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Equity is about justice. It’s an ethical issue. If you cannot understand justice, you cannot understand equity. Very simply, when a majority group uses its powe
by erenyeager 3y ago
Equity is about justice. It’s an ethical issue. If you cannot understand justice, you cannot understand equity. Very simply, when a majority group uses its power and position to enforce its cultural norms and policies on the rest of society, they benefit or at least are not harmed, and further their own group. And this becomes so embedded in the society that the injustice becomes “invisible” it is just accepted as fair. Something as simple as where a highway is built heavily skews to minority neighborhoods being negatively affected.
Understand this. Then you will understand equity is fundamentally about justice and if we don’t seek to establish justice then we have failed.
- naasking 3y ago> Equity is about justice. It’s an ethical issue. I understand you think it's ethical, and I disagree for the reasons I laid out in the post you just replied to, among others. It doesn't seem like you've engaged with the points there so I have nothing further to say.
- erenyeager 3y agoMy previous comment did engage with your points. It’s not about making everyone the same, it is about reducing the unfair aspects and power games that the majority group continues and has in the past, exerted on the marginalized. If Someone says that siding with an oppressor is justice, I think they should relearn ethics.
- naasking 3y ago> It’s not about making everyone the same, it is about reducing the unfair aspects and power games that the majority group continues and has in the past, exerted on the marginalized. And the methods by which it attempts to do so enforces homogeneity or discrimination. The ends do not justify the means.