On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:17 AM, Venky TV <venky...@gmail.com> wrote: > Organized discrimination (not including state-sponsored ones) is no > different from personal discrimination. Sure, it is even more unfair > and extremely ugly.
On a slightly different tangent What I find very interesting is the differentiation in discrimination of different kinds in the media. For example, I see the reservation policies followed by the current congress government/short-lived VP Singh (though BJP / third front aren't any better - they are probably worse) as damaging to society as much as the Godhra/Kandamal/Anti-sikh/Anti-UP riots in Gujarat/Orissa/Delhi/Mumbai. The only difference seems that in one case the effect of discrimination are more longer term and less visible (gory sequences of beating up people / burning up shops makes more compelling viewing than students missing better opportunities for better education). Also one is mostly class-based / caste based rather than religion-based. -- Vinayak
