One of the Progressives’ oft-used buzzwords is “equality.” To a large extent they have won the war of words to the point where anything they equate with ”equality” is necessarily good, and those who oppose what the Progressives have equated with “equality” are necessarily “H8ers” who have lost any argument before the debate begins.
The notion of “equality” dovetails with the Progressive’s notion of “diversity.” “Repair Man Jack” over at RedState sums up what this ends up resulting in:
“This is what happens when a society pursues diversity for the sake of diversity without the leavening or standardizing effect of assimilation… In a society where nobody cleaves to the traditions that the founders laid down, that nice sharp, Bell Curve that clusters tightly around a generally accepted mean gets flattened like a beer can run over by a pickup truck. The deviations become so extensive that nobody can even discern the mean along the curve.
“At this point you have a Uniform Distribution of social values where nobody’s culture or customs are considered any more valid than say The Donner Party’s. Selecting a jury or conducting a poll of such a population does not produce any wisdom. There is no longer any reference point by which a belief or a decision can be viewed a prudent. The Prudent Man is just another dude.”
The taking of “equality” to such an unthinking degree, has resulted in an “anything goes” attitude that ultimately creates a severe inequality: The alleged dominant culture and norms that must be diminished; and the alleged “oppressed” cultures and norms that must be praised and validated. Stacy McCain has astutely dubbed this the “Psychosis called Equality.”
When all things are thus “equal” – even those things that are mutually incompatible – and there are indeed a diverse set of incompatible norms and values, we end up with social chaos. Of course, there are some so enamored with “equality,” that they’d prefer an equality of slavery over and unequal prosperity, and they’d call that “justice.”
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