{"id":75170,"date":"2020-09-04T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75170"},"modified":"2020-08-30T11:20:35","modified_gmt":"2020-08-30T16:20:35","slug":"slippery-semantic-slope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75170","title":{"rendered":"Slippery Semantic Slope"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n

I keep hearing these words\u00a0 used interchangeably, typically by liberals.
That is wrong; they are not the same words. They do not mean the same thing.<\/p>

Equality is when everyone gets the same. Equity is when everyone gets
what they deserve.<\/p>

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

Equality means we both get A’s.\u00a0 Equity means you pass and I fail.<\/p>

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.<\/p>

Now, it’s gone even farther.\u00a0 Now equity means reparations. Someone
whose hair and nose looked like yours had a rough life 150 years ago?\u00a0
Sorry about that, let me adjust your grade . . . here’s your A.<\/p>

Annoys me.<\/p>

Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

All that, and it’s unsustainable. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I keep hearing these words\u00a0 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 getswhat they deserve. You studied hard, went to class, turned in assignments on time. I nevercracked a book, skipped […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75176,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75170\/revisions\/75176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}