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Re:On (My) Caste by alephnerd on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @03:16PM (#37327484)
To be fair, getting in even with the Quota is extremely difficult. If difficulty without the quota is a 10, difficulty with the quota is more like a 9.7.

If you were Forward Caste and rejected from CSE@IITB only because of a Caste Quota, you statistically would have ended up at CSE@IITK or EE@IITD, which has no meaningful difference.

Belittling people who attended top programs on caste quotas is lame and mean.

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Re:On (My) Caste by grad_ml on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @03:41PM (#37327847)
Categoty : Score

Common Rank List :90.7788642 (Brahmins, upper castes which Ycombinator hates)

Gen-EWS:75.6229025

OBC-NCL:73.6114227 : Mr Kuldeep meel (based on his caste)

SC:51.9776027

ST:37.2348772

PwD:0.0013527

I would say 73 is minuscule in comparison of 90. Kuldeep is a typical Kota kid, he is not someone coming out from rural India. Damm he was so annoying at Rice University. I wish him best. Sad to see he stopped so low for clicks.

source: https://www.shiksha.com/engineering/jee-main-exam-cutoff

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Re:On (My) Caste by usr8new on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @03:52PM (#37328013)
Its amazing how this thread has so many comments when the professor belongs to Jatt OBC subcaste, a land owning caste & one of the most affluent subcastes.

Any Indian would have stopped reading after that. How are Jatts discriminated against? If anything they are favoured. But the whole thread is filled with white progressives who know nothing about caste

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Re:On (My) Caste by grad_ml on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @04:40PM (#37328762)
The thread is just a headsup to those, who are not well informed on the issues and the word caste triggers them. The effort is to provide factual data along with the circumstances so that people can weight and relate all kind of arguments with their own life experiences. Also, help our white bois/gals understand what they talking about lol.
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Re:On (My) Caste by WeylandYutani on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @05:40PM (#37329517)
Discrimination goes against article one of my country's Constitution. I don't need to know anything about caste just as I don't need to know that in some countries you can marry an 11 year old.
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Re:On (My) Caste by usr8new on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @08:34PM (#37331040)
The point is no one is discriminating against Jaats, the group the professor belongs to. They are one of the richest & powerful groups in India. The blog is very misleading since caste based discrimination against Jatts is unheard of.

In fact the group the professor belongs to is responsible for 80% of caste based discriminations that happen in India.

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