
By Selwyn Duke
“Equality tells us nothing about quality.” This is a simple truth — hiding in plain sight. Would we, after all, rather have equality in poverty or inequality in abundance? Would we prefer the equality of all being deathly ill or the inequality of varying levels of health? Would we choose equality in abject stupidity or the inequality of differing degrees of brilliance?
Brilliance isn’t required to know the answers, but, still, man so often kneecaps himself with equality efforts. Affirmative action — which metastasized into diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) — seeks outcome equality at competence’s expense. And if a few more helicopters and planes crash, and more criminals escape miniature cops, well, eggs for omelets, ya know?
This all raises a question: Is a “bad take on equality,” as a commentator recently put it, destroying our country? But then there’s a more fundamental question:
Is the focus on equality itself, no matter how it’s conceived, tragically misguided?
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