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To: Borges

“Wollstonecraft applied the emerging arguments of liberalism, which insisted that social status should be determined by individual ability and skill rather than birth”

A concept which has nothing to do with today’s “liberalism”.


3 posted on 04/27/2009 12:09:51 PM PDT by Fred Hayek (Leftism is a mental disorder.)
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To: Fred Hayek
A concept which has nothing to do with today’s “liberalism”.

Yep, "Equality of Opportunity" has become "Equality of Outcome."

4 posted on 04/27/2009 12:11:14 PM PDT by dfwgator (1996 2006 2008 - Good Things Come in Threes)
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