{"id":4049,"date":"2013-11-25T12:58:08","date_gmt":"2013-11-25T19:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=4049"},"modified":"2013-11-25T12:58:08","modified_gmt":"2013-11-25T19:58:08","slug":"the-equality-obsession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2013\/11\/25\/the-equality-obsession\/","title":{"rendered":"The Equality Obsession"},"content":{"rendered":"

     A core concept of the Progressives’ version of “Justice<\/a>” is an equality of outcome, and egalitarian principles that we are all equally the same, and that all differences are unjust and false.\u00a0 As such, since all are equally deserving, “[e]ach member of society has an equal claim on their society’s goods\u2026 Natural attributes should not affect this claim, so the basic right of any individual, before further considerations are taken into account, must be to an equal share in material wealth.”<\/p>\n

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     Any inequality, then, is considered an unfairness that must be corrected.\u00a0 Those who have more must have only gotten more due to “privilege<\/a>” due to accidents of nature or of luck, and that “privilege” is used to oppress and keep others down.<\/p>\n

     The origin of this is a rather oversimplified version of Marx’s labor theory of value, where the value of production is based solely on the amount of labor that went it.\u00a0 Thus, if one person has more than another, it must be because the rich stole from the poor through oppression and\/or exploitation.\u00a0 Economic inequality, therefor, is unjust and people must be made economically equal.<\/p>\n

     Cultural Marxism extends this to the whole human person for all aspects of society.\u00a0 For example, if there are more male engineers than female engineers, then it must because society is used to oppress women and protect the men’s “privilege<\/a>.”\u00a0 It is because of the assumption that any unequal distribution amongst any<\/em> distinction is because of the oppression of the “privileged” that even if there is no observable discrimination<\/a>, it must still be the fault of discrimination.\u00a0 Even lack of observable discrimination<\/em> is shown as proof<\/a> that there is a pervasive cryptic discriminatory and oppressive conspiracy going on.<\/p>\n

     So obsessed are the Progressives with the equality of outcome and their utopian dream of a perfect egalitarian society, that they are willing to actually engage in the discrimination that they accuse society of perpetuating<\/a>!\u00a0 This, of course, is blamed on “Kyriarchy<\/a>” and the intersectionality of oppression by a cabal of the privileged elite.\u00a0 Since these “Kyriarchs” are always the perpetrators of discrimination, they must be discriminated against<\/a> to destroy their “privilege” in order to achieve non-discrimination!<\/p>\n

     While is it good and proper for the law to apply equally to people, and where people can find equal protection under the rule of law, it does not mean that all people are equivalent in all measures, only that as far as the law is concerned, some differences do not matter.<\/p>\n

     For the rabid Progressives, this is not enough.\u00a0 When they say all people are equal, they take it to the point of ludicrousness!\u00a0 And they will enforce this “truth” of theirs through whatever unequal means they need to in order for everyone to be knocked down to the lowest possible denominator.<\/p>\n

     As was previously noted<\/a>, “Social Justice” advocates in the student government of the University of Georgia, demanded that we eliminate the celebration of the successful and to banish success stories from society.\u00a0 They see it as “unfair” that one person is successful, while others do not achieve greatness.\u00a0 The only “just” outcome is for there to be no successful individuals.\u00a0 Only the collective society can be successful, and all individuals benefit and become successful by being a part of that successful collective.<\/p>\n

     In another case, pseudo-Academics have declared\u00a0 that “smartness<\/a>” is an ideological system and particularly explores the ways in which it intersects with whiteness as ideology\u2026 [and] that smartness works as a form of property, with all the advantages that come with membership in the group.”\u00a0 They argue that “smartness” is oppressive and that it is false and oppressive<\/em> that some are considered “smart” and succeed while others are not.\u00a0 For these people, the “smart” only benefit because they have “privilege” and\u00a0 exploit the “smartness” of society at large, to the detriment of others.\u00a0 In other words, everyone is equally smart, but the “privileged” use the idea that they are smarter than others to oppress others to perpetuate their own “privilege.”<\/p>\n

     This insanity even goes to basic biology<\/a>!\u00a0 Because a gay couple can’t conceive a child naturally between them, it is only because the “privileged” hetero-normative oppressors keep them oppressed!\u00a0 The only “just” thing would be to give them infertility treatments (even if neither is infertile) to correct the oppression of nature and biological science<\/em> so that there is an equality of result and everyone can have the same thing!<\/p>\n

     Jonathan Gruber, one of the main architects of Obamacare has even gone so far as to declare that those who are healthy have been genetic “lottery winners”<\/a> and their not having to pay for expensive medical bills is unfair as they are paying an “artificially low price.”\u00a0 The irony is that people are unequal when it comes to some people having a genetic disease or not.\u00a0 This genetic reality is declared to be “discrimination” that the state must “correct.”\u00a0 What is artificial<\/em> is taking “from each according to their ability, to each according to their need.”\u00a0 Yet to the delusional Left, scientific reality is just a form of “privilege” and that without this “privilege” everyone would be equal.<\/p>\n