<story><title>Sr Manager at Google Resigns After Dalit Activist Disallowed from Giving Lecture</title><url>https://www.thequint.com/us-nri-news/google-dalit-rights-activist-thenmozhi-soundararajan-presentation-lecture-anti-hindu-tanuja-gupta-senior-manager-resigns</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ALittleLight</author><text>How do you come to know someone&amp;#x27;s caste?</text></item><item><author>munk-a</author><text>While caste systems might seem far off and irrelevant in the modern world there is actually a rather extreme amount of caste based discrimination in work places.  It&amp;#x27;s an issue we need to talk about and resolve.&lt;p&gt;I can&amp;#x27;t talk to this particular activist&amp;#x27;s positions, but Dalit Activism is a very relevant and worthy cause - it causes pretty significant discrimination even in the US.</text></item><item><author>ALittleLight</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m torn between thinking it&amp;#x27;s dumb to give talks on caste at work and thinking Google is weak for giving in to people who were complaining about this talk for whatever reason.  I suppose I hold both opinions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>d23</author><text>I don’t want to pile on or anything, because it seems like you’re engaging in good faith, but I don’t understand the quickness to say “I don’t think this should be discussed at work” if you don’t even know the basics.  Why is the default position not to be curious to learn more?</text></comment>
<story><title>Sr Manager at Google Resigns After Dalit Activist Disallowed from Giving Lecture</title><url>https://www.thequint.com/us-nri-news/google-dalit-rights-activist-thenmozhi-soundararajan-presentation-lecture-anti-hindu-tanuja-gupta-senior-manager-resigns</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ALittleLight</author><text>How do you come to know someone&amp;#x27;s caste?</text></item><item><author>munk-a</author><text>While caste systems might seem far off and irrelevant in the modern world there is actually a rather extreme amount of caste based discrimination in work places.  It&amp;#x27;s an issue we need to talk about and resolve.&lt;p&gt;I can&amp;#x27;t talk to this particular activist&amp;#x27;s positions, but Dalit Activism is a very relevant and worthy cause - it causes pretty significant discrimination even in the US.</text></item><item><author>ALittleLight</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m torn between thinking it&amp;#x27;s dumb to give talks on caste at work and thinking Google is weak for giving in to people who were complaining about this talk for whatever reason.  I suppose I hold both opinions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>colinmhayes</author><text>Brahmins will tell you a talk about caste discrimination is anti-hindu.</text></comment>