ANALYSIS โ The term โequity' has seeped into every aspect of U.S. domestic and even foreign policy. We hear the term everywhere.
Most recently VP Kamala Harris used it to describe how hurricane relief funds should be distributed in Florida based in part on skin color and โcommunities of color' should receive priority. (RELATED: Kamala Harris in Car Accident Falsely Described as โMechanical Failure')
This outrageous claim from Harris provoked aย backlashย from Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, many conservatives and others.
On his first day as president, Joe Biden alsoย issuedย an โExecutive Order on Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities.โ
This made promoting โequity' a centerpiece of his administration โ a highly damaging proposition.
But to many Americans, it's a totally innocuous term, which sounds a lot like equal or equality.
And aren't Americans supposed to be โequal under the law?'
So, what is the big fuss?
Well, the fact is the term โequity' is just the latest effort in a long line of leftist code words intended to mask their true intent.
Equity is not only not similar to equality; it is the polar opposite. It is an evil code word for socialism.
It means ignoring individuals and favoring some groups over others.
The ultimate goal of โequity' is not to ensure equal opportunities. It is to achieve equal outcomes.
That is just a new brand name for the oldest program of social and economic leveling ever invented โ socialism. (RELATED: Republicans Grill Bank CEOs on Woke Corporations and Collapse to Come)
Harris admitted as muchย in a tweet and video,ย postedย before the election and viewed well over 6 million times: โThere's a big difference between equality and equity.โ
But the left tends not to highlight the true impact of this huge difference.
Instead, they argue that some people simply need a hand to help them reach the same level playing field.
However, promoting โequityโ means ending America's traditional guiding ideal of โequal treatment under the law.โ
It enshrines reverse discrimination as policy.
It is a mandate to discriminate based on skin color, economic standing or other standards such as gender identification.
And it is undermining America'sย bedrock principle that people should be treated equally and judged as individuals, not as members of groups.
As Charles Lipsonย wroteย in โ'Equity' is Socialism by Another Nameโ in The Wall Street Journal last year:
Those who push for equity have hidden these crucial differences for a reason. They aren't merely unpopular; they challenge America's bedrock principle that people should be treated equally and judged as individuals, not as members of groups.
He adds:
Hidden, too, are the extensive measures that would be needed to achieve equal outcomes. Only a powerful central government could impose the intensiveโand expensiveโprograms of social intervention, ideological re-education and economic redistribution. Only an intrusive bureaucracy could specify the rules for every business, public institution and civic organization. Those unhappy implications are why advocates of equity are so determined to hide what the term really means.
Lipson, a professor emeritus of political science at the University of Chicago, who founded the Program on International Politics, Economics, and Security,ย continues:
One measure of how unpopular these unequal programs are is how often their proponents need to rename them. โQuotasโ were restyled as โaffirmative action.โ The goal was still to give special benefits to some groups to achieve desired outcomes. Now โaffirmative actionโ has also become toxic, rejected most recently by voters in deep-blue California. Hence, the new name, โequity.โ
Instead of making their case openly and honestly, advocates of equity twist and turn to avoid revealing their radical goal of re-engineering society through coercion.
This is the ultimate goal of the left โ using the term โequity' to mask a coercive socialist agenda intended to โfundamentally transform' American society โ to quote Barack Obama in 2008.
Americans must challenge the concept and the term at every turn. We believe in equality, not โequity.' And we must fight to defend it.
The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the positions ofย American Liberty News.
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I prefer equality, equity is just another redistribution of wealth scheme on the population.
Need Equity of targets to shoot
With Red armbands OK Antifa colors
The Democratic mantra of Diversity (Anti-white policies), Equity (Equal Outcomes/Socialism), and Inclusion (Trans rights) is just another Democrat language perversion that does the opposite of what it portends. Just like the laughably called โInflation Reduction Actโ that will only increase inflation and taxes and is actually a 730 billion dollar โGreen New Dealโ slush fund.ย
โSystemic Racismโ is an invented term that nobody can define and now we even have โenvironmental racismโ and the idiot Transportation Secretary says we even have โracistโ highways. Now our Vice President says we should distribute hurricane aid based on skin color. DEI has brought about illegal laws that call for firing whites first, for hiring whites last, and for idiocy like the โMenstrual Protection Actโ in Oregon that mandates installing tampon dispensers in every boys restroom in every public school in the state. Seriously, go look it up. Now we are hiring commercial Pilots and admitting applicants to Medical schools based, not on merit, but on race! That should work out well. And, oh yeah, the woke military now canโt even meet 75% of its recruiting goals so they are lowering physical and even mental standards and painting โrainbow bulletsโ on Marine helmets in recruiting ads. Never mind that one of their first โtransโ soldiers just got arrested for spying for the Russians. In fact even the term โMeritocracyโ is now racist. We have biological males destroying womenโs sports and we have a transgender fake โAdmiralโ as the โhighest ranking official of the U.S. Public Health Serviceโ. He/She? also thinks that itโs O.K. to mutilate and castrate children in the name of โgender equityโ.
Itโs almost impossible to comprehend how we are living in such an upside down clown world. Unless itโs stopped soon we will simply disintegrate into an evil, lawless, corrupt society that always ends up with a Communist/Socialist takeover. Of course, that’s always been the end goal……