{"id":16274,"date":"2020-01-14T01:20:04","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T08:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=16274"},"modified":"2020-01-14T01:20:04","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T08:20:04","slug":"los-angeles-to-go-full-in-with-racial-equity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2020\/01\/14\/los-angeles-to-go-full-in-with-racial-equity\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles To Go Full-In With Racial Equity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Disparate impact is the purported idea that any inequality of results is due to nefarious structures of oppression, and that in order to achieve \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2016\/09\/28\/equity-vs-essentialism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">equity<\/a>\u201d, \u201cjustice\u201d demands not that there be an equality of results, but rather an equality of civic power which requires that \u201cprivileged\u201d groups must be made <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2018\/01\/18\/quick-takes-jail-for-the-mind-policing-speech-policing-equity-policing-privilege\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">worse off<\/a> than the \u201coppressed\u201d groups, materially, legally, and spiritually.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-671\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/ingsoc.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This Orwellian, in regards to \u201cequity\u201d as it applies to race, has come to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynews.com\/2019\/12\/10\/l-a-city-council-votes-to-create-office-of-racial-equity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">City of (Fallen) Angels<\/a> has gone full IngSoc.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe Los Angeles City Council voted Tuesday, Dec. 10 to create an Office of Racial Equity, which will be tasked with examining economic disparities among groups of Angelenos and advising the council on possible solutions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cCouncilmen Herb Wesson, Marqueece Harris-Dawson and Mitch O\u2019Farrell came up with the idea to create the office and a Racial Equity Advisory Committee.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2019We see inequity all the time, it comes to us \u2026 we see testimony about it all the time,\u2019 Harris-Dawson said. \u2018It was Council President Wesson that said, \u201cWe need to have a family meeting and talk about this.\u201d\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe City Council voted unanimously, 14-0, to create the office, which will be in charge of monitoring data through a \u2018racial equity impact tool,\u2019 creating ideas for civic engagement, examining government policies that could affect certain groups, and providing a report on inequities throughout the city.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Los Angeles is not the first city to push for \u201cequity\u201d enforcing bureaucrats, and city bureaucracies are only the <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2015\/07\/15\/the-inequality-of-equity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">most opaque vectors<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2019\/10\/16\/the-hydra-of-equity-silent-and-venomous\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">equity disease<\/a>. But the sheer fact that more and more cities have not only surrendered to this viral attack on equality under the law, but are now openly championing it, is fair warning that the fight against the tenets of the hard Left is much worse, and perilous, than most of us had thought.<\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Los Angeles To Go Full-In With Racial Equity\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Disparate impact is the purported idea that any inequality of results is due to nefarious structures of oppression, and that in order to achieve 'equity', 'justice' demands not that there be an equality of results, but rather an equality of civic power which requires that 'privileged' groups must be made worse off than the 'oppressed' groups, materially, legally, and spiritually..\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/ingsoc.png\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Disparate impact is the purported idea that any inequality of results is due to nefarious structures of oppression, and that in order to achieve \u201cequity\u201d, \u201cjustice\u201d demands not that there be an equality of results, but rather an equality of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2020\/01\/14\/los-angeles-to-go-full-in-with-racial-equity\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[15,24,48],"class_list":["post-16274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-progressives","tag-democrats","tag-leviathan","tag-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16275,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16274\/revisions\/16275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}