The Perils of Equality

If you start with an assumption of equality between racial and gender-based groups, only moving away when absolutely necessary (the capacity to bear children, for instance, isn’t a fact a sane person ignores. It has a cascade of implications), you see the world qualitatively and quantitatively different from beginning with an assumption of inequality. I find that the implications of the egalitarian world view actually disturbs certain people, especially the highly politicized, but there are different sore points on different sides of the political spectrum.

I find that if I hew to that position, despite pressure, it triggers fear, which presents as anger, in the insecure. And it would certainly be comforting if all that heat came from one side, but it doesn’t. Suggesting that white people would behave like black people, and get the same results if their positions were reversed is fine to some, but the notion that black people would behave like white people, and get THOSE results if you switched history will disturb. The notion that men and women are equal partners in creating the world, and that the world has balancing advantages and disadvantages, that NO ONE is really in control, our “selfish genes” are, is quite disturbing to yet another group.

But I’ll make my stand right here, thank you. Inductively and deductively, this makes more sense to me than any other position on life, explains the past and present, and points a clear path to a better future for everyone. But I suspect that the people born before the 60’s might have to all die off…