The recent Affirmative Action discussions (well, that and a few other things) have left me utterly exhausted. So much so that I'm turning off comments on this article, just to discourage further debate for now.

However, I wanted to link to this fabulous piece by Shanti, a refugee of India's Caste system. To quote:

This system all the more bothers me, since I have been raised in a country that has one of the worst quota systems in the world, which is the biggest cause of "brain drain" from the country. Reservations were introduced in India to level the playing the field for "upper-caste" and "lower caste" Hindus. Once they went into place, no one now has the power to try and remove them from the system. ....America is definitely not as bad as India is, but I am afraid we are slowly getting there. I am afraid that the paradise I came here seeking, the society that I was hoping to find that cared only about my ability to deliver, and not my skin color or my caste, is being taken over by fools....Fools who would frustrate bright and hard-working students, just so they can "represent" colors on the campus. Every admission given to a less qualified candidate is one bright person being told that he does not qualify for "equal opportunity", since he is not the right skin color. This is insane.

Go on and read the rest.

And if I hear one more person tell me that giving 2 points for having parents who went to U of M is every bit as bad as giving 20 points for having a parent with skin a shade or two darker than mine, and that I must launch a Jihad against student athlete programs if I oppose racial discrimination, I swear my head will simply explode.

(Link courtesy of Susanna.)