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9.2 – Equity, Equality and Lizard People: when right wing politics masquerade as left wing politics

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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The podcast critiques the shift from 'equality' to 'equity' as a strategy by elites to maintain economic inequality under the guise of social justice.

It emphasizes that true liberty is intrinsically linked to political and economic equality, challenging the dichotomy between these concepts.

Identity politics is examined as a divisive factor that detracts from addressing economic inequalities, hindering the formation of broader coalitions against the status quo.

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The Shift from Equality to Equity

The replacement of the term 'equality' with 'equity' is highlighted as a significant change in political discourse. This shift allows for ideologies promoting economic inequality to be masked under the guise of social justice. By using the term equity, institutions can create divisions among different racial, ethnic, and gender groups, causing conflicts that detract from collective efforts to challenge the power structures. The argument is made that this rebranding serves as a facade for right-wing politics dressed in left-wing principles.

Intro

5min

Liberty and the Illusion of Equality

17min

Equity vs. Equality: A Political Discourse

15min

The Economics of Discrimination

29min

Equity and Inequality in College Admissions

18min

Divisive Politics and the Need for Economic Unity

2min

Navigating the Balance of Work and Podcast Creation

3min

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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