If one looks at the equal rights amendment, it is an outstanding piece of legislation. It guaranteed that access to schools, work, etc. would be based on merit and not color, creed, religion, sex etc. This was the vision of Martin Luther King. It came to be and this was good. Martin Luther’s vision has been corrupted!
Today all the things that were supposed to be equal have become the opposite. Discrimination is now rampant based on the things the equal rights legislation prohibited.
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Indeed. Racial bigotry against White people, and sex-based bigotry against Men are now the law of the land ... and this is the true legacy of the misnamed and misbegotten "civil" "rights" "movement".
I see your point - the DEI evangelists should think REALLY HARD before supporting something that their cause threw to the gutter in the 1980s (all people should receive equal treatment). It gives the conservatives on the Supreme Court a PERFECT perch to end DEI.
It doesn’t actually guarantee anything based on merit, it only prevents discrimination based on sex and has nothing to do with racial discrimination or other kinds of discrimination. It attempts to create equality between sexes that nature itself does not recognize, and can be too broadly interpreted.