview, and 11 percent more likely to assume an admissions officer’s decision was biased. They were also 19 percent more willing to punish the fictional administrator. In general, the intervention appeared stronger than the underlying prejudice it purported to solve.
And caste was hardly unique in this regard. We observed similar patterns across racial and religious anti-oppression narratives as well. Consistently, participants trained to see hidden systems of oppression were more likely to infer hostility, bias, and victimization from ordinary ambiguous interactions.
In one experiment, participants exposed to anti-caste ideological narratives also became more willing to endorse demonizing statements about Brahmins adapted from Adolf Hitler’s rhetoric about Jews. Thirty-five percent agreed with the claim that Brahmins are “parasites,” 34 percent with the claim that they are “viruses,” and 27 with the claim that they are “the devil personified.” Who knew the language of collective guilt could make such strange ideological alliances?
Even more striking, the people most attracted to these anti-oppression frameworks tended to score the highest on measures of left-wing authoritarianism: they showed support for ideological policing, coercive punishment, censorship, and aggressive enforcement against perceived moral offenders.
The anti-discrimination laws to which New York wants to add caste were meant to reduce prejudice. Increasingly, theevidencesuggests that many of these systems are instead training citizens to monitor one another for invisible sins while empowering institutions to punish people for perceived transgressions.
New York, California, Seattle, and all other jurisdictions should protect residents from real discrimination. But if an ideology repeatedly produces paranoia, denunciations, censorship, coercive social policing, and mobs hunting for imagined offenses, it’s reasonable to question whether the problem is hidden oppression or the ideology itself.
Lee Jussim is a professor of psychology at Rutgers University and senior advisor to the Network Contagion Research Institute. Danit Finkelstein is a graduate researcher at Rutgers University’s Social Perception Lab and a researcher affiliated with the Network Contagion Research Institute. Colin Wright is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute.
To me, and the vast majority of Americans, caste is meaningless. I don't regard the highest Brahmin as being any better than a Dalit. They're all fuck-up street-shitters who don't belong here.
I remember before the Izzat nuke hit, my understanding of the pajeet mind came from an explanation about how they're super butthurt their caste system took a hit from colonial rule. They were perfectly happy but then the British came along and taught them about democracy and rights and now they're stuck with legal system where those silly dalits got a vote worth just as much as (may Vishnu, Brahma, and Shiva all forgive me for suggesting this) a brahmin.
Now why direct this animosity on the US if it's Britain that troubled them? Doesn't matter. American founded from the English so it like a matter of family and thus fair game, which I have come to understand more since learning of izzat. So what I've seen lurking around what indians say when they think no one is noticing, I have seen worst case intent, they're looking to make us pay for threatening the concept of caste, and best case intentions, is that they're just trying to run from india and secure finances and legacy before the untouchables make theirs way over here too.
In one experiment, participants exposed to anti-caste ideological narratives also became more willing to endorse demonizing statements about Brahmins adapted from Adolf Hitler’s rhetoric about Jews. Thirty-five percent agreed with the claim that Brahmins are “parasites,” 34 percent with the claim that they are “viruses,” and 27 with the claim that they are “the devil personified.” Who knew the language of collective guilt could make such strange ideological alliances?
Proof that this was paid for by the Hindu version of CAIR/AIPAC. The problem observed in the real world is Brahmins discriminating against Dalits, not the other way around, but the Hindutvas who actually wrote this article can't say that.
The Catholic Churches ban on cousin marriage can't stop winning. It forced Europeans to look outside their in group and make peace with their neighbors. Having a caste system is dividing and conquering your country for the invader.
The whole caste thing is a bit antiquated for the most part. There are sub-castes (which amounts to a family clan) benefiting from substantial nepotism, but discrimination is mostly on an arbitrary "are you rich or poor" or " not from my region of India" shudras "brahmins" and Untouchables aren't recognized regularly. The horror stories seem to be an exception.
Bigger issue are Indians hiring people they know from their personal little shithole without any skills, and also giving jobs to their wives who are equally unskilled, fake jobs as well. These jobs never really go public so there isn't much opportunity to discriminate.
all the jeets at my office kept fighting and i could never understand why until i started looking up their last names and figuring out which caste they were.
worst manager i ever worked for was a brahmin. fuck those douchebags.
I don't give a fuck if it's "DEI", there are people in my country making hiring decisions who practice this barbarism and I will happily take any means of impeding them. Astonishingly low effort concern trolling here
There are a whole lot of problems which nobody in the west would even know about if the problem wasn't imported. Someone in the 60s or 30s or 50s might have known of "caste discrimination" if he read a pulp novel set in India, right next to Thuggees sacrificing people to Kali Ma, elephants and all that. It was exotic fairytale stuff from a land that might as well have been fantasy.
