On Jul 20, 9:03=EF=BF=BDam, Wanderer <n...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> fanabba <fana...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > To say that Hindus still practice the caste system is like saying
> > America still practices slavery. Indian law does not sanction the
> > caste system.
>
> But you seem perfectly content to impute that past practices of
> Christians, or things done in the name of Christianity, or simply done
> by people who happened to be nominally Christian, are valid today simply
> because it was done at some point in the past 2000 years, and to cast
> other unvalidated aspersions. Don't you see your own hypocrisy?
>
> Racism and slavery in the United States are illegal, but no sane person
> asserts that they don't exist because it has been outlawed. Indeed, just
> recently an Indian-American couple were sentenced for keeping two
> Indonesian women as slaves in their home.
Again, Racism does not have the power of the state behind it, in USA.
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