[Jamestown1630]

I’d like to hear the leftists define ‘equity’, and why they find that word superior or different from the term ‘Equality’.

‘Equality’ is used in all of our founding writings, our Civil Rights act, and in many other American government documents.

I suspect they are trying to undo Equality, and replace it with an entirely different word/meaning.

[AndyTheBear]

Well the Leftists do say "Marriage Equality". I think the differences in the idea of justice and equality was most keenly expressed by Thomas Sowell as the Left's "Quest for Cosmic Justice" as compared to Traditional notions of Justice. Where Traditional Justice simply lays down the same rules for everyone, leaving it to the compassion of individuals to help their neighbor in need. On the other hand Cosmic Justice requires deciding how each person really deserves to be treated taking their entire life experience, race, ancestry, etc etc ect into account, and then demanding that the government be empowered to make the world perfectly fair for all individuals by this standard retroactively.

Of course as mere mortals we do not have the God like power and judgement necessary to apply Cosmic Justice fairly. The best we can do is treat everyone with equal respect and fairness in the here and now...but that does not due for Leftists. They insist on playing God and making life retroactively perfectly "equal" for everyone by treating people differently.

The two goals are incompatible. The Traditional system is not perfect but works. The Cosmic system could only be pulled off by God, and mortals trying to pull it off makes things much worse.

However when government pursues Cosmic Justice and makes it worse, they are praised by the Left for trying. For fighting the good fight etc. They are contrasted with those outside the Leftist hive mind who are seen as not caring a wit about anybody and being selfish etc. Of course the solution to the Leftist is always the same. They simply need more power and need to get the rest of us out of their way, and finally utopia will come about and all.

At bottom I suspect they know at some level they are full of it, but it allows them a cheap virtue. They can call themselves generous for demanding those that earn more than they do be forced to pay for making everything fair. This means they do not have to go out and help those in need, they only need to complain and they can be counted as generous. And worse of course is how the Left's hive mind fights to award victim status to various groups. How white male Leftists desperately need to be more zealous in condemning white people these days--to distinguish themselves from the normal unjust white people.

All in all, they are lazy people trying to play God and screwing things up.