{"id":1517499,"date":"2022-06-15T15:05:03","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T19:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1517499"},"modified":"2022-06-15T15:05:33","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T19:05:33","slug":"equity-vs-equality-the-biden-administrations-dangerous-push-for-equity-at-all-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/equity-vs-equality-the-biden-administrations-dangerous-push-for-equity-at-all-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Equity vs. Equality: The Biden Administration\u2019s Dangerous Push For Equity At All Costs"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fequity-vs-equality-the-biden-administrations-dangerous-push-for-equity-at-all-costs%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=1517499&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--><p>In downtown Franklin, Tennessee, there sits a statue of an unnamed black Union soldier. It is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/story\/news\/local\/williamson\/franklin\/2021\/10\/23\/franklin-tennessee-new-statue-enslaved-us-colored-troops\/6033899001\/\">dedicated<\/a> to all enslaved troops who served in the Civil War and has an inscription that reads, \u201cFreedom, Liberty, Equality.\u201d The monument was erected in 2021 and is positioned directly across from the town\u2019s memorial to Confederate soldiers at the center of Franklin\u2019s historic rotary.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The juxtaposition is a poignant reminder of our nation\u2019s fight for our founding ideals, while the engraving draws on the American belief that all men are created equal and endowed with certain inalienable rights from their Creator.<\/p>\n<p>What you will not find on the 2021 statute is the word \u201cequity.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The term \u201cequity\u201d is ubiquitous these days because the Biden administration has made it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/equity\/\">a cornerstone of its agenda<\/a>. Leftists believe that equity must run rampant throughout the federal government \u2014\u00a0and all of society \u2014 in order for America to become a more perfect union. This is extraordinarily evidenced by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-admin-unleashes-total-transformation-of-government-with-equity-action-plans\">Equity Action Plans unveiled by Biden\u2019s cabinet<\/a>, and other federal agencies, this past spring per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/presidential-actions\/2021\/01\/20\/executive-order-advancing-racial-equity-and-support-for-underserved-communities-through-the-federal-government\/\">one of his first executive orders.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But what is equity, and why is it so important to the leftist agenda? The answers are right out in the open.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While Democrats like Vice President Kamala Harris may wrap up other policy goals in doublespeak to hide their true intentions, they are pretty straightforward in defining equity.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo there\u2019s a big difference between equality and equity,\u201d Harris <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KamalaHarris\/status\/1322963321994289154?s=20&#038;t=VH81vOPnEWHeQWwRd3YsTw\">said<\/a> in a 2020 presidential campaign video. \u201cEquality suggests, \u2018Oh, everyone should get the same amount.\u2019 The problem with that, not everybody\u2019s starting out from the same place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo if we\u2019re all getting the same amount, but you started out back there and I started out over here, we could get the same amount, but you\u2019re still going to be that far back behind me,\u201d she continued. \u201cIt\u2019s about giving people the resources and the support they need, so that everyone can be on equal footing, and then compete on equal footing. Equitable treatment means we all end up at the same place.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If you read that and got a strange feeling that it sounded similar to Marxism, there\u2019s a good reason for your uneasiness. \u201cFrom each according to his ability, to each according to his needs,\u201d is <a href=\"https:\/\/artsandculture.google.com\/entity\/from-each-according-to-his-ability-to-each-according-to-his-needs\/m0cxcxc?hl=en\">one<\/a> of the main principles of Karl Marx\u2019s failed philosophy. It is also the central tenet of equity.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, Sarah Parshall Perry, a senior legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation\u2019s Meese Center, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YLTiMu11zz8\">provided an apt description<\/a> of what equity really means and how it flouts the Constitution.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEquity, the Left\u2019s new buzzword, is far from equality. In fact, equity is equality\u2019s demonstrable opposite,\u201d Parshall Perry explained. \u201cRather than providing all individuals with equal opportunities to succeed, equity segregates individuals by race or sex while simultaneously driving the narrative of oppressor and victim.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt calls for institutions to treat people unequally, purportedly to achieve an equal outcome. Its fixation on individual identities serves to deepen long-standing American philosophical divides,\u201d she continued. \u201cEquity recklessly embraces the constant consideration of legally prohibited classifications as a way to eliminate perceived bias or differences in outcome, but in so doing, it violates both equal protection and federal\u00a0law.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As Wen Fa, a senior attorney at Pacific Legal Foundation, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YLTiMu11zz8\">explained<\/a> those who advocate equity believe there is a \u201cfixed pie\u201d that can be carved and handed out amongst society for equal outcomes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Portions of that pie are doled out by woke bureaucrats based on who they believe has privilege, or lack thereof, in America, which is often tied to race, religion, gender, and sexual orientation.<\/p>\n<p>Another way of looking at it is that, if you are a white guy, for instance, you will receive less of that pie because you have more advantages in a systemically racist country, progressives argue. The Left believes you will need less of the pie to achieve a certain outcome. If you\u2019re black, then you are a victim and you will need a bigger slice of the pie to find success like your white counterpart, they assert.<\/p>\n<p>That mentality can have disastrous effects for the average American depending on which area of life the principle is applied, but that does not seem to matter to those pushing equity.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Biden and the Left want to use the federal government as the primary vehicle to equitably pass out the \u201cpie,\u201d to borrow a phrase from Fa. They are rather brazen in their mission.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In April, the Department of Energy (DOE) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.energy.gov\/equity\">wrote<\/a> that Biden has \u201ccalled for a total transformation of the government into an entity that centers the concerns of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) and underserved communities.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So, what does that mean in the grand scheme of things for the American people? Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Victor Davis Hanson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-admin-unleashes-total-transformation-of-government-with-equity-action-plans\">explained<\/a> to The Daily Wire \u201cit simply means that in reductionist fashion, any inequality is due to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In downtown Franklin, Tennessee, there sits a statue of an unnamed black Union soldier. It is dedicated to all enslaved troops who served in the Civil War and has an inscription that reads, \u201cFreedom, Liberty, Equality.\u201d The monument was erected in 2021 and is positioned directly across from the town\u2019s memorial to Confederate soldiers at &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":326,"featured_media":1517556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1517499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1517499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1517556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1517499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1517499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1517499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}