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by missedthecue 1672 days ago
In India the concept is literally called "positive discrimination".
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Please correct me if you think I am wrong (disclaimer, never been to India) but my understanding of the situation in India is "vote banking".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Votebank

ยป Votebank (also spelled vote-bank or vote bank), in the political discourse of India, is a term referring to a loyal bloc of voters from a single community, who consistently back a certain candidate or political formation in democratic elections. Such behavior is often the result of an expectation of benefits, whether real or imagined, from the political formations, often at the cost of other communities. Votebank politics is the practice of creating and maintaining votebanks through divisive policies. As it encourages voting on the basis of self-interest of certain groups, often against their better judgement, it is considered harmful to the principles of representative democracy.[by whom?]

Not Indian. It's more likely this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reservation_in_India
This is just whitewashing it.

All discrimination is "positive" for someone. That's kind of the point.

In this case "positive" is not something "good". It's not there to soften the word "discrimination". It's similar to "blocklist" and "allowlist": you could argue that a blocklist is just an allowlist for each item that's not on the blocklist. Positive discrimination for a trait is negative discrimination for any other trait, but sometimes you'd like to highlight that you select for something, and not that you select against a myriad of other thing.
Same in the UK.