I was told that Vonnegut wrote "Harrison Bergeron" as a satire of the fears that the right had of equality, not as a satire of the left's possible execution of

I was told that Vonnegut wrote "Harrison Bergeron" as a satire of the fears that the right had of equality, not as a satire of the left's possible execution of it. And yet here we are, firmly in "1984 was not supposed to be a how-to manual, people!" territory. Of course, the shell game has continued. Recall how often you used to hear about equality and not equity, and yet somehow those goalposts have shifted in the last five years. Equity has somehow come to mean that you'll get "your share" of the pie even if you haven't contributed, or despite being completely untalented. We should sort (not segregate, never that) students by race (self-reported, of course), and then grade such that only a certain percentage in each bucket get As, a few more get Bs, and so on. This ensures a perfect equity balance. If we do this for each grade and each subject within a grade, well, we ought to have very equitable outcomes. Diana Moon Glampers will shotgun down the grades of the Asian "Schroedinger's Minority" group to be in line with everyone else's. Can't imagine that this won't work out.