Posted on 01/07/2017 11:31:52 PM PST by aquila48
“Equality” is one of those words that has gained far too much currency in the modern West. The use of it constitutes an exercise in stultiloquence, making it the perfect sort of term for use by social justice warriors (SJWs) and others on the Left.
Equality has been a powerfully destructive force on our society. Because of it, laws are passed which force businesses to hire suboptimal employees who end up harming not only the productivity of the enterprise, but also the social and trust structures within it as well. Because of the demands of “equality,” relative power within a company moves away from the productive members of the company towards the non-productive members found in ever-enlarging HR organisations within the corporate structure. Equality is forcing Americans to accept men intruding themselves into women’s bathrooms and forcing them to make cakes and arrange flowers for the grossly unnatural fantasies of “gay marriage.” Equality is opening forcing the military, police forces, and fire brigades to lower their standards so that female applicants can pass the physical requirements.
In each and every case, we see that “equality” is really just a cover for SJW-mandated “social redistribution.” Just as socialists seek wealth redistribution in the economic realm, so SJWs seek social redistribution – the taking of social “results” from one or several groups to be given to others.
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Just another way of stealing.
And they have made the words “fair” and “fair shake” into something nefarious. Our dear departing leader loves to throw those terms around.
There is such a thing as justice, but it is often both imperfect in practice and hard to define. Equality is something employed as a synonymn by those incapable or unwilling to grapple with the messiness of justice.
Forced “equality”, along with “diversity” are just sugar coated terms for communism, aka: equal sharing of misery for the personal benefit of the ruling class.
Equality is one major function in how current western society got to be greater than Islamic Societies. Science and math are largely based on relating independents and dependants through equalities that help to explain and understand things. QED.
Had a gal in Manhattan tell me last week that I was privileged because I was a white man in America.
Because that’s all that matters.
I told her I’ve ha the “privilege” of my pop dying when I was 14. Mom having nervous breakdown. Watching wife fight cancer three times. And just like ALL OF US, many other unfortunate things, as well as, many great things, nephews/nieces being born, now getting engaged, graduating law/medical school, etc.
Life doesn’t care about your color or gender.
But you persevere and overcome.
They just DONT GET IT.
Equal men are not free...
Truth.
There should always be equality of opportunity. That can never mean however equality of outcome. THAT is what the SJWs are demanding. If someone wants to achieve a goal, that person deserves to give it his or her best and no more or no less than anyone else. But if that person fails because of personal limitations, he or she should possess the grace to accept it, and move on.
The drive to overcome our limitations has been one of the engines of true human progress. Ironically, so-called "progressives" have done their damndest to destroy that engine in the name of "feelings".
I'm all for equal opportunity. Provided it is acknowledged that it can never guarantee anticipated wealth and success in parity with others. Indeed, it shouldn't be that at all.
“Equal opportunity” exists - that is, a free society gives every member the chance to become what they want to be, if they can find a way to do so (within the law).
“Equal outcomes”, which is the cause of the Social Justice Warrior, cannot exist in a society based on individual liberty and responsibility. It cannot exist in a free society. It can only exist in a society where achievement is punished by confiscation of all gains above the average and redistribution through force of those gains that are stolen from the achievers.
Having said all that, the headline conflates the word “opportunity” with the meaning “outcome”.
These dim witted white liberal snowflakes and hags are programmed to repeat the college mantra.
Yeah and it’s really beginning to pi@@ me off.
Saw an interview of college kids who REALLY BELIEVE THIS CisGender shi#.
You can’t call a spade a spade anymore.
I would have slapped them all across the face and told them to wake the #### up.
My mind can’t compute how they believe you can’t use the word man or woman!!
Otherwise, one could also call for State measures to combat "beauty privilege."
Regards,
Learned a new word.
Definition of stultiloquence: senseless or silly talk
True. Yet a child in Harlem starts life with a decided disadvantage to a child in, say, Chappaqua. It's so sad to see a child in an unsafe and unsavory neighborhood, neglected by parents and attending a failing school. Big government "solutions" have failed these children.
What I recently found out was that Government Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) offices does not include helping Veterans applying for jobs under the Veterans Employment Opportunity Act (VEOA). Nor could the EEO rep provide who in that organization was responsible for adherence to the VEOA.
Amen
Inequality begins at birth
Terrific article. I have often said that it’s nonsense to tell kids they ‘can be anything they want to be.’ Utter nonsense. As Clint Eastwood said, “A man’s gotta know his limitations.”
Exactly, it is economic thievery and theft of natural rights. A scam by any other name and a way to attack the natural talents of non-blacks. Open racism of the lowest order.
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