The caste system is why the Pajeets are the preferred slave race.
For thousands of years they've been bred to obey those above them and accept that birth alone sets a person value. If your low born...well tough shit you can't change that better luck next reincarnation.
If you get born a high caste your just better then others. That's just how it is. And the Pajeets have come to accept this because anyone who spoke out the Rajah's just...killed.
So yah to the Western elites they are the perfect slave race, they will instinctive obey, they do no try to better themselves and they believe hardships inflicted upon them are karma from a previous life lived poorly. You can't ask for better slaves then that. Get back niggers your white betters have a new, better slave caste now.
Hindu Supremacists are actively invading the West. Have been since Modi, a Hindu Supremacists who has ordered Christians in India to be murdered, took power over a decade ago.
Everyone rolls their eyes when I bring up the dangers of Hindu Supremacy but its a legitimate threat. It needs to be pushed back against with violent resistance and we all need to do more to help raise awareness.
You are 100% correct. Canada is becoming the frontline of Hindu supremacist violence sanctioned by a Hindu Supremacist government, and exported abroad. They've actually puled of an assassination in Canada and attempted to do one in America. The Canadian government came out publicly and the jeets proceeded to chimp out. The Canadians tucked their balls in and bowed down.
The unprecendented immigration of Indians in Canada has led to the establishment of The Lawrence Bishnoi gang to setting up operations in Canada. Though they are a gang they are actually an arm of the government. Their crimes include: collusion with Indian government operatives, the 2023 killing of Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar in British Columbia, and even surveillance of federal NDP leader Jagmeet Singh, deemed a "credible risk" to his life, his wife had to give birth with armed police. Imagine threatening a women and her unborn child. These people have no souls. The gang also sent a letter to Abbotsford police bragging it had over 1,000 shooters ready to carry out extortion and shootings across Canada. From October 2025 to May 2026, Indian/Canadian businessmen were shot dead in Abbotsford, and a "main handler" was gunned down in broad daylight in Surrey. So, in Canada which has strong gun laws, these people have engaged in this type of brutality, putting Canadians at risk. That's just what we know of. I would not be surprised if they dabble in human trafficking; drugs; and scams.
For what it's worth the Canadian Security Intelligence Service has stated clearly that since Modi took power in 2014, India has been pursuing a Hindu nationalist policy agenda both domestically and abroad. The Indian government is accused of using diplomatic channels and proxies to gather intelligence and pass it to criminal networks like the Bishnoi gang. More chillingly, senior Canadian officials have confirmed that India's Home Minister Amit Shah personally ordered the campaign of violence and intelligence gathering against Sikh activists in Canada. Despite this weak white Canadians bow and kiss the brown ring.
They even have canadian influencers helping them run stories in favor of Hindutva.
I do think America is resistive to this shit. Their better, stronger, but it is still a risk and America has far more to lose than Rinky Dink Canada. If you look at India's business history they have no problem forcing their way into a multi nationals business process (In India). This includes the big 4 tech companies. I would not be surprised if they propped up their agents to infiltrate tech in America. They already have Indians in high position in tech, and if they have connections to India, I wouldn't put it beyond me that they threaten and coerce these people to install their agents. They've also already started setting up their own version of AIPAC. At what point do they start linking up with Cartels, and also increasing violence, drugs, and human trafficking.
Proof that this was paid for by the Hindu version of CAIR/AIPAC. The problem observed in the real world is Brahmins discriminating against Dalits, not the other way around, but the Hindutvas who actually wrote this article can't say that.
this actually makes sense, apparently the jeets have been actively working an angle trying to get their people in positions of institutional power and push their ethnic supremacy (interestingly enough modeling their american lobby USINPAC after the AIPAC right down to aping the name). Shapiro style conservatives like this I imagine would whore themselves out for the price of a big mac and with a topic so specific I cant imagine anyone who isnt one of these creatures wouldnt defend the caste system of their own volition.
The reason I refer to them as the flood is because theres no other way to describe them. An unrelenting torrent of biomass that tries to infest anywhere they are able to access, their appearance and habits being repugnant help solidify the image of the flood from halo, which is always more effective when paired with a few rounds of PINDIA on streetview.
Whats special is from all social strata (atleast with white people) which I have interaction with (not richers who profit off of the flood) there is an open animosity expressed, it seems that is borderline socially acceptable to be racist against those creatures (where an HR commissar cant hear)
