I am familiar with the term “racial equality”, but a lot of current agendas state that the objective is “racial equity”, and equality seems to have left the conversation. Are they the same thing?
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Well one more explanation via example: giving everyone the same standardized right handed desk (the ones that swivel up for the desk surface) is equality.
Giving left handed people left handed desks is equity.
Equity is about leveling the playing field. Sometimes that means certain people get things others don’t. But it’s not an extra privilege being handed out. Left handed people don’t get an advantage over everyone else by getting a left handed desk. It’s just the same amount of convenience as everyone else for someone who has a different background and needs.
People argue over the specifics, of course. Not least of all because no race is actually monolithic anyway. Not all Black people will want or need the same things. But the implication of proponents is that we need to at least bother to try.
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