The "equity" movement is based on deception. It grabs a word that sounds close to a word that everyone supports--"equality"--to justify policies that mean the exact opposite of equality; more precisely, the unequal treatment of people on account of race.

The most infamous manifestation of the "equity" principle (unequal treatment) comes, of course, in the form of racial preferences in college admissions, in which students with the "right" pigmentation (Black) are often given preference over better qualified students with the "wrong" pigmentation (white or yellow).

Along these lines, I've always argued that, in order to prevent students from failing who were admitted with lesser credentials through preferences, you would have to eventually either institute a separate, race-based grading system or simply dumb everything down for everybody to ensure nobody fails (those admitted through preferences would therefore graduate in the same percentages as other students, again equity).

Because of the moral stench that would emanate from instituting formal race-based grading, I always believed that the latter option--dumbing down--would be the path of least resistance and thus the one chosen. Dumbing down the educational experience, inevitably accompanied by grade inflation, would be both more difficult to detect and less obviously odious than grading Black and white on........

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