I’ve listened
to all the talk of equality for various groups now for most of my life, and I
come away with one unavoidable conclusion.
No one, and by no one, I mean absolutely no one I’ve ever listened to or
read about, wants equality. This is just
a subterfuge to deflect the conversation away from their real intent which is
to argue for their group being placed above all others.
This was
brought home to me recently when an acquaintance posted this meme on Face Book.
I don’t know if this is really a quote
from Justice Ginsberg, or a false statement pasted to her portrait as is
typical in meme making, but it has enough of an air of authenticity as to be
believable and therefore spread across the internet as a truth.
We can
argue that past or current discrimination affects a group’s ability to compete
fairly, or to receive equal compensation, but the politicians and judges who
push for corrective programs never seem to have a plan for how those programs
will actually end the discrimination.
They never speak to how we will know when equality has been reached and
the programs can end. They are written
as if they will be never ending, and if so the question then becomes, what good
are they doing? Are they just a way to
exert social pressure through mandated behavior or federal funding, or is there
really substantive change taking place?
From my humble position it all seems to be in keeping with the carpetbagger movement of the reconstruction period where the northern merchants
imposed their will on the beaten south to make themselves richer.
If women
really wanted equality how would it be defined?
Equality shouldn’t be the ability to impart one’s will through total
domination, should it? Yet here is
Justice Ruth Bader-Ginsburg saying it, it must be true because she is the iconic
representative of the moral left, isn’t she?
Pick any
movement in recent history and show me how once in power the people who argued
for equality stopped at equal? Was it
the Hindu’s of India? The blacks of
South Africa? The Taliban of
Afghanistan? The mullahs of Iran? The Palestinians or Israelis in Israel and the West Bank?
Sorry, I am at a loss here… can you help
me out on how Affirmative Action and social control of speech (i.e. politically correct thoughts and words) has brought equality to our races and society in the
United States? How the BLM anarchists
are bringing equality of treatment through their rioting? How the LGBT community is satisfied with
anything less than total capitulation from those who disagree on religious
grounds? Anything that talks about
equality being good enough as a stopping point for our interaction between the
various races, ethnicity, sexes, or sexual identification?
I didn’t
think so.
