Do you want:
Equal Opportunity?
or
Equal Outcomes?
If you want Equal Opportunity, then you would support color-blind, race-blind, sex-blind, ethnic-blind laws and policies. And…..because of historical denial of equal opportunity, you could, and perhaps would, support some measures to “catch-up” for those who had previously been denied.
Such measures to “catch-up” would have to be limited in both action and in time. If not, then they actually become an entrenched, self-perpetuating form of preference/discrimination.
For example, the University of Virginia did not admit women before 1970. In 2021 56% of the student population are women. Without even knowing what happened in the 1970s/80s, you might have supported efforts by UVA to increase the size of the female enrollment. While, in the 2010s/20s not support targeted efforts to “help” women who are now enrolling/applying? Without adapting to changing developments, including successful ones such as an actual increase in female enrollment in this example, you would then perpetuate efforts that were not needed.
Another example to challenge the thinking: do you believe in equal opportunity for children in education/schooling? If so, do you believe that funding for schools should be redesigned to ensure that each school has the same quality of facilities, class sizes and teachers? How would you change the funding systems in your city/county/state to make that happen?
Funding is one significant impact on equal opportunity. But it is not the only one. How do you challenge your city/county/state to provide more opportunities? For example, in lower income neighborhoods, you might support more gyms, courts, tracks, fields…and coaches…and equipment…and dance classes and art and music lessons….since the students would typically have less available to them.
If, instead, you believe in equal outcomes, how can you achieve that without being discriminatory?
Please respond with ideas/comments. Because freedom and liberty bring opportunity. But do not guarantee results. Marxism is based on equal outcomes, at least in theory. In practice, Marxism has never brought equal opportunity or equal outcomes.
What kind of country do you want? One striving for freedom and opportunity for all? Or one denying it to all?
Son of Liberty 2020
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