9.2 – Equity, Equality and Lizard People: when right wing politics masquerade as left wing politics
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Aug 10, 2023
Delve into the provocative shift from 'equality' to 'equity' and how it influences political discourse. Discover the troubling dynamics between liberty and wealth disparity, and the ways established powers hijack progressive movements. Analyze the impact of discrimination on economic exploitation, and how superficial reforms miss the mark. Explore the complexities of college admissions, revealing biases against underprivileged students. Finally, the call for economic unity challenges divisive politics, inviting a deeper conversation on class and solidarity.
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insights INSIGHT
Left vs. Right
The political left has always prioritized equality, historically encompassing political and economic equality.
This contrasts with the right, which traditionally focuses on maintaining or expanding hierarchies.
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Liberty and Equality
Liberty and equality are intertwined, not opposites.
True liberty requires political equality, ensuring no one dominates your actions.
question_answer ANECDOTE
Soviet Influence
The Soviet Union's shift from political equality to economic equality muddled the left's meaning.
Western elites, fearing socialism, embraced separating liberty from equality.
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How to Be an Antiracist
Connor Cobley
When ideas and movements that threaten to overturn established hierarchies of power are absorbed into elite institutions like Ivy League universities and for-profit corporations, they get transformed into ideas that support the status quo, while remaining cloaked in the language and symbols of radicalism and egalitarianism.
The replacement of the word “equality” by the word “equity” in the worlds of academia, NGOs, activism, and corporate HR departments, is an example of the attempts by elite people and institutions to transform historical movements for racial and gender equality, into ideas that promote the interest of elites – in particular, economic inequality and the division of the working classes.
In this episode we explore how forms of oppression based on cultural factors like skin colour or gender or religion, etc, can only be understood and effectively combatted by understanding them in the context of economic exploitation and economic competition which is what the human propensity to discriminate evolved for in the first place.
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