Proglodytes embrace racism, cultural supremacy and ethnic cleansing

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

At least, that's what they would call it if conservatives were making similar statements:

oberliner (31,101 posts)

India’s Caste Culture is a Rape Culture
This past week, the world mourned with a town called Baduan in Uttar Pradesh, India. There the raped bodies of two young girls were found hanging in a mango tree while behind them their grim families refused to leave until justice was done. And as the news cycle ran statements from International NGOs, UN Officials, and pundits, there was no denying that the rotting smell of India’s strange fruit had come front and center to the world stage.

I am a Dalit woman, I’m here to tell you that this Strange Fruit has a name and its name is caste. Just as there is no way to understand sexual violence in the history of the United States without understanding racism, there is no way to understand the frequency and lack of punishment of violence against women in India right now without understanding caste.

This system ranks human beings at birth, with your family’s caste determining the whole of your life—your job, your level of spiritual purity, and your social standing. Those at the bottom are branded “Untouchables”, untouchable because we are spiritually defiling to others and thus condemned to a life of exploitation.

We are 200 million people struggling against this unjust system. We are not a small fringe group, we are a critical mass. We reject this heinous system and call ourselves “Dalits.” Dalit meaning broken by oppression, but defined by struggle.

Since independence there has been an affirmative action policy in India that has led to a first generation of Dalit doctors, scientists, lawyers, and public officials. Yet the great majority of Dalits are still condemned to the margins of life. We live in a caste apartheid with separate villages, places of worship, and even schools. It is a lethal system where, according to India’s National Crime Records Bureau, four Dalit women are raped, two Dalits are murdered, and two Dalit homes are torched every day.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/witw/articles/2014/06/09/india-s-caste-culture-is-a-rape-culture.html

An important story in light of current events in India.

Hydra (12,202 posts)

1. Caste system needed to go a LONG time ago

I don't know what it is about humans, but we seem to LOVE to mark a groups of people as expendable, exploitable, and guilty of unspecified sin so all that is done to them is acceptable.

Why can't we do better?

^ Winner of today's "Total Lack of Self-Awareness" Award

LuvNewcastle (8,127 posts)

6. Humans have a lot of insecurities about their

places in society much of the time, and they search for scapegoats to punish for their own shortcomings. I don't know how the Dalits came to be the scapegoats of Indian culture for so long, but in any system that has a specific race or class that is deemed inferior, it's really all about securing a more comfortable spot for those in the higher classes. And the higher classes come to believe that they deserve their higher status.

Well, the Brits tried to move them to a more Western-ized value system but you assholes felt it was more important Ben Kingsley get an Academy Award.

Gothmog (20,466 posts)

2. The Indian caste system is really really bad

1. Is this idiot really an attorney? Aren't attornies supposed to be good at expressing themselves?

2. If the post had been made about Islam would it have survived an alert?

Rex (55,297 posts)

3. A horrible one at that. I really don't understand the evils of flirtations of youth.

That in itself is sinister shit. Kids have to grow up and learn social interactions with the other gender. Rape culture comes from insecure men with mental issues toward women and children. You can't leave children out since most of these women are children.

Caste systems are feudal and no better than the monarchies of the ME imo. Or wherever, since there are still many places ruled by aristocrats and plutocrats.

But it's okay to shoot cops.

bemildred (83,422 posts)

5. All class systems foster sexual exploitation of the underclasses. nt

Which is why Proglodytes have such contempt for attractive conservative women such as those on FOX News.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027124595

[USA4ME]

Is this idiot really an attorney? Aren't attornies supposed to be good at expressing themselves?

Kyle's on his fourth box of Shipley Do-Nuts and isn't done licking his fingers. Once he's done, the breadth and depth of his vocabulary can increase up to 9 words, two of which could be as many as three syllables.

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[SVPete]

Muslim jihadis abduct, rape, sell into sex slavery, torture, and kill Christian and Yazidi women and girls, and DU-members barely peep.

Hindu radicals abduct, rape, sell into sex slavery, torture, and kill Christian (and Muslim?) women and girls, and DU-members barely peep.

Child sex slavery has made "sex tourism" a major part of Thailand's economy, and probably more DU-members have been sex-tourists than have condemned it.

The government of Burma has, for years if not for over a decade, been carrying out an ethnic and religious cleansing. They have been trying to make Burma all ethnic Burmese, all Buddhist. One people group they have been driving out (or worse) is the Karens, who are mostly Christians. Do DU-folk even know about this, let alone "care"?

India's caste system - supposedly outlawed around the time India became independent - has done much evil, and is evil. It's nice that some DU-folk are condemning it (I wonder, though, what kinds of noises some DU-folk made several years ago when many Dalits became Christians!). But DU-folks' near silence (except for Thai sex-tourism, there's a pattern in what DU-folk ignore, not that they'd recognize, let alone admit, it) about far greater atrocities has been deafening.

[thundley4]

Just as there is no way to understand sexual violence in the history of the United States without understanding racism,

Is that justifying black men raping white women in revenge for slavery?

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Muslim jihadis abduct, rape, sell into sex slavery, torture, and kill Christian and Yazidi women and girls, and DU-members barely peep.

Hindu radicals abduct, rape, sell into sex slavery, torture, and kill Christian (and Muslim?) women and girls, and DU-members barely peep.

Child sex slavery has made "sex tourism" a major part of Thailand's economy, and probably more DU-members have been sex-tourists than have condemned it.

The government of Burma has, for years if not for over a decade, been carrying out an ethnic and religious cleansing. They have been trying to make Burma all ethnic Burmese, all Buddhist. One people group they have been driving out (or worse) is the Karens, who are mostly Christians. Do DU-folk even know about this, let alone "care"?

India's caste system - supposedly outlawed around the time India became independent - has done much evil, and is evil. It's nice that some DU-folk are condemning it (I wonder, though, what kinds of noises some DU-folk made several years ago when many Dalits became Christians!). But DU-folks' near silence (except for Thai sex-tourism, there's a pattern in what DU-folk ignore, not that they'd recognize, let alone admit, it) about far greater atrocities has been deafening.

I'll guaran-goddam-tee you their sudden binge of anti-Indian-ism is no deeper than:

1) Visas legally allowing the wrong kind of immigrants for their, the kind that displace doughy IT/tech workers of the sort that populate Seattle and San Francisco rather than the illegal kind that go on welfare and vote Democrat

2) Bobby Jindal and Nikki Haley

[txradioguy]

So let me get this straight...DUmmies decry the Caste system in India...but have no problem with the U.S. government separating everyone off into groups based on money...sex...skin color etc?

 

[FlaGator]

The caste system in India is entwined with the Hindu religion so closely that much of the lower caste will not accept help due to their believe that the help may cause them remain in the lower caste or something worse in their next life.