What’s Wrong with ‘Equality’?

August 12, 2020 By Wen Wryte
 
Imagine you are assisting at a children’s party in a neighbor’s house, and the hosts put you in charge of dishing out the Jell-O. You’ve got a large bowl of green and a large bowl of red. You look at the eager kids lining up and hope there will be enough to go around. One scoop of either color for each child should do it.

Things get complicated when a child asks for a scoop of each color, but what really puts a spanner in the works is when a pushy five-year-old demands a double scoop of each. You don’t want to risk an argument with a five-year-old, so you accede, hoping the others haven’t noticed.

Her brother’s next, and he has noticed, and asks for an even bigger portion on the grounds he’s two years older and hungrier. Then your gaze alights on the next kid in line who is already eyeing up the large bowl containing the red Jell-O, with both hands outstretched as if he’ll just grab the lot and walk off with it.

Things are looking desperate so far as equal portions go, or even eking out the supply of Jell-O so that each child can have some. You’re saved by another parent who gently pushes you aside and announces with an air of authority: ‘You’ll get what you’re given and no talking back!’ The line of kids visibly relaxes and the kid with both hands out happily accepts his allotted portion..........

That about sums up the results of all attempts in the Western world to introduce the concept of ‘equality’ into social policy as a beneficial idea conducive to social harmony and justice.  Someone has to take charge and tell the recipients exactly what kind of equality they’re going to get and prevent anyone taking advantage of the system.............One conclusion that might be drawn from all this is that ‘equality’ has ‘no unified meaning -- or even is devoid of meaning.’...........Because this is not about uniting us in our common humanity, it’s about subverting what we have in common in favor of emphasizing the grievances felt by a noisy and disruptive minority who claim that their ‘victimhood’ means we should submit to them.

Whatever this is, it’s not equality..................To Read More.....