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The perils of preferential politics

Identity politics looks a lot like the caste system

25 February 2023

9:00 AM

25 February 2023

9:00 AM

In the UK, where the Conservatives have been in power for over twelve years, the Royal Air Force illegally discriminated against 160 white men in the woke effort to meet its ‘aspirational diversity targets’. Why do we ignore the pathology of sectarian affirmative action policies in the world’s biggest laboratory? After 73 years of constitutionally mandated preferential policies, India is ever more sharply conscious of caste identity at every level of society and in every sphere of public activity.

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