“Caste Weaponisation and Calculated Vetoes: A Double Whammy of Newsom’s Vetoes for Hindu Americans”, My Ind Makers, October 15, 2025
“In the United States, the Hindu American community—roughly two-thirds of the 5 million Indian American population—faces a contentious battle over caste, an obsolete social hierarchy that has been left behind by reformist and progressive Hindu People in India and in all places, including the USA, where they live and work, barring negligible sporadic incidents.
To label all White Americans as White Supremacists and to label all Germans as Nazis at present is wrong, specifically after serial measures towards liberty and fraternity. Similarly, labelling Hindus as casteist is malicious, specifically after serial reforms and affirmative actions by Hindu Society.
Leftists have been “weaponising” caste narratives to vilify Hindus just as they vilify American and German Conservative Nationalists by calling them racist and Nazi. California’s Left-leaning Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom’s vetoes of Senate Bill 403 (SB 403) in 2023 and Senate Bill 509 (SB 509) in 2025 are political moves to court Hindu American voters and to mobilise funds from Hindu American Donors. The resultant vetoes create a “double whammy effect”: amplifying caste debates for ideological leverage and then luring Hindu Americans for electoral gains…….”
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