I do care to answer few things. After all sajha is for expressing one's opinion and discussing things and ideas related to Nepal and Nepalis in a cordial and respectful manner.

Let us not misconstrue this issue. Discussing about caste related issues and sharing information is perfectly fine in sajha. What is not fine is to accuse a certain caste of being lobhi. What is not fine is to misrepresent, demoralize, derogate, degenerate, designify, defame, defile, abuse, exploit, offend, bad mouth, vilify, inundate, mistreat, victimize, slander, and instigate a certain caste.

If someone posts an article from a valid source with data showing X% of caste occupy 90% of administrative positions in Nepal, that is simply dissemination of information, and cannot be considered casteist thread. But if someone goes ahead to bad mouth a certain caste then it clearly shows the intolerant nature of the user(s) in question.

Okay let me get to this particular incident and the reservations raised herein.

Everyone knows speeding is illegal yet everyone (most) drives above the speed limit at various points in their driving career. When you get stopped by the police you cannot argue with the police saying oh there were all these other drivers in front who were speeding faster!

If something is wrong, a line needs to be drawn at some point in time, and the time happened to be this thread whose topic clearly is of discriminatory nature. (The banning of the user is not really important. In fact I have unbanned him - his 2nd post does show some remorse.)

The nature of sajha is that things tend to be pretty laid back and lenient as far as censoring because I believe there is an inherent good in mankind and that any negative behavior will stop after a given point. Most of the time its true and things fall into the black hole of oblivion in the annals of sajha archives. But sometimes due to adrenaline and the perceived ethnic divide, the caste issue tends to stick around a bit longer. When these intolerant things stick around more than normal then I, as an admin, have to step in to make sure too many feathers are not ruffled for too long a period.

Lot of sajha friends who have stuck around longer have been witness to a lot more reservations placed upon the admin who has to step in at some point in time. For example in this thread I am blamed for acting upon anti-Newar threads. Please be assured that I can dig up more threads like this where I have been blamed. It's human nature to tilt reality towards your own prejudices and I don't have anything against anyone pointing fingers at me.

In this thread, questions are being raised for acting upon anti-Bahun thread.

As long as questions like this are raised, we can safely assume that castist sentiments are still strong. As far as fairness and equality goes in sajha and in my own person experience - everyone is equal until proven otherwise.

As far as castism in sajha is concerned, the act of stepping in to stop the bullet is more important than who is saved when. The fact is - noone deserves the bullet (for being a certain caste).

We need to channel our castist sentiments for a greater good. As small tributaries flow into the great ocean, all of our small ethnicity makes the broader Nepal, and we need to be focussed on the greater good of the broader Nepal than bicker with each other on our differences.

I hope I have made some sense.

Here is a piece by George Carlin that I want to share with you.