Misguided Equality Of Outcome Destroying The United States

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Radical egalitarianism asserts that people of different backgrounds possess equal ability and in an ideal world, there should be no differences in accomplishment. And if such variations exist, they, almost by definition, result from discrimination, racism, stereotypes, and similarly reversible evils. Thus, the medical staff at a top hospital is supposed to look like a cross section of America and, since this Utopian outcome rarely occurs, it is up to a coercive government to bring it about.
The bad news is that radical egalitarianism is metastasizing and the damage inflicted far outweighs anything the 17 GOP candidates mention, including Trump’s horror stories of criminal illegals.
Radical egalitarianism is easily detected. As Soviet apparatchiks had their specialized vocabulary (e.g., false consciousness) American egalitarians have theirs. Be on the lookout for gaps, as in the gap between whites and blacks in home ownership. Then there are ceilings, the most famous being the glass ceiling that prevents women from occupying the top rungs of industry. Add tests to sort out abilities that egalitarians denounce as “barriers” as if testing for physical strength is a ruse to hinder women from becoming firefighters. But, of all the tip-off words, the most revealing is diversity as in “diversity is our strength,” a sure sign that racial/gender quotas are on the way.
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Moreover, classes for the gifted have been cut altogether or dumbed down to achieve “fairness.” And let’s not forget hiring teachers and administrators according to race or ethnicity versus ability since “everybody knows” that youngsters perform best when teachers mirror the local community.
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Millions are thus spent on remediation, creating faux academic programs such as Black Studies and recruiting parasitic administrators (and their staffs) with title such as Chief Diversity Officer.
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While our Chinese rivals are working 24/7 on cutting edge chip technology, American high-tech executives struggle to promote fairness and inclusion.
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Perhaps one of these 17 GOP contenders, sensing that his campaign is doomed, will out of desperation finally bell the cat and thus force the others to confront the real threat facing America.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/08/radical_egalitarianism_is_the_real_threat_.html

August 12, 2015
Radical Egalitarianism Is the Real Threat
By Robert Weissberg

Equality For All, But Some More Equal Than Others

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Most of us are much better at some things than at others, and what we are good at can vary enormously from one person to another. Despite the preoccupation — if not obsession — of intellectuals with equality, we are all very unequal in what we do well and what we do badly.
It may not be innate, like a sense of smell, but differences in capabilities are inescapable, and they make a big difference in what and how much we can contribute to each other's economic and other well-being. If we all had the same capabilities and the same limitations, one individual's limitations would be the same as the limitations of the entire human species.
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Intellectuals' obsession with income statistics — calling envy "social justice" — ignores vast differences in productivity that are far more fundamental to everyone's well-being. Killing the goose that lays the golden egg has ruined many economies.

http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell012814.php3#.UvCvoN00i6Y

Jewish World Review

Jan. 28, 2014/ 27 Shevat, 5774
The Inequality Bogeyman
By Thomas Sowell

Demands for Equal Outcomes

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"90 percent of the differences among the proficiency of schools can be explained by five factors: days absent from school, hours spent watching TV, pages read for homework, the quantity and quality of reading matter in the home — and the presence of two parents in the home.[. . .]
71.6 percent of African-American children and 51.3 percent of Latino children are born to unmarried women."

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/mad_crusade_fUG9ez9CffnQUU0mY4a74M

A mad crusade
Racial quotas for AP courses?
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George F. Will

Golf Rule Changes


Obama's Golf Czar has announced there is a possibility of MAJOR rule
changes to the game of golf, this may occur sometime after March 1, 2010.
This is only a preview as the complete rule book is being rewritten now.
Here are a few basic changes:

Golfers with handicaps:
- below 10 will have their green fees increased by 35%.
- between 11 and 18 will see no increase in green fees.
- above 18 will get a check each time they play.

The dollar amount placed in bets will be as follows-for handicaps below 10, an additional $10.
-between 11 and 18, no additional amount.-above 18, you will receive the total amount in the pot even if you
do not play.

The term "gimme" will be changed to "entitlement" and will be used as follows:
-handicaps below 10, no entitlements.-handicaps from 11 to 17, entitlements for putter length putts.
-handicaps above 18, if your ball is on green, no need to putt, just pick it up.

These entitlements are intended to bring about fairness and, most importantly, equality in scoring.
In addition, a Player will be limited to a maximum of one birdie or six
pars in any given round. Any excess must be given to those fellow players
who have not yet scored a birdie or par. Only after all players have
received a birdie or par from the player actually making the birdie or par,
can that player begin to count his pars and birdies again.

The current USGA handicap system will be used for the above purposes
but the term 'net score' will be available only for scoring those players with
handicaps of 18 and above.

This is intended to 'redistribute' the success of winning by making
sure that in every competition, the above 18 handicap players will
post only 'net score' against every other player's gross score.
These new Rules are intended to CHANGE the game of golf..


Golf must be about Fairness. It should have nothing to do with Ability.