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its been quite sometime since i have been reading posts on sikhsangat.com referring to different castes by by derogatory slangs.I am sure the guys who mark such posts would refrain from calling blacks "nigger" for fear of "rascist" vibes. Sikhs say that the others being rascist to them when they call a sikh a taliban .But why do they fail to analyse their own actions when they refer to a khatri as "bhaaappe" or "bania' and a ramgarhia as "tarkhan",mazhabi sikhs as "churaas".When the other castes have not invented derogatory slangs for jats.Does it all imply that khatris,ramgarhias and mazhabis had absolutely no rule to play in the progress of the sikh religion. Have they been sidelined.People refers to khatris as greedy but they fail to look at themselves when they have also usurped others' lands,murdered relatives for land.The jats refer to "churaas" and say that the churass were born of illegitimate relations between jats and lower caste mothers.This is frustrating.The wise know that Khatris have played a decent role in advancing the motives of sikh religion.They have fought wars too.But they are clubbed as "bhaappes" and "Banias" due to the narrowmindedness of a jatt parliamentarian post partition.Khatris existed on the Indian side of punjab prepartition too but the parliamentarians termed Khatris from Pakistan in derogatory words and denied them the right to live honorably in Indian Punjab.The paliamentarians generalized the entire khatri folk in the Indian Punjab as well as Paki Punjab.Jats too lost their property in Pakistan and immigrated to Indian Punjab in large numbers but they werent called refugees,.There exist khatris familied who have served in the army since generations but no credit is given to that and the entire community is marginalized as Mercantile. All castes are subject to the same reservations and quotas set aside by the indian government with respect to jobs.But Khatris,Ramgarhias ,Lubanas and Aroras dont resort to seeking reservations under scheduled castes.But when jats resort to such tactics ,they are condoned by saying that its hard to get jobs for jats ,that too when 70% of the sikh population is jats .But Its hard for everyone to get jobs. Mazhabis received the worst of the brunt .There is no dearth of villifying videos on youtube scorning the mazhabis. As you can see ,I am a non Jat.Through out my life I have had to listen to snide remarks from hindus like"sikhon ke Barah bajj gaye" and "pagri me kya hai".When ever someone would pass comments at sikh women I would feel incensed .I have been called taliban and paki and what not.I have picked fights thinking its my duty as a sikh.But now I ask myself was it all vain when my sikh brethren themselves look down upon me.I am of course pissed off to see derogatory slangs used by guys on sikhsangat of all the places.