There are many aphorisms about the "Wisdom of Crowds". There are also (pseudo) zen koans about "Never underestimating the power of stupid people in large groups"
Arguments for upholding exclusion of women and Dalits, are specious. Beyond blind references to tradition, analogies are sometimes made between exclusionary PoWs, and housing societies
The compilers of the so-called dossier on Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) missed their calling
The concept of machines that are self-aware, auto-didactic and capable of outthinking human beings have been standard elements of SF for a long while