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		By: Plus ça change, plus c&#8217;est la même chose &#8211; Brown Pundits		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Plus ça change, plus c&#8217;est la même chose &#8211; Brown Pundits]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[[&#8230;] have been reading the Brown Pundits open thread of 31 October 2020 against the open thread of 7 May [&#8230;]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[&#8230;] have been reading the Brown Pundits open thread of 31 October 2020 against the open thread of 7 May [&#8230;]</p>
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		By: Sumit		</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2020 23:54:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Greek Traveller Megasthenes on India in the earliest account of the caste system in (Mayuran India) talks about 7 castes:


https://archive.org/stream/AncientIndiaAsDescribedByMegasthenesAndArrianByMccrindleJ.W#page/n51/mode/1up]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Greek Traveller Megasthenes on India in the earliest account of the caste system in (Mayuran India) talks about 7 castes:</p>
<p><a href="https://archive.org/stream/AncientIndiaAsDescribedByMegasthenesAndArrianByMccrindleJ.W#page/n51/mode/1up" rel="nofollow ugc">https://archive.org/stream/AncientIndiaAsDescribedByMegasthenesAndArrianByMccrindleJ.W#page/n51/mode/1up</a></p>
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		By: bharotshontan		</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2020 16:23:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.brownpundits.com/2020/10/31/open-thread-10-31-2020-brown-pundits/#comment-77353&quot;&gt;Aditya&lt;/a&gt;.

That&#039;s how the leftist always portray the majority group both in India and in the US. They don&#039;t realize that in dividing up the whites by age, gender, education level etc but the minorities treated as one bloc (until forced to eat dirt like Miami Cubans have shown), they are in themselves making their analysis be way more white-centric. 

So only whites are allowed to have diversity of opinion based on age, income, education, etc, but rest are just dara-hua-insert-community-name that are so subsumed in fear of white racism that they eat humble pie on all their other issues and vote purely as minority bloc to leftist. 

In India also they divide Hindus by care of all levels of minutia but Muslims and Christians and Sikhs are all just one group to them.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.brownpundits.com/2020/10/31/open-thread-10-31-2020-brown-pundits/#comment-77353">Aditya</a>.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s how the leftist always portray the majority group both in India and in the US. They don&#8217;t realize that in dividing up the whites by age, gender, education level etc but the minorities treated as one bloc (until forced to eat dirt like Miami Cubans have shown), they are in themselves making their analysis be way more white-centric. </p>
<p>So only whites are allowed to have diversity of opinion based on age, income, education, etc, but rest are just dara-hua-insert-community-name that are so subsumed in fear of white racism that they eat humble pie on all their other issues and vote purely as minority bloc to leftist. </p>
<p>In India also they divide Hindus by care of all levels of minutia but Muslims and Christians and Sikhs are all just one group to them.</p>
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		By: Ugra		</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2020 16:20:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.brownpundits.com/2020/10/31/open-thread-10-31-2020-brown-pundits/#comment-77339&quot;&gt;sbarrkum&lt;/a&gt;.

@sbarrkum

Haha....you are welcome!!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.brownpundits.com/2020/10/31/open-thread-10-31-2020-brown-pundits/#comment-77339">sbarrkum</a>.</p>
<p>@sbarrkum</p>
<p>Haha&#8230;.you are welcome!!</p>
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		By: Bhimrao		</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2020 16:13:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.brownpundits.com/2020/10/31/open-thread-10-31-2020-brown-pundits/#comment-77349&quot;&gt;tid&lt;/a&gt;.

SJW Brahmins contributing to Washington Post, needlessly trying to shame the rest of Indians, and sucking up to Westerners to &#039;fix&#039; India.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.brownpundits.com/2020/10/31/open-thread-10-31-2020-brown-pundits/#comment-77349">tid</a>.</p>
<p>SJW Brahmins contributing to Washington Post, needlessly trying to shame the rest of Indians, and sucking up to Westerners to &#8216;fix&#8217; India.</p>
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		By: Aditya		</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2020 16:03:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Interesting trend from the Edison Exit polls that leftists are ignoring completely. Compared to 2016, Trump lost support amongst white males, but gained support with white women and minorities. 

This doesn&#039;t square with their dogma, so they won&#039;t post anything thanking white men for delivering swing states, while continuing to believe monolithic minorities are their eternal votebank.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Interesting trend from the Edison Exit polls that leftists are ignoring completely. Compared to 2016, Trump lost support amongst white males, but gained support with white women and minorities. </p>
<p>This doesn&#8217;t square with their dogma, so they won&#8217;t post anything thanking white men for delivering swing states, while continuing to believe monolithic minorities are their eternal votebank.</p>
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		By: bharotshontan		</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2020 15:05:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What is up with the usage of South Asian American nowadays as opposed to simply Indian American, or if the larger is to be used, why not Asian American? It is uncalled for, especially in the context that her Indian parent is Tamil. If they had been from an ethnic group that&#039;s shared between India and Pakistan like Punjabi or Bengali, I could still sort of see it. Otherwise this moniker has no meaning. 

Indian Americans are overwhelmingly Hindus and Hindutvadi on that in outlook as it pertains to des. South Asian Muslims in the US are fairly Islamist as well compared to the average Indian Muslim in India definitely. So why the grouping?

It&#039;s just setting up for the eventual dramatized schism that will happen as the AOC/ Omar type Islamist/lefties try to project more pounds of flesh for themselves from the Democrats. Indians will have to exit just like they&#039;ve done in the UK from Labor. 

