Slippery Semantic Slope

I keep hearing these words  used interchangeably, typically by liberals.
That is wrong; they are not the same words. They do not mean the same thing.

Equality is when everyone gets the same. Equity is when everyone gets
what they deserve.

You studied hard, went to class, turned in assignments on time. I never
cracked a book, skipped class, failed to turn in assignments.

Equality means we both get A’s.  Equity means you pass and I fail.

Doesn’t matter that you came from a culture which values education and I
came from a culture which does not. Culture has nothing to do with
equity or equality of results. That’s just an excuse for lack of
individual effort.

Now, it’s gone even farther.  Now equity means reparations. Someone
whose hair and nose looked like yours had a rough life 150 years ago? 
Sorry about that, let me adjust your grade . . . here’s your A.

Annoys me.

Joe Doakes

All that, and it’s unsustainable.

Problem is, society may well find that out by the literal and figurative collapse of everything that “equality” built that can’t, in all equity, continue.

3 thoughts on “Slippery Semantic Slope

  1. Someone whose hair and nose looked like yours had a rough life 150 years ago?
    That is not the reasoning behind reparations.
    The reasoning is that systemic racism exists in the US today and this is the result of 400 years of racism. The cure, today, for ills suffered, today, is reparations.
    Reparations will not take the form of money taken directly from white individuals and given directly to black individuals. It will take the form of massive spending, controlled by politicians, on certain constituencies, paid for by massive tax hikes on middle and upper wage earners, as well as xfer of property taxes from wealthier communities to poorer communities.
    Keep your eye on the ball.
    In intellectual circles there is an increasing reference to the advantages whites have (and blacks lack) from intergenerational wealth transfer.
    The people who emphasize this have, in fact, benefited from intergenerational wealth transfer.
    I have not. Most white people have not. Even todayonly about 1 in 3 white people obtain a bachelor’s degree. When I was young, it was about 1 in 5.
    It is only the bourgeois that equates being white with being educated and wealthy. Most whites do not.
    And of course our politicians, our academics, and our professional class come from the bourgeois.

  2. Problem is, society may well find that out by the literal and figurative collapse of everything that “equality” built that can’t, in all equity, continue.

    But society already knows the outcome. All you have to do is look at failure of each and every soci@list experience. Each… And Every… One. But bourgeois are above the lessons of history. Especially lessons that 99% of bourgeois get summarily executed by the mob they help to incite.

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