I guess I always thought of it like even though everyone is not born with the same abilities nor raised in the same environments, each individual can take personal responsibility and access the knowledge and other opportunities that are publicly available to everyone.
But now I see that my interpretation is not the only one.
Liberals want to make things equal for everyone by lowering standards. Then they wonder why we are falling behind other nations.
It’s true that there are different ways of interpreting it, but just as with the doctrine against discrimination, conservatives ALWAYS wind up giving the Left more firepower when we accept such egalitarian premises and rosy bromides — because by accepting those terms, we help them perpetuate equal opportunity and non-discrimination literally and in principle, which means we continually cede ground and cede the entire argument because we ourselves are agreeing that exercising free choice is bad. It’s not that complicated, it;s just that nobody ever really points this out, because if we really believe in and advocate freedom, we are advocating things like inequality and racism(which we’ve been brainwashed to fear and deem bad), which are in fact what you must allow if you are to openly advocate freedom.
The problem is that most people never think it through to its full implications: All outcomes are opportunities, and all opportunities are outcomes. There is never any starting point, nor any finishing point.