Also the country&#039;s media is still so white centric and talking of Latinos, when Miami Cubans are also very politically different and have been so from a Mexican in California. Same issue. People from different national origins have different national baggage they bring to the US. You cannot be grouping those together just because they &quot;look the same&quot; to you. 

I think the covid response is what kept the Indian exodus towards Trump from materializing. Local healthcare and economy ultimately matters more than being lobbyists for India at the end of the day. Indians have the ability and delivered Virginia to the Dems. I&#039;m not discounting that Muslims don&#039;t have the same and delivered Michigan for Dems. But the Dems need to be very careful with the leftist Islamist faction. These sad racists are riding on the coattails of Black America which is the ONLY constituency that America has a historical reason to cater to. 

I am glad blacks powered the Dems to this victory overall. Islamists need to sit in the back, but I know they won&#039;t.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What is up with the usage of South Asian American nowadays as opposed to simply Indian American, or if the larger is to be used, why not Asian American? It is uncalled for, especially in the context that her Indian parent is Tamil. If they had been from an ethnic group that&#8217;s shared between India and Pakistan like Punjabi or Bengali, I could still sort of see it. Otherwise this moniker has no meaning. </p>
<p>Indian Americans are overwhelmingly Hindus and Hindutvadi on that in outlook as it pertains to des. South Asian Muslims in the US are fairly Islamist as well compared to the average Indian Muslim in India definitely. So why the grouping?</p>
<p>It&#8217;s just setting up for the eventual dramatized schism that will happen as the AOC/ Omar type Islamist/lefties try to project more pounds of flesh for themselves from the Democrats. Indians will have to exit just like they&#8217;ve done in the UK from Labor. </p>
<p>Also the country&#8217;s media is still so white centric and talking of Latinos, when Miami Cubans are also very politically different and have been so from a Mexican in California. Same issue. People from different national origins have different national baggage they bring to the US. You cannot be grouping those together just because they &#8220;look the same&#8221; to you. </p>
<p>I think the covid response is what kept the Indian exodus towards Trump from materializing. Local healthcare and economy ultimately matters more than being lobbyists for India at the end of the day. Indians have the ability and delivered Virginia to the Dems. I&#8217;m not discounting that Muslims don&#8217;t have the same and delivered Michigan for Dems. But the Dems need to be very careful with the leftist Islamist faction. These sad racists are riding on the coattails of Black America which is the ONLY constituency that America has a historical reason to cater to. </p>
<p>I am glad blacks powered the Dems to this victory overall. Islamists need to sit in the back, but I know they won&#8217;t.</p>
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		By: Brown		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brown]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2020 11:42:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[premeela jayapal&#039;s parents are in bangalore. her mother was interviewed in a local daily yesterday.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>premeela jayapal&#8217;s parents are in bangalore. her mother was interviewed in a local daily yesterday.</p>
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		By: tid		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[tid]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2020 06:52:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.brownpundits.com/2020/10/31/open-thread-10-31-2020-brown-pundits/#comment-77299&quot;&gt;Bhimrao&lt;/a&gt;.

&quot;These people are so full of themselves, zero achievements and 200X vanity.&quot; --- @Bhimrao, who are &quot;these&quot; people here ?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.brownpundits.com/2020/10/31/open-thread-10-31-2020-brown-pundits/#comment-77299">Bhimrao</a>.</p>
<p>&#8220;These people are so full of themselves, zero achievements and 200X vanity.&#8221; &#8212; @Bhimrao, who are &#8220;these&#8221; people here ?</p>
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		By: tid		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[tid]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2020 06:35:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.brownpundits.com/2020/10/31/open-thread-10-31-2020-brown-pundits/#comment-77330&quot;&gt;thewarlock&lt;/a&gt;.

&quot;Groups of OBC majority farmers as a collective in diff states are causing problems in general w/ this reservation BS. This for dalits. Not their land owning greedy people like them&quot; -- 

@thewarlock, 
(i) this 75% reservation in private sector is NOT a caste based reservation but rather a domicile based one. The 75% reservation in jobs upto 50,000 INR is for Haryana&#039;s *Moolnivasis*.

(ii)  This reservation was actually a poll promise made by  the current govt in Haryana so they are simply fulfilling it. It has nothing to do with OBCs at all

(iii) Coming back to OBC, only a relatively small-moderate % of OBC castes are land owning,  majority of them are castes with very low land holdings(several states have sub-categorozations like EBC(E = Extremely) /MBC(Most Backward) ) who definitely need government help.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.brownpundits.com/2020/10/31/open-thread-10-31-2020-brown-pundits/#comment-77330">thewarlock</a>.</p>
<p>&#8220;Groups of OBC majority farmers as a collective in diff states are causing problems in general w/ this reservation BS. This for dalits. Not their land owning greedy people like them&#8221; &#8212; </p>
<p>@thewarlock,<br />
(i) this 75% reservation in private sector is NOT a caste based reservation but rather a domicile based one. The 75% reservation in jobs upto 50,000 INR is for Haryana&#8217;s *Moolnivasis*.</p>
<p>(ii)  This reservation was actually a poll promise made by  the current govt in Haryana so they are simply fulfilling it. It has nothing to do with OBCs at all</p>
<p>(iii) Coming back to OBC, only a relatively small-moderate % of OBC castes are land owning,  majority of them are castes with very low land holdings(several states have sub-categorozations like EBC(E = Extremely) /MBC(Most Backward) ) who definitely need government help.</p>
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