Thread by @Ambedkarite333

Thread explaining reservation:

First of all, reservation is about representation, not economic upliftment. It exists all around the world where minorities have been historically oppressed. In India, lower castes who are 77% only have 11% & 1% seats reserved in education & jobs

This is because for 3,000 years Dalits were forbidden from receiving education & forced to clean dead animals & gutters, tie pots to their neck & brooms to their back so they don't pollute the upper castes, not allowed to drink water in public, suffered from untouchability, etc.

Many of these things still happen. Dalits are still cleaning your gutters, climbing in manholes, jumping into your sewage, cleaning your garbage, burying your dead bodies, etc. Nowhere else in the world are humans forced to climb into your shit. 100% reservation for Dalits here

Dalits are forced to do caste occupations. Look at the caste of the people in fields without reservation. Bollywood, judiciary, media, academia, corporate business, etc are all UC dominated. These all have heavy nepotism because of caste privilege. Reservation counters nepotism

Each year there are over 40,000 crimes committed against Dalits. In 2019 alone 46,000 crimes against Dalits. Between 2006-2016, more than 5,00,000 crimes were committed against Dalits & Adivasis. Each day 10 Dalit women are raped. Every 15 minutes a crime happens against a Dalit.

Dalits are brutally killed for the most basic reasons. Google Dalit killed & auto-suggest will show Dalit killed for riding a horse, growing a mustache, watching garba, entering a temple, dating an UC girl ,eating in front of UCs, etc. Who commits these crimes? "General category"

You're not responsible for the crimes your upper-caste ancestors & kins do, but you continue to reap the benefits of the caste system in the form of your caste privilege, socio-economic status, social capital, family connections, financial backing, access to vast resources, etc

Speaking of reservation, only 22% are govt colleges, the rest are pvt colleges which don't have reservation. Therefore only 11% seats are reserved for 77% of lower caste students. Dalits still face brutal discrimination & harassment by UCs. Read about Rohith Vemula & Payal Tadvi

Coming to jobs, 90% jobs are in unorganised sector, which have no reservation. In the organised sector, only 3% jobs are in govt sector. Out of this, half are reserved. So only 1.5% jobs are reserved for lower castes, many of which aren't even filled. 77% population has 1.5% jobs

UCs are only crying about OBC reservation, not EWS reservation. OBCs are 52% of the population but only have 27% reservation. Moreover, "economically weaker" reservation is specifically for upper castes, as SC/ST/OBCs who are the real poor are barred from EWS reservation

Even in 10% EWS reservation for UCs, the income limit is 8 lakhs. 10% Indians living in extreme poverty earn 50,000 per annum. So the EWS reservation with an income limit of 8 lakhs is clearly only for rich UCs. What happened to merit? No protest against upper caste reservation?

Even if reservation was on economic basis, remember: Top 10% upper-caste households own 60% of the country's wealth. Brahmins earns 48% more than the national average, upper-castes earns 45% more national average. Dalits & Adivasis earn 21% & 34% less than the national average

The biggest oppression an upper caste faces is not getting seat in govt college. The biggest oppression a Dalit faces is being killed by upper castes for things like riding a horse or growing a moustache. Caste based discrimination is a systematic oppression against Dalits by UCs

Now please start acknowledging your privilege & stop harassing us. You have created enough problems for us as it is. Use your caste privilege to stop the caste atrocities that happen everyday instead of crying online about how you're being oppressed by Bahujans getting educated

Also, students from reserved categories aren't any less meritorious. They too have to write exams for 3/4 years & pass all of them. There is no lower cutoff in graduation. And reservation for never meant for 10 years. Ambedkar would slap you for spreading lies in his name

There was once a study conducted by Sukhdeo Thorat where people with upper castes, Muslim & Dalit surnames with the same educational qualifications applied for jobs. The UC surnames overwhelmingly got selected over Dalit and Muslim surnames. This is how caste privilege works