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Is There No Caste Discrimination?
How Did You Manage To Stay Alive If You Weren’t Allowed To Drink Water
The Argument
Every now and then, someone online makes an argument about caste reservations that is so blindingly foolish, so deeply dishonest, that it makes you wonder how they survive in the real world.
Someone recently pulled out this gem:
“कैसे बच गए जीवित अगर पानी नहीं पीने दे रहा था तो?”
How did you manage to stay alive if you weren’t allowed to drink water?
“ठाकुर का कुआं तुम खोद ले रहे थे और अपना कुआं नहीं खोद पा रहे थे?”
Why are you demanding access to someone else’s well when you could simply dig your own?
Read that again. The person making this argument tried to turn thousands of years of brutal caste oppression into a simple, everyday property dispute.
The logic they are pushing goes like this: Why are you crying about access to someone else’s well? Why don’t you just go and dig your own? If you need water, arrange it yourself. Stop demanding someone else’s property!
