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As much as I hate the Reservation system in Indian colleges, I wouldn't call that 'racism'. They are two different things. They are trying to _mitigate_ the eff
by piyush_soni 11y ago
As much as I hate the Reservation system in Indian colleges, I wouldn't call that 'racism'. They are two different things. They are trying to _mitigate_ the effects of a possible racism by doing this. Just that they don't understand they have to give that reservation advantage to them really early in life - not while admitting students for Doctor and Engineer degrees.
- yummyfajitas 11y agoThe fact that one might allude to cancelling one bit of racism with another doesn't make it not racism. (I'm defining "racism" as "discrimination based on race", not "any cause for a statistical disparity" as some other people do.) I must say that I do prefer the Indian system to the US system, however. It's at least explicit and can be debated on merits. The purveyors of the US system are secretive so as to prevent opponents from gathering facts to argue against it.
- ejstronge 11y agoI think you (and others) have espoused this viewpoint in other threads. I'll just say that having an outsider (perhaps a politician) re-appropriate words that have a clear, technical definition (say surveillance or security) must be frustrating for experts who understand those words. Redefining a well-understood technical word is a good rhetorical technique but side steps whatever logic underlies the word's original defintion.