California Governor Gavin Newsom on Saturday vetoed a bill passed recently by the state legislature to ban caste discrimination, saying a separate legislation to that effect was not needed because exi
Gavin Newsom, governor, state of California speaks at the 2023 Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., May 2, 2023. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photoa bill passed recently by the state legislature to ban caste discrimination, saying a separate legislation to that effect was not needed because existing laws already prohibited ancestry discrimination.
U.S. discrimination laws ban ancestry discrimination though they do not explicitly mention caste. California's legislation targeted the caste system in South Asian and Hindu immigrant communities by adding caste as a protected class to the state's existing anti-discrimination laws.and authored by Democratic state Senator Aisha Wahab, an Afghan American, in March. An earlier version of it passed the state Senate before undergoing revisions.
Activists opposing caste discrimination said it is no different from other forms of discrimination like racism and hence should be outlawed. Opponents of the bill in California said that since U.S. laws already ban ancestry discrimination, a legislation of this type becomes meaningless and only serves to stigmatize the entire community, mostly Hindus and South Asians, with a broad brush.
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