[creamteeth]

The underlying principle of equity is a decent one though. The problem is in how it's implemented: using a person's self-declared identity as an indicator of disadvantage, rather than their actual material conditions.

For example if universities would take factors like poverty and access to educational resources into account, rather than using racial identity as a inaccurate proxy for this, they'd likely achieve more equitable outcomes, in helping talented but disadvantaged individuals gain access to higher education.

[zmgsabst]

> The underlying principle of equity is a decent one though.

> For example if universities would take factors like poverty and access to educational resources into account, rather than using racial identity as a inaccurate proxy for this

That’s equality — as in “equal opportunity” and we had that before “equity” was introduced.

By contrast, equity is a fundamentally racist idea which emerged from a collectivist authoritarian view of the world which tries to fix past wrongs between purported “racial groups” by introducing present discrimination to “correct” past discrimination.