>In todays world it seems equal opportunity, equity.. and equalized outcomes often conflated with one another Two ways to look at this statement. One, that tho

>In todays world it seems equal opportunity, equity.. and equalized outcomes often conflated with one another Two ways to look at this statement. One, that those who advocate for pro-equity policies are doing the conflation. The other is that those who make that assertion are doing the conflation. In general, I'd say it's more of the latter. That is, because the measures must necessarily be remunerative, it can give the sense of advantaging the historically disenfranchised at the expense of others. The conclusion is then drawn that this is overly corrective (i.e. inequitable in the other direction), thus equality of outcomes must be the goal. It's easy to fall victim to this conclusion if you believe that finally implementing equitable rules after, say, 400 years of one group's disenfranchisement truly represents equal opportunity for that group.