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A Local Culinary Adventure: inspired by Halifax's Seaport Market | SaltWire #cooking #cookingtips - State Senator Aisha Wahab authored the bill vetoed by Governor Gavin Newsom that would have made California the first U.S. state to explicitly ban caste discrimination.In vetoing the bill, Newsom called it"unnecessary," arguing that since existing laws already banned ancestry discrimination, a separate legislation was not needed explicitly for caste discrimination.
While Wahab won support from multiple human rights groups for her bill to ban caste discrimination and got the legislation passed, she faced vocal opposition from those who felt the bill would stigmatize an entire minority - mostly South Asians and Hindus - in the United States. The veto from Newsom marks a setback for her and for U.S. activists fighting caste discrimination.
The issue is particularly important to Americans of Indian descent and to Hindus, especially as more Indians and other South Asians have moved to the U.S. over the years, particularly to California and the state's Silicon Valley. Activists opposing caste discrimination say it is no different from other forms of discrimination like racism. Opponents of the bill in California say that because U.S. laws already ban ancestry discrimination, legislation of this type only serves to stigmatize the entire community with a broad brush.
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