Newsom risks alienating millions of Indian Americans, a powerful political constituency and, worse, endorsing an insidious slander.
The latest saga began in 2020 when the California Civil Rights Department, the state’s anti-discrimination agency,against Cisco Systems and two of its senior engineers alleging employment discrimination against an employee.
The two engineers – whose families practice Hinduism – allegedly discriminated against the complaining employee, only identified as “John Doe,” due to his lower caste status as the “lone Dalit” or “untouchable” in a Cisco startup. A media pile-on ensued. The California Civil Rights Department claimed that the Cisco startup’s CEO and John Doe’s main manager – Sundar Iyer – is Hindu and discriminated against him for his caste and defined caste as a “strict Hindu social and religious hierarchy,” despite knowing that Iyer
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