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I have bad news for you brown guy, you are a middle ground between conservatives and fascists. Almost all of your takes are aggressive and repressive. People don’t work like that, we are all different and we should account for all diversity. You think “uneducated low earning people” should not get free shit but because they can be bribed. So you understand that desperate people would do anything, so why not help them? Why are they desperate? You remove the freebies but you keep the poverty.
You can step into fascism when you realise that “removing DEI” it’s a lot of bureaucracy and wasted time. Bullets are much cheaper.
I know it's a mixed side. But I'm definitely not a fascist nor do I support fascism
I don't know if you don't understand the situation but in india shit is complex. There have been interviews of people living in slums, they say they are making more children to get a little more money from the govt (from the scheme which was made for educational purposes of lower income households), some of them are regularly caught to be begging instead of doing some work (specially the ones who are fully fit and fine).
You know why it's like that? Because most of them got the bread and circus and they don't want anything more.
The govt doesn't even care about the poor and handicapped people tbh, because they get less seats from the affirmative actions. The so called oppressed groups "STs/SCs" get it.
Recently I gave an exam, the cutoff for general category is 94%ile but for ST it is 49%ile. Just look at the difference
That's why affirmative actions should be income based only for the ones who are in the BPL (below poverty line) list
I have some very superficial knowledge of Indian system casts etc… but regardless, people are people, fundamentally they act the same.
Let’s start from here: they don’t want anything else. Are you sure? Would you believe in a system where you are confined in your cast (or for any other countries, general poverty), where you need to slave just to survive? If you live in a slum, yes your first issue is bread, second issue is bread tomorrow. You are not drinking grass smoothies dreaming a lambo. Why? Because you know, you see it everyday, that no matter what you do the probability are against you.
So why anyone living in a slum would even try to game the system? “Nobody expects me to make it… why not make as many kids as possible and get the money, at least my first son will survive. “
We need to stop thinking about people in terms of good vs. evil. We are surviving machines, we do what profit us and make us last long, good or bad doesn’t matter. Governments should account for that and give everyone the same OPPORTUNITIES and bridge differences with empathy and understanding.
Talk to homeless people, listen to their stories. You will realise it’s an unlucky, unsupported, discarded version of you.
That's what I used to think before. But now when I'm in the age where I have to compete, I see everyone getting what I deserve (seats in universities) just because I'm a i) general category (the ones without any affirmative actions), ii) male, iii) middle/upper middle class.
You know who bad does that feel? It's not a first world country where I can choose a mid profession and expect to go for vacations abroad.. NO!!. In these countries there is blood bath in competitions, in which I would say I was just good but unlucky too because of those three things
For equality to exist in India, the govt has to cut the freebies and make the education system better and teach civic sense to the country people.
In this country, I have to pay 30% tax and I don't get shit. That's the worst part, on top of that you'll be generalized as a bad guy everywhere because of the media. The govt isn't making laws gender neutral due to which the younger generation are scared to marry.
There are thousands of problems in this country. Giving out freebies and affirmative actions won't help at all
How precious. “They are not the victim here, I am!”. You are very lucky, you don’t have to worry about food or shelter, you have a middle/upper class family, you can choose a profession, you can go abroad, you don't have to worry about your personal safety as a man.
Yet, with all these advantages in life you choose to go online and complain about people who don’t have these, crying lack of civic sense.
Have you ever thought that maybe the competition is right and you are not good enough? Maybe you don’t deserve a mid job? Sucks to be a loser, maybe if you are kinder to the less fortunate than you, you might get some sympathy.
@dan00@lemm.ee What the fuck. One can disagree with @brown_guy@lemm.ee, we can discuss inequality, but don't forget that, in India, life can be objectively very hard even for people from the relatively (!) well-off strata. Especially if you're (like me) living in the West, we should respect that.
We should, correct, but not if you are not respectful of the less fortunate. How hypocritical to punch down and complain that someone higher punched you.
Yes, life is tough and respect is earned with humility.
Well if we talk about merit and as I'm a student. It affected me in JEE exam
My percentile was 89 but still I wasn't selected but an ST guy with 55%ile got selected. BUT HEYY!! I am the loser
I don't wanna argue here about it man. I can't change someone's opinion
I hope you will go around and experience the world a little bit, listen to others people’s experiences without judgement (if you don’t want to be judged) and be a little more humble and understanding towards other lives.
Brother things doesn't work in India like how it works in US or EU. You have never seen it. I don't expect you all to understand
I just passed out of high school, I could be wrong but it's not that easy for a person like me like how you think it is. Being middle/ upper middle class in india comes with many issue, I can't write all that down and it's not like you would understand either