In his latest act as a moderate Democrat Governor, California's Gavin Newsom vetoed yet another bill that he would have gladly embraced six months ago.
California activists against caste discrimination faced a defeat on Saturday as Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed the bill that would add caste to a list of protected categories under the state’s existing anti-discrimination laws.
In a statement, Newsom called the bill “unnecessary”, explaining that California “already prohibits discrimination based on sex, race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, and other characteristics, and state law specifies that these civil rights protections shall be liberally construed”.
“Because discrimination based on caste is already prohibited under these existing categories, this bill is unnecessary,” he said in the statement.
One wonders why State Senator Aisha Wahab chose to manufacture this bill and why the Super Majority in both bodies of the legislature unanimously backed it? Was this just a song and dance? What other issues existed that required such a law to modify the Unruh Civil Rights Act? These are questions the committees should have answered before bringing this garbage to vote before the entire legislature.
The hundreds-year-old caste system divides people based on birth or descent. While caste discrimination has been banned in India for more than 70 years, recent pieces of legislation in the U.S. have pushed it into the spotlight.
Seattle became the first U.S. city to add caste to its anti-discrimination laws earlier this year, and Fresno, Calif., became the second last month. Proponents of making caste a protected class say that it will protect those in the lowest division in the caste system from bias in housing, education and technology sectors.
As RedState exclusively reported, the grounds were majority manufactured by the California Civil Rights Division (CRD) and an activist class who wishes to exist in a colonial bubble of divisiveness rather than embrace the opportunities that exist in a new country and a new era. Milind Makwana was a Dalit American of the supposedly marginalized caste, but he spoke out against SB 403 and strangely and sadly died of a heart attack after speaking to the Cupertino City Council to oppose the bill. Makwana famously described the bill as:
"a disco ball on a Monday morning. If you look at the proposed resolution SB 403, and if you peel off the shiny exterior, what you will find inside is a costume party of hidden racial discrimination and Hinduphobia for Asian-Indians."
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The video of the council meeting contains testimony from other individuals who would be classified as lower caste, who also saw themselves as being pawns to an agenda that had little to do with them or their status in America. Like Makwana, they spoke out against SB 403. But in the run-up to votes in the California Senate and Assembly, all you read from the legacy media was how California would institute the first-ever anti-caste law and what a wonderful thing this would be.
Caste Files dedicated the victory over the defeat of SB 403 to Makwana.
We dedicate this victory and the #vetoSB403 to our hero Milind Makwana our Dalit American sweet brother who died in the cause fighting the imposition of #SB403 on the Indian Americans pic.twitter.com/PCw5TDjwBd
— castefiles (@castefiles) October 7, 2023
Makwana's untimely passing made international news. That's because this caste issue has become an international issue. While they claim that Hindus and those of purported higher caste are bringing in this colonial discrimination to the Western countries that Southeast Asians are now inhabiting, what it appears to be are activists who want to insert this system into an otherwise free society for greater control and further division. As with much of the divisive agendas pretending at progress, it came out of the academic world. After the Assembly passed SB 403 in September, these activists decided to go on a hunger strike to try and strongarm Newsom into signing yet another misguided and evil bill into law.
They should go eat some Naan now, because it's over.
If Newsom truly wants to be seen as a moderate, his next job before he sails off on a campaign bus is to rein in the CRD. The Hindu American Foundation feels the same.
No time to exult after #VetoSB403. We at HAF will be relentless in our pursuit to hold agencies, universities, corporations & elected leaders accountable for targeting Hindu Americans in California with “caste” policies.
— Hindu American Foundation (@HinduAmerican) October 8, 2023
Lawsuits against @calcivilrights & @calstate are ongoing. https://t.co/SKxacIPpKX
In my June interview with the former Cisco employee, H (not his real name) said it succinctly.
I know specifically the CRD, I know from this case [Cisco Corporation], I am against any form of government overreach, whether it's CRD or any other division of the government. The citizen's rights, have to be protected as long as these agencies ensure that everyone is treated equally in front of the law. Everyone is given the same amount of recourse and everyone heard fairly and not gaslighted and labeled. I am perfectly okay with that, right? It needs to be transparent and it needs to show what it's doing because at the end of the day, it is our taxpayers money that is funding these organizations. So, we need to hold these agencies accountable.
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