{"id":116387,"date":"2021-02-03T09:55:02","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T14:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=116387"},"modified":"2021-02-03T10:12:53","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T15:12:53","slug":"shapiro-the-inequality-of-equity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/shapiro-the-inequality-of-equity\/","title":{"rendered":"SHAPIRO: The Inequality of \u2018Equity\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">10<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fshapiro-the-inequality-of-equity%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=116387&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1221659904.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>President Joe Biden took office pledging a return to unity and decency. A new era of good feelings is at hand, we were informed by both his administration and its sycophants in the media. A new world \u2014 a world of \u201cequity\u201d \u2014 is at hand.<\/p>\n<p>Equity, you see, is the word of the day. Not&nbsp;<em>equality&nbsp;<\/em>\u2014 that would be a traditionally American concept. The Declaration of Independence declares that \u201call men are created equal \u2026 endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights.\u201d The 14th Amendment to the Constitution provides that all citizens must receive \u201cequal protection of the laws.\u201d Equality, in the traditional understanding, means something simple and easy to implement: the protection of the rights of all individuals, along with the invasion of none of those rights.<\/p>\n<p data-slot-rendered-dynamic=\"true\">Equity means something different. The two words are separated by one syllable \u2014 but that syllable represents the difference between justice and injustice, rights and infringements, individualism and tribalism. Equity, in the common political parlance, means that each&nbsp;<em>group&nbsp;<\/em>should receive the same outcome as every other group. Ibram X. Kendi, the chief expositor of the new Democratic \u201cracial equity\u201d theory, explains that \u201cRacial equity is when two or more racial groups are standing on a relatively equal footing.\u201d Because race is a social construct, says Kendi, the chief indicator that two races are on unequal footing can be found&nbsp;<em>not&nbsp;<\/em>in proof of differential treatment by race but in differential&nbsp;<em>outcome&nbsp;<\/em>by race.<\/p>\n<p>To prove racial inequity, therefore, one need not show animus or discriminatory policy. All one must show is unequal&nbsp;<em>outcome&nbsp;<\/em>. Kendi explains in his massive bestseller, \u201cHow to Be an Antiracist\u201d: \u201cA racist policy is any measure that produces or sustains racial inequity between racial groups. An antiracist policy is any measure that produces or sustains racial equity between racial groups.\u201d And, says Kendi, \u201cThere is no such thing as a nonracist or race-neutral policy.\u201d&nbsp;<em>All&nbsp;<\/em>policies either forward equity or oppose it. Any policy not&nbsp;<em>explicitly designed&nbsp;<\/em>to rectify unequal outcome is therefore racist.<\/p>\n<p>This philosophy is both idiotic and perverse. It\u2019s idiotic because all human groupings \u2014 literally all of them \u2014 will result in differential outcomes. Draw a line down the middle of any room in random fashion and the result will be unequal income distribution, criminal records, educational histories. When culture takes a hand, disparities can be more deeply rooted than random chance. Discrimination would still not be the cause of such disparity. As a basic logical matter, discrimination is not the cause of all disparity.<\/p>\n<p data-slot-rendered-dynamic=\"true\">This philosophy is perverse because it attributes malice to those who have none; it fosters policy that&nbsp;<em>actively discriminates&nbsp;<\/em>, supposedly in order to alleviate unproven discrimination. Kendi himself explains: \u201cThe defining question is whether the discrimination is creating equity or inequity. If discrimination is creating equity, then it is antiracist. If discrimination is creating inequity, then it is racist.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"content_2_btf_wrapper\" class=\"adunitwrapper content_btf_wrapper mv-size-540x304 mv-dynamic-size\" data-wrapper=\"content_2_btf\">\n<div class=\"mv-outstream-container\">\n<p>Unfortunately, this idiotic and perverse philosophy has become the root of Biden administration policymaking. \u201cEquity\u201d has been used as the keyword from environmental to economic to COVID-19 policy. Susan Rice, Biden\u2019s domestic policy adviser, explained this week, \u201c(W)e\u2019re focused on racial justice and equity\u2026It\u2019s for everybody who has not had the benefits of a system that has not served everybody. \u2026 This is not about serving one group to the detriment of another.\u201d This, of course, is a lie. It is utterly about group equality, which requires individual injustice.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p data-slot-rendered-dynamic=\"true\">America was rooted in equality and freedom. Equity requires freedom to be curbed. It\u2019s therefore a national tragedy to watch equality of rights abandoned in favor of equity. If freedom is discarded to achieve equality of outcome, we no longer live in an America defined by the Declaration of Independence. We live in an America defined by tribalism and leveling \u2014 and, in short order, tyranny.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/shapiro-this-is-not-normal\">More from Ben Shapiro: This Is Not Normal<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><em>The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><span class=\"s1\"><em>member<\/em><\/span><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden took office pledging a return to unity and decency. 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