Posted on 11/16/2023 5:38:32 AM PST by MtnClimber
Some social psychologists believe that humans are biologically wired to seek “fair” relationships with others. Some theologians believe that the soul’s capacity for distinguishing right from wrong leads a moral person toward the same result. Whether genetically or spiritually inclined to prefer fair outcomes, we humans are not comfortable around those who cheat and prosper from duplicity. Cheating is ugly and therefore despised.
Systemic cheating, however, now dominates Western life. Elevating “diversity for diversity’s sake” over all other metrics for gauging achievement has reduced merit and hard work to second-class virtues. Rewarding illegal aliens with amnesty has cheapened the sacrifices of those lawful immigrants who have struggled to integrate into their new home countries. Allowing delusional men to dominate women’s sports has cheated female athletes of a fair playing field for pursuing excellence. In ways big and small, “woke” governments, corporations, and academic institutions cheat Western citizens of the opportunity to enjoy the fruits of their own labors.
Of course, systemic cheating is disguised in language that sounds noble. “Woke” Marxists use “fairness” jiujitsu to force disingenuous and unprincipled change.
Unfairly promoting a less talented person over a more talented person because of his respective skin colors is celebrated as a victory for “diversity” — a reminder that in the twenty-first century, racists are still obsessed with how a person looks at the expense of what thoughts occupy his mind. Without any public debates or votes, governments have replaced “equal treatment under the law” with “equitable” redistribution — or, in layman’s terms, “special treatment under the law” — so that certain classes of people can benefit at the expense of others.
In an amazing instance of Orwellian “doublespeak,” the State categorizes those classes that are unfairly rewarded as “underprivileged” and the people against whom it discriminates as “privileged.”
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All of the marxist activities have created a tribalized society with groups fighting for the greater share of the handouts, because they deserve it in their own minds. This creates the turmoil that the marxists want. We are all being played.
Fairness is replaced by equity
The unequals now demand unobtainable equity from their betters
the left is only interested in diversity when its skin color related, sex or gender based.
The left has no interest in diversity of political beliefs!
The country has been nearly evenly divided liberal to conservative for decades and yet why isn’t the left suing colleges and others for underrepresenting conservatives among faculty?
How very true this is. I have to think that a lot of this started changing when prayer & respect for our flag was removed from the schools & other institutions. Older citizens can usually remember when things were different & some of the things that caused the downfall of standards that we have today.
Equality or Equity. Choose one. They are mutually exclusive.
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So, a social scientist weighs in, and only then can the concept of fairness in society be deemed an imperative?
How hard was this to figure out?
FWIW, historically speaking, fairness between and among different “types” or categories of people is typically not a prominent feature in societies/polities. Once a group achieves dominance, bank on it—they’ll put a death grip on it, and everyone else can go scratch.
“ the State categorizes those classes that are unfairly rewarded as “underprivileged” and the people against whom it discriminates as “privileged.”
Forced Redistribution
“fair” has become a synonym for “equal”, especially equal outcomes, what they call “equity”. It’s the old Marxism with some new wrapping paper.
A society that adopts and enforces that definition of fairness is doomed to fail.
The much better definition of “fair”, is that your rewards should be proportional to your honest contribution. That’s been the definition that made the US great.
Deciding what is Equitable has become falls to unelected and usually unaccountable judges.
The United States has to a large extent become ruled by judges.
Judges that are mostly free of term limits or forced retirement.
More and more we are ruled by petty princes in black robes.
We need an Article 5 convention to remedy these and other problems.
The left is only interested in so called “diversity” to the extent that it can be weaponized in the service of their cruel and soul-wrecking agenda.
“We are all being played.”
It is a remarkable moment when the occasional player realizes that they’ve lost the game.
Like the IUD's and birth control drugs that were suddenly made available to white females in the late '60s, that finally allowed them all to have safe sex with black males, those kinds of things? And the feminizing of white males, remember how we were told at the same time white men needed to learn how to cry, and to connect with their feeelings, and that only black men were permitted to have high testosterone levels and the behavior patterns that went with it, those kinds of things?
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