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No one deserves a reserved seat as a matter of right. We need to be a meritocracy. You can’t get 2/100 and get admission while someone who gets 60/100 is denied.
- Chief Justice Roberts, while criticising affirmative action.
https://www.cato.org/blog/way-stop-discrimination-basis-race-stop-discriminating-basis-race
This excellent quote epitomises the problem with race-based affirmative action in the US and caste-based reservation in India. Gen Z is graduating from college and soon Gen Alpha will take over. It's ridiculous that general category youths in these generations, born in the 2000s, are being penalised for misdeeds of their ancestors thousands of years ago! That goes against all principles of fairness!
If a person can't crack CLAT or the IAS in the merit list, that's because he/she isn't bright or hardworking enough, not because he/she is "oppressed". It's high time a challenge to the Indra Sawhney decision was mounted in the SC, citing the US Supreme Court decision.
Anyway, US affirmative action jurisprudence is going to have no impact on India. The battle against reservation in education institutes (both private and government) has been lost. The battle for only caste based quotas has been lost. The battle for 50 percent limit has been lost. The new battleground is going to be reservation in private jobs (initially blue collar but also white collar in time). I have little doubt that that battle will also be lost. The only trend for reservation in India in the near future is onwards and upwards.
Just watching CNN now. Apparently a student can still write an SOP discussing their experiences being black. Then this means ▮▮▮ colleges can easily subvert the ruling!