{"id":1263015,"date":"2023-04-29T21:10:33","date_gmt":"2023-04-30T01:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/equity-and-the-race-to-the-bottom\/1263015\/"},"modified":"2023-04-29T21:10:33","modified_gmt":"2023-04-30T01:10:33","slug":"equity-and-the-race-to-the-bottom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/equity-and-the-race-to-the-bottom\/1263015\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Equity’ And The Race To The Bottom"},"content":{"rendered":"
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‘Equity’ And The Race To The Bottom<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Jack Miller via RealClear Wire<\/a>,<\/em><\/p>\n

Over the last few years, the rallying cry of \u201cwoke\u201d activists has become \u201cDiversity, Equity, and Inclusion\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>(often abbreviated to DEI). There is little reason to object to such principles on the surface. After all, America was founded on the principle that all people are created equal.\u00a0Unfortunately, the meaning of words can change over time.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Rather than the Founders\u2019 vision of equal opportunity for all, the use of the word \u201cequity\u201d today denotes equal outcomes for all<\/strong>. The implementation of this \u201cequity agenda,\u201d\u00a0however well-intentioned, will\u00a0lead to terrible consequences.\u00a0<\/p>\n

One of the prophets who warned us about the dangers of this understanding of equity was the great twentieth-century novelist Kurt Vonnegut. In his 1961 short story,\u00a0\u201cHarrison Bergeron<\/a>,\u201d\u00a0Vonnegut imagined a society with perfect equity. \u201cNobody was smarter than anybody else,\u201d the narrator says. \u201cNobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

As Vonnegut shows, a society looking to equalize outcomes for all citizens is no utopia<\/strong> \u2013 it is instead a nightmarish horror.\u00a0The only way to guarantee\u00a0equal results\u00a0is to handicap everyone so that they perform at the lowest common level.\u00a0In the terrifying world of \u201cHarrison Bergeron,\u201d\u00a0for instance,\u00a0the government burdens\u00a0ballerinas \u201cwith sashweights and bags of birdshot\u201d so they cannot move more beautifully than anyone else.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0push for \u201cequity\u201d\u00a0in American society today resembles Vonnegut\u2019s dystopia \u2013 but nowhere more dangerously than in the education system.\u00a0<\/p>\n

At the university level, DEI bureaucracies have grown to absurd sizes, and they dominate much of campus life.\u00a0A 2021 Heritage Foundation report<\/a>\u00a0found 163 DEI personnel at the University of Michigan, 94 at the University of Virginia and 94 at Ohio State, 86 at the University of California Berkeley, 83 at Virginia Tech, and 80 at Stanford (where Associate Dean for DEI Tirien Steinbach was recently\u00a0put on leave<\/a>\u00a0for galvanizing an unruly protest by confronting a U.S. circuit judge who was trying to deliver a campus lecture).\u00a0<\/p>\n

In a growing number of K-12 schools across the country, such as at\u00a0Culver City High School<\/a>\u00a0in the Los Angeles area,\u00a0honors\u00a0classes are being eliminated so as not to \u201cperpetuate inequality.\u201d Proponents of this idea say that some students can still obtain an honors \u201clabel\u201d by doing extra work.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But more often than not, teachers are simply slowing down instruction for everyone<\/strong>. Students are increasingly taught at the lowest common denominator rather than being challenged to do their best.\u00a0As\u00a0one student recently\u00a0told<\/a>\u00a0the Wall Street Journal, \u201cThere are some people who slow down the pace because they don\u2019t really do anything and aren\u2019t looking to try harder.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Current DEI regulations at the federal and state level, as\u00a0well-intentioned as these regulations may be, are fostering this approach and handicapping our education system.\u00a0For example,\u00a0the Department of Education\u2019s\u00a02022 Equity Agency Plan<\/a>\u00a0goes so far as to connect DEI policies directly to federal funding for local schools. In their pursuit of\u00a0\u201censuring equity,\u201d\u00a0ideologues are killing opportunity for America\u2019s students.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The American Dream is that all citizens will have an equal opportunity to achieve their goals based on their individual talents and hard work<\/strong>. The Declaration of Independence does not guarantee happiness to every citizen \u2013 it only guarantees the\u00a0pursuit<\/em>\u00a0of happiness.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But the pursuit of the modern idea of \u201cequity\u201d rather than true equality is simply a race to the bottom. Socialist regimes in Russia, Venezuela, Cuba, and so many other places show that radical egalitarianism simply does not work. America is more successful than these failed experiments because we cling to the principle of equality rightly understood. We cannot let that slip away.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The good news is that many parents are mobilizing against far-left excesses<\/strong>.\u00a0At the ballot box,\u00a0school board meetings,\u00a0and\u00a0even at the dinner table,\u00a0parents\u00a0are standing\u00a0up and saying enough is enough.\u00a0They do not want to sacrifice academic excellence for grand social experiments. They want their kids to become educated and ambitious, not indoctrinated and complacent.<\/p>\n

Most Americans believe in equality. We want\u00a0to make sure that everyone has, to the greatest extent possible, an equal place at the starting line.\u00a0From there, each individual has the freedom to achieve what their desires, ability, and hard work make possible.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Achieving that kind of\u00a0equality\u00a0is the American dream, the engine that enables\u00a0people from any walk of life to realize their dreams. Equity, as activists preach it, trades away this American heritage for abstractions and fantasies. Americans should instead hold fast to the political principles that have guided us to marvelous success and prosperity for nearly 250 years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nSun, 04\/30\/2023 – 00:00<\/span><\/p>\n

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