The just deserts logic of racial and caste discrimination

What is it about?

Cultural racism is often seen as a new development in the history of racism. With a comparative historical outlook, however, it is apparent that such meritocratic rationale for social injustice is a time tested ideological device. It reached its apotheosis in the idea of karma as a justification for caste inequality in ancient India. Furthermore, it was inbuilt in the modern liberal rhetoric that produced "race" as a construct to rationalize sub-humanization within a discourse of universal human equality.

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