Friday, February 24, 2023
The Neo-Marxist Obsession with “Equity” and Victimhood in a Time of Blatant Nonsense
If you throw a handful of coins in the air, when they fall to the ground they do not uniformly fall in neat evenly spaced order. Some are grouped into clusters, some less so. Randomness does not produce equality (uniformity). So it is that, in any country, specific groups of people at specific times come to dominate certain professions. There are a wide variety of factors that drive variation, whether that variation occurs in the growth of plants, the distribution of illness, or the tendency for certain groups to dominate certain fields. This is not to say that factors of injustice or manipulation do not, in some times and places, skew such results. It does accurately note that, even in a “level playing field,” particular people everywhere will come to dominate certain livelihoods. Before the technological advances in modern history occurred, the biological realities of childbirth found most women in the role of “mother” — domesticity and nurturing. Body mass and hormonal difference pretty much destined men to roles of hunter, builder, and warrior (youthful death and injury). These variations were not reflections of “capitalist injustice,” “patriarchy,” or any other concoction of contemporary grievance-mongering.
In our own time, a variety of factors have advanced civilization in such a way as to afford a significantly wider array of options to one’s life path. A goal of affording equal opportunity to everyone can now override the rigid fates of past eras.
There are some who believe that modern critical appraisal justifies the codifying of every dream and wish into reality, that the system compel “equity” — equal outcome. In the obsessive control-freak’s political paradigm; race, gender, sexual orientation and every type of human variation should fall uniformly into every category of career, class, or lifestyle. It has now become a crime in some eyes to marshal one’s individual abilities toward success if there are others less endowed.
Everything initially emerges in a unique time and place, setting it upon a unique path. Some paths will be similar and some wildly divergent. There isn’t an atom in existence that is truly “equal” to another. It’s circumstance and fate manifest within a genuine “diversity.” Leftism in all its guises through history has sought to freeze every soul into a rigid and imposed stasis void of unique and creative impulse. With all the terrible attributes that occur under such contrived leveling, it’s hard to overlook the fact that it’s also just plain boring. Equity imposes upon humans a sterile inhumanity akin to mere office supplies, all ready to function at the behest of a notably UNequal ruling caste of philosopher kings.
We are told that it’s racist to suggest that any group, in a particular time or circumstance is prone to “laziness” or criminal violence while at the same time, arriving on time, using objective scientific judgment, honoring math principles is seen as a mere construct of people with light skin. One person’s lassitude is another’s resistance to the system I suppose. Almost every group has been the master or been the slave at some time. Trace your roots back far enough and you’re sure to find both scoundrels and saints.
In the fanciful illusions of “multi-cultural” shamans, millions of migrants descending on France or Sweden have produced no change to those countries. God forbid one note an increase in crime correlated to the arrival of youthful males from “patriarchal” cultures.
While the political ideals refined in the European Enlightenment steer us to justice and the hopes that opportunity will be fairly distributed, the relatively new insistence that everything in the universe line up neatly into evenly distributed outcomes is absurd.
The folly that equity demands has progressed, as those who once pleaded for justice now demand submission. We are now told that those with darker skin “can’t be racist” as — largely white — intellectuals now insist that light skin denotes moral inferiority and a proclivity for evil.
A true non-racist simply doesn’t care about these issues. They neither love nor hate the idolized group du jour.
Truth be told, like many, I’m getting sick of hearing the whining strains of the mock victimized. We’re supposed to pity the pervert who wants to flaunt their niche sexual deviations in front of elementary school kids while chastising the nuclear family and those who adhere to the life standards of millennia.
Everyone experiences rip-offs, power-plays, and misfortune at the hands of man and nature. Steve Jobs was no doubt “privileged” if one gauges his fate by his bank balance. Cancer didn’t consider his skin color when addressing his “privilege.”
It’s time to give the neo-Marxist mongers of B.S. the yawn and eye-roll they deserve. Demonstrate to earthquake victims, children with birth defects, and war-injured soldiers that you care about real victimhood. And, show the charlatans of pathetic complaint that you couldn’t care less about their concocted nonsense.
