Equality vs Equity

George Rebane

The latest socialist bamboozle is the Democrats' new declaration that America is now more racially divided than it has been for years, and what we now need to fix our society is to pass new laws and regulations to instill equity across the land.  Forget about equality, we’re now told that is a white supremacist cum racist term and concept.  From here on out equity is ‘where it’s at’.  So, what’s the difference?

It turns out the difference is not only big, but requires a very large government, which in turn requires a much greater collection of tribute to bring about nationwide equity.  Part of the big bamboozle is how our leftwing propagandists demonstrate the difference between equality and equity using the graphic below.

All this equity business is being built up to stamp out racism and white privilege.  Pew Research has found that the “public has negative views of the country’s racial progress; more than half say Trump has made race relations worse.”  (more here) What evidence does the average person have/cite that makes him believe that, while the rest of the world’s poor and ‘people of color’ consider that notion to be utterly false (aka bullshit) as attested by their heroic attempts to get into America.  The ‘evidence’ provided the average American has been a steady 24/7 drizzle of racist propaganda from the lamestream as part and parcel of serving up a constant anti-Trump diet for the last five years.  Sadly, the critical thinking skills of our hoi polloi are of bottom-of-barrel quality.

An obvious aspect of the above picture of equity as it concerns wealth redistribution is that their scheme keeps the amount of wealth constant – you just reallocate the existing boxes.  A more complete definition of equity includes the dictum of equal outcomes – equal opportunity is not sufficient because that then requires differential effort to achieve equal outcome.  And a fundamental tenet of socialists everywhere is that enabling the poor and ignorant to compete will tend to make them more independent and accomplished, and less needy of socialist succor.  For the success of socialism, best to keep them on the plantation and be seen as their only reliable source of life’s necessaries.

The result of all these new equity initiatives is the return to real racism because any way you cut it, equity is a mandate to discriminate according to class, ethnicity, and race. (more here)

The Cato Institute did an update of the above propaganda graphic, showing how capitalism would solve the problem.  Their solution makes the point of wealth increasing across all classes, but still falls short of highlighting capitalism’s true benefits.  With capitalism, the fans would be able to buy tickets and sit equally in the stands instead of still having to watch the game from behind the outfield fence.

Perhaps the most devious and dangerous aspect of enforcing equity is through equal rates and ratios applied uniformly across defined racial and ethnic classes.  Law enforcement and education are two areas where enforcing equity can do great harm.

We have read reams of reports about how our unionized public schools have dumbed down American youth over the last couple of generations.  Now dumbth is delivered on steroids.  Equity requires that education produce equal outcomes in student performance across the classes.  And the only way that Democrats have been able to accomplish that is dumbing down curriculum and testing – i.e. go for the lowest common denominator.  It started with New Math et al, progressed to Common Core, and now all subjects (including STEM) are being fitted for delivery through Critical Race Theory.  Frosting on the cake has been the imposition of censored speech so that ideas that expose the progressive narratives are prohibited in academe and social media, through the use of advanced mob-engineering techniques of ‘cancellation’ enabled by corporatist oligopolies, and abetted by the lamestream media which has finally declared itself to be the voice of the new socialist Democratic Party.

Apropos to the above, the most egregious Big Lie foisted today by the Democratic Party is that America is a systemically racist nation.  Of course, there is no evidence to back up such hypocritical propaganda coming from the historically most racist political party/faction in the land that has now ratcheted up its racist practices in both scope and reach.  (more here)  As an example, consider the following.

According to the FBI, African Americans accounted for 52.4% of all homicide offenders in 2018, with Whites 43.1% and "Other"/Unknown 4.4%. Of these, 15.4% were Hispanic or Latino. The per-capita offending rate for African Americans was roughly six times higher than Whites, and the victim rate is a similar figure. Most homicides were intraracial, with 81% of White victims killed by Whites and 89% of African American victims killed by African Americans. … There were 5.0 murders per 100,000 people in 2019. (more here)

Finally, note that median 2020 household income was $78,500.  If household income equity through wealth redistribution is the goal, then it will never be achieved at any QoL level near that of today’s middle class by ‘robbing the rich’ to buy votes from the poor.  One can reasonably argue that investments to grow the economy and jobs come almost entirely from the top 20% of earners.  And that goes triple for making correct investments that actually generate net jobs, wealth, and increase the country’s QoL in general.  Governments have a horrible record of benefitting their citizens when by fiat they become significant players in their countries’ economies.  Teams Biden, Pelosi, and Schumer know none of this. (more here)

Comments

[Scott O]

I see our fav leftys have no answer.
They know they will be allowed to show up here and spew whatever nonsense they want and yet they cower.

[Bill Tozer]

MATH IS HARD—HARDEST OF ALL FOR THE LEFT
In recent weeks we’ve seen the announcement that certain Virginia public school districts (and others elsewhere in the country) will discontinue advanced math classes, because “equity,” and the University of California will permanently discontinue using the SAT for admission purposes.

If you want to know why the left is doing this, have a close look at this chart:

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/05/math-is-hard-hardest-of-all-for-the-left.php

[Bill Tozer]

Bottomline: Equity is racism.