Posted on 06/22/2021 3:48:41 AM PDT by MtnClimber
If God had decided to teach liberals a lesson about Charles Murray’s latest book Facing Reality: Two Truths About Race in America published June 15, He might, after review, say this:
Dear liberals: racial groups really do differ in intelligence and in violent crime, and it ain’t systemic racism.
And yes, liberals, IQ tests accurately predict educational and job performance. Because “science is real.”
And yes, liberals, if you are going to implement racial quotas all the way up to corporate CEOs, then you got trouble, right here in River City.
Not that God’s Word will make a blind bit of difference. Race is everything to liberals because race politics is the “political formula” of our ruling class, the moral and legal argument it uses to justify its power.
This political formula is best expressed by Matt Taibbi’s explanation of “antiracism.”
It sees the human being as locked into one of three categories: members of oppressed groups, allies, and white oppressors.
Yes, I know. Every word is a lie, for the “allies” are the ruling class; the “oppressed peoples” are really the Little Darlings of the ruling class; and the “white oppressors” are ordinary middle-class schmucks who just want to drive a truck, go to work, and grill meat on the barbecue. But Racism!
A ruling class believes -- has to believe -- its political formula. Our proof is our ruling class’s serial rejection of Charles Murray’s books. Go back and read the 1985 NYT review of Murray’s Losing Ground. The Great Society was a total failure, you say?
That proposition may be as deeply flawed as it is startling, unlikely to survive scrutiny.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
There will always be someone with less talent or drive. There is nothing in this world that is close to equality.
“Equality” and “equity” are two terms being bandied about, and somehow have become synonyms. They are not.
Equality means an evenly divided proportion of whatever pie is being carved up, and equity refers to the EARNED right to a defined portion of that or a similar pie. One cannot substitute for the other, in any way, shape, form, or manner.
Suppose, if you would, for a moment, that the owner of some enterprise would choose to divide up “equal” shares to his business to his employees. Dismantling all the physical parts of the enterprise, the bricks and mortar and the machinery, and giving each of the one-time employees an equal pile of these parts. Could any of the employees ever put the pile of parts in his or her possession together and make a viable enterprise? Not likely, because the necessary capital and expert knowledge are missing. Something could be done, but this is on the order of scavenging, and not real capitalist enterprise. But it would be a form of “equality”.
On the other hand, the owner may choose to sell his functioning enterprise to a third party, take the proceeds, and divide those proceeds up among his former employees based on the relative value of importance to the enterprise, and the number of years invested in this service. The former employees would receive disparate amounts on this basis, but this would define “equity”.
Liberals don't face reality, they create their own reality.
Liberals avoid reality but they can't avoid the consequences that occur as a result of avoiding reality.
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