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Eric Fuleftists's avatar

The Trump tariffs may help, but without addressing structural elements of the economy, tariff imposition is just cosmetic. The rot that we see in the US economy is mostly the result of socioeconomic policies instigated by woke leftism. Here's the bottom line...

A society can have equality or quality, but it can't have both.

Equality cannot be used as the basis for personal or societal interrelationships. For at least 200 years, such attempts have been causing nothing but misery and destruction. When applied to people, equality is an evil lie. Instead, a well functioning society should be concerned with reciprocity, mobility, meritocracy, consistency, accessibility, subsidiarity, and complementarity.

Words have implicit contexts. You don't use the word 'sexy' when talking about farm animals. In the same way, you shouldn't use the word 'equality' when talking about people. Equality is a theoretical concept that has meaning only in the context of math and physics. But today we have people that deliberately misuse words by shifting their effective context, especially 'equality'. These people are woke leftists, and all of them are insane. If you believe equality is morality, then you're insane, too, and you can blame the current societal dystopia and any coming collapse on your own mistaken beliefs, all of which have consequences.

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MarshaLouise's avatar

This is well and clearly stated. I’m taking your word “equality” to be the same as the woke “equity” in DEI.

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Ben's avatar

No quality was the word out of place.

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Ben's avatar

A society can have equality or equity, but it can't have both.

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Full Name's avatar

I think the way quality was used was 100% correct-

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Ben's avatar
Apr 8Edited

It might be but its not what I have heard Democrats say over and over and specifically with that sentence.

https://direct.mit.edu/ajle/article/doi/10.1162/ajle_a_00019/107229/EQUALITY-VS-EQUITY

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Suzie's avatar

The Left use the word “Equity” not Equality.

Equality refers to each individual born onto the same playing field and thereby it being up to each one to work to determine their own future.

Equity is a manufactured and perversion of equality, whereby even the unproductive must get a piece of the pie.

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Peter Sawchuk's avatar

I always equate it as someone getting 90% on an exam and having 20% taken away and given to someone with 50%. Pretty insane isn't it. This is what the leftists mean by "equity:

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JohnAZ's avatar

Peter

Even worse is having the exam changed to fit one ethnic group, or omitted because that group does not have the ambition to study. Math exams have been modified or deleted by school districts all over the country because Blacks just do not get it. Not get it? How about do not care about education?

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Peter Sawchuk's avatar

How about only two of the class actually getting jobs? The rest couldn't pass a drug and alcohol test.

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Lugh's avatar

The only remaining question is when we're going to admit it's genetic and that the Old South was right.

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JohnAZ's avatar

OBTW, that description is bringing on the stupidification (my non-word word) of America. Think for a moment, who benefits from stupidification? People who want to dictate, people who lie, people who make their living pulling the wool over people’s eyes. UH huh, power people, government.

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Lugh's avatar

Yeah because Capitalists never trick anyone. They don't have any power. Advertising doesn't work because people are schmart like you.

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IAN2364's avatar

The left are digging in and ramping up for war.

NY’s DOE prepares for showdown with Trump admin after rejecting order to scrap DEI — despite threats to pull funding

https://nypost.com/2025/04/05/us-news/new-york-rejects-trump-administration-order-to-scrap-dei/

How states can make taxes more equitable

https://publicintegrity.org/inequality-poverty-opportunity/taxes/unequal-burden/how-states-can-make-taxes-more-equitable/

How can any of this not be racist?

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