The underlying important question is what do you define as equality?
Equality of outcomes, or equality of opportunity?
This is a very slippery slope when some definitions are not equal, or stated, as we’ve come into a recent crisis of definitions being rewritten unnaturally (I understand the meaning of words change over time, but there have been recent inorganic changes, I’d argue)
The classic opportunity of outcome is proven to be doomed, and is not aligned with your imperfect world assertion.
I can get behind equality of opportunity, which I’d argue affirmative action’s impact was antithetical to this vision.
We’ve come to a point where the new generation is being held accountable for something they had no hand in.
We shouldn’t be trying to treat these diversity reports as a checkbook that needs to be balanced.
I heard something that resonated with me, and will probably get me downvoted to oblivion (if it hasn’t already happened):
those that want to look for racism, will find it.
Once a certain area is solved so to speak, some groups tend to look even harder, and we get to a point now where we have this ever-widening definition of what racism is, the goal posts ever expanding, and this endless loop is our culture eating itself alive.
I shouldn’t have to say this, but this doesn’t imply racism doesn’t exist. But it does imply that our definitions of it have radically evolved, and perhaps is being used for ulterior motives outside of “equality”
Equality of outcomes, or equality of opportunity?
This is a very slippery slope when some definitions are not equal, or stated, as we’ve come into a recent crisis of definitions being rewritten unnaturally (I understand the meaning of words change over time, but there have been recent inorganic changes, I’d argue)
The classic opportunity of outcome is proven to be doomed, and is not aligned with your imperfect world assertion.
I can get behind equality of opportunity, which I’d argue affirmative action’s impact was antithetical to this vision.
We’ve come to a point where the new generation is being held accountable for something they had no hand in.
We shouldn’t be trying to treat these diversity reports as a checkbook that needs to be balanced.
I heard something that resonated with me, and will probably get me downvoted to oblivion (if it hasn’t already happened):
those that want to look for racism, will find it.
Once a certain area is solved so to speak, some groups tend to look even harder, and we get to a point now where we have this ever-widening definition of what racism is, the goal posts ever expanding, and this endless loop is our culture eating itself alive.
I shouldn’t have to say this, but this doesn’t imply racism doesn’t exist. But it does imply that our definitions of it have radically evolved, and perhaps is being used for ulterior motives outside of “equality”