My Caste

I think at this point we could just double down and say “I’m fighting colonialism, on the side of the colonizers”

Just throw the meme back, and still stamp out caste discrimination

“hey some cultural genocide is worth it” first, the reaction would be funny af, especially if all the “OBC’s” get the joke

There is a whole paragraph answering this question:

``` An uninitiated might be forgiven for not realizing that caste-based discrimination is rampant in India (yes, even among faculty members at IITs), and perhaps worse among Non-Resident Indians (NRIs). Therefore, there was always fear of what would a potential letter writer or someone on tenure evaluation committee think of me if they knew I belonged to OBC. It was the same fear that stopped me from mentioning anything about my caste in any of DEI statements that I prepared for the job search or tenure: I had to pretend not to know what it feels to be under-represented. ```

>> There are at most five tenure-track faculty who belong to OBC category among all the faculty members in North America's "top" 50 CS departments

The full quote is:

>I think I can summarize the lack of representation with the help of a claim that I believe is true: There are at most five tenure-track faculty who belong to OBC category among all the faculty members in North America's "top" 50 CS departments. Any reasonable process to pick 50 CS departments should suffice. I will, of course, be overjoyed to be corrected.

So, this is a claim they believe is true and would be happy to be corrected. Please go ahead and correct them if you disagree.

>And then continues to show castes of faculty at IIT.

This is literally preceded by

>You might ask: What evidence do I have to support my claim?

So, to lay it out for you:

1) Hypothesis: There is discrimination against OBC in academia

2) Evidence: The near absence of OBC professors in IITs

3) Prediction: This probably affects OBCs outside India as well

I am Indian, from an IIT, and I have seen this kind of knee-jerk dismissal from higher-caste Indians against any claims of discrimination more times than I can count. I do not believe you are making a good-faith argument here.