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TopicWashington Post: 38 ideas to fix America's Democracy
FLUFFYGERM
11/09/17 11:51:16 AM
#41:


Antifar posted...
FLUFFYGERM posted...
An amendment on equality? What does that even mean?

Here's how the writer puts it:
The United States needed then and needs now an Anti-Bigotry Amendment that would constitutionalize a critical principle: Group inequity is evidence of discrimination. The amendment would make group inequity illegal and ban the incitement of bigotry, as the incitement of anti-Semitism is banned in Germany. Claims that inequity is evidence of a groups dysfunction or inferiority would be outlawed. The amendment would establish equality as a human right and inequality as anti-American and anti-human.

The Anti-Bigotry Amendment would permanently establish a federal agency that investigates inequities and punishes institutional and individual discriminators. This Department of Equity would repair inequities caused by past discrimination. It would be charged with building a nation of equal opportunity where only the diverse materials of merit pave the roadway toward success. This is the only equitable path toward a healthy U.S. democracy.


That sounds like some Orwellian nanny state horse shit. It is a non sequitur to say that inequalities are evidence of discrimination.
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