{"id":1080,"date":"2021-02-24T12:58:24","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T12:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/?p=1080"},"modified":"2021-02-24T12:58:24","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T12:58:24","slug":"where-equity-goes-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2021\/02\/24\/where-equity-goes-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Where equity goes wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"

A friend forwarded this article criticizing Merrick Garland’s views on equity.<\/a> <\/p>\n

Here’s an image people like to use to show why equity is fairer than equality. <\/p>\n

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Treating everyone “equally” doesn’t work in this situation, since people have different needs. And this is exactly what you would do if you were that dad. <\/p>\n

(By the way, why isn’t this image criticized as racist, since it seems to imply that these brown-skinned people can’t afford tickets to the game?) <\/p>\n

This is clearly the way we should treat individuals. E.g., Joe doesn’t need any help, so he doesn’t get any. Sam needs a little help, and Ezra needs a lot. <\/p>\n

Well and good. The problem is when you start assigning the amount of help that is due based on something other than the amount of help that is needed. If you say, for example, that white people don’t need any help, but all black people do, that’s simply ridiculous. There are plenty of poor white people and rich black people. <\/p>\n

The problem with all this “diversity, equity and inclusion” stuff is that it’s not<\/b> based on individual needs. It’s based on identity politics and group characteristics, and that makes it both racist and foolish. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A friend forwarded this article criticizing Merrick Garland’s views on equity. Here’s an image people like to use to show why equity is fairer than equality. Treating everyone “equally” doesn’t work in this situation, since people have different needs. And this is exactly what you would do if you were that dad. (By the way, … Continue reading “Where equity goes wrong”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1082,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080\/revisions\/1082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}