06-20-2007, 05:01 PM
<b>Affirmative action Chaos in India</b>
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->As in the United States, preferential policies in India have bred not only resentment but also widespread corruption. Many Indians, for example, have tried to exploit group preferences in employment and education by fraudulently claiming lower-caste membership. âCounterfeiters do a brisk business in false lower caste certificates to allow upper caste applicants to take advantage of job or education quotas,â reports the Washington Post.
But the most notable -- and predictable -- result of Indiaâs preference programs has been group polarization evidenced by such extreme measures is the creation of private caste armies.
Affirmative action is firmly rooted in the leftist paradigm that views society as composed only of dominators and the dominated, oppressors and the oppressed. And the Left, anointing itself as the agent of cosmic justice that will punish the âoppressorsâ and remake the world according to the noble standard of mandatory âequality,â justifies preferential policies by citing the purportedly self-evident notions of collective guilt and collective innocence -- where race and class ultimately determine who is deserving of blame or grace, and where there are no shades of gray.
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->As in the United States, preferential policies in India have bred not only resentment but also widespread corruption. Many Indians, for example, have tried to exploit group preferences in employment and education by fraudulently claiming lower-caste membership. âCounterfeiters do a brisk business in false lower caste certificates to allow upper caste applicants to take advantage of job or education quotas,â reports the Washington Post.
But the most notable -- and predictable -- result of Indiaâs preference programs has been group polarization evidenced by such extreme measures is the creation of private caste armies.
Affirmative action is firmly rooted in the leftist paradigm that views society as composed only of dominators and the dominated, oppressors and the oppressed. And the Left, anointing itself as the agent of cosmic justice that will punish the âoppressorsâ and remake the world according to the noble standard of mandatory âequality,â justifies preferential policies by citing the purportedly self-evident notions of collective guilt and collective innocence -- where race and class ultimately determine who is deserving of blame or grace, and where there are no shades of gray.
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