In push for woke 'equity,' Biden abandons equality

[Bradley K. Sherman]

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"Buttsniffer Number P01369" <patr...@protonmail.com> wrote:

President Biden’s embrace of utter nonsense pushed by the “woke”
continued with last week’s executive orders to “advance racial
equity” and “root out systemic racism in housing and criminal
justice.”

The “equity” approach assumes that any outcome that doesn’t meet
inane racial quotas is the result of bias. It is, in fact,
systematically racist.

The four executive orders Biden signed Tuesday don’t seem that
earth-shattering. He directed the Department of Housing and
Urban Development “to take steps necessary to redress racially
discriminatory federal housing policies,” told the Justice
Department to stop using private prisons, recommitted the feds
to honoring tribal sovereignty and vowed to combat “racism,
xenophobia and intolerance against Asian Americans and Pacific
Islanders.”

But, as the White House put it, his many “equity” orders set up
“a whole-of-government initiative to address racial equity and
support underserved communities, and redress systemic racism in
federal policies, laws and programs.” He’ll also require “all
agencies to take affirmative steps to promote diversity, equity
and inclusion.”

Notice that repeated word, “equity.” Liberals used to call
(rightly) for equality of opportunity — to have every American
treated the same way before the law. “Equity” demands equal
outcomes. If some group of Americans is doing better than
another, no matter the reason, government must fix it.

Tellingly, Biden in announcing his orders actually corrected his
own use of the “wrong” term: “I believe this nation and this
government need to change their whole approach to the issue of
racial equal — equity.”

Per the White House, Biden is bent on “embedding racial equity
across his administration’s response to COVID-19 and the
economic crisis.” That extends to de-facto quotas for small-
business support — making federal aid depend on skin color.

That’s un-American, but the White House said these steps are
“just the start.”

True: Some minorities have been harder hit by responses to the
pandemic. Public-school shutdowns and lame “remote learning”
efforts hit hardest at lower-income families who can’t afford
private tutors or private schools. But Team Biden is adamantly
against school choice, which would give such families real
opportunity to get their kids a quality education. And the
president has already declined to criticize the Chicago Teachers
Union for refusing to go along with school reopening.

In short, Biden’s not fighting against racial injustice — he’s
just giving Democratic interest groups and ideologues what they
demand.

https://nypost.com/2021/01/30/in-push-for-woke-equity-biden-
abandons-equality/