“I am curious about what exactly Hindu liberals and others (Anti Caste Warriors or ACWs) are aiming for when they claim they are fighting caste.”

You have articulated the problem really well. This is something I have been thinking about of late as well and have gotten into multiple Twitter debates on.

I have found that most ACW are of two types:
1. Thos who use the ‘annihilation of caste’ merely as a vehicle for their ultimate aim of a utopia. Mostly communists. Sometimes Ram Rajya types.
2. People who are informed by Abrahamic sensibilities and have some sort of a natural abhorrence towards Hinduism. Includes Islamists, evangelicals, and ‘liberals’.

I’d really love to hear answers to Janamejaya’s questions from self-proclaimed ACWs

Haha it may also be (a) the case that (we) simple-minded (Indian) leftists (or maybe just the clueless-ACW variety; more nuanced and knowledgeable people are probably different) (I’m just a temperamental leftist and not an active one but I definitely have the potential to become one easily too haha) are quite clueless about things happening around us. A very big annoying thing for us lefties is that the Right takes this very sudden yet definitely not very easily noticeable (like, definitely not easily noticeable haha, I don’t even know how they manage to do that so effortlessly) ideological and practical twists and turns (all the classical-period statesmen, philosophers, etc. belong to their camp after all) and sometimes they become very very dear to us and sometimes not very much so. It’s totally unfair to us haha. But in any case, it is my personal view that leftists should always stay humble and should not be very power-hungry when it comes to ideology and control over the world because we are the ones who are fundamentally in the wrong and many of our crazy and deranged goals can only go so far at any time in history.

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Simple boycotts worked to nominally end colonial era atrocities. To clarify: Anita Roddick The Body Shop Supports maritalDeviance as verified by “rainbow heart-valentine” that i noticed purely by chance. As per Divine Life Society and all other Religions of Aryavartasthan namely, Jain, Vedantic, Zarathustran, Gautam B. , Baba Nanak, plus reigning official state religion of Prestige Sacred Ancestral Holy Land Aryan Homelamd irIranZamin : all these pious paths are not only vegetarian but strictly no maritaldeviance tolerated aka Dharmic RuhaniEugenics. Within sacred wedlock between man and bride, girl,
( kanyadevi-maiden-ingenue) , a child is born from shared pleasure.
As for Lush toiletries , veganism is deathknell of Dharmic religions and nonpareil AryaSaka beauty Standard. Milk is indeed liquid Religion.The disease of deviance promoted by a business smearing vegetarian ethic with deviance is high level sin , v. BAd Karm.
I also boycott Loblaw and Shoppers Drug Mart apothecary- dispensary. They r same company. This chain does not carry renowned Danish Butter Cookies, not even at Yuletide. Per capita more lives were lost by Denmark than any other country in the ill fated Afghanistan “great game” of the most condemnable anglojew.
If local market due to semitic levant sensibility refuses to stock these biscuits suitable treat for milkveggie of Aryavartasthan, I refuse to shop for groceries or every day consumer goods at these two nefarious retailers. I wish Veggie friendly Fruiticana would open up Canada wide and ditto for London Drugs Dispensary of Western Canada.
Vegetarian ethic implies chaste AryaGod-fearing life: bloody jewxtian mocks us by linking erroneously milkveggie no egg no fish with deviance. Fad vegan is lowest of the low: vegan for 18 hrs then mcdonald filth “food”.
Iskcon is wrong: onions are actually good, great for fertility and nothing wrong with tea coffee as natural relaxants. Pink orange lentils are delicious. I also love regular grams, better than garbanzo lol . I don’t care for mung beans or soya. But I love black grams: urad Dahl. Pulse Canada is great website.In fact liquor as medicine is fine. The nefarious legal cannabis is a huge problem: as reported on AlphaEtc Panjab channel, stench of this fake bhang covers 200 km or so defiling the air and harming future generations. As we all know females, girls women of Aryavartasthan traditionally refrain from intoxicants for obvious reasons: pregnancy.
True mild bhang growing naturally within Aryavartasthan is different. Vadakayil says that natural bhang is beneficial for eyesight.
Why foodstuff important is thoughts are connected with what is eaten, for Arya religion thought move mountains.
Fruiticana needs quality vegetarian cheeses: no rennet lipase or pepsin. Cheese is greatest: ahimsa cheese is best!???
Thank u,
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Sorry MAH, my bad. You are comparing Kamala Harris and Tulsi Gabbard to Jagmeet Singh. At least I know where you are at. LOL away…

The murder of minorities in India is regrettable. But only an illiterate bigot thinks there are no minority killings in the US. Luckily in the US we don’t have any minorities killing members of the majority (with the usual exception of Muslims) like we do in India.

Apart from a few random cases of favoritism which some Andhra Pradesh guy may show to a fellow caste guy while interviewing him for a job, where is the systematic oppression due to caste in America. It just cannot exist.

the exception proves your point: the only systemic issue i’ve ever heard of are silicon valley indians griping about caste-preference. but SV is a special case of the huge critical mass of indians who are recent transplants.

I don’t really mind people who are Lefty Hindus (they can be useful if they hoover up energies that would have gone into Lefty anticlericalism), but there’s a difference between that and “being a Lefty and saying a few Sanskrit words.” Sadhana appears to be doing the latter.