re: Equity vs Equality... someone help me out

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Let's think of an example that works, imagine a bunch of rich elite liberals in Baton Rouge, and a few good upstanding country farm boys in the little settlement of Ethel. Let's say 90% of the disgusting Baton Rouge liberals can afford to get their kids a Bible, and only 25% of the poor farmers in Ethel can do the same. Baton Rouge's population is 224,149, so 22,414 kids go Godless. Ethel's population is 3,584, so 2,688 kids go Godless.

A generation later, and all the kids in Ethel are little Satanists! The 10% of kids in Baton Rouge who didn't have Bibles still had friends who did, and they steered them back to the light. The kids in Ethel weren't as lucky, because more than half of them had no such holy scripture.

The local parish steps in, and they can only afford 10,000 Bibles, so they send 8,930 (89.3%) Bibles to Baton Rouge, and 1,070 (10.7%) of the Bibles to Ethel. After all, it's by the numbers!

But now, an Ethel family says. Those damn liberals in Baton Rouge! Why did they get all the Bibles? We have it worse here! They ought to send us even more Bibles, because our kids are the ones deep in the Stank of Satan!

It's more than equity in the moment, it's the fact that most black people's grandparents or parents lived in radically different times than white people's did, and that has absolutely ruined their current place by no fault of their own. I mean, damn, my mom was the first white student at the school in my hometown. That is NOT that long ago!

Disagreeing with this stuff is just the same old "I got mine, forget everyone else" mentality, the same mentality of people who only care about things when it affects them personally. Oh and about the metaphor I used, if you're not a Bible person, replace the Bibles with guns and the kids turning to Satan with...I guess the kids turning into vegans.

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You're making the assumption that the Bible is the only way out of being a Satanist. Which doesn't stack up, as does the original picture show.

In any case, Let's flip the script on your example. Let's say that the Liberals in Baton Rouge have Bibles, but only 1% make the kids read their Bibles. However, in Ethel, 100% of Parents make their kids read it. Which place is better off in that case?

The problem is that you, and all equity arguments, automatically equate resources with equity. And that's why this becomes a class struggle, and that's why this always turns into taking from someone, because it's simply a resource argument.

When looking at the picture, it's probably better to show equality as giving each person the same tools and materials to make a box, or a structure to stand on. In that case, think about each person, and what they would have to do to "See the action" on the field. That's equality, that should be America. We should all get the same tools with limitless circumstances. We shouldn't get the same setup or resource, that's impossible.

Yes, the kid on the end can make a box and see the action, or he can make a ladder and see above everyone else, but some people have to figure out how to make a better structure. That takes work, it takes a supportive culture, etc. But that doesn't mean you can just keep taking the resources from someone else, that's unfair.