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   Anupam 《ミ》λ≡ (haskman@functional.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 08-Jun-2024 14:45:25 JST Anupam 《ミ》λ≡

   Did you know that #India has one of the strongest #AffirmativeAction programs in the world? Disadvantaged groups (scheduled castes and tribes and economically weaker sections) have as much as 60% of all government jobs and seats in state run educational institutes completely reserved for them? Yes we have a lot of poor people and we have had and continue to have caste based discrimination, but the amount of efforts put into solving the problem are proportional to the size of the problem

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     Anupam 《ミ》λ≡ (haskman@functional.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jun-2024 10:56:07 JST Anupam 《ミ》λ≡

     • Tokyo Outsider (337ppm)

     @tokyo_0 It's easy to be dismissive when you are not the one being impacted. And I mean that statement to cut both ways. We need reservations, but I I totally understand the pain of a general category student not being able to get into a college and not being able to get a job and not having social mobility. It is a big *sacrifice* the person has made and I really wouldn't be condescending

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     Anupam 《ミ》λ≡ (haskman@functional.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jun-2024 10:56:07 JST Anupam 《ミ》λ≡

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     • Tokyo Outsider (337ppm)

     @tokyo_0 I mean *students* were setting themselves on *fire* to protest against reservations, it impacted them that much

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     Anupam 《ミ》λ≡ (haskman@functional.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jun-2024 14:11:07 JST Anupam 《ミ》λ≡

     • Tokyo Outsider (337ppm)

     @tokyo_0 Your statement makes it sound like some middle class people are well-educated (and hence should know better) and well-resourced (and hence are not impacted by reservations), and still want reservations to go away (to hurt minorities perhaps?). That comes across as dismissing their concerns

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     Anupam 《ミ》λ≡ (haskman@functional.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jun-2024 14:42:53 JST Anupam 《ミ》λ≡

     • Tokyo Outsider (337ppm)

     @tokyo_0 That's exactly what I mean. You dismiss their narrative as "self interest" and "privilege", and I can assure you that it affects real people in a very real way and I personally would never dismiss their concerns. In any case we agree on the need for reservations so there's no point in continuing this discussion any further