Via John "Simply put, this is legalized racism, whereby some people are punished for their skin color and others are institutionally rewarded for their darker skin color. Skin color is a birth characteristic over which the person has no control. No one should have to apologize for things over which they have NO control. How did we arrive at such an inequitable fantasy?"
One of the more popular buzzwords in Washington, DC, and state capitols is “equity.” To most people, it sounds a lot like “equality,” a term that in the popular consciousness means equal treatment under the law.
But equity doesn’t mean equality. As Prof. Charles Lipson writes, the wide difference between the two concepts has been intentionally blurred to cover a profoundly anti-equality political agenda:
It’s the difference between equal treatment and equal outcomes. Equality means equal treatment, unbiased competition and impartially judged outcomes. Equity means equal outcomes, achieved if necessary by unequal treatment, biased competition and preferential judging.
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