More Equity

 

                                  More Equity

Inequity in life has become a condition where choice does not matter. This woman is really mad.

"The ever-moving goalposts of leftist ideology have shifted once again, this time regarding equality. American exceptionalism derives from the concept of equality of opportunity. Such equality has diluted in meaning as the rise of woke ideology has taken over the culture and our major institutions. Calls for equality have turned into demands for equity — a goal that requires extraordinary lengths of unequal treatment and yet will never be achieved.

The replacement of the word “equality” for “equity” was a subtle yet deliberate move by politicians, activists, the mainstream media, and the rest of the ruling class in the hopes that people would think the terms hold the same meaning. Equality and equity are not synonymous. In fact, they are in direct conflict. Equity requires uniform outcome and uniform outcome requires unequal standards — certain rules apply to some but not to others.

Our obsession with equity has created a caste system that actively segregates, discriminates, and judges based on sex, sexual orientation, race, and ethnicity. Your individual characteristics, of which you have no control over, are now either your greatest asset or biggest downfall. In order to justify the logic of discriminating based on superficial characteristics, you must buy into the notion that our entire country is entrenched in a system of oppression towards minorities in each of these categories. If this were true, then no amount of equity councils or policy changes could rectify the unjust system. The system cannot cure itself if the very system is the problem — the system itself must be destroyed.

Yet, you don’t see executives giving up their positions to people of color. You don’t see woke students refusing their admission to college so a disadvantaged person may take their spot. You didn’t see Joe Biden not run for president to give a minority a better chance to grab the presidential nomination. You don’t see the system giving up its power; you see the system taking every opportunity to expand it.

An equitable future is not the goal. A controlled one is. When you live in a country where equal opportunity, not equal outcome, is the basis of policy and law, then any disparity — racial or otherwise — can be largely attributed not to systemic discrimination, but to individual choice and decision-making. Herein lies the problem: to admit that individual choices are the driving factors of outcome is to admit personal responsibility in failure and success. In a culture that rewards victimhood, there is no societal power to be yielded in taking personal responsibility. We’ve cultivated a society that views personal responsibility with antipathy, labeling it a product of white supremacy." --Alyssa Ahlgren